--- description: Review of Datylon Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Datylon | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Data Visualisation Tools](/directory/400/data-visualization/software) > [Datylon](/software/261437/datylon) # Datylon Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/261437/datylon Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/261437/datylon?page=2) > From data to change. Supercharge your communications with captivating chart designs and boost your dataviz workflow and create engaging charts to make an impact with data. Create and share beautiful charts with the Datylon online chart maker or the Datylon plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. Full design freedom, no coding skills required. Datylon believe that carefully designed charts are essential to make an impact with data. Datylon gives you a chart design tool with powerful styling properties equal to none. Datylon for Illustrator gives you the ease and comfort of staying in Illustrator for your entire workflow. > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 57 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 57 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Datylon ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$19.95 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Prices excluding VAT, where applicable. All plans include online support. Acceptable use limits apply. Datylon attribution in embedded charts only in the free version. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 209 more ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Ad hoc Reporting - Collaboration Tools - Customisable Branding - Customisable Dashboard - Customisable Reports - Customisable Templates - Dashboard - Dashboard Creation - Data Connectors - Data Import/Export - Data Management - Data Visualisation - Multiple Data Sources - Publishing/Sharing - Real-Time Updates - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Scheduled/Automated Reports ## Integrations (1 total) - Adobe Illustrator ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [Data Visualisation Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/400/data-visualization/software) ## Related Categories - [Data Visualisation Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/400/data-visualization/software) - [Business Intelligence Platform](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4336/bi/software) - [Reporting Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4284/reporting-tools/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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What makes things extra nice is that the color palettes can use swatches directly from the Illustrator Swatch Library — so it means that it’s possible to set a global color in Illustrator and have it reflected in multiple places. This makes organizing and editing complex charts easier. > > **Cons**: When the chart has many data points (e.g. scatter plot with thousands of values), performance can suffer a bit (both in the render and the UI). This might have to do with the UI not being native and so a lot of things are done behind the scene to render the advanced layout. It doesn’t affect most of the charts I create though so I’m still happy with it. But if this can be improved, I would use it on a lore more charts with complex visualizations. > > I am mostly using Datylon to visualize analytics data about games, to be used inside data reports and also as part of marketing materials to communicate the results to our users. I used to have to pre-visualize this in some type of charting software and then redraw everything in Illustrator to make them presentable (given our poorly the native chart implementation is). So I jumped on to Datylon after finding out about it\! Making charts is no longer a pain after that. ----- ### "Datylon Rocks" — 5.0/5 > **Craig** | *8 February 2025* | Design | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Datylon for Illustrator is so feature rich it has everything you could ever want in an Illustrator chart. > > **Cons**: It has a steep learning curve because of all the features. not necessarily a bad thing but it does need a good time investment to get the most out of it. > > This is an amazing too and a must for anyone producing charts. ----- ### "Provisional" — 3.0/5 > **Rachel** | *10 February 2023* | Graphic Design | Recommendation rating: 5.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like to have software that easily transforms a graphic from Excel to Illustrator/InDesign. But I haven't been able to do that because of the complexity of the graphics we do. > > **Cons**: It's too complex or I still do not know how to use it properly. I exported my Excel graphic to Datylon and the information does not appear as expected. It would be great if you offered more extensive training such as the kind of training you can find in LinkedIn (former Lynda). > > So far, not too good, but I hope that in the future I will learn better how to use it and use it more. We do publications that contain a lot of graphics and I would use the software on a monthly base. ----- ### "A powerful tool with a learning curve" — 4.0/5 > **Anneka** | *23 August 2021* | Nonprofit Organization Management | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: The best thing about Datylon is the incredible level of customization that is possible for every chart. It's great that you can manually adjust the size of a chart and the entire chart will automatically resize, it's easy to change colors, font sizing, data point positioning, labels, etc. Occasionally you get to a point where you need to expand the chart and manually adjust something, but if you put the time in, you can usually find an option to adjust almost anything in your chart. > > **Cons**: There are a few things that could be improved. The first is the constant updates of Datylon that are not incredibly well communicated to users. My colleague and I often find that Datylon will stop working (usually the editor will not appear or function) and we realize that there has been an update that we need to install and then restart our computers to activate. Fewer updates and better communication would be appreciated. I would also love to see a choropleth option\! I work for a company that deals with a lot of demographic data and we are often needing to make choropleths of the world or states/counties/regions within countries. Even just starting with a world option would be great. There is also a big learning curve for this software. For me, the first time I used Datylon it took me several hours to try and understand how to format the data. Importing was easy, but the data was not arranged correctly and I didn't understand how the binding worked or that I would need to adjust the highest numbers that the axes would reach. I think there is probably a way to improve this. More video tutorials would also be helpful. > > Overall, Datylon has been a great tool for us to make static data visualizations for print products and the occasional web product as well. Once you understand how to import and format data and learn about all the customizable data options, it's not overly difficult to use and has a great variety of charts to choose from. ----- ### "Smart, powerful, but flawed product. Strong on data, clumsy on visualization." — 4.0/5 > **Jonno** | *16 August 2021* | Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: The ability to revise and edit the data, and have it automatically update in the chart. Shared data sets for different charts, easy to duplicate charts using different subsets of the data for comparison. I love the ability to set custom colours through the sheet. > > **Cons**: It's \*very\* slow. Edit something, anything, and it takes at least a second to reflect that change on the artboard. In addition, many of the settings for text font/colour/placement/alignment etc. are very fiddly and unintuitive. So there is a lot of trial and error till you get things looking the way you want them to. And then, there's no way to save styles or presets - so if I'm making a new chart I have to go through and change the font, sizes, colors, label positions, etc. etc. all over again. Duplicating charts - it's not immediately clear that it's also copying the data into a new sheet, so you inadvertently land up with multiple sheets with the same data in them, rather than one shared source sheet. I know I can go in and manually switch out the sheet, but why not give me the option to keep the same one when duplicating the chart? For heat maps etc. that use symbols like stars - let us use custom shapes\! I know you don't want to build a full scale spreadsheet in an Illustrator plugin, but some of the sheets' functionality still feels too limited - basic things like dragging cells to duplicate/increment, for example. > > Datylon is clearly a very powerful product, but some of that power is let down by a slow and clumsy interface. You can get it to do what you want, but it'll take time and patience, especially if you care about pixel perfect layouts and typographic details. Our primary use for it has been for marketing-oriented trend reports and analysis, so many of our visualizations are on the 'light' end, focused more on the visuals than hardcore data. Datylon has been very useful particularly in creating layouts and then adapting them for new sets of data, e.g. for updated surveys or different regions, but at times it feels like (1) it may be overkill for our somewhat simple purposes, (2) because of its slowness and clunkiness mentioned above, it may have been quicker and easier to create the charts using Illustrator's limited built-in tools. I think it's better suited to much larger scale and deeper visualizations that may be created once and then updated infrequently. But it's a decent product with a lot of potential, and I look forward to seeing how it improves with time. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/261437/datylon?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/261437/datylon) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data