Flourish

Template-driven storytelling visuals and animated data presentations

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What is Flourish?

Flourish, now part of Canva, is a browser tool for building animated and interactive data stories from templates. Instead of starting from a blank canvas, you choose a template - a bar chart race, a scrolling story, a survey explorer, a projection map - and fill it with data through a spreadsheet-style editor. Animation, transitions, tooltips and mobile layouts are handled by the template, which is why non-developers can produce work that looks deliberately designed. Publishing options include embeds, a standalone story page and exported images or video. It is a conventional visualisation product with no language-model features in the workflow.

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Key features

  • Large template library covering charts, maps, stories and 3D visuals
  • Spreadsheet-style data editor with no coding required
  • Scroll-driven and animated story formats for narrative publishing
  • Survey and demographic explorers for large multi-series data
  • Embeds, standalone story pages and image or video export
  • Team workspaces with shared projects and custom branding

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Templates produce polished, animated output without design skills
  • Story formats are genuinely hard to build by hand elsewhere
  • Embedding into an article or report takes minutes

Watch out for

  • You work within template constraints rather than free-form design
  • Free tier keeps published projects public and limited in size
  • No automated insight or natural-language chart generation

Best for & use cases

data storytelling, animated charts, interactive articles and presentation visuals

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FAQ

What makes Flourish different from a chart library?

The templates already contain the animation, layout and interaction behaviour. You supply data and text, which removes the front-end work that normally makes scrolling stories and animated charts expensive to produce.

Can I keep projects private on the free tier?

Public projects are what the free tier is built around. Private projects, password protection and custom template support come with paid plans, so confidential data belongs on a paid tier.

How is it related to Canva?

Canva acquired Flourish, and the two products remain separate: Flourish handles data-driven and animated visuals, while Canva covers general design. Some branding and template ideas flow between them.