--- title: LabVIEW Reviews meta_title: 'LabVIEW Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 192 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how LabVIEW works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 192 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # LabVIEW Reviews **Vendor:** NI **Category:** [Systems Engineering & MBSE Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/systems-engineering-and-mbse) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 192 ## About LabVIEW LabVIEW is systems engineering software for applications that require test, measurement, and control with rapid access to hardware and data insights. The LabVIEW programming environment simplifies hardware integration for engineering applications so that you have a consistent way to acquire data from NI and third-party hardware. LabVIEW reduces the complexity of programming, so you can focus on your unique engineering problem. LabVIEW enables you to immediately visualize results with built-in, drag-and-drop engineering user interface creation and integrated data viewers. To turn your acquired data into real business results, you can develop algorithms for data analysis and advanced control with included math and signal processing IP or reuse your own libraries from a variety of tools. To ensure compatibility with other engineering tools, LabVIEW can interoperate with, and reuse libraries from, other software and open-source languages. ## LabVIEW Reviews ### 1. Good experience overall, easy to use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I like how easy it is to create applications. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I liked every feature of it, nothing to complain. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Nice software, can help you a lot. Easy to use for teaching purposes. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me develop my bachelor’s thesis application. ### 2. Extraordinary tool with real-time capability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW is a powerful tool and very user friendly. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Nothing at this point. May be more options to connect with the software. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to communicate with real-time hardware like FPGAs and was easy to learn and setup. ### 3. Very impressive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easy to understand and powerful tool for Robotics. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Software setup files and driver installation. Ram utilization factor **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** A highly powerful tool for the automation industry as well as other research work. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making a robotics project . ### 4. G2 Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I’ve used Labview in college. It was a fairly user friendly software. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There can always be more intuitive controls incorporated into any software **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Great work, thanks **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** General lab work ### 5. It is a nice experience. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Integration with microcontroller like arduino. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There are some difficulties in installing libraries. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Nothing at this point. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We integrate our pothole filling bot with arduino using labview to check the reliability of our project. ### 6. Amazing and Useful Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Software have so much user friendly tools to create powerful programs for practically any purposes. Easy to self-learn and powerful tool. Being a manufacturing engineer, this is used every day to control the entire factory floor. It is very easy to get data recorded/edited in database. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Can't zoom in anywhere in the software. Sometimes there are big programs which does not necessarily fit in a screen. Slightly difficult to edit front panel and make it easier for operator. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you are looking to automate any process in manufacturing or test lab, LabVIEW is your best friend. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running test fixtures Recording data to databases Creating label as well as printing automatically. Make manufacturing processes faster Collect raw data ### 7. LabView for practical use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Tools simplicity to design any model which can be use practically **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There should be a tutorial notes attached to tool **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Yes **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I made some circuit design and that will be benefitted ### 8. Ease of use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The most helpful part of LabView is its interfaces richness and ease of use. It is best for simulation. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** possibility of customization in comparison other tools. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Signal processing, simulation. ### 9. great experience with labview **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily C. | Test Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I like the user friendly atmosphere with labview **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** sometimes it isnt always easy to have clean wiring displays **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** deploying tests using labview and teststand for manufacturing purposes ### 10. Best software for measuring vibration signals and getting them into desired outcome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The user friendly UI makes it too easy to use **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Nothing is there to make it dislike. I loved it **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Just go for it **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Conditions of centrifugal pump ### 11. A software to move the word **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giuseppe Emanuele L. | Dottore di ricerca borsista, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It gives a very high incredible possibility to move and controll the scientific setup **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Not every systems are enough explained, for example the other scientific stuff vendor can add more details about the LabVIEW controlling. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I realized a setup for spectral measurements in function of the incident angle and the detection angle ### 12. A better program for data acquisition operations & easy to understand by beginner. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Graphical representation and linkage is best **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** nothing it has which need to be disliked **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** cant Get a better software then this **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Circuits ### 13. Versatile with amazing support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview is easy to implement on our test equipment. The support of the team in Newbury is wonderful. Labview is incredibly versatile and easy to use once you have done the training. The files are sharable and simple. Absolutely wonderful product **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Not as comparable with other software as I would like **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Unifying our test equipment onto one system has been great. Keeps our engineers and cross functionality high. ### 14. Data Acquisition made simpler **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinay S. | Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** We use LabVIEW for the electrophysiological data acquisition. It can be integrated with national instruments cards. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The only issue i have found with Labview is compatibility of .VI filetypes. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Recommended **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using labview for data acquisition of electrophysiological samples. ### 15. LabView helps me develop sophisticated test, measurement and control applications. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jackson J. | Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** - LabVIEW Provides a variety of features and tools ranging from interactive assistants to configures and tools ranging from interactive assistants to confiqures and tools ranging from interactive assistants to configurable user defined interfaces. -It is differentiated by its graphical general- purpose programming language (known as G)along with an associated integrated compiler, a linker and debugging tools. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Its easy to collect data in labVIEW but processing it is quite difficult. I had to use matlab plenty of time. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** I would recommend it for data acquisition purpose only. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** LabVIEW offers a single environment that integrates software and hardware to help you develop programs more efficiently. You can expect the four data acquisition and return on investment benefits with NI's problem-solving platform-based approach. ### 16. A very powerful software to emulate the lab measurements **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amr A. | Research Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easy to use. The help directory is great. A wide range of examples to give an idea of how things work. I can write VHDL, Verilog, or Matlab codes and add it to my LabVIEW project. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** No zoom in or zoom out. It's very annoying to have a very big project and I can't fit all the blocks in one screen or even zoom in or out. The controls that use binary vectors don't have more than 64 bits. If there is a more generic one that I can set the number of bits I want to use that would be great. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want to measure a chip of a receiver for cognitive radio applications. The receiver has a huge set of programmability that controls the chip. I'm using LabVIEW to control the internal shift registers for the receiver's programmability. ### 17. Best data acquiring visual programming software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Possibility to see what's going on in the process and have a global view of the system. Possibility to customize the GUI. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** A bit hard to be well known at the beginning, many features to implement. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Try tutorials and guides to learn the basics of the software. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data acquiring and elaboration. Data analysis ### 18. Intuitive and very essential **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The interface is easy to use and learn for the beginners but the can be challenging to use complex functionalities and the technical support online is very limited and often unhelpful **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Often a lot of problems occur related to timing and resource usage from analog and digital output channels and you don’t really have a clue as to what’s wrong because tech support and resources online is very limited for such issues. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** It is essential and experimental labs that have a lot of electronics to control cannot do without it **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use it to control and coordinate electronics, optics and data collection equipment in our lab ### 19. It’s great for data acquisition, not for data processing **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Good for live data collection. Probably more intuitive for those with no coding experience **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** So slow. So many functions that it’s lacking compared to other programming languages. And it’s a pain to plot anything worthy of publishing. Forget optimization problems. Also if you have a big programming it’s gonna look ugly **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Just use for data acquisition. That’s it **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** My advisor loves labview with a passion, so our entire lab works with it. We use it for biomechanical data analysis ### 20. Labview Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sapan A. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Few things that I like about LabView are: 1) It has a very good graphical user interface that makes it really easy to use. 2) Debugging is very easy. 3) It takes very less time to make a simple program. 4) 3rd Party hardware like Arduino is also supported. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** the things that I dislike about Labview are: 1) Its easy to collect data in Labview but processing it is quite difficult. I had to use matlab plenty of time. 2) Matlab simulink also has similiar gui interface, so its better to use Matlab as we get traditional coding ability as well. 3) Its quite heavy. It consumed 50 GBs of space during installation. so you really need a good Cpu to work with it. 4) I didnt find good tutorials for it. Support for Labview is no way comparable to that of Matlab. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** I would recommend it for data acquisition purpose only. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Labview for data acquisition in my robotics application. It was quite easy to do that as there were already modules available and I need to just connect them in order. It was just a plug and play for me. ### 21. Great for UI, versatile, not traditional! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I like the ease of creating a user interface. And process automation is made easier with LabVIEW. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I do not appreciate that the coding style is graphical instead of linear (traditional lines of code). **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to automate processes quite efficiently and improved cycle time for my projects. ### 22. So useful for students who works on labratory **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** an appropriate system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There is not any point that I do not like about this software **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** LabVIEW integrates the creation of user interfaces (termed front panels) into the development cycle ### 23. Best Test Automation Software With Quick Bringup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James G. | Energy Products Engineering Test Engineer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW allows for quick bringup of tests and its easy to understand programming environment allows for almost anyone to get started using the program. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There is some compatibility issues that you will run into. Whether ita having the wrong version of LabVIEW itself, or unknowingly installing to new of a version of a driver. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Taking the paid training is helpful but not required. Online trials and simply looking at simple programs can introduce a user to the programming environment. Modifying others programs and seeing the results will help the novice learn the programming styles. The beauty of LabVIEW is the ease of learning to be a basic user. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use LabVIEW for automating testets on the manufacturing line as well as for quickly bringingup & modifying tests in the R&D lab. This saves us time and allows more people to be able to write and modify the programs. ### 24. A must have for all experimental data acquisition systems! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abdullah Umair B. | Doctoral Candidate - Advanced Engine Research Lab, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** >User Friendly: I was recently introduced to LabView by my professor last year when we had to install some new thermocouples to an engine. I was pleasantry surprised to find myself making my first VI within a week that was able to not only log temperature readings from the thermocouple but turn on and off switches based on those readings. >Help Resources: LabView has great help resources with really detailed online tutorials available on NI's website and an active online community of users. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** >It is difficult to troubleshoot VI's made by anyone other than yourself because the error messages don't do a good job at pinpointing the exact problem. >I've also had problems with some of my VI's which were made in a certain version of the software and were not compatible with the new version once the software was updated. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** It is a great tool for anyone taking any sorts of experimental data. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an experimentalist I use labview to connect my sensors to the data acquisition system and have various controls (graphically) coded in to control various experimental parameters. ### 25. Fast code development for people without a CS degree **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlton H. | Senior Software Architect, Industrial Automation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The graphical nature makes it easy for me to understand the flow of someone else's code and learn quickly. The debugging features are probably the best I've come across with the highlight execution. Support is good and it's easy to create very modular code. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Sometimes seems a bit bloated in that if I want to create a very simple EXE then there's a lot of stuff that has to install around it. The controls for the user interface are very limited and creating custom controls is a real pain. Going to vector based graphics will be nice but so far NXG is not usable for developers creating programs for clients. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you are wanting to develop test applications quickly then this is the best software available, especially if you do not have an established team of software developers who have computer science backgrounds. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company uses LabVIEW as the primary software development environment. We mainly use it for automated testing systems in labs. The tight integration between NI hardware and software makes deployment much easier and we can develop software at a very rapid pace. ### 26. Great software for learning PLC communication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob I. | Student Engineer, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Bloack diagram based, easy to understand, lots of support online. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** No support between versions, if it is opened in 2018, it cannot be opened in 2017. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Do It **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Last semester we used LabVIEW to program a SCADA system for our final project. We also wrote a communication protocol. This would have been impossible for a student to do in any other software. ### 27. Finest tool for Lab automation and measurement! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varun S. | Design Engineer Intern, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It's Graphical User Interface makes it extremely easy to use even for a bigger design. One can highlight the particular part of design and see/debug if the design is working as required. Technical support from National Instrument is very helpful. It's ability to record and analyze high-precision low-level measurements makes it a really useful tool for scientific purposes. A whole control system design can be easily. DAQ assistant is really useful for capturing data from high precision device. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There is almost nothing that I dislike about this product! **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I was working as a Project Fellow at National Physical Laboratory, I used LabVIEW for automating the lab measurement setup so that readings are automatically recorded and one don't have to take each reading manually. It saved a lot of time and increased our teams efficiency tremendously as I start recording the measurements when I leave the work and check the measurements log generated by LabVIEW next morning. ### 28. Convenient but confusing tool for hardware-software interface solutions **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** DAQ compatibility makes it a great tool to interface with hardware tools and get real data from electrical sensors for my purposes. LabView also allows you to input various equations and acquire data easily. Very powerful tool. The visualizations of block diagrams is nice, as is the live view of waveforms created from the acquired data. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The interface is a little hard to use and understand. Inputting formulae is a bit of a pain because of inbuilt methods of writing equations and parentheses/operation hierarchies. The software takes a large amount of time and usage before you can fully master and understand how to use it. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Good software that meets your needs for hardware to software interfacing. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use the software for interfacing with sensors on a breadboard and also to acquire data from an oscilloscope. I use the DAQ to interface with pulse oximeter type sensors and collect data, as well as temperature thermistors using the same. ### 29. Nicely integrated design environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The GUI that helps to design a ladder network for efficient design. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Lack of updates. Not much changes between two versions and the file handling could definitely be improved. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** The user manual is very helpful for elementary design patterns **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test bench design automationwas realized through LabVIEW. ### 30. LabVIEW makes data acquisition and data presentation application development easy and fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steffan B. | President, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Lots of available drivers, application examples, and source code to build off of. Plug and play with a lot of BI and third party hardware. Programming rich and complex user interfaces is much faster than with other languages. It is a very diverse programming environment and can be used for any application involving hardware or software only. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Some things are just easier to do in text based languages. Lightweight applications and web based applications are not straightforward or not possible **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Start with examples and user applications posted on the discussion forums to help gget started. There are also numerous training tools available for free. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use LabVIEW for almost every client project involving some sort of test fixture or data acquisition. It is quick and effective and very flexible. I can reuse a lot of code and distribute complex applications easily. ### 31. Labview for R&D **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** A customizable UI with easy to learn concepts. A very visual algorithm creation platform. Great for data collection and processing with hardware made specifically for the program. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Not as common as other programs but it does offer several export options to create programs for different OS. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick and very customizable data collection and processing as well as hardware/instrumentation control. ### 32. Entry level labview progr **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** One of the main features that i have found very useful is the highlight execution. As a entry level programmer to be able to see if the code being executed the way you programmed is great. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** So far I don't have anything to dislike. Because I'm a novice programmer mostly frustrated when something doesn't work as planned but after some online research and help from senior engineers those problems get resoloved. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you have not used a graphical programming before the learning curve would be steeper. But if you stick with it becomes easier as you familiarized with program **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using this product for an automatic power converter test stand. One of the main benefits is that Labview creates a UI by itself for its inputs and outputs and doesn't need a another program to do it. ### 33. I used it at college and built some cool projects with it **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fady T. | IT Developer, E-Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It has very simple user interface and very easy to use i learnt it at less than 4 sessions , and then i could build any project , i made dancing fountain project very easily with it and it was really cool to make voice controlled fountain like this at small time **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** it's card looks expensive but i use other boards as controller **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Anyone who want to develop big projects at small time should start to learn lab-view now it won't take much till u master the tools and start your great projects **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** i made simple projects with it like room temperature controller that control fan , air condition according to room temp it was very easy to make it and even connect it t arduino and build the project in real ### 34. A Must-Have Programming Tool for Laboratory Research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW is very convenient interface programming software for all science & engineering laboratories. Especially for the Physics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science departments in Universities or National labs, it is probably one of the most common programming software. As a materials scientist myself, I use all different instruments to set up my experiments. I use LabVIEW all the time for all sorts of electrical, magnetic, optoelectric measurements. It is easy to learn and easy to program because it is all graphical. The front control panel is very user-friendly as well. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** If I am going to create a large/long program, the debug process can be very long and tricky. It takes time to find out where exactly the error message comes from. Another disadvantage is connecting the elder instrument, e.g. RS-232, interface, the code can be complicated or sometimes not easy to find the command in those instruments which we have to switch to manual control. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** 1. It is easier to start with some programs made by others and trying to understand their program rather than start from "zero" and write everything from the beginning. 2. Read the interface control section of the manual of a specific instrument first before writing your program. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves a lot of time in multiple or serial measurements. Most of the time, I just need to start the program, let it run overnight, and I can have all the data or even plots the next day. In our lab, we actually have all the program written by the earlier graduates. The program is easy to modify. So most of the time, we do not need to write a program from the beginning. ### 35. Very positive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The ease of graphical programming method is very appealing and very ease to maintain and debug. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Each newer version needs to inculcate more changes and the data handling needs to be more seamless. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test bench automation was implemented through LabVIEW and the resulting process was much faster and more reliable. ### 36. Standard for lab work in engineering field **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sky S. | Graduate Research Assistant, Nanotechnology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It has a lot of components to fit with any required equipment connection and control. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Slow due to big component supports. Not easy to troublshoot. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building the customized equipments set. ### 37. LabVIEW is best programming language. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jim L. | Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2017 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I have programmed computers using many different programming languages, and I have found LabVIEW to be the best. It is easy to code and fast to complete projects. National Instruments claims that it is 10 times faster to code using it and I agree. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There are a lot of little deficiencies in the details of the language that could be better. Kind of like death by 1,000 cuts. Nothing major, but many little things. It could use some polishing up I would say. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Great language that is not in the main stream. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used LabVIEW most recently both as a developer of programs, and as a consultant advising companies on which programing language to chose for programming autonomous vehicles. When writing code , the application was GPS satellites. Both applications are excellent choices for LabVIEW because they are a good match because both require interfacing with hardware. ### 38. Popular and Strong Control Software Program **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Build-in libraries to allow user to build a control application immediately. More importantly, LABVIEW is the best in terms of supporting hardware equipment. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** GUI is not very friendly and LABVIEW is not a text-based programming, therefore creating difficulty for new users. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use LABVIEW to perform testing in our lab at the University, mostly to control electrometer, source-meter, function generator and to acquire data from NI acquisition system. ### 39. Good language but steep learning curve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Nanotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Great libraries and integration. It’s also highly portable given the nature of the program. You can do much more than you would anticipate. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Can be hard to find actual functions, and the documentation is a bit sparse. There’s not a lot of resources to help you implement anything, you have to just figure it out. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Watch courses on YouTube as it is a highly visual language. Unfortunately still has a long way to go in terms of materials for new users. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used for hardware control of instruments, great for real time correlation of data to make hardware decisions. ### 40. LabVIEW simplified hardware integration software **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Only basic programming skills is needed to use the software Nice graphic interface Fantastic for acquiring and logging the data. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Expensive hardware module so unless you have national intsruments hardware expect to pay at least 100$ or more on modules. no easy way to comment code **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you are into hard core programming and code customization go with another software. However, if you are looking for a simple solution to log data without programming that's your go to solution **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to log temperature, voltage, and pressure on an small angle xray setup in our lab. Extremely easy to setup and software does not crash ### 41. LabView **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** -User friendly -Graphical interface -Good for beginners -Data Acquisition is good **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** -It's not advisable for any sophisticated projects. It's good for prototyping **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** It is good for starting into data acquisiton. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been using it in the data acquisition lab. It is proving to be a good and easy tool. It is compatible with most of the sensors. ### 42. Great automation project software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The ability to fully automate test processes. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Slightly longer learning curve than expected. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to realize a cost saving by automating a long term durability test. ## LabVIEW Discussions - [have you ever tried to decode it ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26097-have-you-ever-tried-to-decode-it) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How useful do you think labVIEW would be in programming and calibrating open source medical ventilators that are used for corona cases?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/25787-how-useful-do-you-think-labview-would-be-in-programming-and-calibrating-open-source-medical-ventilators-that-are-used-for-corona-cases) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Make labview available with many options for non-commercial use](https://www.g2.com/discussions/25705-make-labview-available-with-many-options-for-non-commercial-use) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is LabVIEW used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-labview-used-for) - 2 comments - [Which language is used in LabVIEW?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-language-is-used-in-labview) - 2 comments - [View LabVIEW pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/labview/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-16+05%3A59%3A00+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=707059ce-f301-424d-840f-4a98d2f606ce&secure%5Btoken%5D=14acf5748aff322fec0da2065035ba74633402d3328972e34c5e9365599474d0&format=llm_user) ## LabVIEW Features **Systems Modeling** - Systems Modeling Language (SysML) - Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Model Based testing - Graphical programming - Drag and Drop **Requirements** - Requirements traceablity - Requirements analysis - Requirements priortization **Collaboration** - Distributed use - Stakeholder collaboration **Debugging** - Automatic error list - Breakpoints ## Top LabVIEW Alternatives - [Cameo Systems Modeler](https://www.g2.com/products/cameo-systems-modeler/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (11 reviews) - [Enterprise Architect](https://www.g2.com/products/enterprise-architect/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (22 reviews) - [Epsilon3](https://www.g2.com/products/epsilon3/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (259 reviews)