Compare the Top HMI Software for Windows as of January 2026

What is HMI Software for Windows?

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 for Windows 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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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