The Daily App: Pie Chart Maker for iPad

There are those of us who tend to stumble through chart creation in applications like Excel, never quite seeming to get the hang of it.

Thankfully, a generation of apps built for mobile devices may drastically simplify the process and one in particular, Pie Chart Maker for the iPad platform, is especially powerful.

A $6.99 download from the Apple iTunes App Store, by developer IW Technologies, Pie Chart Maker is about as simple for helping you create pie charts as you can find. In short, it’s as easy to create pie charts on this app as we want it to be on Microsoft’s Excel, but never quite find it to be.

Once downloaded and installed, all you need to do with Pie Chart Maker is to enter numbers into a list format, hit the "render" button, and boom: instant pie chart. Actually, Pie Chart Maker allows you to create charts in a simple pie, 3D pie, "exploded pie" or a ring chart format. Once the chart is created, you can share it in PNG format via email, print it out via a AirPrint-supported printer, save it to the device or copy it to transfer to another app or file.

If you want the simplest way possible to create charts, Pie Chart Maker for iPad is, from what we can tell, at the top of the list.