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Understand turns charts and dashboards into scrolling card-based stories that help explain data and support decisions. It accepts data from files, Google, SQL databases, OLAP cubes, and APIs, and its AI can summarize stories and flag anomalies. Stories can be shared publicly or embedded; Growth also adds email and Slack notifications. Scheduled updates, mobile-friendly stories, and white-label embedding support ongoing or branded publishing.

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    Datawrapper

    by Datawrapper
    Free plan Open source AndroidAPIiPhone+5

    Creating interactive charts, maps, and tables — Datawrapper focuses on charts, maps, and tables, with 25 interactive visualization types and more than 4,000 basemaps.

    9.1 Free plan · paid from $21/user/mo Visit site
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    ArcGIS StoryMaps

    Free plan Web

    Narrative presentations built around maps and apps — ArcGIS StoryMaps adds map and app authoring, slide briefings, collections, and group co-authoring, while Understand centers on data stories.

    7.3 Free plan · 21-day trial Visit site
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    BStreams

    Free plan Web

    Drag-and-drop BI dashboards and reports — BStreams builds interactive BI dashboards from spreadsheets and combines charts, maps, tables, text, and images with report filters.

    7.2 Free plan · paid from €23/mo Visit site
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    Datastory

    Free plan Web

    AI-assisted visualizations and data applications — Datastory’s AI suggests visualizations and drafts captions from workspace data, while Understand’s AI summarizes stories and finds anomalies.

    7.1 Free plan Visit site
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    Flourish

    by Flourish
    Free plan APIExtensionSelf-hosted+1

    Interactive visualizations with many templates — Flourish offers more than 50 chart types and templates, with scrollytelling on Publisher and Enterprise plans.

    7.4 Free plan Visit site
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    Graphtelling

    Free plan Web

    Turning spreadsheets and chart screenshots into editable charts — Graphtelling can turn chart screenshots into editable charts and generate headlines and takeaways with AI.

    6.9 Free plan · paid from €15/mo · 7-day trial Visit site
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    Infogram

    by Infogram
    Free plan AndroidAPIExtension+2

    Creating infographics, reports, slides, and social graphics — Infogram covers formats including infographics, slides, and social graphics, and offers more than 35 chart types and 800 maps.

    7.4 Free plan · paid from $19/mo (annual) Visit site
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    Evidence

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.3 Free plan · paid from $2,500/mo · 30-day trial Visit site
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    ChartWeave

    Free plan Web
    7.2 Free plan · paid from $19/mo Visit site
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    Mimasa AI

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    7.1 Free plan · paid from $29/mo Visit site
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    Juicebox

    Free plan ExtensionWeb
    7.0 Pricing on request Visit site
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    TimelineJS

    Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb
    6.9 Free plan Visit site
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    Mapji

    Free plan Web
    6.8 Free plan Visit site
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    Observable

    by Observable
    Free plan Self-hostedWeb
    6.8 Free plan · paid from $22/user/mo (annual) Visit site
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    TalkingMaps

    Free plan APILinuxMac+3
    6.8 Open source Visit site
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    MotionMap

    Free plan Web
    6.7 Free plan · paid from $29 Visit site
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    Storyline JS

    Free plan Web
    6.6 Free plan Visit site
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    Toucan

    by Toucan
    Free plan Web
    6.5 Free plan · paid from €445/mo Visit site
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    Unmapped

    Free plan Web
    6.5 Free plan · paid from $29/mo Visit site
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    DataStories

    Free trial AndroidAPIExtension+6
    6.2 Visit site
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    MachEye

    Paid Web
    5.2 Pricing on request Visit site

The free plan covers CSV uploads and manual entry, while Growth costs $25 per editor per month with annual billing. BigQuery, Redshift, Azure, and Snowflake connectors add $99 per connector monthly, and API access adds $199 monthly; Enterprise-ready deployment requires a call. Alternatives may suit you better if you need a different mix of chart formats, map tools, AI-assisted authoring, or dashboard-building options. Compare their input methods, publishing and sharing formats, and plan costs with the way you need to present data.

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