Paste your numbers, get an animated chart video

A chart that comes with its own story

Chart tools give you a chart. A good data video needs more: someone to say what changed, why it matters and what to look at. The Data story writer mode does both. Paste your numbers with a sentence about them, and the AI builds a short video around them:

• one to three chart scenes, with bars to compare things and a line for change over time;
• narration that explains what the numbers mean, never numbers it made up;
• when there is one headline figure, a counter that counts up to it;
• word-by-word captions, drawings for the rest of the story, and original background music.

The AI is told to use your numbers exactly and never to invent ones that aren't in your data, so the chart shows what you pasted.

Who it's for

• Small businesses sharing growth: sales, sign-ups, orders, followers.
• Analysts and marketers who want a one-minute version of a report for LinkedIn or a team update.
• Explainer channels and teachers showing population, prices, temperatures or results over time.
• Newsrooms and creators turning a statistic into a Short.

Write a chart scene yourself

In the script, a chart is a single line. Each entry is a label and a number, separated by semicolons:

# chart: Jan 120; Feb 180; Mar 260; Apr 410 | label: Newsletter subscribers | style: line
In four months the newsletter went from 120 readers to 410, and April alone added 150.

• label: is the caption under the chart.
• style: line draws a line; leave it out for bars.
• Numbers can carry units and scale words, like 24% or 1.2B.

Charts also appear without a chart line. When a sentence describes growth or decline ("sales doubled", "the population fell"), a rising or falling chart is drawn automatically, with the subject riding the tip of the line.

Bars or a line?

What makes a chart video easy to follow

• Fewer points. Four to eight points read well on a phone; a full spreadsheet doesn't.
• Say the number on screen. When the narration says "410", viewers look at the bar that is landing.
• One message per chart. "April was the biggest month" is a message. "Here is our data" isn't.
• Round in the script, not in the data. The chart keeps your exact values; the narration can say "about two hundred".
• Name the unit. A label like "Newsletter subscribers" saves a sentence of narration.

One honest limit: each chart scene shows one chart for that scene. It is not a tool for racing bars over dozens of time steps.

How it works

1. Choose Data storyPick the Data story writer mode and paste your numbers with a line about what they show.
2. Check the scriptThe AI writes chart scenes and narration from your data. Edit the wording, switch bars and lines, or add a label.
3. Preview the chartsWatch bars grow and lines draw as each number is said, with captions and music.
4. Download in your formatSign in with Google for free and download vertical for Shorts and Reels, 16:9 for YouTube or a presentation, or square.

Questions

Updated 2026-10-28