Looker Studio
Free dashboard building, connected to Google data sources and more.
Cost
Completely free
Free to use; some third-party connectors are paid.
Open source
No
The code is private. You depend on the company that makes it.
Your data
Goes to their servers
Your files and text are sent to the company running the service.
Use it for this
Free dashboards on top of Sheets, Google Analytics or a database.
Do not use it for this
Heavy transformation. Clean the data before it arrives.
A moment where you would reach for it
Building a shareable dashboard from a Google Sheet in an afternoon.
How hard is it to pick up?
Straightforward, but expect an hour of figuring it out.
Other things that do this job
No tool is best at everything. These solve a similar problem, with different trade-offs.
About this entry
Checked on 1 Sept 2026. Prices and free limits change without warning, and often quietly. Treat everything above as a starting point and confirm on the official site before you rely on it.
Nothing here is sponsored. A tool appears because it solves a real problem, not because someone paid for it to be listed.