Third-party and user-contributed packages

A list of packages that extend Matplotlib. These are maintained and distributed independently from Matplotlib so go to the website listed for instructions.

Please contribute your package by opening a pull-request at https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-third-party using the template in the readme

If you need help making a package, see https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-extension-cookiecutter where we give you a template to make it easy!

You can find more packages at PyPI if package maintainers have added the Framework :: Matplotlib in the classifier list in the setup.py file of their package.

Alternative APIs
			holoviews	High-level API providing composable multidimensional or columnar data objects that visualize themselves.
			hvplot	Composable, interactive pandas and xarray .plot() objects.
			pandas	Tabular data analysis and manipulation tool providing a .plot() API for Matplotlib plotting.
			plotnine	A grammar of graphics for Python.
			xarray	Multi-dimensional data analysis and manipulation tool providing a .plot() API for Matplotlib plotting.
Animations
			animatplot	Interactive animated plots.
			celluloid	Matplotlib animations made easy.
			gif	Ultra-lightweight animated GIF API.
			numpngw	Write animated pngs.
			xmovie	A simple way of creating beautiful movies from xarray objects.
Colormaps and styles
			CMasher	Scientific colormaps for making accessible, informative and 'cmashing' plots.
			cmcrameri	Fabio Crameri's perceptually uniform colormaps for geosciences.
			cmocean	Perceptually uniform colormaps for oceanographic variables.
			cmyt	Colormaps from the yt project.
			colorcet	Perceptually uniform continuous colormaps and perceptually distinct categorical color sets.
			farrowandball	Color palettes inspired by British paint manufacturer Farrow and Ball.
			mplcyberpunk	Cyberpunk / neon-glow look for plots.
			viscm	Tool for analyzing colormaps and creating new colormaps.
Documentation
			sphinx-gallery	Create matplotlib galleries for your sphinx-built documentation.
Domain-specific libraries
			arviz	Exploratory analysis of Bayesian models with Python.
			astropy	Astronomy processing and graphics (including mapping).
			bg-heatmaps	Brain heatmaps visualization.
			colorio	Tools for working with colors and color spaces.
			cplot	Plot complex-valued functions.
			DnaFeaturesViewer	Visualize DNA features, e.g. from GenBank or Gff files, or Biopython SeqRecords.
			hockey_rink	A Python library for plotting hockey rinks with Matplotlib.
			mplfinance	Utilities for the visual analysis of financial data.
			mplhep	Set of helpers for matplotlib to more easily produce plots typically needed in high energy physics.
			mplsoccer	Plot soccer/football pitches and charts.
			networkx	Working with and plotting network graphs.
			planetMagFields	Routines to easily access information about magnetic fields of planets in our solar system and visualize them in both 2D and 3D.
			pyart	The Python ARM Radar toolkit, used to analyze and plot weather radar data.
			pyCircos	A visualization tool for designing circos plots
			pymatviz	A toolkit for visualizations in materials informatics.
			pyplutchik	Python visualisation for Plutchik annotated corpora.
			seaborn	High-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics.
			seaborn-image	High-level API for drawing informative and attractive images.
			yellowbrick	Visual analysis and diagnostic tools to facilitate machine learning model selection.
Experimental projects that may be merged upstream eventually
			mpl-gui	Prototype for a pyplot alternative
			mpl-qtthread	Prototype for an approximatly thread-safe Qt backend
GUI applications
			glue	Easily linking visualizations of scientific datasets across many files.
			lumen	Declarative YAML or GUI specification for apps/dashboards with Matplotlib and other plots.
			pylustrator	Interactive editor to style Matplotlib plots.
			PySimpleGUI	Create custom GUIs quickly & easily on top of tkinter, Qt, WxPython or Remi.
			sview-gui	PyQt5 GUI for data visualisation of CSV file or pandas DataFrames.
Interactivity
			mpl-interactions	Interactive widgets for responsive plots.
			mpl-point-clicker	Record click locations on a figure. Supports multiple classes.
			mplcursors	Interactive data selection cursors.
			mpldatacursor	Interactive data selection cursors.
			mplinorm	Interactive contrast adjustment for Matplotlib images.
			panel	Dashboards and web apps using Matplotlib and other figures.
Mapping
			cartopy	Produce maps and other geospatial data analyses.
			eomaps	A library to create interactive maps of geographical datasets.
			geopandas	Pandas extended to support geographical data and algorithms.
			geoplot	High-level Python geospatial plotting library based on cartopy.
			geoviews	High-level geographic plotting built on Cartopy and Matplotlib.
			mplstereonet	Lower-hemisphere equal-area and equal-angle stereonets.
			prettymaps	Minimal Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data.
			ridge_map	Library for making ridge plots of... ridges.
Miscellaneous
			matplotcheck	A package designed to test matplotlib plots.
			matplotx	Useful styles and extensions for Matplotlib.
Plot types
			blume	Alternate table artist.
			datashader	Server-side rendering of large datasets as Matplotlib figures.
			matplotlib-venn	Plotting area-weighted two- and three-circle Venn diagrams.
			mpl-scatter-density	2D histograms for large collections of point data.
			py-upset	UpSet suite of visualization methods.
			windrose	Create windrose plots.
			yt	Package for analyzing and visualizing volumetric data.
Plotting utilities
			adjustText	Draw many text artists so that they do not overlap.
			brokenaxes	Plots with breaks in the axes.
			figpager	Save plots with single or multiple pages.
			flexitext	Draw text with multiple styles in Matplotlib.
			grid-strategy	Create a grid of subplots based on the number of axes to be plotted.
			highlight_text	Make effective annotations easier in matplotlib.
			matplotlib-scalebar	Display a scale bar.
			matplotview	A library for creating lightweight views of matplotlib axes.
			mpl-probscale	Real probability scales for matplotlib.
			mpl-template	Templating engine for consistent plots.
			mpl_table	Create custom table using matplotlib.
			patchworklib	A subplot manager for intuitive layouts
			proplot	A lightweight matplotlib wrapper for making beautiful, publication-quality graphics.
			skunk	Insert SVG images into matplotlib elements. Can be used to also compose matplotlib plots by nesting them.
			tikzplotlib	Save figures as TikZ/PGFplots.
Rendering backends
			gr	Graphic kernel system backend.
			mplcairo	Improved backend for cairo.
			wxmplot	Tighter integration with wxPython.