Charted vs JFreeChart: What are the differences?

Charted: A charting tool that produces automatic, shareable charts from any data file. Charted is a tool for automatically visualizing data, created by the Product Science team at Medium. Provide the link to a data file and Charted returns a beautiful, interactive, and shareable chart of the data; JFreeChart: A free Java chart library. It is a free Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications. It has a consistent and well-documented API, supporting a wide range of chart types.

Charted and JFreeChart belong to "Charting Libraries" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Charted are:

• Rendering well on all screen sizes, including monitors
• Re-fetching the data and updating the chart every 30 minutes
• Moving data series into separate charts

On the other hand, JFreeChart provides the following key features:

• Flexible design that is easy to extend, and targets both server-side and client-side applications
• Support for many output types, including Swing and JavaFX components, image files (including PNG and JPEG), and vector graphics file formats (including PDF, EPS and SVG)
• open source or, more specifically, free software

Charted and JFreeChart are both open source tools. Charted with 2.73K GitHub stars and 195 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than JFreeChart with 446 GitHub stars and 193 GitHub forks.