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Animated chart videos from spreadsheets, $1.4K MRR: public projects

Alien Art Charts turns spreadsheet data into animated chart videos. Its $1.4K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Alien Art Charts is a free animated chart maker for creating data videos from spreadsheets. It creates bar chart races, line chart races, and animated maps from CSV, Excel, or Wikipedia data.

The product exports videos in MP4 format and requires no coding. It supports CSV, XLSX, Wikipedia, and manually pasted data.

How it charges

Alien Art Charts offers Free, Pro, and Team subscription plans. The site lists free video downloads with an allowance of 30 minutes/month.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

MonthRevenue (USD)
2025-10$2,259
2025-11$1,658
2025-12$1,658
2026-01$3,022
2026-02$1,671
2026-03$1,360
2026-04$1,747
2026-05$1,311
2026-06$1,206
2026-07$1,662
2026-08$1,459
2026-09$1,732

Where customers come from

The site presents Alien Art to creators making animated data visualizations and videos. It offers guides, comparisons, a blog, public community projects, and an MCP server for Claude & AI agents.

The site also supports account access with Google, Facebook, and Email. It claims more than 10,000 public projects, more than 500 templates, and many monetized YouTube channels use Alien Art.

What stands out

Alien Art offers customizable designs and video templates. It also provides ready-made tracked collections covering countries, channels, coins, and clubs that can be animated without importing data.

From the official site

Turn spreadsheets into animated chart videos for free. Make bar chart races, line races, and animated maps from CSV or Excel. Export MP4, no coding.
Export as MP4 video. Free to start — no coding required.
Browse public projects shared by Alien Art creators — clone any of them as a starting point for your own.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Alien Art Charts's $1.4K MRR is higher than 79% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Design Tools” category (452 projects) it is higher than 87% (category median $118). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view is that this needs real work. The buyer is a creator making animated data visualizations and videos, and distribution would depend on reaching that audience through creator communities, search-driven guides, public projects, and integrations.

The hard parts are implementing reliable spreadsheet imports, chart animation, video rendering, MP4 export, templates, and handling tracked data collections. Competition would come from tools for turning data into video, while support load would depend on file formats, rendering issues, and user questions.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

My view is that the clearest product lesson is to pair a focused creation workflow with visible examples: templates, public projects, and creator-facing guides can help people understand what they can make.

Sources

  1. Alien Art Charts official website, fetched October 1, 2026
  2. TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure

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