A word cloud shows the words of a text sized by how often they appear, so the main themes stand out at a glance. Paste in an essay, a speech, survey answers, customer reviews, song lyrics or meeting notes, or open a text, Word (.docx) or PDF file, and the cloud is drawn as you change the settings. Common words such as "the", "and" and "of" are left out by default so the words that carry the meaning show; a table lists every word in the cloud with its count.
The words are counted and placed by your browser: the text and the file never leave your computer, and there is no sign-up or watermark. The Noto Sans font is downloaded from jsDelivr the first time it is used; the handwriting fonts come from this site. It is free to use, with no account and no upload limit, and it runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, and while the page stays open, a feature you have already used keeps working offline.
- How are the words sized?
- The most frequent word is the largest, and the others are sized by how often they appear compared with it, on a square-root scale so that rarer words stay readable. Words are counted without regard to capitals ("Cloud" and "cloud" are one word), a possessive 's is dropped, and numbers on their own and single letters are left out.
- Which common words are left out?
- About 300 everyday English words that carry little meaning on their own: articles (a, the), pronouns (he, they, its), prepositions (of, in, with), conjunctions (and, but), forms of be, have and do, and contractions such as don't. Untick "Leave out common words" to keep them all. The list is for English; in other languages every word is counted, and Chinese, Japanese or Thai text is split into words by your browser.
- Why did some words not fit?
- When the shape is full, the smallest words are left out; the status line says how many. Each time many words do not fit, all the sizes are brought down and the cloud is drawn again. Showing fewer words, choosing the rectangle, or All across makes more room.
- Should I save PNG or SVG?
- PNG is a picture, 2400 × 1600 pixels for a rectangle, ready for slides, documents and social media. SVG is a vector file that stays sharp at any size, for printing on a poster or editing in Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma; the font is embedded in it, so it looks the same wherever it is opened, and each word stays editable text.
- Can it read a PDF?
- Yes, a PDF with real text in it, such as one saved from Word or a website, up to 1000 pages. A scanned PDF is a picture of each page with no text; run it through the OCR Toolkit first and paste the text here. A password-protected PDF needs Unlock PDF first.
- Is the text I paste or open sent anywhere?
- No. Pasted text and opened files are read by your browser on your computer and the cloud is drawn in the page; nothing is sent anywhere.