Questions about Lightchart

No. Lightchart is built for non-designers. Opinionated defaults handle scales, spacing, type and color before you touch anything, so the chart looks considered the moment your data lands. If you want to adjust something, you click the exact element, a bar, a label, a legend, and change just that.

Paste it straight from Excel, Google Sheets or a CSV. You get a designed chart from the data as it is, with no set-up step in between.

Yes. Lightchart is free while in beta, with no credit card and no trial countdown. We'll let you know well before anything changes.

Bar charts (vertical, horizontal, grouped and stacked), line graphs, scatter plots, pie and donut charts, Sankey diagrams, funnel charts, sparklines, KPI cards and data tables. You can also combine several charts on one card and export them as a single image.

Paste your data straight from Excel, Google Sheets or a CSV into Lightchart. You get a chart with designed defaults instead of spreadsheet styling, and you can refine any element before exporting a clean PNG that drops straight into your deck or report.

Yes. You can set your palette and themes once, so every chart you make comes out on brand, no eyedropping hex codes or matching colors from memory each week.

Yes. You click the exact element you want to change, a single bar, an axis label, a legend entry, and change only that, without touching the rest of the chart.

Lightchart exports high-resolution PNGs sized for where the chart is going, a 16:9 slide, a document, Slack or LinkedIn. The export is clean and final, so you can paste it in unedited.

Canva is a design tool with charts bolted on, great for graphics, but the chart layouts are templates that fall apart when your data needs to tell a specific story. Lightchart is data-first: paste real numbers, get a real chart, and edit it at the element level without any design skill.

Datawrapper makes beautiful charts, but it doesn't give them a home in a designed layout, and there's no canvas or sub-component editing. Lightchart is built around that canvas and that element-level control.