Compare the Top HMI Software as of January 2026

What is HMI Software?

HMI software enables machine operators to effectively operate, monitor, and manage a machine or a system of machines. HMI is short for Human Machine Interface. HMI offers both machine-level or supervisory-level functionality, and the operation of HMI software is done by people using a GUI (Graphical User Interface). HMI software is designed to make machine processes less redundant, and more efficient. Compare and read user reviews of the best HMI software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    FrameworX

    FrameworX

    Tatsoft

    Tatsoft’s FrameworX is the complete, modern SCADA and IIoT platform for building high-performance industrial applications. Designed for edge-to-enterprise use, it unifies operations, data, and AI under one scalable, .NET-based architecture. Features include real-time data modeling, historian, alarms, reports, audit trails, scripting in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, and Python, plus 100+ native drivers for PLCs, DCS, OPC, and MQTT (broker/client/SparkplugB). Build once—deploy anywhere with zero client installs and full web, mobile, and desktop access. Includes every module from day one: Devices, Alarms, Historian, Reports, Security, and DevOps tools. Proven in 5,000+ global deployments, FrameworX powers mission-critical operations across industries with reliability, unlimited scalability, and transparent licensing. (FrameworX was formerly known as FactoryStudio.)
    Starting Price: $750
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    Adroit Ignite

    Adroit Ignite

    Adroit Technologies

    Adroit Technologies have been developing SCADA/HMI software for over 30 years. With over 30 000 licenses sold globally into every industry imaginable. The Adroit Ignite HMI software is a perfect derivative of the Adroit SCADA targeted at smaller industrial applications, OEM and machine builders to use. Built on the Microsoft .NET technology stack the Adroit Ignite design surface supports the widest ability to integrate virtually any aspect of your control system. Giving you access to all the familiar .Net controls, Vector Graphics and even allows you to drop in and use your own Custom Controls within your visualization design. Integration can be supported through scripting which is integrated into Visual Studio to allow even the most complex extensions. Our I/O Server delivers data from all the well known PLC brands and open standards such as OPC, OPC UA, Web Services, OLEDB , MQTT, BACNet As we tell our customers, If you can dream it you can build it in Adroit Ignite
    Starting Price: $250 USD
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    VTScada

    VTScada

    Trihedral

    VTScada is award-winning software that provides a refreshingly intuitive platform for creating highly-customized industrial monitoring and control applications that end users can trust and use with ease. A wide variety of industries around the world use VTScada for mission-critical applications of every size. VTScada is unique in that all its core SCADA components are developed in-house and are installed out-of-the-box. No need to cobble together basic functionality using custom code and third-party components like alarm dialers, Historians, and application version control. Built-in is better.
    Starting Price: $3,295 one-time fee
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    Peakboard

    Peakboard

    Peakboard

    With its low-code platform for creating industrial applications, Peakboard GmbH assists production and logistics companies in monitoring their internal processes and managing their own systems interactively. The solution can gather process data from all common data sources, including SAP, machine controls, material flow controls, and Excel. It can then evaluate and display this data on screens in real-time. This approach enables easy identification of sources of errors, thereby increasing productivity. Customers have the autonomy to decide which key figures they would like to be displayed on the dashboard. Furthermore, information can be relayed to over 90 connected IT interfaces using touchscreens. This establishes an intuitive user interface that employees in production and the warehouse can utilize to interact with the complex IT landscape. As a result, controlling production machinery becomes as simple as using a smartphone.
    Starting Price: 708 € (annually/license)
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    iFIX

    iFIX

    GE Digital

    With just a glance, operators should be able to recognize which information requires their attention and what action needs to be taken. They need to know quickly what problems have arisen and how they can be addressed efficiently. You can enable smart operators with proven and innovative iFIX HMI/SCADA, used by thousands of organizations around the world. iFIX, part of the Proficy family from GE Digital, leverages the latest technology to help deliver faster time to insight and greater efficiency for your operations while speeding time-to-value for system integrators. Play the role of an operator who supplies the local town with water. Over the course of three challenges, show your skill to take your place as the SCADA superhero! The aim of the game is to keep costs low. To achieve this, manage the water supply efficiently by keeping the water flowing, avoid unplanned downtime with failing pumps, balance electricity costs and keep the community happy.
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    HELIO

    HELIO

    KEB America

    HELIO is a browser-based HMI development tool that provides easy-to-use templates for creating professional-looking interfaces tailored to your brand. No design experience? No problem! HELIO's drag-and-drop editing enables you to customize colors, features, and layouts for any device, from mobile phones to large displays. HELIO features rapid prototyping that empowers you to customize industrial HMIs using real time machine data. Contact us to leverage our expertise in creating intuitive HMIs for your industrial automation systems. Streamlined UX Design: HELIO provides pre-built, well-crafted templates that manage the user experience, saving you valuable time and resources. Responsive & Flexible: The stable framework ensures your HMIs adapt seamlessly to any screen size, delivering a great user experience on all devices. Fast & Intuitive Editing: HELIO's HMI editor empowers you to customize designs quickly and easily, even without extensive design experience.
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    LAquis SCADA
    Supervisory control and data acquisition system. Monitoring, screens/interface, storage, process control, administration, management, generation of realtime reports and advanced customizable documents with calculations, layouts and algorithms. It can be locally or optionally via the WEB.
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    AVEVA InTouch HMI
    AVEVA InTouch HMI is award-winning HMI visualization software that empowers customers to achieve their quest for operational excellence. Let AVEVA InTouch HMI take you beyond simplistic graphics to create meaningful content that will drive enterprise-wide operations productivity and cost savings. AVEVA InTouch HMI empowers operators to optimize routine human interactions with industrial automation systems. The result is a quantifiable net increase in operator effectiveness. Our unique situational awareness libraries provide operators the contextualized information they need to address abnormal situations quickly and accurately — before they impact operations. Used in more than one-third of the world’s industrial facilities, in virtually every country and industry, AVEVA InTouch HMI software continues to deliver business value in engineering simplicity, operational agility, and real-time performance mastery.
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    AVEVA System Platform
    AVEVA System Platform with Operations Management Interface (OMI) is the world’s only responsive, scalable solution for supervisory, Enterprise SCADA, MES, and IIoT applications that contextualizes operations processes across the organization. System Platform provides a collaborative, standards-based foundation that unifies people, processes, and assets across all facilities for continuous operational improvement and real-time decision support. With AVEVA System Platform you can securely visualize enterprise-wide operations using an asset model to apply context to real-time processes, alarms, events, and archived historical data – creating a single, common information stream that makes system design and maintenance more efficient, flexible, and provides operators with greater situational awareness for improved effectiveness.
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    FactoryTalk View

    FactoryTalk View

    Rockwell Automation

    Those machines that are spread all across our plant floor and enterprise are telling you something. With FactoryTalk® View software, you can get a clear consistent story from the standalone machine-level HMI to distributed visualization solutions covering your entire enterprise. A single software package covers HMI challenges in the process, batch, and discrete application. Clear displays and a common programming language, including a huge library of faceplates, help confirm that you get the best possible perspectives of your machine performance. With users at multiple levels in your organization all seeing the same views of the machines, you speed up the ability to manage production, which is a story you can all get behind. With an evolving industry, changes in processes, operation expansion, and more, determining how to grow in this era can be challenging. Built for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities, our HMI solutions are designed with you and your success in mind.
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    Vijeo Designer

    Vijeo Designer

    Schneider Electric

    Discover Vijeo Designer software to cover your Magelis HMI application needs. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, it also offers functions such as multimedia capabilities and remote access for more efficiency. The cross-platform Vijeo Designer configuration software helps to create operator dialogue applications for controlling automation systems. A software range to cover your Harmony and Magelis HMI application design needs: Vijeo Designer for Small Panels, Advanced Panels and iPC. Vijeo Designer is the HMI component of EcoStruxure Machine Expert for machine applications. Vijeo Designer Design’Air enables you to connect to your HMI remotely for an interactive mirror view of your application. Vijeo Designer Design’Air Plus, enable you to get a fully operable view of your application from wherever you are.
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    iX HMI

    iX HMI

    Beijer Electronics

    iX empowers you with modern tools to communicate. The HMI software combines top-class graphics and smarter functions that provide intuitive operation on the spot. Not to mention the almost limitless connectivity to your other equipment through the extensive list of drivers. Speed up engineering with iX HMI software in an intuitive development environment filled with shortcuts. Pre-styled objects, a customizable workspace, a component library, and a smart property grid are some of the features that’ll boost your workflow. It's easy to get your application up and running with iX HMI software. All essential functions you need are included, such as data logging, recipes, alarms, trends, and audit trail.
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    GL Studio
    DiSTI's flagship HMI product, GL Studio, delivers advanced high-performance 2D and 3D user interfaces to the aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, rail, commercial space, and agricultural industries. GL Studio is a GUI editor environment with C++ code generation and runtime library for standard QM embedded apps and Safety Critical apps. Leading global manufacturers and defense organizations like the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Boeing, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Jaguar Land Rover, Hyundai & Kia Motors, and Fendt Tractors choose GL Studio for its performance, fidelity, interface development, and deployment reliability. GL Studio exceeds the developer's workflow and runtime performance demands for avionics, instrument clusters, heads up displays, infotainment systems, or control systems.
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    SIMATIC HMI
    SIMATIC HMI is a comprehensive portfolio of human-machine interface systems that delivers seamless industrial visualization and operator control across machines and plants. It spans from Basic HMI panels with high-resolution displays optimized for simple, cost-effective machine-level tasks to Comfort panels offering high-performance touchscreens and flexible interfaces for complex applications, Unified Panels that converge hardware and software for next-generation operating concepts, PC-based WinCC Advanced solutions for data-intensive single-user control, and WinCC Professional SCADA systems for multi-user, plant-wide supervision. All components integrate natively in the TIA Portal engineering framework, enabling maximum efficiency through unified configuration, diagnostics, recipe and alarm management, and network connectivity via PROFINET and OPC UA. With brilliant displays or powerful PC-based visualization, contextualized alarm handling, scalable security, and high availability.
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    MobileHMI

    MobileHMI

    Iconics

    The same control screens that can be configured via ICONICS GraphWorX64™ data visualization tool to be used on PCs and laptops can be customized for access via a wide variety of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and wearables. These devices can then utilize ICONICS MobileHMI™ enterprise mobile applications in order to view instant KPIs and alerts at any time, from anywhere. MobileHMI allows organizations to place process monitoring and control in the hands of operators, wherever they may be, using popular smartphones, tablets, or wearables. ICONICS data mobility solutions feature responsive design. GraphWorX64 and the Workbench allow for quick display creation for both desktop machines and mobile devices. ICONICS works with hardware manufacturers to integrate its data mobility software. The company continuously devotes research and development efforts to working with the latest mobile devices.
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    CIMON

    CIMON

    CIMON

    CIMON provides a wide range of industrial automation products including PLC, HMI, SCADA software and industrial PCs. CIMON’s complete product portfolio gives customers everything they need to build and maintain a system more efficiently and effectively. CIMON’s ‘Smart Solutions’ provide growth power to innovate in industrial fields. The company has been providing automation solutions for industries including automotive, power plants, semiconductors, water/wastewater, electronics, oil and gas, building automation and more. CIMON is also one of the pioneers in the smart factory sector with new innovative products. Our company is driven by innovation and technology and our worldwide team of experts with commitment, dedication and innovative spirit, will continue to provide exceptional service and products for the automation industry. Start your smart future with CIMON’s total solution.
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    ADISRA SmartView

    ADISRA SmartView

    MOSCADS Exousia, Pt

    ADISRA SmartView™ 4.0 HMI/SCADA Visualization Software ADISRA SmartView is a powerful, Windows and Linux-based, desktop software tool that builds robust HMI, SCADA, and Client-Server programs for industrial automation applications. ADISRA SmartView provides the integrated features and functionality necessary to quickly create projects and connect to industry-standard modules, components and devices. With ADISRA SmartView, you have the power to create powerful HMI and SCADA applications and easily edit them at any time. ADISRA SmartView is loaded with communication drivers to easily integrate different modules, components and devices. You can store and acquire data from external sources (OPCs, Databases, PI-OsiSoft, IoT and Edge Devices, PLCs, and the Cloud). Integrated Window-Linux based development environment with all easily-recognized features to build HMI, SCADA, OEE and IIoT applications.
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