Nov 2024 - max and not-max colors

Word Clouds has a new simple feature for quickly highlighting words or phrases with the highest frequency - you can now enable a "max color" and a "not max color". You can of course leave the "not max color" disabled and all non-max phrases will continue to be colored using a list or a gradient. (YT demo).

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.

Internet Explorer issues

This app is using modern features in Javascript that is not supported by the old Internet Explorer browser - the add-in won't work in older versions of MS Office using Internet Explorer. Sorry...