General Kst features:

• Fast real-time display and manipulation of streaming data
• Quick zooming and scrolling via mouse and keyboard
• Extensible via plugins
• Built-in high-speed equation interpreter
• Multiple tabs or windows
• Graphical plot layout manager
• Drag and drop
• Cut and paste
• Native power spectrum algorithm and histograms
• Image and matrix support, including waterfall plots
• Support for the most popular data formats.
  • Plugin design allows additional formats
• Time input
• Built-in ELOG functionality
• Printing, including to images, postscript, and PDF

Kst 1 features:

• KstScript, an ECMAScript based scripting language capable of interacting with and extending kst in virtually every way
• Command-line and RPC control mechanisms
• Data formats:
  • ASCII, Dirfile, CDF, netCDF, piolib, FITS, HEALPix, QImage

Future release roadmap:

• Kst 1.10.x continues support for KDE 3.x