Other solutions have a free option, but they also offer a premium/paid-for option. Some of the tools I will talk about are free in the sense that all of the options they offer are free. There is no single, best free word cloud generator because different people and different situations have different needs. In this post, I will highlight four good free word cloud generators, each dealing best with different needs and situations. Word clouds have a long history, dating back to the now-discontinued, and beyond that to a category of visualising information called tag clouds. Most word clouds are based on showing the words that occur most often in larger fonts, and words that occur less frequently in smaller fonts.

Word clouds are a popular way of visualising text information.