Kst is the fastest real-time large-dataset viewing and plotting tool available and has basic data analysis functionality. Kst contains many powerful built-in features and is expandable with plugins and extensions. Extensive help is available, both from within kst and on the web. Kst is a KDE application and is freely available for anyone to download and use.

Main features of kst include:

• Robust plotting of live "streaming" data.
• Powerful keyboard and mouse plot manipulation.
• Powerful plugins and extensions support.
• Large selection of built-in plotting and data manipulation functions, such as histograms, equations, and power spectra.
• Color mapping and contour mapping capabilities for three-dimensional data, as well as matrix and image support.
• Monitoring of events and notifications support.
• Built-in filtering and curve fitting capabilities.
• Convenient command-line interface.
• Powerful graphical user interface.
• Support for several popular data formats including fits, netCDF, and HEALPix.
• Multiple tabs or windows.
• Extended annotation objects similar to vector graphics applications.
• KstScript, an ECMAScript based scripting language capable of interacting with and extending kst in virtually every way.

A full list of kst's features as well as a roadmap for future features and releases is available on the features page.

Kst is licenced under the GPL. The current stable version of kst is 1.6.0.