Overall, my experience was positive - it works fine for my needs which is creating layouts for reports and infographics.

I like that it has a lot of customization features (still would love to have much more options!). Once you set up a template of a graph, exchanging data is extremely easy.

My problem is really specific - round graphs and text labels just don't work - if you want to make everything readible and lookind nice you have to add your labels seperately which is extremely annoying.

Datylon saved my day with big report documents, obtaining excellent results; yet, the learning curve is steep and you have to be creative sometimes to get always what you want from your graphs.

Note: I’m a Datylon user in Adobe Illustrator environment. Datylon is great for big report projects: once you have set up your graph, you can apply it to several sets of data without any annoying “reset” issues from the Illustrator Graph tool.

The software lacks in consistency of features among the several graph types, especially the “Data label” feature, available only for Line graphs. I’ve been able to work this out by applying a Line graph w/data labels over Candle graphs, but it meant losing a lot of time in setting up both spreadsheets and Datylon graphs; some easy tweaks are not available (i.e.: in Data Labels, it will automatically delete leading zeros, even if the source data is set as text, and you can’t switch it off); in order to solve these issues, you need a good knowledge in both spreadsheet and Illustrator softwares.

Seems little daunting at first, but eventually started figuring something things out. I worry about my less technical designers getting into this thing. Its need much better tutorials, contextual help, and error handling. Also would like to see a way to do Sankey diagrams built in, and more letter-level control of type (like if I want to bold part of a label, or color a single word or something).

I was on a design project that required a lot ofcharts, graphs, and other data visualization. Illustrator's built in tools are very lacking. Loved how many different chart types Datylon had out of the box. Gives designers a lot of options.

It's missing an undo feature. I messed something up, and it gives me an error in the plug-in screens but I have no idea where to fix it. Still displays the way i want so I just live with it. Also its a little hard to navigate and understand where the various settings I need are. Really needs contextual tool tips to help explain what everything does (with visual examples).

Overall it is a great tool to have, which directly plugs into Illustrator. It outputs very aesthetically satisfying graphics, which are easy to edit and customize. The tool is easy to learn, and if you have any questions they are happy to set up a video call to help you. Brilliant tool, brilliant service.

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.

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.

Being able to create a chart within Illustrator, then "expand" it and fine-tune customizations is fantastic. Otherwise, I've been exporting charts to .svg and bringing them into Illustrator, which is not as clever.

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.

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.