Bjorn's Word Cloud Studio
Design cool word clouds
- a web app -
Design awesome word clouds. Integrated with Google Drive™.
Create amazing animated word clouds (GIFs).
Supports various image types - packed circles, tree maps or clouds.
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Oct 2024 - new major version - v4
New major feature: color gradients. As an alternative to color lists for picking colors for each word/phrase the new version supports gradients. You pick a start and a stop color and the app will compute all colors in-between to give each word frequency a unique color. See this short YT for a quick demo.
Bug fix: The bug with clouds with word specific colors and font styles is now fixed, e.g. you can now assign a custom color to for example the word/phrase with the highest frequency. (This used to work only for for tree maps and packed circles)
The main editor window now has a context menu with hopefully useful options.
The new project dialog has an option to pick recent and popular sizes.
The new project dialog has a list of recently used templates for quicker access.
Nov 2023 - new version
On customer request data is NOT sorted on import. Instead there is a new "Sort data" option in the Options dropdown menu in the Data tab.
July 25 2023 - new version
On customer request you can now override project settings for each phrase(word) with a custom setting for Color, Bold and Italic. Check out the new columns in the Data tab.
With the new Color override you can for example color each "positive" phrase with a green color and each "negative" phrase with a red color.
Data import is also updated to support three new optional columns: Color, Bold and Italic.
Note that the colors sidebar has a new option to allow you to quickly assign a color to each selected word in the Data tab.
July 12 2023 - new version
You can now send a generated word cloud image to the Bjorn's Annotate web app for easy annotations.
Try it! Export image and in the export UX there will be a new option Annotate with the Bjorn's Annotate app. This will open the image in the Annotate app and you can for example add callouts, arrows and text.
You can see this in action in this YT video.
June 21 2023 - new version
Version 3.15 supports templates. A template specifies the look of a cloud but no data. You an apply a template when you create a new project or later. You can save any project as a template for future use. Templates are stored on your local hard drive with the .wordcloudt extension. This short YT video shows how to apply a template as well as how to create a new template.
Note that the version for Google add-ons do not support templates since Google is not supporting the modern File API for any add-ons.
June 9 2023 - new version
Word Clouds now supports background images to add a little touch to the clouds. By default the background images are displayed in gray and low opacity to not clutter the cloud (this can of course be easily changed). This version also enables AI generated background images, as seen in this short YouTube video.
Samples
Below is a sample animated cloud, animating on frequency, each frame shows words with the same frequency.
This cloud animates each word, from low to high frequency.
More
There is no dedicated video for this app (yet) but please check out any of these videos for other versions:
Check out screenshots and install from the Microsoft web store.
Launch the app.
File system integration
The app is (when installed) integrated with the host file system, i.e. you can use the 'Open with' feature to launch the app for a selected file.
Extensions that can be opened are:
- .csv
- .tsv
- .txt
- .wordclouds
- .wordcloudst
Note that you have to install the app to enable file system integration.
Other platforms
Check out these other versions for other platforms.
See also
You might also be interested in these other apps or add-ons.
Bjorn's Word Clouds - a Google Sheets extension
Create amazing word clouds
Bjorn's 3D Word Clouds - a web app
Create 3D word clouds (video, PNG, GIF or Doorways art)
Bjorn's 3D Word Clouds - a Google Docs extension
Create 3D word clouds
Bjorn's WORD-zones - a web app
Design cool word ZONES
Pricing
This app is in the TIER-1, a TIER-1 subscription costs $8.95 per month.
You can try the app for 7 days for free.
Note that a TIER-1 subscription covers all TIER-1 products.
There is a 5-user subscription with a great discount, $29.95 per month.
Use Bjorn's Account Manager to buy/manage your subscription.
Use your PayPal account to cancel your subscription.
Support
Please report bugs here or reach out 2 me with questions @ support@backlund.org.
Follow me at Instagram @bjornsplayground and check out more videos at my YouTube channel.
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