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Chartle – Describe a chart in plain English and it creates it

Chartle – Describe a chart in plain English and it creates it

by moorst·Mar 5, 2026·2 points·1 comment
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AI Analysis

●●SolidSlickCrowd PleaserEye Candy

LLM + web search for chart generation, but Canva, Google Sheets, and Datawrapper already own this.

Strengths
  • •Screenshot-to-chart OCR is a genuine quality-of-life win for data wrangling
  • •No-signup 5 chart/month free tier lowers friction; dashboard composition is a nice multi-chart story feature
  • •Search grounding via Gemini avoids hallucinated data—sources are cited and verifiable
Weaknesses
  • •Crowded market: Canva, Google Sheets, Datawrapper, and ChatGPT Code Interpreter all do this
  • •Teams/Live Integrations marked 'coming soon'—core collab features missing at launch
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Non-technical analysts, marketers, students, journalists, anyone creating data visualizations

Similar To

Canva · Google Sheets · Datawrapper

Post Description

Chartle generates charts from natural language. You type something like "programming language popularity over the last 10 years" and it finds the data, picks the chart type, and renders it. You can also screenshot an existing chart and it recreates it as something clean and editable.

Built with Next.js/TypeScript, Gemini with Google Search grounding for data retrieval, and ECharts for rendering.

Free to try, no signup needed for your first chart. Free tier gives you 5 charts/month.

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