Polar Chart Maker
A polar (radial bar) chart wraps a bar chart around a circle. It is compact and eye-catching for a modest number of categories.
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Features
What the polar chart maker gives you
- Paste CSV, Excel cells, TSV, JSON or a Markdown table
- Live preview — every edit renders instantly, no Generate button
- Export 2x PNG, vector SVG, PDF or copy the image
- Transparent background and five business colour palettes
- No signup, no watermark, nothing uploaded to a server
Use cases
When to use a polar chart
- Activity or usage by day of week
- Wind or direction data by compass point
- Skill or category scores in a compact badge
FAQ
Polar Chart Maker questions
- Is a polar chart as readable as a bar chart?
- No — arc length is harder to judge than bar length, so a plain bar chart is more precise. Use a polar chart when the data is genuinely cyclical or when compactness matters more than precision.
- What is the difference from a radar chart?
- A polar chart draws one bar per category around the circle. A radar chart connects points into a filled polygon and is designed for comparing several profiles across the same axes.
- How many categories work best?
- Between four and twelve. Beyond that the arcs get thin and the labels collide.
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Import formats
Paste from anything
- CSV to ChartPaste raw CSV text or drop a .csv file. Delimiters, quoted fields and header rows are detected automatically.
- Excel to ChartSelect cells in Excel, press Ctrl+C, then paste here. Copied spreadsheet cells arrive as tab-separated values, which FastChart reads natively.
- JSON to ChartPaste an array of objects, an array of numbers, or a flat key–value object. Keys become series and values become data points.
- Markdown Table to ChartGreat for tables produced by ChatGPT, GitHub READMEs or Notion. Pipes and the separator row are handled for you.
- TSV to ChartTab-separated values are what your clipboard holds after copying from a spreadsheet or a database client. Paste them straight in.
- Google Sheets to ChartGoogle Sheets charts are hard to style and hard to export cleanly. Copy the range instead and get an export-ready chart here.