Have you ever encounter situations where you need to create a simple yet good-looking chart, graphs or diagrams and all you have is your browser? Charts are good and effective way to show relationship between entities but sometimes creating one can be pretty challenging especially when your favorite word processing software is not around.

In today’s post, we want to highlight some of the best web services that allow you to create various charts and graphs online on-the-fly. Most of them are easy to use and don’t you even worry about the design. Your output will be as good as what you see in the screen shots below. Full list after jump.

Rich Chart Live
Create enjoyable and captivating Flash Charts from your web browser.

DIY Chart
DIY (Do it yourself) Chart is a Web-based, simple and powerful online tool to create interactive charts and graphs from static or dynamic data which may be generated using any scripting language.

Online Chart Generator
The best online chart and graph generator tool, Generate amazing 3D graphs instantly in few seconds.

Chartle.net
Chartle.net tears down the complexity of online visualizations – offers simplicity, ubiquity and interactivity online chart generator.

ChartGo
ChartGo allows users to create charts online quickly and simply paste your data in the chart data area and hit the create chart button.

Create A Graph
You can really make a detailed graph at Create A Graph and see how it might look, and then print, download, or email what you’ve created.

JS Charts
JS Charts is a JavaScript chart generator that requires little or no coding. JS Charts allows you to easily create charts in different templates like bar charts, pie charts or simple line graphs.

Pie Chart Tool
Pie Chart Tool creates a pie charts based on the data you provide. All you have to do is to type your data and the name of the categories.

Piecolor
Piecolor is a tool that creates pie chart with colors very easily.

Hohli Charts
Hohli Charts lets you dynamically generate charts.

CSS Chart Generator
CSS Chart Generator generates your charts on the fly.

CHARTPART
Google chart API and chart generator tool.

Chart Maker
Generator for the Chart Server API.

Google Chart Tools
The Google Chart Tools enable adding live charts to any web page.

amCharts Visual Editor
This editor allows you to use amCharts as a web service. This means that all you need to do is to configure the chart and paste the generated HTML code to your HTML page.

Pie Chart Maker
This free tool outputs your pie chart as an image that you can save to your computer.

ChartGizmo
With your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles.

Onlinecharttool.com
On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free.

OWTChart Generator
The OWTChart Generator is an on-line tool to be used to produce charts. A GIF image of the chart that you specified will be displayed on the screen.

Highcharts
Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.

iCharts
iCharts is a web-services company that makes data publishing and distribution simple.

Google Chart Generator
Create a Google chart in seconds!

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