ChartURL vs Highcharts: What are the differences?
ChartURL: Easily add rich, data-driven charts to your web apps, mobile apps, and emails. Easily add rich, data-driven charts to your web apps, mobile apps, and emails; Highcharts: A charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie, scatter, angular gauges, arearange, areasplinerange, columnrange, bubble, box plot, error bars, funnel, waterfall and polar chart types.
ChartURL and Highcharts can be primarily classified as "Charting Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by ChartURL are:
- Never worry about keeping servers up
- Built on C3.js
- With 'Templates', you can store all your style options with us and ensure your charts maintain a consistent style across all platforms.
On the other hand, Highcharts provides the following key features:
- It works in all modern mobile and desktop browsers including the iPhone/iPad and Internet Explorer from version 6
- Free for non-commercial
- One of the key features of Highcharts is that under any of the licenses, free or not, you are allowed to download the source code and make your own edits
Highcharts is an open source tool with 8.79K GitHub stars and 2.32K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Highcharts's open source repository on GitHub.