diff --git a/src/xy/__tests__/xyFilter.test.ts b/src/xy/__tests__/xyFilter.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6b0dca9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/xy/__tests__/xyFilter.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { xyFilter } from '../../index';
+
+describe('xyFilter', () => {
+  const x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10];
+  const y = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11];
+  const points = { x, y };
+
+  it('no filter', () => {
+    const result = xyFilter(points);
+    expect(result).toStrictEqual({
+      x: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10],
+      y: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11],
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('x filter', () => {
+    const result = xyFilter(points, {
+      filter: (xValue) => xValue <= 2 || xValue >= 5,
+    });
+    expect(result).toStrictEqual({
+      x: [0, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10],
+      y: [1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11],
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('y filter', () => {
+    const result = xyFilter(points, {
+      filter: (xValue, yValue) => yValue <= 2 || yValue >= 5,
+    });
+    expect(result).toStrictEqual({
+      x: [0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10],
+      y: [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11],
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/xy/index.ts b/src/xy/index.ts
index 65a663a5..67fe6cc9 100644
--- a/src/xy/index.ts
+++ b/src/xy/index.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export * from './xyCumulativeDistributionStatistics';
 export * from './xyEnsureGrowingX';
 export * from './xyEquallySpaced';
 export * from './xyExtract';
+export * from './xyFilter';
 export * from './xyFilterMinYValue';
 export * from './xyFilterTopYValues';
 export * from './xyFilterX';
diff --git a/src/xy/xyFilter.ts b/src/xy/xyFilter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e19fa858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/xy/xyFilter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { DataXY } from 'cheminfo-types';
+
+export interface XYFilterOptions {
+  /** callback
+   * @default ()=>true
+   */
+  filter?: (x: number, y: number) => boolean;
+}
+
+/** Filter an array x/y based on various criteria x points are expected to be sorted
+ *
+ * @param data - object containing 2 properties x and y
+ * @param options - options
+ * @return filtered array
+ */
+export function xyFilter(data: DataXY, options: XYFilterOptions = {}): DataXY {
+  const { x, y } = data;
+  const { filter } = options;
+  const newX = [];
+  const newY = [];
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
+    if (!filter || filter(x[i], y[i])) {
+      newX.push(x[i]);
+      newY.push(y[i]);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    x: newX,
+    y: newY,
+  };
+}