Datylon

Pros: Datylon is easy to use for those of us in the design industry, who are more visually trained. It is much quicker and easier to use than Power BI, and the graphic results are far more pleasing.

Cons: As all data has to be prepared prior to using Datylon, it can get a bit messy as it is not being drawn from one source. However, this also makes it simpler to use. It is disappointing that you cannot customize the icons (in the icons graphs) at present.

Pros: Datylon is an excellent data visualization tool. I believe it is in a field of its own for charts and data visualization for Adobe Illustrator. Datylon provides many options for customization and they are continually innovating. The Datylon team is highly professional and extremely knowledgeable and support their customers in many ways.

Cons: There could be more options for custom colour profiles swatches.

Pros: I love that I can easily create charts and update the info much more simpler than in the Illustrator chart creation tool. This plug-in is very robust and can do things which not only save a lot of time, like resizing the charts while having the fonts stay the same size, but also enables me to have more control in the design process while creating clear and precise data visualization assets. The more I use it the easier it gets but I can see that it is capable of doing so much more than I utilize it for. I highly recommend Datylon to anyone that needs to create charts for Data Visualization.

Cons: There's a bit of a learning curve but I've been able to figure out most things thru trial and error and when I can't figure something out the help desk is very helpful in solving the problems.

Pros: Datylon is hands down the best chart great and data visualization tool on the market that works seamlessly with Adobe Illustrator. You can easily resize a chart, and the text does not distort or change size. You can duplicate a chart. You can connect multiple charts to one data sheet so you can easily update the data across all your charts. Almost everything is customizable. And the icing on top is that you can also upload your charts and files to the Datylon platform and create templates to reuse over and over.

Cons: Occasionally I do find I want to make a specific customization and that isn't available, but usually there is a work around or another way to solve. I do wish you could create a hyperlink text box on the online platform so that templates can have clickable links.

Pros: Good product - better than excel or Illustrator's native graph creator and with fairly intuitive UI for editing. I do wish it was a lot quicker to edit things like colours, weights, strokes of plots, axis' and other data. It would be ideal if this plugin could use Illustrators native colour, stroke, etc. options to edit charts.

Cons: It would be ideal if this plugin could use Illustrators native colour, stroke, etc. options to edit charts.

Pros: Copying charts with the same design elements makes a purchase of Datylon outweigh the costs.

Cons: It would be nice to find a way to make each chart 's x and y grid lines appear uniform automatically in instances when charts with drastically different x and y values are copied to duplicate visual elements. This is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE MANUALLY.

Pros: Datylon allows us to create branded charts and graphs within Illustrator, with far fewer headaches than if we solely used Illustrator's built in tools. We are able to control the look and feel of the charts while maintaining editability.

Cons: There is a bit of a learning curve with Datylon that we had to work through. It doesn't act like an Adobe product, and isn't quite as intuitive. The data fields also don't quite act like Excel, so it took few beats to remember that hitting tab won't move the curser to the next cell. Remembering which menu controlled the look of which element took some time as well. But once we picked up on the way everything works, it has been MUCH better than what we were doing before.

Pros: If there is a graph you need to create, Datylon can do it. The types of graphs and customizations for these graphs are nearly limitless.

Cons: I really struggled to figure out a couple of basic features: it would be great if there were a way to create a histogram from a single column of data. I could not figure out how to do this. You need to create a "count" spreadsheet separately with a linear scale (1,2,3,4,5) according to the bins you want, then hide the x-axis of the resulting graph.I recognize this requires Datylon to perform math/calculations, but it sure would be helpful.Second, I have not figured out how to set the "zero" point for a diverging bar chart - the category/value that separates left and right sides of the chart. I'm wondering if it would be helpful to have, by graph type, a tab with feature settings particular to that graph type. It would clarify which options are available.

Pros: Datylon allows consistent styles to be set up for charts with varying data, and makes them very easy to resize.

Cons: It can be difficult to get the hang of the styling features at first, but the more they are used, the clearer it is how many capabilities there are to adjust the style of charts.

Pros: Datylon does everything that Illustrator doesn't do when it comes to charts/graphs. It's FANTASTIC in almost every way!

Cons: The UI isn't intuitive at all. I almost walked away without even trying to figure it out. Thankfully, the support more than makes up for the UI deficiencies. They go above and beyond to help.

Pros: We are company who are focusing on report production and the data visualization, aka making charts is the important aspect of our workflow. We're creating charts manually before the Datylon. That process created lots of errors, mistakes. With Datylon, we standardized our charts and produce mistake-free reports. It was really time-saving, efficient and quality plug-in. If you are doing any charts on Illustrator, you need to use Datylon. Also, the support team's responses are very fast. They are always helpful!

Cons: I think the biggest improvement would be an built-in template center. Whenever we start a new project, we need to enter the same fonts, font sizes, bar lenght etc. It is a little bit time consuming process.

Pros: The best thing about Datylon is that the data can be altered afterwards without consequences for the design. No need to start all over again. An other great feature is the number of chart types to choose from.

Cons: It takes some time to learn how to tweak or alter the visualisation of the data.

Pros: Chart options, and the ability to bridge the gap between Excel and Illustrator was a great time-saver

Cons: Pricing is too expensive for individuals; I guess working in a big organization has benefits. But I won't pay a monthly subscription for a utility but rather a standalone product.

Pros: I like that it works as an Illustrator plugin and allows you to create nice graphs

Cons: It is not intuitive tool to learn, the interface could be more straightforward

Pros: This was a game changer for creating charts and other data visuals that were correct in terms of data and the ease of implementation of client branding.

Cons: I wish there was a way to save brand assets ie: swatches, fonts, and overall create styles that can be saved.

Pros: The ease of switching styles on the fly, and the ability to recreate multiples of a visualization with a few simple clicks.

Cons: Honestly, I’d prefer better integration with the rest of my Adobe workflow.

Pros: SO Flexible. You don’t have to start over every time new data comes in. With Illustrator, you practically have to start from scratch every time. With Datylon, once the design is set, all you do is change the numbers. Pays for itself after the first job.

Cons: It’s not really a con, but the interface is pretty complicated. That’s understandable given what it does. But once you get it down, everything cruises.

Pros: Datylon allows you to create complete fully designed charts. There's no having to make layout edits afterwards. It is a designers friend.

Cons: Need more videos on your help site. Sometimes the written explanation is not as easy to follow.

Pros: The ability to make templates and create a consistent brand look.

Cons: Steep learning curve. Terrible approach to software updates. Constant logging in.

Pros: Integrates well with Indesign and allows us to make last minute changes quickly. Lots of options available in styling our visualisations consistently.

Cons: Some of the options are hard to find and would be good to find a way to change some of the defaults .

Pros: I really like that it is easy to connect with Datylon for any questions--ever. Customer support is helpful, accessible, and attentive. I also love that I can finally display data in interesting ways as I have always felt that Illustrator is lacking in this area.

Cons: I would like to be able to customize options based on my company's branding and to have helpful hints on how to best set up data in Excel.

Pros: The ease of creating multiple beautiful charts with changing data.

Cons: The price is very high. The UI system is terrible. Needs some improvements for ease of use. But once get used to it, its not as hard to move around.