Netlytic is a free, web-based tool for analyzing and visualizing text and social network data. It enables users to capture data from sources such as social media, blogs or online forums; identify themes and actors; and generate both chain and personal name networks for further analysis and visualization. Users can import datasets from RSS, cloud storage (Google Drive or Dropbox), Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and a plain text file. Results can be exported in formats accessible to other network analysis tools, such as CSV.

NodeXL is a free, open source tool for generating and exploring network graphs from Microsoft Excel files. It is particularly suited to data from social media sources, and includes the ability to directly import data from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and email, with additional plugins available for gathering data from Facebook, Microsoft Exchange, wikis and URLs. The tool generates visualizations that can be adjusted, zoomed and filtered, with additional features for vertex grouping, graphing metric calculations, and automating tasks. NodeXL can both import and export data in GraphML, Pajek, UCINet and matrix formats.