PlotOne makes publication-ready scientific figures on your Mac and iPad — full control over lines, markers, axes, fields, panels, and colour maps, with exact-size export for journal submission. No subscription, no bloat.
One-time purchase, both platforms · macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon) and iPadOS 17+ · free updates
Built around the plotting workflow researchers repeat every day: inspect the import, style the figure, refresh the data, and export at the journal's exact size.
Mix solid model curves with hollow or filled data markers on the same axes — the standard comparison figure for any experimental paper.
X and Y error bars, fixed magnitude or percent of value, plus per-point Y uncertainty read from a data column.
Overlay series with completely different units and scales, each with its own color-matched axis, without the layout fighting back.
Matrix-grid or scattered XYZ data, auto-triangulated or interpolated to a grid. Seven built-in colormaps, including a hand-tuned Rainbow LUT.
Greek letters, subscripts, superscripts — φ, αcomb, Isp — rendered correctly, bold, in the same serif face as the rest of the figure.
CSV, tab/space-delimited text, or Excel — with a parsed-cell preview before the data reaches the figure.
The part every other cheap plotting tool gets wrong.
Set your figure to precisely 89mm, 3.5in, or whatever your target journal specifies — not "close enough after cropping."
Vector PDF keeps real, selectable Core Text labels. Reviewers can select and search your axis text; it is not flattened to outlines.
300 / 600 / 1200 DPI one-click presets, plus TIFF export for journals that still ask for it.
| What you need to do | How PlotOne handles it |
|---|---|
| Verify an import | Preview parsed cells, delimiters and Excel sheets before drawing |
| Refresh new simulation results | Reload the source file while preserving every style choice |
| Meet a journal's dimensions | Set physical size and text in mm/in and pt on the live canvas |
| Make a compound figure | Combine panels, shared axes, colour bars, overlays and insets |
| Correct a mistake | Native undo/redo for inspector edits, ordering and canvas moves |
| Protect unpublished data | No account, network connection, analytics or telemetry |
No subscription, no seat limits, no "renew to keep exporting."