Easy to develop but not so flexible visually
Updated May 17, 2021

Easy to develop but not so flexible visually

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Charts

Our Information Technology team uses Google Charts on dashboards and specific applications that need better ways to display data. It helps us by saving a lot of trouble and time of implementation, besides being very accessible on both Desktop and Mobile devices.
Performance is great, so we don't have issues with that as well.
  • Flexibility.
  • Ease of use.
  • Reliability.
  • Visual customization.
  • Integrations with other frameworks.
  • Visual adaptation for smaller screens.
  • Saves time for our IT team.
  • Reliability as it works on very different scenarios.
  • Can't be used on all cases since it visual customization is limited.
I've used D3.js and Google Charts, in my opinion, is easier to use and more accessible. But D3.js is much more visually flexible and has a lot of different use cases if we compare it to this service. So I think Google Charts is suitable for dashboards and applications that doesn't need a very attractive design, compared to D3.js which can be used on the front-end and more visually focused applications.

Do you think Google Charts delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Charts's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Charts live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Charts go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Charts again?

Yes

Very easy to implement, develop and plug with existing applications and APIs. So it can be used in a lot of different cases when you need to display data in a didactic way. I'd definitely recommend it to internal projects like dashboards and content management panels. Also, besides of being easy to develop, it's very user friendly.
Google Charts has an awesome community willing to help and answer questions, besides having a huge documentation, so its learning curve is not steep comparing to other solutions. You just need to know JavaScript and integration with APIs if you need to. So I'd recommend to learn it and in a few days you'd be good to go.
I would definitely recommend Google Charts, it's very easy to implement and connect to existing applications and internal or external APIs. Since this kind of application would be very complex to develop from the ground up, Google Charts helps us by saving time and enabling our team to focus on other parts of our products.

Google Charts Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
10
Customizable dashboards
5
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
Not Rated
Formatting capabilities
5
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
Not Rated
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
Not Rated
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
REST API
10
Javascript API
10
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
5
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
7