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Graph Sketcher

Graph Sketcher - 1.5.1

easily plot data & draw line graphs

All Time: (4.0)
Version 1.5.1: (4.5)
Selected Version: 1.5.1
Release Date: 2008-03-04
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 1.5.1): 722
Downloads (all versions): 12,980
Price: $30 standard / $10 educational

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Graph Sketcher lets you make elegant and precise graphs in seconds, simply by sketching what you want. The interface is intuitive and simple so that you can quickly find what you want while underground algorithms take care of all the messy details. It's no problem if your data is already in a spreadsheet or database program -- just copy and paste it right into Graph Sketcher. All adjustments you make are displayed in real time, so fine-tuning is a piece of cake. Best of all, the program has gone through rigorous user interface testing -- the only way to really find out how to make software intuitive to use.


Graph Sketcher is a great solution for students and teachers in the sciences and social sciences who want to make plots and graphs for problem sets, lab reports, and presentations. The ability to simply sketch lines and labels representing supply and demand curves makes Graph Sketcher by far the best solution available for introductory economics. And its data plotting and best-fit line capabilities are great for physics and chemistry. It even lets you easily draw the kind of "graphs" that mathematicians use in graph theory: those with vertices connected by edges.


Graph Sketcher is also ideal for 2-D graphing tasks that require more flexibility than traditional programs allow. For example, it's easy to add as many lines as you like to represent goals, cutoffs, or other boundaries. It's also easy to add labels anywhere on the graph surface. And you can enter data visually with a click of the mouse, rather than manually typing in x- and y-values, which makes it great as a health tracker or a way to incrementally record any type of progress.

What's new in this version:

  • Labels now support subscripts, superscripts, and all rich text attributes
  • Filled areas with curved edges stick to the curves even when adjusted
  • Filled areas stick to data series in the same way as they do with curved lines
  • The axes can be fixed either at the origin or at the edge of the graph
  • Axes can have arrows on the ends, just like normal lines
  • Normal lines can now have arrows all along them (a new "dash" style)
  • Labels snap to centered positions when attached to points and lines
  • Grid line positioning is improved
  • Many smaller fixes and enhancements

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 and above

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Feedback Summary:

Version 1.5.1:
Overall Rating: (4.5) Features: (4.0) Support: (5.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (4.0)
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Graph Sketcher ReviewDeceptively powerful - great interface - Version: 1.5.2, 9/14/2008 08:38AM PST

sumnerg
A real time-saver for creating attractive and sophisticated 2D graphs and diagrams for use in presentations or on the web.

Great example of effective use of the Mac interface to make complicated tasks fast and intuitive.

You can insert relevant points by drawing rather than inputing coordinates--though you can input or import the numbers too if you want. (This is not an equation grapher, though.)

Shading under or between curves or adjusting shape and curvature can be tedious in other programs. All amazingly easy to do here.

Some features, such as the ability to change the pixel dimensions of the graph, aren't well documented. It turns out you just drag the size of the window to the size you want before exporting graph. The program is filled with simple but powerful touches like that.

Highly recommended.
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Graph Sketcher ReviewMore than Brilliant - Version: 1.5.1, 4/25/2008 08:44AM PST

ecodoc
Do not underestimate Graph Sketcher. There are no words to describe how good it is. Just because it is uncomplicated and affordable does not mean it is not very powerful and useful with an intuitive interface. This is the sort of software that Apple Mac was made for.

If you are an academic with a Mac you can do yourself more than a favour by trying Graph Sketcher and discovering how you can use its simple but excellent capabilities to strengthen your communications. It can be great teaching aid.

You would easily spend 10 times its cost if a company Adobe or Microsoft ever managed to think of and develop anything like Graph Sketch.

I wish they would add more types of graphing capability (using a free hand input to translate into pie charts and bar graphs) to make it even more useful.
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Graph Sketcher ReviewNice little app - Version: 1.5.1, 3/28/2008 10:08PM PST

llimit_cycle
It's limited in it's capabilities, but what it does it does well. Easy to learn, nice interface, even does linear curve fitting. Also exports to PDF and JPG nicely. It isn't for sophisticated plotting, but for simple stuff it's great.
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