Reochart vs PowerPoint
Last updated: August 2026
PowerPoint can animate a chart using entrance effects like Wipe, but it's revealing static data, not animating it. Bars don't actually grow from zero, and exporting just the chart as a clean video takes extra steps. Reochart's 22 chart and story visuals animate the data itself and export directly as MP4, GIF, PNG or SVG.
Default spreadsheet chart — static
Same data, made in Reochart — animated
Same numbers. Left: a default native chart. Right: the same data in Reochart, animating.
Before comparing tools, here's the real PowerPoint method: step by step. This is a genuine guide, not a straw-man.
Insert the chart
Insert → Chart, choose your type, paste data into the mini spreadsheet that opens.
Open the Animations tab
Select the chart, choose Wipe (From Bottom) as the closest approximation of bars growing.
Set Effect Options
Choose "By Category" so groups animate in sequence. Set Timing to "After Previous."
Preview with F5
Adjust timing in the Animation Pane if the pacing feels off.
Export the video
File → Export → Create a Video. Note: exports the whole slide, not just the chart.
This is a fair comparison. PowerPoint's built-in approach still makes sense in these situations:
The chart stays inside the deck. If it never needs to be extracted as a standalone video, PowerPoint is already there.
The audience is internal and a simple fade or wipe is enough. Production polish isn't the point for an internal team update.
You don't need social sizing or a chart-only crop. 16:9 for the whole slide, once, is fine for your use case.
Four signals that PowerPoint's chart animation is the wrong tool for what you're making:
You need a chart type PowerPoint doesn't support: funnel, waterfall, timeline, roadmap or KPI scorecard.
You're extracting the chart as a standalone video for LinkedIn, YouTube or a client send.
You need the data itself to move: bars growing from zero, a line tracing its path, or a bar chart race. Not just an entrance effect.
You need a square or vertical export for social, not locked 16:9.
You're iterating on the same chart repeatedly and re-exporting the whole slide each time is the bottleneck.
Reochart sits between "too basic" (Google Slides, native PowerPoint) and "too much effort" (After Effects). Here's how the options stack up on chart-only export.
These are hard limits of PowerPoint's entrance-effect model, not configuration options. Each one is built into Reochart:
Yes. Export as an MP4 or GIF and insert it as a video/image on your slide. It plays live during the presentation, no separate screen-recording step. Or export a PNG for a fully static slide.
Only through manual slide animations and transitions you set up yourself, slide by slide. Reochart's charts animate automatically on export with no manual keyframing.
They work, but they're generic-looking by default and don't cover data-story formats like funnels, waterfalls, timelines or roadmaps. Reochart is purpose-built for exactly that, with a design pass already applied.
Reochart's free plan makes every chart type and exports an animated MP4 with a small watermark, no card required. Pro ($20/mo) removes the watermark and adds GIF/SVG export, your brand colors and logo.
Yes, via File > Export > Create a Video, but it exports the entire slide, not just the chart. Extracting a chart-only video requires cropping in a separate video editor.
PowerPoint doesn't support this natively. The closest option is the Wipe entrance effect, which reveals the bar with a moving mask rather than growing it from its baseline. It looks similar at a glance but doesn't hold up on close inspection, especially for grouped or stacked bars.
No. Bar chart races require the underlying values and rankings to animate over time, which PowerPoint's entrance-effect model doesn't support. Reochart's bar chart race is built in.
Free forever to start. Pro is $20/mo when you want your brand on it.