Free Organizational Chart Templates | Editable Online & Free to Download
Organizational charts help visualize reporting structures, team hierarchies, departmental relationships, and workforce planning. With Creately’s editable organizational chart templates, you can quickly create clear, professional org charts for business operations, onboarding, planning, or presentations. Choose a template that fits your organization and start building your chart with ease.
How to Use the Organizational Chart Templates in Creately
- Choose a template that suits your needs
You’ll find a wide range of organizational chart templates—from simple hierarchical org charts to departmental structures, matrix organizations, startup team charts, and enterprise-level layouts. Select a template that closely matches your organization’s structure. Click on the “Edit This Template” button to open the diagram in Creately’s editor.
- Sign in or create a free Creately account
To edit and save your organizational chart, you’ll need to sign in. If you don’t have an account yet, you can quickly create one for free.
- Open the template in the Creately editor
Once logged in, the selected template will open in the workspace. Here you can rename the workspace and begin customizing the chart based on your company, department, or team structure.
- Edit and customize the organizational chart
Use Creately’s organizational chart shape library and drag-and-drop tools to add, remove, or modify positions and reporting structures in the org chart.
- Add employees, departments, or teams using org chart shapes
- Build reporting relationships using smart connectors
- Insert profile photos, names, job titles, and contact details
- Use color coding to distinguish departments, functions, or locations
- Group teams or business units for better structure visualization
- Add notes, links, or attached documents for additional context
- Use the quick access toolbar
When you select any shape or connector, a quick access toolbar appears above it. You can use this to quickly change colors, formatting, text styles, alignment, and connector types directly within the diagram.
- Collaborate if needed
You can share your organizational chart with HR teams, leadership, managers, or employees. Invite collaborators via email to view or edit the diagram together in real time. Use in-app comments to discuss updates, reporting changes, or restructuring plans.
- Save, export, or present your organizational chart
Once you’re done, you can save the chart to your Creately workspace, download it as a PDF, PNG, JPEG, or SVG, or present it directly from the app using presentation mode. You can also embed it into documents, internal wikis, or share a view-only link for easy access.
FAQs about Organizational Chart Templates
Yes, many of Creately’s organizational chart templates are free to access and use with a basic account. You can browse templates, open them in the editor, and start customizing immediately. Some advanced collaboration or enterprise features may require a paid plan, but the free version is ideal for creating and sharing org charts.
Absolutely. All Creately organizational chart templates are fully editable online through the Creately visual workspace. You can drag and drop shapes, edit reporting structures, add employee details, customize layouts, and collaborate with others in real time directly from your browser.
Yes, you can export your organizational chart from Creately in multiple formats including PNG, JPEG, PDF, and SVG. These exports can easily be inserted into Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, reports, onboarding materials, or internal business documentation.
Creately supports a wide variety of organizational chart types depending on your business or team structure. These include:
- Hierarchical organizational charts - Visualize traditional top-down reporting structures within organizations.
- Departmental org charts - Map teams, departments, and functional units within a company.
- Matrix organizational charts - Display cross-functional reporting relationships and shared responsibilities.
- Startup team structures - Illustrate lean teams, founder roles, and rapidly evolving reporting lines.
- School and university organizational charts - Organize administrative staff, faculties, departments, and leadership teams.
- Healthcare and hospital organizational charts - Map medical staff, administration, departments, and healthcare management structures.