Pie Chart Maker
Paste labels and amounts, or upload a spreadsheet, and get a pie chart with the percentage of each slice worked out for you. Download it as PNG or Excel.
- Runs in your browser
- Free
- No sign-up
Paste cells from Excel or Google Sheets, or type rows separated by tabs or commas.
Chart data as a table
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rent | 1,650 |
| Groceries | 620 |
| Transportation | 340 |
| Utilities | 210 |
| Savings | 500 |
| Entertainment | 180 |
How to Make a Pie Chart Online
- Add your data. Paste cells copied from Excel or Google Sheets into the Data box, or upload an .xlsx, .xls or .csv file. The sample data shows the layout.
- Check the headers. The first row is used as column names when it has no numbers in it; untick "First row is headers" if that guess is wrong.
- Give the chart a title. It is drawn at the top of the image and used for the file names.
- Download. PNG for slides, documents and email (drawn at twice the on-screen size so it stays sharp), SVG for print and the web, or Excel for the numbers behind the chart.
When to Use a Pie Chart
A pie chart shows how a whole splits into parts: a budget by category, survey answers, market share. It works when there are only a few parts and the point is their share of the total, especially when one slice is clearly the biggest.
With more than six or seven parts, or parts of similar size, a bar graph compares them more accurately, because people judge lengths better than angles.
How to Lay Out Your Data
Labels in the first column, amounts in the second. The tool adds up the amounts and works out each slice's percentage, so you do not need to convert to percentages first. Only the first numeric column is used.
How to Make a Pie Chart in Excel
To build the same chart natively in Excel, download the Excel file above (or use your own sheet) and:
- Select the labels and amounts.
- Go to Insert > Insert Pie or Doughnut Chart > Pie.
- Click the + button beside the chart, tick Data Labels, then choose More Options and tick Percentage.
Excel's Pie of Pie and Bar of Pie options split small slices into a second chart, which is an alternative to this tool's Other slice.
What This Pie Chart Maker Does Not Do
- Zero and negative amounts are left out: a part of a whole cannot be negative.
- Past eight slices, the smallest are combined into one Other slice so the colors stay distinguishable.
- Percentages under 5% are not printed on the slice; the legend always shows them.
Other Chart Makers
Every chart maker takes the same pasted or uploaded data, and you can switch type in the Chart type box without retyping anything. To chart a whole workbook column by column, with grouping by sum, count or average, use the Excel chart maker.
- Bar Graph Maker: Compare categories as bars; paste data, download PNG or Excel.
- Line Graph Maker: Plot a trend over time with one line per series.
- Scatter Plot Maker: Plot X against Y to see whether two numbers are related.
- Doughnut Chart Maker: A pie chart with the total shown in the center.
- Radar Chart Maker: Compare profiles across several attributes on a spider chart.
- Histogram Maker: Count a column of numbers into bins to see its spread.
- Area Chart Maker: A line graph with the volume underneath shaded in.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Enter the raw amounts (dollars, votes, hours) and the chart works out each one's share of the total. If you do enter percentages that add up to 100, they come out as the same percentages.
A pie with more than eight slices is hard to read and runs out of distinct colors, so the tool keeps the seven largest and adds the rest together as Other. The Excel download keeps every original row.
They show the same thing. A doughnut leaves the center free for the total, which this tool prints there. Use the doughnut chart maker if you want that.
It contains the chart's data, laid out the way Excel's Insert > Chart expects, not a chart object. Open it, select the cells and insert the chart type named in the steps above; it takes a few seconds and gives you a native chart you can restyle. For a finished picture, use Download PNG.
No. Pasted data and uploaded files are read and drawn in your browser, and the PNG, SVG and Excel files are made there too. Nothing is sent to a server.