What's new
What's new on Chartly
135 updates since September 2026.
Site improvements
November 2026
6 updates
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Nov 6, 2026
Find updates faster on What's New
The What's New page now starts with the latest things to try, keeps older updates tucked under each month, and lets you show just new charts, tools, guides or sharing features.
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Nov 6, 2026
A tidier footer that's easier to scan
The footer's links are now grouped into six short columns, including charts, reading, tools and look-ups, so it's quicker to find what you want.
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Nov 6, 2026
A shorter home page with live charts and quiz
The home page now opens with two new interactive charts each day and lets you play the daily quiz right there. Below that are the newest numbers, tools to try on yourself and topics in clear groups.
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Nov 5, 2026
Food recall pages show clean quotes and dashes
Food recall pages now show proper apostrophes, quotes and dashes instead of stray characters, and their link preview images no longer fail.
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Nov 5, 2026
Pages load faster and hold steady
Chartly's pages now appear sooner and no longer jump around as charts draw. Baby names and food companies also have new A to Z lists.
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Nov 5, 2026
New accounts now confirm their email first
Chartly now sends a confirmation link when you sign up with email, and the welcome email and newsletter start once you confirm. If you have an older account, you can request a link from the sign-in page.
October 2026
3 updates
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Oct 20, 2026
Every Chartly link now shares a preview card
Paste any Chartly page into LinkedIn, Slack, iMessage or X and it now shows a large card with the page's title. Chart pages still show the chart itself.
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Oct 17, 2026
Chart answers now update with the latest data
Each chart's written answer now updates itself when new data arrives, so its numbers and dates always match the chart and its table.
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Oct 10, 2026
Key facts written under every chart
Each chart now has a few plain sentences with its key numbers, such as the highest and lowest state, the U.S. figure, the latest value and the record. You can read the answer at a glance or quote it.
September 2026
15 updates
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Sep 28, 2026
Password reset emails now arrive
Asking for a password reset now sends the email instead of showing an error.
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Sep 26, 2026
Find your way back with breadcrumbs
Every chart page now shows a trail of links above its title, so you can jump back to the chart library or to more charts on the same topic in one tap.
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Sep 26, 2026
Search every chart by keyword
Type a word like "rent", "Texas" or "opioids" in the search box on the home page or chart library to find the charts about it. The best matches come first.
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Sep 25, 2026
See what's new on Chartly
A new What's new page, linked in the footer, lists the latest charts and features, newest first.
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Sep 25, 2026
More charts on the same topic after each chart
Every chart page now ends with a few more charts from the same topic, so your next chart is one click away.
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Sep 25, 2026
Clearer, consistent charts on every page
Every chart now uses the same colors in light and dark mode, shows numbers in plain units like $4.50, 1.2M and 12%, and keeps its labels readable on a phone. Some line charts now zoom in on the change and say so under the chart.
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Sep 25, 2026
Ranked bars and U.S. maps for state charts
Charts that compare states, airports, colleges or countries now show sorted bars with the U.S. figure marked, and open on the top and bottom 10 on phones. State charts can also be shown as a U.S. map with a color legend.
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Sep 25, 2026
New privacy, terms and contact pages
Chartly now has its own Privacy Policy and Terms of Use that explain how to reuse and credit its charts, plus a simpler contact form for corrections and chart ideas. The header and footer have a new logo and are about Chartly only.
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Sep 25, 2026
Charts load every time you open them
Charts now always appear when you open them from the chart library or use the back button, not only when you visit a page directly.
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Sep 25, 2026
Inflation and jobs charts now show full history
The inflation, unemployment, rent, car insurance and egg price charts now go back as far as the government's monthly records do. For inflation that's 1914, and for unemployment it's 1948.
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Sep 25, 2026
Charts look good when shared
Sharing a chart on social apps or in a message now shows a preview image of the chart itself. Search engines can also find every chart and its data source.
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Sep 25, 2026
Browse every chart from the home page
The home page now lists every chart by topic, newest first, with each topic's source and data date. There's also a direct link to the Hacker News dashboard.
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Sep 25, 2026
Browse charts by topic
The chart library now groups every chart by topic, and each topic, such as Health or Climate, has its own page. You can jump to any topic from the home page.
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Sep 25, 2026
Browse charts with source, date and data
Each chart now has its own page with the question it answers, an interactive chart, the answer in plain words, its public source and license, the date, and a table of the numbers. Find them all under Charts.
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Sep 24, 2026
Chartly is live
Chartly now has a home at chart.ly. It explains what we're building: a library of clear, interactive charts from trustworthy public data, each with a source, its data and a date. You can create a free account and sign in to follow along as the first charts arrive.