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 matplotlib/mpl-third-party using the template in the readme

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

You can find more packages at PyPI using the Framework :: Matplotlib trove classifier.

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.
			manimplotlib	Collection of scripts to animate Matplotlib plots with manim.
			mpl-animators	Create interactive animations of N-dimensional data, and of World Coordinate System (WCS) objects from Astropy.
			numpngw	Write animated pngs.
			streamjoy	Enjoy animating images into GIFs and MP4s in parallel.
			xmovie	A simple way of creating beautiful movies from Xarray objects.
Colormaps and styles
			Aquarel	Simplified wrapper for flexible styling and theming.
			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.
			cmweather	Color vision deficiency friendly colormaps for weather/climate variables.
			cmyt	Colormaps from the yt project.
			Colorcet	Perceptually uniform continuous colormaps and perceptually distinct categorical color sets.
			distinctipy	Qualitative colormaps of any length, generated to be maximally distinct.
			Farrow&Ball Matplotlib	Color palettes inspired by British paint manufacturer Farrow and Ball.
			mpl-visual-context	Collection of patheffects and more
			mplcyberpunk	Cyberpunk / neon-glow look for plots.
			pypalettes	Large (+2500) collection of colormaps.
			SciencePlots	Matplotlib styles for scientific figures.
			tastymap	colormaps cooked for your palate.
			TUEplots	Light-weight Matplotlib styles for figures used in scientific publications.
			viscm	Tool for analyzing colormaps and creating new colormaps.
Development tools with built-in Matplotlib rendering
			JupyterLab	Web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data.
			Jupyter Notebook	Web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data.
			pycharm	Python IDE for data science and web development.
			spyder	Open source, community-developed scientific environment and IDE written in Python, for Python.
			vscode	Streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control.
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 heatmap visualizations.
			colorio	Tools for working with colors and color spaces.
			cplot	Plot complex-valued functions.
			datamapplot	Plotting clustered and labelled data maps.
			DNA Features Viewer	Visualize DNA features, e.g. from GenBank or Gff files, or Biopython SeqRecords.
			grplot	Complete and attractive statistical graphs in one function.
			Hockey Rink	A Python library for plotting hockey rinks with Matplotlib.
			HyperSpy	Multidimensional data analysis, e.g. hyperspectral imaging.
			librosa	Audio signal processing with waveform and spectrogram displays.
			marsilea	Declarative creation of composable visualization.
			MetPy	A Python toolkit for meteorological applications.
			microfilm	2D image plots and animations for multi-channel microscopy data.
			mir_eval	Evaluation tools and display helpers for audio annotations.
			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.
			mplsignal	Utility functions for signal processing plots.
			mplsoccer	Plot soccer/football pitches and charts.
			MyForestPlot	A flexibly-customizable Python tool to create a forest plot.
			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.
			Py-ART	The Python ARM Radar toolkit, used to analyze and plot weather radar data.
			pyCircos	A visualization tool for designing circos plots.
			pyGenomeViz	A genome visualization python package for comparative genomics.
			pymatviz	A toolkit for visualizations in materials informatics.
			PyPlutchik	Python visualisation for Plutchik annotated corpora.
			pytransform3d	Work with, plot, and animate rigid transformations in 3D.
			seaborn	High-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics.
			seaborn-image	High-level API for drawing informative and attractive images.
			sunpy	Solar physics processing, plotting, and colormaps.
			TULIPS	Visualization of the physics of stars.
			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 approximately 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.
			mpl-multitab	Tabbed figure manager for Matplotlib using PyQt.
			Pylustrator	Interactive editor to style Matplotlib plots.
			PyNanoLab	PySide6 GUI for data analysis and visualisation with Matplotlib and Pandas.
			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
			kivy_matplotlib_widget	Convert your matplotlib graph into full interactive graph.
			mpl-draggable-line	A Draggable line widget for Matplotlib.
			mpl-image-labeller	Easily apply classification labels to images.
			mpl-image-segmenter	Manually segment images with Matplotlib.
			mpl-interactions	Interactive widgets for responsive plots.
			mpl-point-clicker	Record click locations on a figure. Supports multiple classes.
			mpl_widget_box	GUI-neutral widgets for Matplotlib, with legend-like layout and more.
			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.
			Quibbler	Effortlessly make your Matplotlib graphics interactive.
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.
			mplsteronet	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.
			mpl_chord_diagram	Drawing chord diagrams with matplotlib.
			mpl-sankey	Sankey "alluvial" diagrams, with a data-centric API.
			mpl_stereo	See your data in 3D by making stereograms and anaglyphs.
			plottable	Beautifully customized tables with Matplotlib.
			PyUpSet	UpSet suite of visualization methods.
			S3Dlib	3D surface and line object classes.
			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.
			HighlightText	Make effective annotations easier in Matplotlib.
			legendkit	Legend made easy for matplotlib.
			matplotlib-label-lines	Label line using 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.
			svgpath2mpl	Parse SVG paths into Matplotlib Path objects for plotting.
			tikzplotlib	Save figures as TikZ/PGFplots.
Rendering backends
			gr	Graphic kernel system backend.
			mplcairo	Improved backend for cairo.
			wxmplot	Tighter integration with wxPython.