Free word cloud generator, no sign-up

Paste any text and the cloud draws itself as you type: the more often a word appears, the bigger it gets. There's no account to make and nothing to install. What you get:

• PNG download: the cloud as an image, on a transparent or colored background
• Word table: every word with its count and its share of the text
• Words to remove: type the names or filler words you don't want, and the cloud redraws without them
• No watermark: the image is yours to put on a slide or in a report
• Stays in your browser: your text is never uploaded

Want the room to send the words from their phones? The Live Word Cloud shows a QR code and builds the cloud as the answers come in. For questions to ask the room, see 20 icebreaker questions for a word cloud.

Why use our Word Cloud Generator?

• Easy - Most of the time you want to paste a text and download the picture. Our Word Cloud Generator does that first, and keeps the rest out of the way until you need it such as custom colors and a list of words to remove.
• Fast - Our Word Cloud Generator uploads nothing and waits for nothing: you get the cloud as you type.
• Modern - Our Word Cloud Generator is built in Next 16, with Material 3 design, and served from Vercel edge servers.
• Ad free - There are no ads around the tool, and nothing is stamped on the PNG.
• Free for life - Our Word Cloud Generator needs no account, has no trial, and sets no usage limit.

What is a word cloud generator?

A word cloud generator draws the words of a text in sizes that match how often they appear. Paste a speech where "freedom" comes up 14 times and "tax" twice, and "freedom" is the biggest word in the picture.

It's a quick way to see what a text keeps coming back to: the themes in open survey answers, the vocabulary of a chapter, the words a set of job ads lean on. It's a poor way to compare exact counts. Two words of almost the same size can be far apart, which is why the word table carries the numbers.

Word cloud options

• Size: how big the words are drawn. Turn it down when one very common word crowds the small ones out.
• Spacing: the gap between words. At low spacing the small words fill the holes between the big ones; at high spacing the cloud is looser and every word stands apart.
• Color: the colored dot opens three settings. Color picks the hue: Random gives each word a hue of its own, and Blue or any other color uses that hue for every word. Color saturation picks the shade: Solid gives every word the same shade, Gradient shades each word by how often it appears, and Random picks a shade per word. The Saturation slider, shown for Solid and Gradient, sets how strong the shades are.
• Canvas: the background color. It starts fully transparent, so the PNG sits on a slide with no box around it. For a solid background, open Canvas, pick a color and drag the bottom slider to the right.
• Shape, rotation and font: the outline the words fill (circle, square, diamond, triangle, pentagon or star), whether some words turn on their side, and the typeface: Classic, Serif, Heavy or Monospace.

Word list options

These decide which words make it into the cloud and the table:

• One answer per line: each line counts as one whole answer, so a pasted column of survey answers shows "Not happy" and "Too slow" where the words alone would give "happy" and "slow".
• Min length: words shorter than this are left out. Set it to 3 and two-letter leftovers like "ok" and "uh" go too.
• Top: keeps only the most common N words. A cloud of 50 reads better than a cloud of 500.
• Min frequency: keeps only words that appear at least this many times.
• Ignore case: "Hello" and "hello" count as one word, shown in lower case. On by default.
• Ignore stopwords: drops common words like the, and and is, which would otherwise be the biggest words in almost any text. On by default.
• Normalize diacritics: "café" and "cafe" count as one word, shown as "cafe". On by default.
• Include numbers: keeps digits, so "cloud9" stays "cloud9". Off, the digits are dropped and it counts as "cloud".
• Include non-words: keeps punctuation and symbols, so "end?" shows as "end?". Off, it counts as "end", and "Wikipedia's" counts as "Wikipedia".
• Include non-ASCII: keeps emojis, symbols and letters from other alphabets, such as Greek or Cyrillic, so 😊 can show up in the cloud. Off, they're dropped. Accented letters like é and ö stay either way, so with Normalize diacritics off, "café" stays "café".

To leave out words of your own, type them in Words to remove, separated by commas or new lines. Only whole words go, in any case: removing "art" takes out "Art" and "art" but keeps "party".