Graph maker: pick your chart
Eight chart makers that take the same thing — numbers pasted from a spreadsheet — and give back a chart you can download as a PNG or an SVG, or turn into a link to send. No account, no watermark, and the drawing happens on your own device.
Chart and graph makers
- Box plot makerQuartiles, median, whiskers and outliers, drawn from a column of numbers.
- Scatter plot makerTwo columns of numbers become points, with a line of best fit if you want one.
- Histogram makerNumbers sorted into bins, with the number of bins yours to set.
- Bar graph makerLabels and values become bars, with the axes named the way your assignment wants them.
- Pie chart makerLabels and values become slices, each with its share of the whole.
- Line graph makerA column of x values and one column per line, plotted together.
- Dot plot makerOne dot per value, stacked where values repeat.
- Stem and leaf plotTens on the left, ones on the right, with the key written out.
Which chart fits your data?
The shape of your data decides the chart, not the other way round. One column of numbers has a distribution to show; two columns have a relationship; names with values have parts to compare.
| What you have | What to draw |
|---|---|
| One column of numbers, and you want its shape | Histogram or dot plot |
| One column, and you want the quartiles and outliers | Box and whisker plot |
| One column, and the teacher asked for the digits | Stem and leaf plot |
| Two columns: does x move with y? | Scatter plot |
| Names and amounts to compare | Bar graph |
| Names and amounts that add up to a whole | Pie chart |
| Something measured again and again over time | Line graph |
Getting your data in
Select the cells in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers, copy them, and paste them into the box. A spreadsheet puts tab-separated text on the clipboard, which every page here reads; so are commas, semicolons and plain spaces. A header row is recognized: it is kept out of the numbers and used to name the groups, the slices or the lines. The axis titles are yours to type — they go on the picture and into the file name.
Numbers with dollar signs, percent signs or thousands separators are read as numbers. Anything that is not a number is left out and counted under the chart, so you can see what was skipped instead of wondering why the total looks wrong.
PNG or SVG?
PNG is a picture: drop it into a document, a slide deck or a message and it looks the same everywhere. SVG is the drawing itself, so it stays sharp at any size and can be opened in Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma to change a color or a label. Both files are written on your device by your browser rather than drawn for you on a server.
Whichever you pick, the file is the same 960-pixel-wide chart, so a download from a phone is as usable as one from a laptop.
Questions and answers
Is there a watermark or a sign-up?
Neither. The file you download is the chart and nothing else, and no page here asks for an email address.
Can I change the colors?
Not on the page yet. The palette is one chosen to stay readable for colorblind readers and in black and white print; if you need your own colors, download the SVG and change them in any vector editor.
How much data can I paste?
Enough for schoolwork — a few thousand numbers draw without trouble. What limits it is your own device, since the drawing is done there rather than fetched ready-made.
Do you store the numbers I paste?
Only if you press the share button. Until then they stay in the page and are gone when you close the tab; pressing “Share a link” stores that one chart so the link can open it.
What is the share link?
A page of its own for one chart, at an address you can send to anyone. The settings live on our server rather than in the address, so the link stays short however many options a chart has, and it does not expire. It is public: anyone with the link can read the numbers behind the chart.