Free and Open-Source Tool for
Social Network Analysis

Social Network Visualizer (SocNetV) is a cross-platform, user-friendly free software application for social network analysis and visualization. With SocNetV you can:

  • Draw social networks with a few clicks on a virtual canvas, load field data from a file in a supported format (GraphML, GraphViz, Adjacency, EdgeList, GML, Pajek, UCINET, etc) or crawl the internet to create a social network of connected webpages.
  • Edit actors and ties through point-and-click, analyse graph and social network properties, produce beautiful HTML reports and embed visualization layouts to the network.

Main features:

Source code, packages and executables for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X are available in the "Downloads" page.



The program is Free Software, licensed under the GNU General Public License 3 (GPL3).
You can copy it as many times as you wish, or modify it, provided you keep the same license. The documentation is also Free, licensed under the Free Documentation License (FDL).

Do you want to contribute?

  • If you are a C++/Qt developer, you can help our project by commiting your patches (new features and bugfixes) to our source code development tree.
  • If you are a proud SocNetV user (person or institution), you can help us by reporting bugs, proposing new features in our Issues or even donating whatever amount of money you like to the project. If you want to donate some money, click on the "Donate" button (in the page footer). You will be redirected to our Paypal donation account.

In any case, thank you for using and contributing to SocNetV! Have fun with social network analysis.

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News

SocNetV v3.1 released

Jun 12, 2023

The Social Network Visualizer project announces a new version of our favorite SNA application. SocNetV v3.1 is the first Qt6-only release and brings many improvements and bugfixes. SocNetV v3.1 has faster large file loading, as well as quicker responsiveness with large nets (>20000 edges), while having less memory footprint. Among the bug

SocNetV v3.0 released

Jul 30, 2021

The Social Network Visualizer project has released a brand-new version of our favorite SNA application. SocNetV v3.0 brings improved speed and responsiveness, bugfixes and new command line parameters. Using the new version you will get faster computations because Graph is now running on a separate thread. Also, this is the first SocNetV version to

SocNetV v2.9 released

Jun 15, 2021

The Social Network Visualizer project has released a new version of our favorite social network analysis and visualization software application. SocNetV 2.9 fixes the macOS Big Sur issue, and brings a few bugfixes and improvements. It is now available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Go to the SocNetV Downloads page and get it!

SocNetV v2.8 released

Jan 3, 2021

The Social Network Visualizer project has released a brand new version of our favorite social network analysis and visualization software application. SocNetV version 2.8 brings bugfixes and improvements and it is now available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Go to the SocNetV Downloads page and get it!

SocNetV v2.5 released with lots of new features and new looks!

Mar 8, 2019

The Social Network Visualizer project has released a brand new version of our favorite social network analysis and visualization software application. SocNetV version 2.5, codenamed "maniac" brings new features and improvements and it is now available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Go to the SocNetV Downloads page and get it! Here is a brief list

SocNetV Features

Explore the nice features of SocNetV to make
your social network research real fun!

  • Easy User Interface

    Navigate yourself and use the application either with the mouse or the keyboard.

  • File Formats

    Load and save to GraphML, but you can also import most network file formats (GML, Pajek, UCINET, GraphViz, Adjacency, EdgeList etc).

  • Network analysis

    Compute distances, eccentricity, connectedness, clique census, triad census, and Prominence indices (i.e. eigenvector, betweenness and information centrality, promixity prestige, pagerank and more)

  • Visualization

    Apply intuitive visualization layouts on undirected/directed graphs, based on prominence scores or force-directed models.

  • Famous networks

    Automatically recreate known social network datasets such as Padgett's Families

  • Random networks

    Create random networks using one of the supported models (scale-free, Erdős–Rényi, lattice, small worlds)

  • Web Crawler

    Easily visualize and analyze networks of linked web pages and sites through the built-in web crawler.

  • Multi-relational

    Work with multiple relations concurrently. SocNetV supports loading, editing and saving multirelational social networks.

  • Documentation

    Learn to work with SocNetV and make use of Social Network Analysis methods by reading our Manual

  • Free Software

    SocNetV is Free and Open-Source Software, use it everywhere. Have a feature request? Ask us!

Have fun with Social Network Analysis

Use the buttons to download Social Network Visualizer for your OS or to learn more about Social Network Analysis and Visualization reading the Manual .