Future Plans

Plans for future versions of M Chart and M Chart Pro

These are wish lists, not promises.

These are features I’d like to add, but until something is finished and launched it isn’t, and can’t be, a commitment.

Please don’t use M Chart or purchase M Chart Pro for a feature that isn’t in the product today.

Buy for what exists now; treat anything here as a bonus if or when it ships.

Future core features

M Chart

  • More supported chart types:
    • Venn diagrams
    • Geo charts (choropleth & bubble maps)
    • Graph-like charts (tree & force-directed)
    • Sankey diagrams
  • Better support for time/date values
    • Still thinking through the UI and auto-detection
  • Label wrapping and/or proportional resizing for treemap labels
    • They get squished or cut off too easily with the default behavior

Future Pro features

  • Fancy tables, powered by DataTables JS library
  • Automatic trend-line annotations
  • Automatic line/point highlighting for important data, by context
  • AI-generated chart descriptions for better accessibility
    • Let a model see the data and the resulting chart and describe it textually for users with visual impairments
  • An AI chart builder (via MCP?)
    • Hand M Chart Pro your data and let a model format it, pick a chart type, and optionally add annotations to highlight what matters
  • Per-chart color overrides that beat the theme defaults
  • Text wrapping for annotation text
  • Mixed chart types in a single chart
    • Or maybe merging of multiple charts?
    • The UI ramifications for this are tough
  • More flexible external-data handling
    • Optionally or automatically drop the first cell
      • External data might not fit M Chart conventions like first cell empty meaning multi series data
    • Choose which rows/columns to use for chart
      • Similarly external data might include rows or columns the user doesn’t want to use

Request a feature

Have an idea that isn’t on the list? Tell me about it. I can’t promise anything, but I read every request.

M Chart Feature Request