Plot2 for Android

Documentation is poor and the interface is not at all intuitive.

I tried an hour to figure out how to enter data and then gave up and deleted the applicaiton. If a software is not user friendly, I don't have time or patience for it.

This is a cool software. I use it for publication quality plots. There is just one problem. There is no option for a zoomed display. I work with 8 and 9 pt size fonts with plot size of 3-4 inches because I use the plots in some paper. But those plots look really small in this app. If there was some way to show a magnified plot without having to change the actual plot and font sizes, that would be great. I can use bigger sizes but then I have to scale down the plot image in the paper, and that changes the line widths and symol sizes and what not !! Just a zoomed display would solve the issue perfectly.

As an academic researcher I have used this program in different incarnations (since SciPlot in NeXTStep) for the last 25+ years. It is the most powerful, fast and usable 2D plotting program I have found. I tried many others (paid, share- and freeware, GUI and command line alike) over the years but I always go back to Plot. It provides full control to all the features of the plot, including tiled graphs, powerful data manipulation, annotation, curve fitting on the fly, peak analysis, remote database access, a powerful scripting language to automate processing and many other. Written from the core to manipulate postcript/PDF, it produces lightweight graphics that can be added easily to the text editor of your choice (from LaTex to Word). Yes, it has so many features that it seems daunting at first, but the quality of the graphs is well worth the time investment. Need I say more? Yes! the developer has always been most responsive to address bugs and feature requests over the years. I cannot think of a better piece of software. Look no further, you will fall in love as I have over all these years!

Plot2 is a very versatile tool that can make very detailed and customized plots. I use it for creating plots for scientific publications and it blows Excel out of the water. The most complex figure I have made so far with this tool is a 9-pane plot with 2-5 data series per pane. Plot2 handed this with no issues........once I knew how to do it. This leads me to the next part of the review, Plot2 is not easy to use at the beginning. It will take several hours of fiddling with the interface to figure out how everything works. There is logic to the way plots are created but it will not be apparent right away. This is nothing like excel where you can just highlight data and after a couple of clicks you have something usable. Once you know how to use the interface though the possibilities are endless. For a Android user this is the best graphical software you can get for free.