About makepiechart.com

Last reviewed on 2026-04-24.

makepiechart.com is a free, browser-based pie chart maker and a small reference library of data-visualization guides. The goal is simple: let anyone turn a short list of labels and numbers into a clean, accurate pie or donut chart in seconds — without creating an account, installing software, or waiting for a page to load.

What this site covers

The site is focused on one narrow topic: pie charts and closely related part-to-whole visualizations. That includes the live maker on the home page, templates you can open and edit, guides on labeling and color, comparisons with other chart types, pages dedicated to specific slice counts (2-, 3-, 4- and 5-slice layouts), and embedding / export documentation. If a topic isn't about pie charts, donut charts, or the decisions around when to use them, it generally won't appear here.

Who it's for

The maker is built for people who just need a chart and are not already working inside a spreadsheet or BI tool:

• Students preparing a school report or science-fair poster.
• Teachers and tutors illustrating a percentage breakdown on a handout.
• Analysts and product managers putting together a quick slide.
• Writers, bloggers and small-team marketers who want a clean SVG for a post.
• Developers who want to embed a parameterised chart via a URL without wiring up a charting library.

Editorial approach

The guides are written to be practical rather than academic. When a piece of advice reflects a well-known convention in data visualization — for example, keeping slice counts low, ordering slices by size, or preferring a bar chart for close comparisons — it is presented as a general guideline, not as research findings we can't cite. Where a topic is genuinely contested (3D effects, exploded slices, chart-junk debates) we try to describe both sides and leave the choice to the reader.

Every substantive page carries a visible "last reviewed" date. When a page is revised, that date is updated along with the Open Graph and sitemap timestamps, so search engines and readers can see when content was last checked.

How content is produced

Articles on the site are drafted by the makepiechart.com editorial team, reviewed against the existing body of work for consistency, and published as static HTML. Nothing on the site is generated at request time from a live model, and we do not auto-generate articles from keyword lists. Code examples and URL-parameter behaviours shown in the guides are tested against the live maker before publication.

How the maker works

The chart maker itself runs entirely in your browser. When you type a label or a number, the chart is re-rendered locally as SVG; nothing about the chart you are building is transmitted to our servers. Chart state is saved in your browser's local storage so the page survives a refresh, and a "share" link encodes the chart's data directly into a URL so you can bookmark or send a chart without any backend involved. Analytics and advertising elsewhere on the site are covered separately in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Contact

General questions, corrections and guide requests are welcome. See the contact page for the current email address and the best way to reach us.