Waterfall Chart Maker
A waterfall chart breaks a net change into its parts. Paste a label column and a column of positive and negative changes — the running total is calculated for you.
Chart type
Your data6 rows · 2 cols
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Features
What the waterfall 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 waterfall chart
- Bridging last year revenue to this year
- Profit and loss walk from gross to net
- Headcount changes across a year
FAQ
Waterfall Chart Maker questions
- Do I paste running totals or changes?
- Paste the changes. Use negative numbers for decreases — the chart stacks each bar on the running total automatically.
- How are increases and decreases coloured?
- Increases and decreases get different colours from the active palette so the direction of each step is obvious at a glance.
- Can I add a total bar at the end?
- Hover the final bar to read the running total, or add a closing row whose value equals the net change if you want it drawn explicitly.
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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.