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# Grapher Reviews
**Vendor:** Golden Software  
**Category:** [Statistical Analysis Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/statistical-analysis)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 114
## About Grapher
Grapher™ is a full-function graphing application for scientists, engineers, and business professionals. With over 80 unique graph types, data is quickly transformed into knowledge. Virtually every aspect of the graph is customizable. Enhance your graph with legends, titles and labels, summation plots, graph magnifiers, and statistical reports. Grapher is used extensively by those who care deeply about the visual quality of their final plot.




## Grapher Reviews
  ### 1. Effective

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Perfomance and price. It is really good for data management and graphic creation.

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

There is not a Mac version, it would be quite goog for Mac usets.

**Recommendations to others considering Grapher:**

Because its great perfomance and price

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Geology research

  ### 2. Grapher is amazing

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Grapher can  easily convert data into different map types.

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

Sometimes, it takes me a while to figure out a new feature.

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

air quality related issues.  Maps generated by Grapher are easy for people to understand.

  ### 3. Grapher insight

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Obviously, the graphic potential of the software is very high. I'm currently mostly use statistical graphs

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

Add the possibility to analyse data by using some other advanced statistical techniques

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use Grapher for research

  ### 4. I use grapher as my go-to graphics package

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Interaction with excel data sheets and fonts available for graphics and maps

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

Editor menu is a pain when you have to highlight material repeatedly to make changes

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Geological data presentation in multiple formats

  ### 5. Long time user

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Professional quality of charts and flexibility of approaches and features. 

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

Not as seamlessly integrated with Excel as it could be.

**Recommendations to others considering Grapher:**

It's not as simple as Excel but worth learning.

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Medical research publications. 

  ### 6. Not bad, lack of statistics means I'll look elsewhere

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Ease of inputting data from Excel. Good quality figures. 

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

To fiddly to align stackplots. Lack of basic statistics (e.g. PCA) when compared to other packages, e.g. Origin. 

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scientific, time-series data. 

  ### 7. Grapher - the best plotting program

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Professional layout of graphs
systematic adaption of graph properties

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

text blocks can't be positioned via coordinates

**Recommendations to others considering Grapher:**

It is versatile, professional, reliable


**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use grapher for publication purposes

  ### 8. Consistent, pulication-quality graphs

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

Everything is so customizable.  There are nice options for symbology, etc.

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

Would like more choices of graph types, violin plots,etc.

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Making graphs for publications and presentations

  ### 9. Review of Grapher 7

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

The ease at which you can create graphs.  

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

I like everything about the software.   

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Creating hydrographs and Piper diagrams to analysis water quality and quantity data.

  ### 10. Excellent

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

easy to use and navigate. the graphs are easy to generate and looks professional

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

requires flexibility to linking to a database

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

presentation of scientific data

  ### 11. Good graphing package.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

I like the flexibility, and the ability to define defaults.

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

I can't set default font for axis titles.

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

none

  ### 12. use in marine industry

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Maritime | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2018

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

simple to use, good visualization,      

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

nothing                                                 

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

good visualization of data

  ### 13. Stable and consistent

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2016

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

I've used this product in a couple different corporate environments and its always shown stability and strong performance. Tends to be easily customizable for a variety of different purposes and tools. It can and will support a high volume of information at once which is very useful for large scale site operations. 

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

I haven't had much in the way of complaints when it comes to using grapher. Perhaps the ability to more easily deeper dive into metric segments or the information backend would be nice, but this may even be already possible and just not utilized from my perspective.

**Recommendations to others considering Grapher:**

Highly malleable to each companies needs, can handle high volume very well.

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The ability to measure and monitor an entire online businesses performance and infrastructure. The ability to find and assess problems before and after they occur is very powerful.

  ### 14. Grapher Review

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Lyndsey R. | Teacher, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016

**What do you like best about Grapher?**

I like that I can graph functions and show them to my students on the smartboard.  You can also trace the grace to find points

**What do you dislike about Grapher?**

it can be difficult to type certain functions to be graphed

**What problems is Grapher solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am giving students a visual representation


## Grapher Discussions
  - [How much does Grapher cost? Are there ongoing maintenance and support fees?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/grapher-pricing) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [What technical resources are available to me?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/technical-resources-2227b589-3c3e-48da-8ac2-f23f282f729a) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [What licensing options do you offer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/license-options-077e7926-71a4-422a-9767-c45bea44f78c) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [Do you offer a trial version of Grapher?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1829-do-you-offer-a-trial-version-of-grapher) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [What is the best software for plotting graphs?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-software-for-plotting-graphs) - 1 comment

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## Grapher Features
**Administration**
- Quality Control
- Data Sampling
- Collaboration

**Capabilities**
- Data Visualization
- Survival Analysis
- Risk Data Attributes
- Cost Analysis

**Methodology**
- ANOVA Support
- Regression
- Time Series Analysis

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