Financial Waterfall Chart Maker

A financial waterfall chart — sometimes called a bridge chart — shows how an initial value changes through a series of positive and negative contributions to reach a final total. It uses floating, color-coded bars to make each financial driver visible. Common uses include P&L summaries, cash flow analysis, and budget variance reports.

Yes — you can create, customize, and download waterfall charts for free with no sign-up required. Free accounts also include AI credits to try the AI chart generation feature. Paid plans unlock more AI credits, file uploads, embed codes, and advanced chart types.

Absolutely. Add your starting cash balance, then list each inflow as an increase and each outflow as a decrease. Mark the ending balance as a total. The chart automatically floats and stacks bars to show exactly how cash moves from one period to the next.

When adding data, tag any bar as a 'Total' or 'Subtotal' type in the configuration panel. These bars span the full range from zero to the cumulative value — making them visually distinct from the floating increase and decrease bars. You can add as many subtotals as your analysis requires.

Yes. Describe your financial scenario in plain language — for example, 'Show Q2 revenue minus COGS, operating expenses, and taxes to arrive at net profit' — and the AI builds a complete waterfall chart with appropriate labels, values, and color coding. You can then edit any detail in the configuration panel.

A P&L bridge chart is a type of waterfall chart that explains the change in profit or loss between two periods — such as last year vs. this year — by showing each contributing factor as a bar. You can build one by entering your starting profit, then adding increases and decreases for each driver, and labeling the final bar as the total.

Yes. The color settings panel lets you set individual colors for increase bars, decrease bars, total bars, and subtotal bars. Choose colors that match your brand, presentation theme, or reporting conventions — such as green for gains and red for losses.

In the General Settings panel, you can enter a value prefix (such as '$') and a value suffix (such as 'K' or 'M'). These appear on all value labels across the waterfall chart, keeping the display clean without requiring you to format each bar individually.

Yes. Download your waterfall chart as a high-resolution PNG or SVG file and insert it directly into PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or any other presentation tool. SVG exports are infinitely scalable, so your chart stays crisp at any slide size.