Past 4 - the Past of the Future

Past is free software for scientific data analysis, with functions for data manipulation, plotting, univariate and multivariate statistics, ecological analysis, time series and spatial analysis, morphometrics and stratigraphy.

Past went through a complete redesign with version 3 in 2013. In 2020, version 4 was released with 64-bit support.

Past works under Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7, and Mac OSX up to and including Sonoma.

Current version (June 2024): 4.17

Downloads

Version 4.17, 64-bit Windows (9 MB)
Firefox may cause problems with the download, use Chrome. To use the Open Street Map function, you may need to install Webview2 from Microsoft.

Version 4.09, 32-bit Windows (7 MB)

Version 4.04, 64-bit Windows (8 MB)

Mac, version 4.15, click button below (Intel version only; ARM will run slowly in emulation mode; ARM coming soon!)