Paste your numbers or upload a spreadsheet, and it draws the chart the numbers are asking for — labelled, in your colours, at the size the sheet needs. Below is the whole catalogue, and the rule each graph follows. Not fifty chart types; six that earn their place.
The default, and it deserves to be. Length is the quantity people compare most accurately.
A shape you can read in half a second: up, down, or flat with a wobble.
One glance at a split. The hole is for the total, which is the only reason to prefer it to a pie.
One number against a target. Usually the figure should be big and the bar small.
Two or three options judged on the same rows. Reading across a row beats reading between two charts.
Events in order, on a drawn spine. The one chart where the labels matter more than the geometry.
There is no required format and no schema to match. If the numbers are legible to a person, they are legible here.
Files accepted: .xlsx, .xls, .csv, .tsv, .json, .pdf, .docx, .doc, .txt and .md.
Start to finish
Upload a spreadsheet or CSV, paste a table, or type the figures out. A PDF or a link works too — the numbers are read out of it.
The type follows the shape of the data: categories become bars, change over time becomes a line, parts of a whole become a donut. Override it in a sentence if you disagree.
Axis, units and a source line are filled in rather than left blank. Save a brand kit and every fill is mixed from your accent colour.
A PNG for a deck or a post, at up to triple resolution for print; the whole chart as a self-contained web page; or a share link that needs no account.
These are checked when a piece is drawn, but they are worth carrying in your head — you will spot them in other people’s charts for the rest of your life.
In everyday use, none — people say “bar graph” and “bar chart” for the same picture, and both are right. If you want the pedantic version: a graph plots values against axes, so lines and scatters are graphs, while “chart” is the wider word covering those plus tables, donuts and anything else that presents data visually. Every graph is a chart; not every chart is a graph. Nothing on this page depends on the distinction.
Upload a spreadsheet or CSV, paste a table, or type the figures in a sentence, then say “as a bar graph” if it has not already chosen one. Bars are the default for comparing categories because length is the quantity people judge most accurately. Bars start at zero here, always — a truncated axis is the fastest way to make a 3% difference look like a cliff.
You get a donut, which is the same chart with the middle opened up. That hole is worth having: it holds the total or the headline share, so a reader gets the number without measuring an angle. Slices, colours and labels behave exactly as they would in a pie.
Excel files upload directly as .xlsx or .xls. Google Sheets and Numbers have no live connection here, so export the sheet as CSV and upload that — it takes a moment and it is the format everything speaks. CSV, TSV, JSON, Word documents and PDFs are all accepted too.
Yes. The free plan needs no card and is exactly one chart to try, drawn from any of the types on this page — none of them are held back for paid plans. The chart itself is not degraded; the download is standard rather than best quality, and a small badge sits in the footer. Paid plans go from about 80 pieces a month upward and add brand kits, editing by asking, best-quality downloads and removal of the badge.
That is the default here. You are not choosing a chart type from a menu of fifty and then formatting it — you hand over the numbers and the type, labels, axis and colours are proposed for you. Your job is to check that the proposal tells the truth about your data, which is the part no tool should take from you.
It proposes one from the shape of your data, and you can override it in a sentence — “make that a line”, “show it as a donut instead”. The proposal follows the rules on this page.
Yes. Ask for a single chart with a title and it will compose a sheet that is one chart — useful for dropping into a deck or a doc.
A PNG for anywhere a picture goes, at up to triple resolution on the paid plans. Or the whole chart as one self-contained HTML file, where every label is still real text you can select, edit or read with a screen reader — as it is on the share link, which is a real page rather than a picture. There is no SVG or PDF export.
Yes. Save a brand kit and every fill and tint is mixed from your accent, so a set of charts made weeks apart still match.
There is a practical limit rather than a technical one: above about eight bars or two lines a chart stops being readable, so large sets are summarised to the entries that carry the point.
Not today. The set is bars, lines, donuts, progress meters, comparisons and timelines — the six that cover the overwhelming majority of what an infographic needs.
And if it picks wrong, one sentence changes it.
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