Word cloud generator
Paste anything into this word cloud generator, song lyrics, a speech, survey answers, and it draws the words you use most as the biggest ones in the picture. Remove the words that do not belong, pick a shape and palette, then download the cloud or publish it to share.
Also known as: word cloud maker, tag cloud generator, wordcloud creator, word cloud from text, free word cloud generator.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
Start a word cloud
Every start opens the same generator; the only difference is the sheet it begins on.
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How to make a word cloud
- Paste your text. Drop in anything with words: lyrics, a speech, an essay, a year of group-chat messages, every answer to a survey question. The generator counts how often each word appears, skips filler words like "the" and "of", and draws the cloud immediately, so you see the shape of your text before you have touched a single setting.
- Tune the words. Click any word on the canvas to remove it, recolor it, or make it bigger or smaller. The Words tab lists everything with its count, so you can sweep out the noise in one pass, add a word the text never quite said, and cap how many words the cloud keeps.
- Style the cloud. Pick a rectangle, ellipse or circle shape, choose whether words stay horizontal, turn at right angles, or tilt playfully, and set the palette and fonts. If an arrangement is not doing it for you, Regenerate reshuffles the same words into a new one.
- Download or publish. Export the finished cloud as a PNG, a JPEG or a PDF, on a colored sheet or a transparent one. Or publish it to get a link with a preview card and a page where every word and its weight is listed for anyone you send it to.
What you can do
- Paste any text and the cloud builds itself, sized by how often each word appears.
- Click a word on the canvas to remove it, recolor it, boost it or shrink it.
- Common filler words are skipped automatically, and you can add your own skip list.
- Rectangle, ellipse and circle shapes, with horizontal, right-angle or playful rotation.
- Six color palettes plus fully custom colors, and up to three fonts mixed in one cloud.
- Square, wide and tall story sizes, so the cloud fits a post, a slide or a phone screen.
- A seeded Regenerate button: same words, brand new arrangement, every time you press it.
- Write the word list by hand instead of pasting text, with a weight for every word.
- Transparent background export for dropping the cloud onto your own design.
- No login, nothing to install, and no cap on how many clouds you make.
Make your own word cloud
Lyrics of a favorite song or a whole album
Paste the lyrics and the chorus rises to the middle of the picture on its own, because a word cloud is really a picture of repetition. Fans spot the song from three words. It works just as well for one track as for a full discography pasted in at once.
A fandom in one image
Every episode title, every character name, a season of subreddit comments, the whole script of the movie. The cloud compresses a thing people love into one shareable image where the size of each name quietly settles who the main character really was.
Classrooms and presentations
Paste the reading, the essay drafts, or everything the class brainstormed, and project the result. Big words start the discussion for you: why is this the one we said most? It is also a gentler way to show a student what their own writing leans on.
Survey answers and feedback
Open-ended answers are miserable to summarize and perfect to cloud. Paste every response to "describe us in a few words" and the consensus jumps out at the size it deserves, with the one-off complaints readable in the small print around it.
Gifts and keepsakes
Write the list by hand instead of pasting: every inside joke, nickname and place that matters, weighted by how much it matters. Shape it, color it, export it big, and print it. A word cloud of a friendship is a better present than most things sold as presents.
Common questions
How are the word sizes decided?
By how often each word appears in your text. The most frequent word is drawn biggest and everything else scales down from it, on a curve you can adjust indirectly by boosting or reducing individual words. If you write the list by hand instead, the weight you give each word plays the same role as a count.
How do I remove a word from the cloud?
Click it, right on the canvas, and choose Remove. The Words tab does the same job in bulk: every word is listed with its count and a remove button, and anything you remove can be restored later. There is also a skip list for words you never want counted, on top of the built-in list of common filler words.
What shapes can the cloud be?
Rectangle, ellipse or circle, on a square, wide or tall story-sized sheet. The shape is the region the words pack into, so a circle gives you the classic round cloud and the rectangle fills the whole sheet edge to edge. Rotation is separate: keep every word horizontal, allow right-angle turns, or let words tilt playfully.
Can the background be transparent?
Yes. Tick Transparent in the Design tab and the exported PNG keeps its alpha channel, so the cloud drops cleanly onto a slide, a poster or any design of your own. You can also give the sheet any solid color instead.
Why does the layout change when I press Regenerate?
Each arrangement comes from a random seed that is saved with the cloud, so the same cloud always redraws the same way, in the editor, in the exported image, and on the published page. Regenerate rolls a new seed: same words, same sizes, new arrangement. Press it until one looks right; the seed that made it is kept.
Is it free? Do I need an account?
It is free and the editor opens without a login. Your work is kept in this browser while you make it, and exporting asks nothing of you. Publishing is the one action that needs an account, because a published cloud is a public page with a name on it.
Is there a watermark on the download?
The exported image carries the site address, thechartmaker.com, in small type in the bottom corner. Nothing is drawn over the cloud itself, and a published page shows the preview with no mark at all. The export is otherwise unrestricted: full size, no crop, no sign-in wall.
Can I use the word clouds commercially?
The clouds you make from your own text are yours to use, commercially included. Be sensible about the text you feed in: pasting someone else's lyrics or writing does not make the words yours, and the usual copyright rules about the source material still apply to what you publish.