Flourish
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What is Flourish
Flourish is a web-based data visualization tool used to create interactive charts, maps, and stories for publishing on websites and in reports. It is commonly used by newsrooms, communications teams, and analysts who need embeddable, presentation-ready visuals without building custom front-end code. The product emphasizes template-driven visual creation, interactive features, and sharing via links or embeds, with data typically supplied through spreadsheets or CSV uploads.
Rich interactive visual templates
Flourish provides a large library of pre-built templates for interactive charts, maps, and scrollytelling-style stories. This supports faster production of web-ready visuals than building custom visualizations from scratch. The templates cover common editorial and communications use cases such as animated bar charts, choropleths, and annotated narratives.
Embeddable, web-first outputs
Flourish is designed for publishing interactive visuals via embed codes and share links. This fits teams that need visuals to live inside CMS pages, articles, or client-facing microsites. It also supports responsive behavior for different screen sizes, which is important for web distribution.
Accessible authoring for non-developers
The workflow centers on uploading or pasting tabular data and configuring visuals through a browser UI. This reduces reliance on engineering resources for many common visualization needs. It is particularly useful for teams that prioritize speed of production and consistent styling over deep data modeling.
Limited BI data modeling
Flourish focuses on visualization creation rather than end-to-end business intelligence functions such as semantic layers, governed metrics, and complex data transformations. Users typically prepare data outside the tool before importing it. Organizations looking for centralized metric definitions and enterprise BI governance may need additional systems.
Data connectivity can be constrained
Compared with full BI platforms, Flourish commonly relies on file-based or manual data import workflows for many use cases. This can introduce refresh and version-control overhead when dashboards require frequent updates. Automated, governed connections to multiple enterprise sources may require workarounds or complementary tooling.
Template boundaries and customization
While templates accelerate delivery, they can limit bespoke interaction patterns or highly customized visual designs. Advanced customization may require working within the constraints of each template’s configuration options. Teams with strict brand or UX requirements may need additional design or development effort.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 (Free) | Unlimited projects (visualizations & stories); full template library; full privacy for unpublished projects and data; public publishing and embedding with Flourish attribution. |
| Presenter | Included with Canva Business or Enterprise (billed via Canva) | All Free features + add interactive Flourish charts into Canva, browse/search projects inside the Canva editor, embed in Canva without Flourish attribution, image & SVG export. |
| Publisher | Custom pricing — contact Flourish sales | All Presenter features + team collaboration (shared folders, access controls, approval workflows), website embeds without Flourish attribution, scrollytelling, custom theme (one font, colors, logos), live data updates (Google Sheets/CSV), HTML export. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing — contact Flourish sales | All Publisher features + advanced security & access controls, SSO and password policies, multiple custom themes/hosted fonts/branding, live rendering API, dedicated account manager and priority support, SLAs and enterprise compliance. |
Seller details
Canva Pty Ltd
Sydney, NSW, Australia
2012
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