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Google Sheets

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Free (for personal use), web app

google.com/sheets/about

Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet editor, with a chart template gallery similar to Microsoft Excel’s gallery.

The available chart types in Google Sheets. The chart icons are grouped into the categories Line, Area, Column, Bar, Pie, Scatter, Map and Other

Chart type gallery of Google Sheets. Source: Maarten Lambrechts, CC BY SA 4.0

Google Sheets’ output is both static (PNG, PDF and SVG) as interactive (tooltips only): charts can be published online, with a shareable link to the chart, and charts can also be embedded in other webpages.

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