About Chartist

Chartist is an After Effects plug‑in designed for creating bar charts and line graphs with a focus on speed and performance. It provides a Custom Bars feature that lets users select shape layers, compositions, images, videos or text to form chart bars. Version 1.6 adds Custom Textures, allowing any image, video or comp to be applied as a texture over bars. A background system offers gradient settings and two grid levels, and a legend/key can be generated. The plug‑in supports right‑to‑left layouts for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu. Chartist is compatible with After Effects 2020 through 2025 and is listed as free in this catalog. A demo video demonstrates its capabilities.

Features

• Custom Bars: create bars from shape layers, comps, images or videos, and text, via the Bars tab’s Custom subtab
• Custom Textures: apply any image, video or comp as a texture over the bars
• Background system to stylize and save a chart background, with gradient settings and two levels of grids
• Legend/key creation
• Right-to-left layout support for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu
• Separate number and year values on the axis, with commas in numbers
• Compatible with After Effects 2020 through 2025

Best for

Motion graphics artists who need to create bar charts or line graphs directly within After Effects.