Free Tools for great Infographics

Create infographics with these easy to use free tools

We give importance to things that we place on text, but undoubtedly our mind process images faster than words. This is the reason why infographic has been so popular. Its ability to transform complex business information into readable texts and visually appealing graphics has made it an integral part of our daily online business. No wonder why most online visitors and magazine readers simply love them.

The problem with infographics is that they look simple, but designing infographics in Photoshop that are easily understandable and appealing takes a lot of time and difficult to implement. These are the reasons why online marketers prefer simple infographics tools that can easily speed up the process.

Here are some of the top infographics tools that are free to use and find out which one of them is best suited for you.

Easel.ly www.easel.ly/ : This is a simple and free web application for infographics and it offers you free templates that can be easily customized. It also comes with a rich library that comprises of shapes, arrows and connector lines. You can also customize your texts with various colours, fonts, styles and different sizes. You can upload the infographic with the help of this tool and position them easily.

Piktochart www.piktochart.com/ : This is a tool that allows presentation of infographics in an appealing manner with few clicks. The editing feature of this tool allows users to customize their data with schemes and fonts, upload images and pre-loaded graphics. The template has grid lines to help align graphical images and resize them accordingly.

Infogr.am www.infogr.am/ : This is a free tool that offers users with full access to charts, graphs and maps. It also allows picture or image upload and video upload to form cool infographics. The data is customized in a similar type excel spreadsheet that can be edited with ease. The uploaded data gets published in Infogram website and the same can be embedded in your website or can be shared via social media platforms.

Tableau www.tableausoftware.com : Tableau offers some free and easy to use tools for infographic creation or data visualizations. This is not an online tool and you have to download and install the software for use. After the installation of the software, you can easily upload your CSV or spreadsheet files to create various interactive and visually appealing data visualizations. The tool offers presentation of data through Venn diagrams, heat maps, line graphs, bar charts and others. It can only be used on Windows platform.

OmniGraffle www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/ : This is an application made for desktops and like Tableau you need to install the software. The effective range of tools and intuitive nature of the application interface allows wireframing in details. It offers various features which can be used to customize the objects and add styles for better presentation of data. You can use online stencils to draw web interfaces, home/office layouts and architecture diagrams. You need to subscribe for the tool for use and it is only compatible with Mac computers.

Apart from these free infographic tools there are couple of other free tools like Visual.ly and InFoto Free which can be used for cool infographics templates.