Rerun
Shares rank 17 of 19 charting libraries by recommenders
An open-source viewer and database for logging and visualizing multimodal, time-series data, used by people debugging robotics and simulation systems.
An open-source viewer and database for logging and visualizing multimodal, time-series data, used by people debugging robotics and simulation systems.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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Why people recommend it
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Handles multimodal and time-series data
“We help engineers log, query, and visualize large, multimodal datasets so they can actually understand what their systems are doing.”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 on Hacker News “Rerun is an open-source viewer for time-series and multimodal data used in robotics and physical AI”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Rerun 0.30: Plot Any Scalar and Custom GPU Visualizers” “Rerun is an easy-to-use database and visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rerun 0.28 – easier use with ROS style data” Debugging robotics simulations and rollouts
“Rerun is an open-source viewer for time-series and multimodal data used in robotics and physical AI”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Rerun 0.30: Plot Any Scalar and Custom GPU Visualizers” “it's been incredible for debugging simulations as well as looking at individual policy rollouts”
Comment from 25 May 2026 in “Simulating a 3D Quadcopter from Scratch”
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6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it's been incredible for debugging simulations as well as looking at individual policy rollouts”
“Great to see the viewer in your post!”
“Rerun is an open-source viewer for time-series and multimodal data used in robotics and physical AI”
“We help engineers log, query, and visualize large, multimodal datasets so they can actually understand what their systems are doing.”
“Rerun is an easy-to-use database and visualization toolbox for multimodal and temporal data.”
“This is a use of Rerun that I haven't seen before!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.