Chart templates, organized by what you're trying to show
15 categories pulled from PlotSet's full template catalogue, plus the animated video versions where they exist.
Pick the category that matches your data, then open any template inside it. Sample data is already loaded, so you can see how it looks before uploading your own file.
Featured Charts
Not a category in the strict sense, more a hand-picked shortlist. If you're not sure which chart type fits your data, start here and work outward.
Browse Featured ChartsAnimated Charts
Charts that move to show change over time: a rank shifting, a shape flowing, a sequence of dated events. Pick the format that fits your data, then decide whether it belongs on the page or in a video.
Browse Animated ChartsBar Charts
Eight ways to compare values across categories, from a plain ranked bar to grouped, stacked and back-to-back layouts. Pick the one that matches your data shape and start from a working template.
Browse Bar ChartsLine and Area Charts
Line, area, stream graph, bump chart: four templates for a number moving through time, distinguished mostly by what happens to the space under the line. Match the shape to what you're actually measuring, then start from a working template.
Browse Line and Area ChartsPie Charts
Pie, donut, polar area, Marimekko: four takes on the same question, how a whole breaks into its parts, each suited to a different category count. Pick the one that fits your data and start from a working template.
Browse Pie ChartsScatter Plots
Three ways to plot two numbers against each other and see whether they move together. Start with a plain scatter, add a size dimension with a bubble chart, or add reference lines with a quadrant chart.
Browse Scatter PlotsRacing Charts
Five animated formats for watching a ranking reshuffle over time: bars, lines, columns, pie slices and swarming dots. Every one exports as an MP4 built for social.
Browse Racing ChartsMaps
Turn location-tagged data into a shaded map people can actually read correctly. Start from a template built around countries, states or regions and skip the part where you fight a mapping library.
Browse MapsHierarchy
Three ways to show nested part-to-whole data: treemap, sunburst and marimekko, for budgets, org spend and category trees. Pick the layout that matches how many levels you actually need to show.
Browse HierarchyGraphs and flows
Five templates for showing movement instead of a snapshot: a quantity splitting across paths, a sequence narrowing to a result, or work and events laid out against a calendar. Pick the one that matches what's actually moving in your data.
Browse Graphs and flowsDistribution Charts
Four ways to show shape and spread instead of a single average: histogram, box plot, violin plot and population pyramid. Pick the one that matches how much detail your data, and your reader, actually needs.
Browse Distribution ChartsHeatmaps
Color-coded grids for spotting density across two categories at once: hour against weekday, cohort against month. Start from a working template and shape your own data into it.
Browse HeatmapsRadar Charts
Two ways to lay several attributes out around a shared center: a radar chart for comparing items across the same axes, a polar area chart for one series split into categories. Pick the one your comparison actually needs.
Browse Radar ChartsWord Clouds
Turn any block of text (survey answers, speech transcripts, support tickets) into a single image where the words people used most are the words you see first. One template, tuned for how you clean the text before it renders.
Browse Word Clouds3D Plots
Three chart types that add a third axis: 3D scatter, 3D bar and 3D surface. Read on for when the extra dimension earns its place, and when a 2D scatter plot or heatmap will actually show your data more clearly.
Browse 3D PlotsStill deciding which template to start from?
Every chart type has its own free maker, or jump straight into the editor and try a few.