Rescroll

Free bar chart animation maker

Type a label and a number for each bar, pick a look and download an animated bar chart as a 1080p MP4. The bars grow to their values while every number counts up. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.

How it works

How to make a bar chart animation.

Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.

  1. 1

    Type your data

    Give the chart a title, then a label and a number for each bar: anywhere from 2 to 8 of them. Add a prefix or suffix such as $, % or K, and sort the bars by value if you want a ranking.

  2. 2

    Choose the chart

    Stand the bars up or lay them down. Give them the look's gradient or a color each, and decide whether to show the values, highlight the largest bar, or add gridlines and a scale.

  3. 3

    Set the motion and the look

    Grow the bars in a wave, one by one or all together, over 1 to 20 seconds. Then pick one of six looks and four typefaces, or your own colors, and a frame: 9:16, 16:9, 1:1 or 4:5.

  4. 4

    Download the MP4

    Press Download. The chart is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device. No account, no watermark.

When a bar chart isn’t enough

The free bar chart is the starting point.

Here you get a clean chart on a background. In Rescroll you describe the graphic you actually want in plain English, like “a bar chart of my year in revenue, with the last two months shooting up as I say ‘and then this’”, and it's designed from scratch on your own video, placed around you and timed to the exact word you say. You can attach your data, a screenshot or your logo, and change anything by asking in the chat.

Free bar chart

Rescroll

One bar chart, from the settings here

Any graphic you can describe in plain English, with your data, logo or a screenshot attached

A clip you overlay and key out yourself

Designed from scratch on your own video and placed around you

You line it up with your voice in your editor

Timed to the exact word you say

Change it with the settings here

Change it by asking in the chat

Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.

Revenue chart. A flat year, then the spike, on “this”.
Payout reveal. The number rolls as he says it.

Both built in Rescroll from a description.

The basics

What is a bar chart animation?

A bar chart animation is a short video of a bar chart building itself: each bar grows from zero to its value, usually with the number counting up beside it. It's the same chart as a still one, also called a bar graph, with the comparison revealed over a few seconds instead of all at once.

This maker builds one from a small table you type: 2 to 8 bars, each with a label and a number. The bars can stand up or lie down, share the look's gradient or take a color each, and grow in a wave, one by one or all together. The scale is worked out from your numbers: the largest bar fills the chart, or, with gridlines on, the scale rounds up to the next round number.

Keep it to the bars that make your point. A handful of bars with short labels can be read in the few seconds the clip is on screen; eight long names ask the viewer to pause. If one bar is the story, turn on Highlight the largest and the others step back.

What you download

Price
Free. No sign-up, no email, no watermark.
Format
MP4 (H.264), no audio
Resolution
1080p: 1080×1920, 1920×1080, 1080×1080 or 1080×1350
Frame rate
30 or 60 fps
Bars
2 to 8, vertical or horizontal, each with a label of up to 16 characters
Values
0 to 999,999,999,999 with up to 2 decimals, a prefix and a suffix
Scale
Always from zero, with optional gridlines on a rounded scale
Length
1 to 20 seconds of bars growing, plus up to 5 seconds on the finished chart
Colors
Six looks, a gradient or one color per bar, or any chart color on any background color
Overlay
Green background for chroma key, or black for a Screen blend
Where it runs
In your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

In your editor

Put the bar chart on your video.

An MP4 has no transparent background, so the bar chart comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key, or to black and use a Screen blend.

How to add a bar chart in CapCut

Download the bar chart on a green background. In CapCut, drag it onto the track above your video so it sits on top as an overlay. Select it, open Video → Remove BG → Chroma key, pick the green with the color picker and raise Strength until the background is gone. Menu names move a little between CapCut versions; look for Chroma key. If you made it on black instead, set the clip's blend mode to Screen.

How to add a bar chart in Premiere Pro

Put the bar chart on a video track above your footage. From the Effects panel, drag Ultra Key onto it and click the Key Color eyedropper on the green. For a version on black, skip the key: in Effect Controls, set Opacity → Blend Mode to Screen.

How to add a bar chart in DaVinci Resolve

Place the bar chart on the track above your footage. On the Edit page, open Effects → Open FX, find 3D Keyer under Resolve FX Key and drag it onto the clip, then sample the green in the viewer with the Open FX overlay switched on. For a version on black, set Composite Mode to Screen in the Inspector instead.

How to add a bar chart in Final Cut Pro

Connect the bar chart above your footage in the timeline. From the Effects browser, drag the Keyer effect onto it; it finds and removes the green by itself. For a version on black, set Blend Mode to Screen in the Video inspector.

Questions

Bar chart animation: your questions, answered.

How do I make a bar chart animation?

Type a title, then a label and a number for each bar, into the bar chart maker at the top of this page. Choose vertical or horizontal bars, pick a look and a frame shape, and press Download. You get a 1080p MP4 made in your browser, with no sign-up and no watermark.

How many bars can the chart have?

From 2 to 8, and you can add, remove and reorder them. Each bar has a value and a label of up to 16 characters, set in capitals. Under a vertical bar a long label wraps onto two lines and is shortened with an ellipsis if it still doesn't fit; horizontal bars give labels more room.

Can I import data from Excel, Google Sheets or a CSV file?

No. You type the labels and numbers straight into the table, which takes up to eight rows. Nothing is imported or uploaded.

How big can the numbers be, and can they have decimals?

Each value can be anything from 0 to 999,999,999,999, with up to two decimal places. Thousands get commas, and if one value has decimals they are all written to the same number of places. Where a long number wouldn't fit beside its bar, it's shortened to K, M, B or T.

Can I add a dollar sign, a percent sign or a unit to the values?

Yes. A prefix goes in front of every value and a suffix after it, up to four characters each: $, €, £, %, K, kg, pts and so on. With gridlines on, a single sign such as $ or % is written on the scale too.

Does the chart start at zero?

Yes, always. Every bar is measured from zero, so a bar twice as long really is twice the value. The largest bar fills the chart. With Gridlines and scale turned on, the top of the scale rounds up to a round number instead: 15K for a largest value of 12,800.

Can I highlight one bar?

You can highlight the largest. Turn on Highlight the largest and that bar keeps its color and gets a badge around its value, while the other bars fade back. It always picks the bar with the biggest value; there's no way to pick a different one.

Can I change the colors of the bars?

Yes. Bar colors can be Gradient, which runs the look's colors across the whole chart, or One per bar, which gives each bar a color of its own from the look's six, so a seventh and an eighth bar reuse the first two. With Gradient chosen, Chart color under Look turns the bars and the text one color of your own.

Can the bars appear one at a time?

Yes. Under Bars grow, choose One by one and each bar waits its turn. In a wave starts each bar a beat after the last, and Together moves them all at once. Fill time sets how long the whole build takes, from 1 to 20 seconds.

How do I put the bar chart over my own video?

Set the background to green and download the clip, then place it on the track above your footage in your editor and remove the green with chroma key. Only the bars, the numbers and the labels are left over your video.

How long is the bar chart video?

About five and a half seconds as it opens: a short lead-in, three seconds of bars growing, and two seconds resting on the finished chart. Fill time runs from 1 to 20 seconds and the rest from 0 to 5, so a clip can be anything from about a second and a half to about 25 seconds.

Can it make a bar chart race?

No. A bar chart race re-ranks its bars as the values change over time. This maker draws one set of values: each bar grows once to its number and stays there.

Is the bar chart maker free?

Yes. It's free to use and free to download, with no account, no email address and no watermark on the video. There's no limit on how many you make.

What format and resolution is the video?

An MP4 with H.264 video, at 1080p in the shape you choose: 1080×1920 (9:16) for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 1920×1080 (16:9) for YouTube, 1080×1080 (1:1), or 1080×1350 (4:5) for the Instagram feed. You can export at 30 or 60 frames per second.

Can I get the bar chart with a transparent background?

MP4 can't store transparency, so the bar chart comes ready to key instead. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key in your editor. If the graphic is light, you can also set the background to black and use the Screen blend mode. Either way only the bar chart is left over your footage.

Is my video uploaded anywhere?

No. The bar chart is drawn and encoded on your own device, using your browser's built-in video encoder. Nothing is sent to a server and there's no render queue.

Which browsers does it work in?

It needs a browser that can encode video with the WebCodecs API: current versions of Chrome, Edge and Safari, and Firefox on a computer. If your browser can't, the page tells you before you start.

Can I use the bar chart in client work, ads or monetized videos?

Yes. The video you download is yours to use in personal and commercial projects, with no attribution needed.

Can I match my brand, add my logo or change the design?

Not in the free maker, which is deliberately simple. That's what Rescroll's AI motion graphics are for: describe the graphic you want in plain English, attach your logo, fonts or a screenshot of your style, and it's designed from scratch on your own video, placed around you and timed to the word you say. Ask for any change in the chat. It's part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.

Your next video,
edited like the top 1%.

Drop it in. Say what should appear. Read the plan, press Build, and export the finished video — no After Effects, no editor, no template.

Make your first graphic

Part of Pro, Ultimate and Scale · Export is free · Failed builds are refunded