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Create a pie chart with custom labels and values. Download as PNG in one click.
Pie charts are suited to one specific task: showing how parts add up to a whole. Market share among competitors, budget allocated across departments, or survey responses split across answer options are all cases where the pie chart's circular form reinforces the idea that all slices together equal 100%.
The chart works best when you have three to six slices. With fewer than three segments the chart adds no value over a simple sentence. With more than six, the smaller slices become hard to distinguish and labels start to overlap. When the total figure is itself meaningful, for example a full marketing budget or a complete respondent pool, a pie chart draws the eye to the proportions rather than to individual numbers.
Pie charts are a poor choice when the absolute values matter as much as the proportions, when segments are close in size (it is genuinely hard to tell whether two slices differ by 3% or 8%), or when you need to compare two distributions side by side. For those needs, a bar chart is almost always more precise.
Enter a name and a value for each segment. The values do not need to add to 100; the tool normalises them to percentages automatically. If you enter 300, 150, and 50 for three segments, the chart will show 60%, 30%, and 10% respectively.
The colour palette cycles through seven distinct colours. With up to seven segments each slice gets a unique colour. Beyond seven the palette repeats, which is another reason to keep slice count low.
When the chart looks right, click "Download PNG". The image is saved at 2x resolution with no watermarks. No data is sent to a server; the chart is rendered entirely in your browser.
Limit slices to six or fewer. If you have more categories, group the smallest ones into an "Other" segment. A cleaner chart with fewer slices is almost always more readable than one that tries to show every detail.
Label each slice with both the category name and the percentage. A slice labelled only with "Marketing" forces the viewer to mentally match it to a legend; a label that reads "Marketing 34%" gives both pieces of information at once.
Avoid 3D pie charts. The perspective distortion in a 3D pie makes the front slices appear larger than they really are, which skews the visual impression of proportions. A flat pie chart is more accurate and more honest. If you prefer a modern look, try the donut chart variant, which uses the same data encoding but with a hollow centre that can hold a summary label.
Do I need to enter percentages or raw values?
Enter raw values. The tool converts them to percentages automatically by dividing each value by the sum of all values. You can enter 1200, 800, and 400 or 60, 40, and 20 and get the same chart either way.
What happens with many small segments?
Small segments produce very thin slices where labels cannot fit without overlapping. The label for slices below about 4% is suppressed to keep the chart readable. Group small categories into an "Other" bucket to keep all labels visible.
Is there a way to highlight one slice?
Manual slice highlighting is not currently supported. The most common workaround is to place the slice you want to draw attention to first in the list, which positions it at the 12 o'clock position where the eye naturally lands first.