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Datylon 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Datylon
Datylon
4.5
(57)

Pricing

Starting at $19.95 per month

About Datylon

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.

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Datylon Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.95 per month
Free Trial
Free Version

Free

$0.00

Plan includes:

  • Datylon Online Chart Maker
  • 130+ chart templates
  • Reusable charts & templates in Datylon Report Studio
  • Unlimited designs, public or private
  • Embed or export to file
  • 14-day free trial for Datylon for Illustrator plug-in

Basic

$19.95

per user, per month

Plan includes:

  • Datylon for Illustrator (plug-in)
  • Fully featured
  • Export custom templates to Datylon Report Studio
  • Free software upgrades
  • Best effort support
  • Seamless integration with Adobe CC
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Datylon Features

  • Popular features found in Data Visualization
    Data Connectors
    Data Import/Export
    Drag & Drop
    Multiple Data Sources
    Relational Display
    Scheduled/Automated Reports
    Search/Filter
    Third-Party Integrations
    Visual Analytics
  • More features of Datylon
    Access Controls/Permissions
    Ad hoc Reporting
    API
    Collaboration Tools
    Customizable Branding
    Customizable Dashboard
    Customizable Reports
    Customizable Templates
    Dashboard
    Dashboard Creation
    Data Management
    Data Visualization
    Publishing/Sharing
    Real-Time Updates
    Reporting/Analytics
    Reporting & Statistics
    Self Service Data Preparation
    Visual Discovery
    Workflow Management

Datylon Integrations

Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator
Integration rated 4.9 from 10 reviews

Datylon User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

5

60%

4

33%

3

7%

2

0%

1

0%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.3

See-ming's profile

See-ming L.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed October 2021

Game Changer for making charts in Adobe Illustrator

5

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.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
4
Value for money
5
Customer support
4
Functionality
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Pros:
Natively design charts using easy-to-use panels. Being able to import any CSVs and select the columns intended for different fields, together with a huge collection of charts, makes it easy to create charts that can be used for final delivery. 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.

Vendor Response

Hi See-ming, Thanks for the extensive and useful feedback! Performance is important so do not hesitate to contact our support team via getsupport@datylon.com and send us some samples for benchmarking. It might help us to optimize the performance. The Datylon Team.

Replied October 2021

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Craig P.

Verified reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Datylon Rocks

5

This is an amazing too and a must for anyone producing charts.

Ratings Breakdown

4
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
5
Functionality
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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.

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Rachel B.

Verified reviewer

Graphic Design

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed February 2023

Provisional

3

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.

Ratings Breakdown

2
Ease of use
3
Value for money
5
Customer support
2
Functionality
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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).

Vendor Response

Dear Rachel, Thanks for the review. We do offer a free online getting started or advance training session. Feel free to book it here: https://www.datylon.com/book-a-demo-session On top of that, we can offer custom training as well. Let's discuss (getsupport@datylon.com).

Replied April 2023

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AV

Anneka V.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed August 2021

A powerful tool with a learning curve

4

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.

Ratings Breakdown

3
Ease of use
5
Customer support
5
Functionality
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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.

Reasons for switching to Datylon

Datylon is much more powerful and customizable than Illustrator's chart making software

Vendor Response

Dear Anneke, Thanks for the nice review and constructive comments! Regarding the frequent updates, we are always (overly?) eager to release new features and some users are waiting on specific fixes, hence the frequent updates. But we'll keep it in mind. Regarding the communication, we send out service emails to all our users about the updates. So we need to investigate how to improve there. Feel free to contact us about that on getsupport@datylon.com. Ease of use and maps are definitely on our mid term roadmap. The Datylon Team.

Replied August 2021

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Jonno C.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

201-500 employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2021

Smart, powerful, but flawed product. Strong on data, clumsy on visualization.

4

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.

Ratings Breakdown

3
Ease of use
3
Value for money
3
Functionality
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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.

Vendor Response

Dear Jonno, Thanks for the review! Your remarks make a lot of sense and most, if not all, are on our roadmap. Some will require quite some development time, but we keep on working hard to improve our product. I'm only concerned about the low performance. That is not reported by other users and we see realtime rendering of the charts during testing. If you want, we can have a look at it. Just send a mail to getsupport@datylon.com or book a call using this link: https://help.datylon.com/meetings/stijn-simoens The Datylon Team

Replied August 2021

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Emily W.

Verified reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2023

The best way to create custom, editable charts in Illustrator

5

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
5
Value for money
4
Customer support
5
Functionality
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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.

Reasons for choosing Datylon

The built-in Illustrator chart/graph feature is terrible and hasn't been updated in years. And other products I researched didn't have any easy way to integrate with Illustrator or InDesign. Datylon does exactly that, and does it so well.

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Caycee Č.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2023

Datylon patches the gapping hole left by the Adobe Illustrator charts and graphs tool

4

Very good, even though certain things could be upgraded/fixed so that it can do more and is more customizable. Such as default typeface, size, styles. It's the best thing I've found so far, and thank goodness I don't have to use the Illustrator built-in graphing tool anymore!

Ratings Breakdown

4
Ease of use
5
Value for money
5
Customer support
4
Functionality
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Pros:
Being able to easily resize a graph's height and width instantly.
Cons:
There are certainly kinks to work out, especially having to remove all commas (,) from numbers when inserting data.

Vendor Response

Hi Caycee, Thanks for the review! You can format, like using commas as thousand separators, in the formatting tab. See more info here: https://help.datylon.com/tutorials/format-incoming-data, or feel free to book a call to discuss the details: https://www.datylon.com/book-a-demo-session

Replied April 2023

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VR

Verified
Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Datylon Best Visual Graph Design

4

as you know already using the photoshop to design the graph is not easy, especial to drag the graph, but datylon can make us easy to draw drag the graph like charm.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
4
Value for money
4
Customer support
4
Functionality
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Pros:
its very powerful plugin to design the nice graph, and can integrated with adobe creative suite as well, that very powerful features one.
Cons:
its very nice already, since it support well for the adobe collection.

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VR

Verified
Reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed August 2021

a beginnings perspective

3

I'm still a beginner and learning every time. but I am glad that such a tool exists and recommend it to colleagues.

Ratings Breakdown

2
Ease of use
3
Value for money
3
Customer support
4
Functionality
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Pros:
the ability to adjust data live and adjust the size afterwards.
Cons:
if you make the data visualization you can't ungroup it to adjust something small that doesn't belong

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review! The tool requires indeed a bit of a learning curve but we are working to improve on that. Please note it is possible to ungroup a Datylon chart. See this article in our Help Center: https://help.datylon.com/tutorials/ungroup-charts-in-illustrator And if you have other questions, do not hesitate to chat with us on our website or even book a session with one of our experts for more tips & tricks.

Replied August 2021

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VR

Verified
Reviewer

Design

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Reviewed March 2023

Great tool for data visualization

4

Still great for creating compelling data visualization in Illustrator.

Ratings Breakdown

2
Ease of use
4
Value for money
4
Functionality
icon
Pros:
I love the general look and the scalability of the diagrams, so much better than the Illustrator function.
Cons:
It takes some time getting used to the interface since it doesn't resemble anything I usually work with.

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