Clear business charts, inside PowerPoint and Excel.
Paste your numbers, refine your chart, and insert it. Reopen it whenever your data changes.
Start your 7-day free trial — every chart type and theme, then $7.30 a year. A short setup on your computer.
Needs Microsoft 365, Office 2024, or Mac PowerPoint 16.64 / Excel 16.24 and later. PowerPoint 2019 and 2021 bought once are not supported.
On a phone? The setup runs on your Windows or Mac computer — send yourself the link.
Why use Rubus.
Readable by default
Value labels instead of an axis, no gridlines that don't earn their place, labels that step out of each other's way. The decisions the built-in charts leave to you are already made.
The things you'd otherwise draw by hand.
Comparison arrows, target lines, plan and forecast, bridges with grouped steps — each one a click in Rubus, not a shape drawn over the chart that slips when the numbers change.
A picture that remembers its numbers.
PowerPoint receives a sharp vector image — it scales, prints and survives being emailed. It also carries its own data. Select it next week and Rubus reopens on the same table, colours and labels, so a corrected figure is a corrected chart, not a rebuild.
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Add Rubus to PowerPoint and Excel.
Rubus is not in the Microsoft add-in store yet, so there is a short setup on your computer. Choose yours for step-by-step instructions.
What the setup changes: one small file that tells Office where Rubus lives. Rubus itself runs from app.rubuschart.com and updates there. Remove Rubus, in the same download, takes the file out again; charts you've made stay in your files.
Coming to the Microsoft add-in store (AppSource), where adding it will be one click.
$7.30
a year, per person
Every chart type, every theme, and every release while your year runs.
Free during early access · $7.30 a year once licences go on sale.
Free while in early access
Until licences go on sale, Rubus is free to use in full — every chart type and theme, no time limit, no watermark on your slides.
When licences go on sale, early-access users get seven days' notice. After that, inserting new charts needs a $7.30 licence. Charts you already made always stay openable and editable.
Seven days, nothing held back
The trial is the whole product — every chart type and theme, with no watermark on your slides.
On day eight, buy a licence to keep inserting new charts. Without one, charts you already made still open, still restyle, and their data still copies out.
Why I built it.
I worked seven years at McKinsey, where charts were a daily routine across many clients. I've also been CFO of an oil and gas company, head of capex budgeting at a FTSE 100 mining company, and an operational improvement manager at a multinational fertilizer company. I know what a chart has to look like before anyone will trust the number on it — and how long that takes with the built-in tools.
The tools that draw charts at that level usually cost several hundred dollars a year. For many people, that is too much to pay for software that just draws charts — so I built Rubus.
It is for the people I worked beside: the analyst with a deck due in the morning, the accountant who needs one good bridge for the month-end pack, the startup writing its investor update. It is growing — tell me what you need next.
— Yerbol
Questions
Where does it run?
PowerPoint and Excel on Windows or Mac, and PowerPoint in a browser. On Windows you need PowerPoint from Microsoft 365 (version 2208 or later) or PowerPoint 2024; on a Mac, PowerPoint 16.64 or later. PowerPoint 2019 and 2021 bought once are not supported.
How do I install it — and remove it?
A short setup, step by step here: on Windows, download the zip and double-click Add Rubus; on a Mac, paste one line into Terminal. Then reopen PowerPoint or Excel. To remove it, double-click Remove Rubus from the same download, or run the one-line remover on a Mac. Charts you've made stay in your files.
Do my numbers leave my computer?
Not when you use the add-in. Rubus loads from the web, like any Office add-in, but your numbers and charts stay in your document — they're never sent anywhere. It does need an internet connection to open. If you ask an AI assistant to draw through Rubus's AI address, the numbers you give it are drawn on our server and kept for 30 days behind a random link.
Is it a picture or a real chart?
A vector picture that carries its data, so Rubus can reopen and edit it. It isn't an Office chart object — which is why it looks the way it does. In Excel you can ask for a native Excel chart instead.
Can't AI just draw the chart?
It can, through Rubus: connect Rubus to your assistant and it draws with the same engine and rules as the add-in. What a general AI chart lacks is the next step — a Rubus chart goes into the pane, keeps its data in the file, and follows the same style every time. Changing one bar's colour is a click.
Is it finished?
It's in early access. Five families and nineteen kinds of chart are usable today; finer control is planned, and requests from users shape the order.