Fast, customizable, and AI‑assisted
Paste your text and get a polished word cloud that sizes words by frequency, filters stopwords, and fits perfectly with your colors and fonts. Fine‑tune rotation, spiral layout, padding, and animation for presentations, research, and social posts.
Why this word cloud tool
Purpose‑built controls for clear, beautiful word clouds
Frequency sizing
Words scale by frequency to reveal key themes at a glance.
Smart stopwords
Common words are auto‑filtered with an editable list for cleaner visuals.
Layout control
Choose Archimedean or rectangular spirals, set padding, and avoid overlaps.
Rotation & fonts
Pick no rotation, fixed, or random angles and match your brand fonts.
Color schemes
Use random, gradient, monochrome, or categorical palettes on any background.
Smooth animation
Optional animations with configurable delay and duration bring clouds to life.
Bring your text
Type or paste
Enter text directly or paste from documents, sites, or notes.
Clipboard import
One click to pull text from your clipboard for instant clouds.
Clean as you go
Auto‑remove extra spaces, punctuation, and common stopwords.
Bulk snippets
Combine multiple paragraphs to visualize overall themes.
Share and export
Download images
Save high‑quality PNG or crisp SVG for slides and reports.
Share a link
Get a shareable link to collaborate or gather feedback.
Embed anywhere
Add your word cloud to websites and docs with a simple embed.
Brand ready
Lock fonts and colors to match your style guide.
About this tool
MakeCharts’ online word cloud generator turns raw text into clear visuals in seconds. AI cleans stopwords, optimizes layout, and checks contrast. You control fonts, colors, rotation, and spiral type. Export or embed instantly. Built for speed, clarity, and sharing.
- ✓Designed for unstructured text and quick insight
- ✓Fast preview while you edit settings
- ✓Brand‑ready colors, fonts, and backgrounds
- ✓Overlap‑free placement with adjustable padding
- ✓PNG/SVG export, share links, and embeds
Quick facts
How it works
From text to insight in moments
Add your text
Paste or type text from articles, comments, survey answers, or notes.
Example: Paste 200 product reviews.
Tune the layout
Set max words, font sizes, padding, rotation mode, spiral type, colors, and background.
Example: 80 max words, gradient palette, Archimedean spiral.
Generate with AI
AI cleans stopwords, balances contrast, and optimizes placement for readability.
Example: Auto‑remove “the”, “and”, “is”; prevent overlaps.
Export or share
Download PNG/SVG, copy a link, or embed your cloud in a page.
Example: Export SVG for a slide deck.
Where word clouds shine
Turn unstructured text into quick insights
Understand audience language
Visualize comments and hashtags to spot recurring themes and brand sentiment for campaigns and posts.
Summarize feedback
Scan reviews and tickets to surface top requests and pain points for roadmap planning.
Teach and analyze text
Engage classes, summarize readings, and present qualitative findings in papers and talks.
Highlight key topics
Create striking visuals for articles, newsletters, and press kits in minutes.
Templates
Start with professionally designed templates
Futures & Foresight Word Cloud Template
Visualize the most frequent futures and foresight terms to reveal focus areas, shared language, and emerging priorities.
Sexual Harassment Wordcloud — See Themes at a Glance
Visualize a word frequency cloud of sexual harassment related terms from reports, surveys, policies, and media sources.
Scenario Planning Word Cloud — See Risks and Signals at a Glance
This template visualizes the most prominent themes in scenario planning—risks, trends, stakeholders, and signals—by word prominence.
Innovation Scouting Word Cloud Template
Visualizes term frequency from scouting reports, market scans, and partner briefings to reveal dominant themes and emerging signals.
Anonymous Incident Reports Wordcloud for Rapid Risk Signals
Visualizes the most frequent terms in anonymous incident reports to highlight recurring hazards, near misses, and process gaps.
View All Templates
Browse the full library to find more templates tailored to your chart.
Why choose AI over manual tools
Less fiddling, more insight
Traditional word cloud tools
- ✗Manual cleaning of stopwords and punctuation
- ✗Trial‑and‑error layout with overlaps
- ✗Limited control of rotation, spirals, and padding
- ✗Inconsistent colors and contrast issues
- ✗Time‑consuming exports and embeds
AI‑assisted word clouds
- ✓Automatic stopword filtering and text cleaning
- ✓Optimized placement for readable, overlap‑free layouts
- ✓One‑click rotation, spiral, padding, and font presets
- ✓Accessible color choices with contrast checks
- ✓Fast PNG/SVG download, share links, and easy embeds
Word cloud FAQs
How do I create a word cloud online?
Paste your text, adjust max words, font sizes, colors, rotation, and spiral type, then generate. Download as PNG or SVG, or share a link. No sign‑up required.
Is this a free online word cloud generator?
Yes. You can create, customize, and export word clouds for free. Sign in only if you want to save and reuse your work.
What makes it an AI word cloud generator?
AI filters common stopwords, balances contrast, optimizes placement to avoid overlaps, and recommends settings like rotation and color schemes based on your text.
Can I customize fonts, colors, and rotation?
Absolutely. Pick a font family, set min/max sizes, choose random or fixed rotations, and apply random, gradient, monochrome, or categorical color schemes on any background.
How many words can I include?
You control the limit in Max Words. For readability, we recommend 50–150 prominent words, but you can set more or fewer as needed.
Inclusive by design
- ✓Readable fonts and adjustable size range for clarity
- ✓Color‑blind‑friendly palettes and contrast checks
- ✓Keyboard‑navigable controls with clear labels
- ✓Alt text summarizing top terms for screen readers
- ✓Responsive layout for mobile, tablet, and desktop
Privacy and control
- •Your text stays under your control—clear it anytime
- •Optional sign‑in; no public sharing unless you choose
- •Secure transfer during editing and sharing
- •Easy deletion of files, links, and saved charts
- •No ads‑based resale of your content
Make your word cloud now
Paste text, tune the look, and export in seconds—free online word cloud generator with AI assistance.