Interactive Maps with Clustered Points/Markers

What’s this? Maps can look messy with too many markers, affecting user experience and usability. To tackle this, amCharts 5: Maps – starting with version 5.5.6 – introduces a ClusteredPointSeries. This feature neatly groups closely packed markers into a single “group” marker, simplifying the interface. It also handles clustering and unclustering automatically when zooming in […]

amCharts vs. FusionCharts – License price analysis (updated for 2024)

About this analysis During recent months, certain information has come to our attention that compares amCharts to other libraries in terms of license cost. Since the information appeared to be manipulated, we decided to run our own – unbiased analysis. Here’s how amCharts compares to FusionCharts in terms of license fees and total cost of […]

Voronoi Treemap

A Voronoi treemap is a data visualization technique used to represent hierarchical or categorized information in a structured and space-filling manner. amCharts 5 supports both square and circular Voronoi Treemaps.

Draggable Oversold/Overbought Indicator Ranges

amCharts 5: Stock Chart comes bundled with a lot of technical indicators. Some of them use Oversold/Overbought range. These are: Starting from version 5.5.3 the Oversold and Overbought limits can be directly manipulated by dragging grip on the respective lines in the chart itself. Demo Related docs

Grainy Patterns

amCharts 5 supports various options for fills of visual elements such as slices and columns. The most exciting one is “grainy” fill. When configured and combined with gradient, it can result in a truly astonishingly looking charts.

Introducing JSON Configuration for amCharts 5

Starting with version 5.3.0 you can create amCharts 5 charts from a JSON configuration. This enables you to store chart definitions anywhere text can be stored: databases, cloud storage, local file system or even browser’s memory. It’s important to note, that while you can serialize and parse chart settings and properties, more advanced amCharts 5 […]

Save and Restore Drawings and Indicators in Stock Chart 5.3

Enabling users to create indicators and even free-form drawings on top of financial charts is a great feature of amCharts 5 Stock Chart. With version 5.3 we are taking it one step further. Now you can preserve these annotations and indicators in a structured form and restore them in future sessions. You can retrieve user-added […]

Gapless Date Axis, Time Zones, and More in amCharts 5.1

amCharts 5.1 has just gone live and it adds several key features in addition to bug fixes and smaller improvements. Gapless Date Axis If you have date-based data that has substantial gaps in it (like nights, weekends, holidays, etc.) you will appreciate GaplessDateAxis. It combines the best of what regular DateAxis can offer (like data […]

amCharts 5 is here!

We’ve been hard at work slicing, dicing, mixing, and seasoning. Then we put our creation in the oven. And now the timer has beeped and the freshly cooked amCharts 5 are ready for your consumption! The one charting library to rule them all amCharts 5 is a library that covers all your charting needs in […]