Alternatives to Gnuplot
A portable command-line graphing utility for plotting mathematical functions and data in 2D and 3D. Notes say what changes if you switch.
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Gnuplot
A portable command-line graphing utility for plotting mathematical functions and data in 2D and 3D.
19 alternatives
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GNU Octave
A free programming language and environment for numerical computing, largely compatible with Matlab scripts.
Scilab
Free, open-source software for numerical computation with its own programming language and plotting.
feedgnuplot
A command-line tool that plots real-time or stored data using gnuplot.
SSPlot
A plotting and numerical simulation app for CSV data, equations, and dynamical systems.
Julia
A fast, dynamically typed programming language for technical and scientific computing.
R
A free software environment and language for statistical computing and graphics.
Kst
A Linux data viewer for displaying and plotting scientific data.
ScryLab
A desktop app for engineers to visualize and analyze measurement and simulation data.
KmPlot
A KDE program for plotting mathematical functions along with their derivatives and integrals.
OVITO
Scientific visualization and analysis software for particle-based simulations, from small models to over 100 million atoms.
LabPlot
Free, open-source software for plotting, data analysis, curve fitting and computational notebooks.
Panoply
A desktop viewer that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF and GRIB datasets.
KAlgebra
A KDE graphing calculator that evaluates expressions and plots functions in 2D and 3D.
ggsql
A SQL extension that adds Grammar of Graphics visualization clauses to ordinary queries.
Graphviz
Open source graph visualization software that turns text descriptions of graphs into diagrams.
Fityk
Curve-fitting software for analyzing experimental data, with graphical and command-line interfaces.
YouPlot
A command-line tool that draws plots from tabular data directly in a terminal.
HDFView
A Java desktop tool from The HDF Group for browsing and editing HDF5 and HDF4 files.
Photometry
A Linux tool for viewing and editing photometric files used in lighting design.
