HOBOware
Onset's flagship setup, graphing and analysis software for Windows and Mac.
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Easy setup

HOBOware makes logger setup and readout fast and easy with simple, intuitive windows.

Powerful tools

HOBOware's graphing and analysis tools allow you to plot, analyze and extract key data with a few simple clicks.

Presentation-quality graphs

With HOBOware, you can easily create high-quality visual presentations of your data.


HOBOware can combine files from different data loggers onto one graph

Standard features

  • Simple menus for fast, easy logger setup and readout
  • Point & click for fast setup and readout
  • Scaling to real-world engineering units
  • Presentation-quality graphs
  • Easy export of data files to text or Excel format
  • Free download

HOBOware Pro features

  • Time-saving tools for fast setup & readout
  • Advanced plotting tools for more precise data analysis
  • Access to Data Assistants for post-processing data

HOBOware features comparison

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 HOBOware HOBOware Pro
Support for all HOBO data loggers
Quickly generate presentation-quality graphs
Copy & paste series
Merge data files
Save modified graphs as projects
Easy data export to XLS, CSV & TXT files
Linear & pulse scaling data assistants
Multi-Langauge Support
(English/Spanish/French/German/Portugese)
Time-saving tools for fast setup, readout & export  
Data Assistants for Dissolved Oxygen, Conductivity, Water Level, Growing Degree Days, Grains per Pound & kWh  
Ability to create Pie Charts  
Crop a series to a specific time frame  
Subset Statistics Tool for details within a time frame  
21 CFR Part 11 Compliance  
Data Shuttle support  
HOBOnode Manager to support ZW Data Nodes  
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System Requirements
  • Windows: 8, 7 (Pro, Ultimate and Home Premium), XP (Pro and Home).
  • Windows 7 Enterprise: Note: While HOBOware has been modified to work on Windows 7 Enterprise, there may be local configurations of that operating system that will not work with HOBOware.
  • Mac: OS X Versions 10.7.x, 10.8.x and 10.9.x.
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.6 or 1.7 (32-bit or 64-bit on Windows). Please note that Windows 8 users needing serial logger support must have Java 7 (1.7.0_9) or greater. Please note that version 1.6, also known as Java 6, is officially supported on OS X only on Intel Core 2 Duo and later processors. See the time zone note below.
  • One of the following Internet browsers: Safari 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11, as well as the most recent versions of Firefox and Google Chrome.
  • Minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Recommended screen resolution of 1280x800 or greater particularly for non-English users.
  • 256+ colors