Of every tool on the market, Infogram is Chartissimo’s closest aesthetic neighbor. Both produce infographic-style charts. Both target the “the chart needs to look better than a default” job. Both ship outputs designers actually consider.
The difference is the model. Infogram is a template marketplace — you browse, you pick, you customize. Chartissimo is a curated style library — the design decisions are made up front, you pick a style, the chart renders.
One puts the taste call on you. The other ships its taste call as the product.
The Honest One-Liner
Infogram is the affordable infographic-style chart tool. Big template library, accessible UI, broad use across marketing and editorial teams.
Chartissimo is a curated, opinionated AI styling layer for designer-grade hero charts. Smaller surface, taste-driven selection, built around the idea that someone should make the design decisions for you.
Where Infogram Lands With Designers
The honest read on Infogram from designers we’ve talked to: it’s the “I settled” tool. Used when the deck budget doesn’t stretch to Illustrator, when the timeline doesn’t allow for a hand pass, when the alternative is a default Excel chart and Infogram is at least better than that.
That’s a real job. Infogram does it well. The challenge is that the template-marketplace model puts the curation work on the designer. You browse twenty templates, three look acceptable, one matches the brand color you’re after, and the customization tools let you push it to about 80% of where a hand-styled chart would be.
That last 20% — the typography hierarchy, the label placement, the palette balance, the negative space — is what separates “designer-grade” from “template-grade.” It’s the gap Chartissimo is trying to close.
Where Each Tool Wins
Infogram wins when:
- You want a broad template library to browse and customize
- The chart will be reused as a template across many projects with light variation
- You need an output medium that includes interactive web embeds, PDF reports, and printable infographics
- The team has a non-designer who needs to produce the chart and a template floor is the right safety net
Chartissimo wins when:
- You don’t want to browse templates — you want a curated style library where every option is taste-checked
- The chart needs to clear a designer-grade taste bar, not just a “better than default” bar
- The output medium is the deck (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Figma)
- You want the design decisions made for you, not handed to you as a template you customize
Curation vs Customization
The fundamental difference is where the design work lives.
| Model | Infogram | Chartissimo |
|---|---|---|
| How styles get there | Template marketplace; many templates, broad coverage | Curated library; fewer styles, every one taste-checked |
| Where the design work happens | You customize a template into something acceptable | The style is opinionated end-to-end; you pick, it renders |
| Output ceiling | ~80% of a hand-styled chart with effort | Designer-grade out of the box on the styles we ship |
| Brand color treatment | Manual palette substitution per template | Brand color is a starting input; palette derives from it |
Verdict: Infogram gives you the breadth of a template marketplace. Chartissimo gives you the depth of a curated style library. Different shapes of the same “better than default” promise.
The Designer-Defensibility Question
Designers know template aesthetics when they see them. Infogram outputs are recognizable; Canva chart blocks are recognizable; Beautiful.ai chart layouts are recognizable. That recognition is fine for internal work and broad-audience output, less fine for a hero slot where the deck is being graded by a designer-aware buyer.
Chartissimo’s bet is that a smaller, opinionated style library that doesn’t feel like a template marketplace is the right fit for the designer ICP. Every style ships with a defensible point of view, not as one of fifty options the user has to evaluate.
Pricing
| Plan | Infogram | Chartissimo |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes — with watermark | Yes (preset styles) |
| Entry | $19/mo (Pro) | $9 one-time Pilot |
| Subscription | $67–$149/mo (Business / Team) | $19–$49/mo (Lite/Solo/Max) |
| What you’re paying for | Template library, brand kits, embed features | Designer-grade chart renders, metered by credit |
The Bottom Line
Infogram is a good answer if you want template breadth and the team is comfortable doing the customization work to push toward designer-grade.
Chartissimo is a better answer if you want the design decisions made up front, in a curated library where every style ships ready for the hero slot.
The two-line summary: Infogram is the template marketplace. Chartissimo is the taste call.
Related Resources
- Chartissimo vs Adobe Illustrator — the hand-built alternative we replace
- Chartissimo vs Figma — the modern designer’s default workflow
- Chartissimo for Agencies — how deck-specialty studios use Chartissimo at scale
- Pricing — credit plans starting at $9
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