Best think-cell Alternative in 2025 | Ampler Charts - Ampler

Best think-cell Alternative in 2025 | Ampler Charts

Ampler Charts is the only true 1 to 1 think-cell alternative on the market, letting you create Gantt charts, Mekko charts, waterfall charts, bar charts, area charts, and all other chart types used by consultants.

Ampler Charts is a PowerPoint add-in that is used by consultants in 129 countries for creating beautiful charts with a click!


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Top advantages of Ampler Charts as an alternative to think-cell

As the only exact think-cell alternative, Ampler Charts provides all the same functionalities as think-cell, but at a lower cost. Our focus is on ease, stability, and a fast, user-friendly interface.

  • Affordable pricing
  • Linked to Excel data
  • Intuitive, user friendly, modern interface
  • Chart layouts can be saved in an embedded library
  • Integrated with Ampler’s suite of Microsoft Office productivity tools
  • Great team collaboration
  • Top-rated onboarding, setup, and customer support

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30+ advanced charts for consultants

Ampler Charts is a complete chart maker for PowerPoint that allows you to create the most used consulting chart types such as Gantt, Mekko, and waterfall charts. It supports all the advanced business visuals you need, including:

  • Easily editable Gantt charts
  • Mekko charts
  • Waterfall charts
  • CAGR
  • Bar charts and column charts
  • Harvey balls

Everything is automated and user-friendly, giving you professional results in just a few clicks. The intuitive design of the menus makes it easy to choose between chart types and create the visualization you need. Ampler Charts includes lots of tools that makes it easy to create professional charts in PowerPoint from Excel data, e.g., easy setup of axes and legends.

This makes it an excellent alternative to think-cell when needing to create PowerPoint presentations quickly and beautifully using data from Excel.

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Effortlessly link data from Excel

Ampler Charts allows you to link data from Excel, to rapidly and in real time visualize your data through beautiful charts in your presentations. The links to live excel allow for real time data analysis and the hook-up to SharePoint ensures seamless real time collaboration.

You can easily create professional visualizations in PowerPoint, and they are directly connected to your Excel data with rock solid Excel links! With one refresh, all charts update automatically – ensuring your presentation always reflects the newest data.

This eliminates inconsistencies and ensures that everyone is aligned with the same data, from project managers to junior consultants.

Ampler Charts Excel links

Promote collaboration & data-driven decisions

Collaboration is simplified with Ampler Charts. Chart layouts can be saved in the embedded library and company colours and standards can be applied with a click, turning raw data into PowerPoint integrated charts with a few clicks. This makes it easy to drive business intelligence with simple chart creation that can be used in comprehensive reports that visualize complex data in an intuitive manner.
Automation of chart creation lets consultants spend time on data insights rather than on adjusting the formatting of graphs, slides, presentations, reports, financial charts, and process plans.

The intuitive user interface allows users to:

  • Create charts with a click
  • Draw actionable insights without endless manual adjustments
  • Easily customize charts and visualize data
  • Save chart layouts adhering to company standards

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Top think-cell alternatives

Ampler places itself in front of top think-cell alternatives like Zebra BI, and Mekko Graphics. All the chart types from simple bar graphs to advanced charts like Gantt are included, always ensuring easy visualization of your data in a perfect chart.Mekko Charts

All the must-have features for 2025

Business reporting evolves fast, and static tools are no longer enough.

Ampler Charts provide:

  • Charts with multiple comparisons and CAGR
  • Gantt charts for e.g. project plans
  • Agenda feature
  • Tables combining multiple plans or scenarios
  • Automatic calculation of relative and absolute variances

We also provide a set of pre-designed top tier consulting templates for PowerPoint to make professional reporting easy and fast.

McKinsey slide templates

Company branding and customizability

Set your corporate colours once, and all charts and tables automatically follow your brand guidelines. Every slide or sheet is instantly compliant with your corporate identity, saving time and maintaining consistency. Relatively to think-cell ampler is a breakthrough tool using agile methodologies to drive real time collaboration through data visualization and automation of tedious tasks like setting colours or line thicknesses.
Infinite customizations

Exceptional customer support

Ampler has a user centric focus and goes the extra mile to ensure that platform onboarding, software installation, training, and use is smooth and easy. Usually, a detailed plan for platform rollout and piloting is created. Ampler’s consultants also help customize the platform to ensure that the toolbar has the customers brand compliant colours and that the tools in the user-friendly interface of the toolbar are tailored to the users. This makes it easy for brand and content managers to ensure that presentations, reports, slides, maps, and PowerPoint templates are brand compliant.

The support team also responds quickly to technical questions and helps with any queries related to the software.

See our testimonials to learn why Ampler is regarded as the top think-cell competitor.

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One tool to rule them all - combines the advantages of EE, think-cell, and other applications!
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Agile and Cost-Effective: Ampler Delivers Big Value

The only true alternative to think-cell for PowerPoint

Ampler is the first true alternative to think-cell on the market. The software includes all the same tools, chart types, and data visualization and analysis possibilities as think-cell, but also allows for Excel linking of Gantt charts – and the Excel links are rock solid!

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PowerPoint tools for business professionals

The Ampler Chart add-in has seamless integration with the other power tools in the Ampler ecosystem. Ampler has tools for PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook, and is the most extensive and solid efficiency and automation platform for business teams working in Office.

The software tools allow users to progress quickly through business intelligence tasks, from a quick project plan in Gantt, maps showing business trends across the globe, PowerPoint slides with a full business strategy, or reports of market trends.

Ampler is not only a think-cell alternative, but think-cell and much, much more. Ampler is also an alternative to Templafy, allowing users to save templates, reports, table layouts, plans, and designs in a template library. It is an entire platform for Microsoft Office encompassing charts, library, time-saving tools, and even signature management.

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Regular updates

Ampler Charts evolves constantly, regularly adding new features to the charts add-in and the entire ecosystem. See also Ampler for PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook.

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Widely accepted quality standards

4.9 ⭐ user rating in Microsoft AppSource





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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Ampler Charts a true think-cell alternative?

Yes! Ampler Charts provides the only 1-to-1 replacement for think-cell in PowerPoint, with all the same chart types and functions.

Can I automate chart and table updating from Excel with Ampler Charts?

Yes. Charts and tables update automatically from your Excel data, saving time and reducing errors.

Can I brand my charts automatically?

Yes. Corporate colours and branding can be applied across all charts and slides automatically.

Does Ampler Charts offer customer support?

Absolutely. Our dedicated support team helps with onboarding, migration from think-cell, pilot setup, and is available to help with any questions or guidance on advanced features.

Can I try it before buying?

Yes, Ampler Charts offers a free 30-day trial with full functionality.

Can I build Gantt charts using Ampler Charts?

Yes, of course, and they can be linked to Excel data – with rock-solid links!

Is Ampler Charts a good choice for consultants?

Yes, Ampler Charts was build by ex-Bain consultants to make life as a consultant easier.

Is Ampler Charts cloud-based?

No. Ampler Charts is desktop-based, so you don’t have any cloud requirements or depend on uptime, since it also works offline.

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