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Data analysts, statisticians, and business intelligence analysts often find it difficult to organize complex data sets, identify anomalies, and visualize the correlations between them. Like these professionals, if you also frequently work with data and present the analysis to stakeholders, then dashboard software could be of use to you.
Dashboard tools allow you to track, collect, and visualize complex data using elements such as graphs, charts, tables, and maps. They help present key data findings in an easy-to-understand format to clients, team members, or other stakeholders.
There are many free dashboard software options that you can use to check out your required software functionality before deciding whether to invest in a paid tool.
This article highlights three top-rated free dashboard software tools (listed alphabetically) based on user reviews and ratings. (Read how we selected these products.)
Caspio is an online application building platform that allows you to develop custom database applications without coding. It lets you create searchable and professional-looking dashboards with rich database features such as ad-hoc search and filtering control.
With Caspio’s visual application builder, you can create around 20 different types of dashboards, including business intelligence dashboards, sales dashboards, marketing dashboards, financial dashboards, and HR dashboards. You can simply upload data from a spreadsheet to the Caspio platform and create graphs, tables, and charts (pie charts, line charts, donut charts) that can all be embedded in the same web page to consolidate information into a single view.
The dashboards created via Caspio can be shared with internal as well as external stakeholders. In addition, the software offers various security features to ensure only authorized users have access to dashboard data. These features include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, account security control, and user authentication via single sign-on.
Caspio offers phone, email, and chat support to its customers.
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Free Version
Mixpanel is online analytics software that analyzes customer behavior by tracking in-product interactions, such as the number of times a product page is viewed, time between visits, and overall conversion ratio.
The software lets you create customizable dashboards to display key metrics such as the number of customers acquired, revenue earned, amount of website traffic, and user engagement rate. Its multi-dashboard view displays all your dashboards on a single screen. You can add multiple dashboards to this centralized view instead of jumping between separate dashboards.
Mixpanel’s pin-to-mobile feature allows you to view dashboards even on your mobile device. You can share dashboards via a link. You can also give viewing or editing permissions to team members. All newly-built dashboards remain private by default.
The data you enter into the Mixpanel dashboard is updated in real time, allowing your team to work on the latest figures. The software sends automatic notifications if there’s an unexpected change in your business metrics.
Mixpanel offers phone, email, and chat support to its customers.
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Free Version
Google Data Studio is an online dashboard and data visualization tool that allows you to create customizable reports and dashboards. The software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to combine and analyze data from multiple sources, such as Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, to create dashboards. It also lets you import data from various third-party tools, such as Asana, Jira Cloud, and Funnel.
The software offers pre-built interactive dashboard templates to quickly create a new dashboard. The best part is that these templates are available free of cost. You can customize every aspect of your dashboard, including the background, color, font, style, and icons. You can also add text, shapes, and images to enhance the look of the dashboard, explain context, and highlight important aspects of data.
Google Data Studio lets you link data from Google services such as Google Analytics and Google Ads. You can invite internal and external stakeholders to collaborate on dashboards and reports and view edits in real time. You can also manage dashboard security by granting access rights to only authorized users.
Google Data Studio offers email support to its customers.
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Free Version
Selecting a free dashboard tool can be tricky. Let’s discuss some important factors you must evaluate before finalizing your purchase.
These are some common questions that you should ask vendors when selecting a free dashboard tool for your business:
To find your ideal software match, you need information you can trust so you can save time, stay on budget, and focus more energy on growing your business. It’s why we vet and verify all our user reviews and recommend only the tools endorsed by people like you.
In other words, our product recommendations are never bought or sold, or based on the opinion of a single individual—they’re chosen by your peers, reflecting the views and experiences of our independent base of software reviewers.
​​At Capterra, we objectively select and rank products based on a methodology developed by our research team. Some vendors pay us when they receive web traffic, but this has no influence on our methodology.
To be considered for this list, products have to:
The “Best functionality” tool is identified based on the highest user ratings for functionality that a vendor received based on publicly available reviews (as of April 20, 2022).
Product research for this article was contributed by Himanshi Arora.
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