Compare Datawrapper vs. Highcharts

Enhance your narratives with a variety of charts, maps, and tables designed for optimal engagement. Our platform provides 19 interactive and responsive chart options, which range from straightforward bar and line visuals to more complex arrow, range, and scatter plots. Additionally, we feature three types of interactive and responsive maps, suitable for creating everything from basic locator maps to detailed thematic choropleth and symbol maps. Our newly designed responsive data tables offer extensive styling possibilities and support the inclusion of bar and line charts, images, as well as a search function and pagination for easy navigation. Datawrapper empowers some of the leading teams worldwide to effectively communicate their messages through the use of data. Our mission is to make it possible for everyone, including you, to craft stunning charts, maps, and tables effortlessly. You can easily transfer your data from online sources, Excel, or Google Sheets, and we also allow for CSV/XLS file uploads or linking to a URL or Google Sheet for real-time chart updates. With just a click, you can select from numerous chart and map types, after which you can personalize and annotate your visuals to enhance their impact and clarity. This user-friendly approach to data visualization ensures that everyone can tell compelling stories backed by accurate data.

Highcharts, a Javascript-based charting library, makes it easy to add interactive charts and graphs to web or mobile projects of any size. Highcharts is used by more than 80% of the 100 biggest companies in the world, as well as thousands of developers from a variety of industries, including finance, publishing, application development, and data science. Highcharts is in active development since 2009. It remains a favorite among developers due to its robust feature set and ease-of-use documentation, accessibility features and vibrant community.