Data / Charts
Chart Maker: Bar, Line, Pie, and Scatter
Paste data from a spreadsheet or open a CSV file and make a bar, line, pie, or scatter chart with a title, axis labels, and your colours; download it as PNG or SVG.
Chart Maker: Bar, Line, Pie, and Scatter: The table is read with its delimiter detected, tabs from a spreadsheet, commas, or semicolons, and a header row becomes the series names. Numbers can include thousands separators, currency signs, percentages, and brackets for negatives, and a decimal comma when you tick the box. The chart is drawn as SVG by this page itself, with no chart library and no upload, and the axes are scaled to round numbers. Runs 100% locally in your browser with zero server file uploads.
- Category
- Business & admin tools
- Runs
- In your browser
- Cost
- Free · no sign-up
- Availability
- Ready to use
Runs entirely in your browser
Making charts honest
Start bar charts at zero, as this tool does, because bars compare lengths. Keep pie charts to a few slices of one whole, and use a line chart only when the horizontal axis is an ordered quantity such as time.
To look through a large CSV file first, open it in the CSV viewer, and get means and medians with the statistics calculator.
Copying from a spreadsheet
Select the cells, including the header row, copy, and paste them into the data box: spreadsheets copy cells as text separated by tabs, which the chart maker reads directly. Remove total rows first, or they will be drawn as another category.
How to use it
- Paste a table from Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers, or open a CSV file: labels in the first column, numbers in the others.
- Choose bar, line, pie, or scatter, and add a title, axis labels, and colours.
- Download the chart as PNG for documents and slides, or SVG for print and the web.
Privacy & limitations
Your data stays in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
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Frequently asked questions
How should I lay out the data?
Put the categories, such as months or product names, in the first column, and one column of numbers for each series, with their names in a header row. For a scatter chart, put the x values in the first column.
Which chart should I use?
A bar chart compares amounts across categories; a line chart shows a change over time; a pie chart shows parts of one whole, best with no more than five or six slices; a scatter chart shows the relationship between two measurements.
PNG or SVG?
PNG works everywhere: documents, slides, and messages. SVG stays sharp at any size and can be edited in design software, which suits print and websites.
Free tool · runs in your browser · no account required