ChartURL vs Plotly: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Plotly? The Web's fastest growing charting libraries. Plotly.js is the only open-source JavaScript library for data visualization in the sciences and engineering. Open-source interfaces to Plotly.js are available for Python, R, MATLAB, and React.
ChartURL and Plotly can be categorized 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, Plotly provides the following key features:
- Feature parity with MATLAB/matplotlib graphing
- Online chart editor
- Fully interactive (hover, zoom, pan)
Plotly is an open source tool with 10.4K GitHub stars and 1.21K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Plotly's open source repository on GitHub.