Furlen Charts — animated chart maker
Furlen Charts is a browser-based animated chart maker. You paste or upload a spreadsheet, pick one of six chart types — line, area, bar, bar race, pie or scatter — and export the result as a video. It runs entirely in the browser with no signup to try; paid plans remove the watermark. Charts can also pull live figures from public sources such as the World Bank, IMF, FRED and SEC EDGAR, with the citation attached to the chart.
Furlen Charts is an interactive app and needs JavaScript to run — these links open it.
Which chart types can Furlen Charts make?
Six: line, area, bar, bar race, pie and scatter. Which one is available depends on the columns in your data — the table below is the exact rule the app applies, so a dataset with no date column will not be offered a bar race. Funnel charts are not in this studio; they are a scene type in Furlen Stories.
| Chart type | Required columns | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Line | Needs a date/time column and a number | Best for change over time |
| Area | Needs a date/time column and a number | Emphasise cumulative change |
| Bar | Needs a category and a number | Compare values side by side |
| Bar race | Needs a date/time column, a category and a number | A ranking that moves over time |
| Pie | Needs a category and a number | Show parts of a whole |
| Scatter | Needs two number columns | Relationship between two numbers |
What data can you import?
Paste or upload CSV or Excel (.xlsx reads directly, with no conversion step), or import a Google Sheet or a Wikipedia table by URL. Headers are detected automatically, including files with title rows above the real header. You can also start from a screenshot of an existing chart: Furlen Animate reads the values printed in a chart image, shows them for review, and opens the result here as an editable animation in the original colours. A long format with one row per period-and-category works best:
Year,Platform,Users 2014,Facebook,1390 2014,Instagram,300 2015,Facebook,1590 2015,Instagram,400
Where can you learn how to make each one?
- How to make a bar chart race
- How to make an animated line chart
- How to make an animated bar chart
- How to make a pie chart video
- How to turn an Excel file into a video
- Verified chart & story templates — ten built from real published data, each with its source and a downloadable CSV
What is in Furlen Stories rather than Charts?
Furlen Stories is the AI story builder: it writes a multi-scene narrative from your data and recomputes every claim against your source rows before export. Some chart kinds only exist there.
- Funnel — animated step-by-step drop-off, built in Furlen Stories
- Turn a spreadsheet into a verified data story — AI-written, every claim recomputed from your rows
For AI-written, claim-verified data stories, visit furlen.pro.