Pie Chart Maker
Turn a list of values into a pie or donut chart with percentage labels, then download it as PNG or SVG.
How to use it
- Each row in the table becomes one slice — percentages are worked out for you.
- Switch on Donut to free up the middle for the total.
- Slices under 6% skip their inline label; hover or open the table view to read them.
Turns a list of values into a pie or donut chart, with each row becoming one slice and its percentage share worked out automatically, exported as PNG or SVG.
Pie vs donut
A donut chart is a pie chart with the centre removed — visually near-identical in what it communicates, but the empty middle is commonly used to display the total value or a key label, which a solid pie chart has nowhere to put without overlapping a slice.
When a pie chart is the wrong choice
People are reliably worse at comparing angles and areas than they are at comparing bar heights or line positions, which makes pie charts a poor fit once there are more than about six slices, once several slices are close in size, or when comparing the same breakdown across multiple groups — a stacked or grouped bar chart handles all three cases better. A pie chart earns its place specifically when there are few categories and one or two dominate the total clearly enough that the shape itself tells the story at a glance.
Small slices and labelling
Slices under roughly 6% of the total don't get an inline label, since text at that size would overlap and become unreadable — hovering a slice or switching to the table view surfaces the exact value and percentage for anything too small to label directly on the chart.
Questions people ask
When should I not use a pie chart?
When you have more than about six slices, when values are close together, or when you want to compare across several groups. People judge angles poorly — a bar chart is easier to read in all three cases.
Last updated 17 August 2026