Which chart and map types does the amCharts Interactive Chart Maker support?

The amCharts Interactive Chart Maker supports 14 chart and map categories, each containing multiple variants — from basic line and column charts to maps, Sankey diagrams, candlestick charts, and word clouds. If your data fits a standard business, statistical, geographic, or flow-based visualization, it is very likely covered. The categories below are taken directly from the maker's template list, with the number of variants shown for each.

Chart and map categories at a glance

How to read the categories

Time series and comparisons

Line & Area and Column & Bar are the largest groups, which makes sense for the most common tasks: tracking values over time and comparing categories. If you need cumulative totals, look at Stacked Area or Stacked Column; if you need part-to-whole percentages, the 100% stacked variants are the relevant ones. Waterfall and Pareto sit in the Column & Bar group and are aimed at contribution analysis and ranked cumulative impact rather than simple comparison.

Relationships and distribution

XY & Scatter covers correlation and distribution with Scatter Plot and Bubble Chart (the latter adds a third value through bubble size). Radar & Polar handles multi-axis comparison and circular distributions, including gauges (Angular Gauge, Solid Gauge) that are typically used for single-value dashboards.

Geography

Maps is the only category tied to geographic data. It includes a world map, a US map, and regional maps for US states and UK counties, plus thematic layers: Choropleth (color by value), Bubble (size by value), Connection and Flow (routes between points), and Pin (markers). A Globe variant is available if you want a 3D-style projection.

Flows, hierarchy, and part-to-whole

Flow covers Sankey, Chord, Arc, and Directed Chord diagrams — useful for showing movement, transfers, or relationships between entities. Hierarchy covers nested structures with Treemap, Sunburst, Packed Circles, Partition, and Tree Diagram, plus Force-Directed and Voronoi Treemap for less rigid layouts.

Specialized and decorative

Candlestick & OHLC targets financial price data (with Box Plot for statistical distribution). Timeline offers two layouts (Serpentine, Spiral) for chronological storytelling. Word Cloud has four variants, including shaped and angled layouts and a Sentence Cloud. Miscellaneous currently contains a single template, the Venn Diagram.

What this means for choosing

• If your goal is a standard business chart (trend, comparison, share), the Line & Area, Column & Bar, and Pie & Donut groups will almost certainly have a match.
• If your data has a geographic dimension, start with the Maps group and pick the layer based on whether you're coloring regions, sizing points, or drawing routes.
• If your data describes movement or relationships between nodes, the Flow group (Sankey, Chord) is the relevant one.
• If your data is hierarchical, use the Hierarchy group rather than forcing it into a bar chart.
• If you need something outside these 14 categories, the maker does not appear to offer it — the list above is the full template set shown on the site.

The maker is described as requiring no code: you pick a template, paste your data, style it visually, and then export PNG, embed, or publish. The template list is therefore the practical boundary of what you can produce without writing custom chart code.