Your publication-ready PRISMA flow diagram, built as you type.
Enter your counts and watch the PRISMA 2020 diagram draw itself — boxes, arrows, and arithmetic handled. Download as PNG or SVG. No sign-up, and your numbers never leave your browser.
What are PRISMA Charts?
PRISMA is the reporting standard for systematic reviews, and the flow diagram is the figure every reviewer looks for first. Building it by hand is the part nobody enjoys: a maze of boxes and arrows redrawn in PowerPoint every time a screening number changes, plus a 27-item checklist tracked in a separate document.
CoChat turns both into live artifacts. The diagram covers all four PRISMA 2020 template variants, renders from your counts, updates when the numbers change, and exports as SVG, PNG, or print-ready PDF. The checklist sits alongside it, pre-seeded with all 27 items (42 rows), ready for you to mark each one reported, not reported, or not applicable, and exports as CSV or Markdown.
From counts to publication-ready figure
Bring your search, screen and triage, generate the diagram, edit it in form or split view, track the 27-item checklist, export.
The diagram is not the end of the review.
It travels with it.
A PRISMA figure is not a one-time export. It is a living record of how the review was built, and it changes as the review does.
Your screening decisions become the counts in the diagram. Those same counts feed the checklist, so the figure and the reporting stay consistent instead of drifting apart in two documents. When a reviewer asks you to re-run a search or re-screen, you change the number once and the diagram redraws itself. And because the flow lives in the same workspace as your paper search, your literature review table, and your citation checks, the whole review stays in one place from first search to final figure.
One search, one standards-compliant figure
The figure a reviewer looks for first, generated from your counts and laid out to the PRISMA 2020 standard, with the checklist tracking alongside it.
PowerPoint boxes vs. PRISMA Charts
The usual way
CoChat PRISMA Charts
The diagram
Hand-drawn in PowerPoint or Word
Generated from your counts, to PRISMA 2020
When counts change
Redraw every box and arrow
Update the number, the diagram follows
The 27-item checklist
Tracked in a separate document
Pre-seeded artifact, marked as you go
Consistency
Numbers drift between diagram and text
One source of counts, kept consistent
Export
Screenshot of a slide
Publication-ready figure
Who screens
You
Still you. CoChat just draws and counts
Built to the actual PRISMA 2020 standard, and it lives where your review does.
PRISMA is not a loose convention. It is a published reporting standard, and journals hold submissions to it: the flow diagram with its identification, screening, and included arms, and the 27-item checklist that documents how the review was conducted. Get the figure wrong and a reviewer notices immediately.
The bar is real, and most reviews still fall short of it.
CoChat generates both to the PRISMA 2020 standard, as editable artifacts rather than static images. That matters because the numbers change: a reviewer asks you to re-run a search, screening shifts, and a hand-drawn diagram means starting the figure over. Here you change the count and the diagram redraws itself. And because PRISMA Charts live in the same workspace as your paper search, your literature review table, and your citation verification, the whole review stays in one place from search to reporting.
Related reading: How CoChat searches seven academic databases at once
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Frequently asked questions
1. Can CoChat generate a PRISMA flow diagram?
2. Does it include the PRISMA checklist too?
3. Does CoChat do the screening for me?
4. What happens when my screening numbers change?
5. Can I export the diagram for publication?
6. Does it work with CoChat's paper search?
Your PRISMA diagram, generated, not drawn.
The PRISMA 2020 flow diagram and 27-item checklist as editable artifacts, with the identification band auto-filled from your search and publication-ready export. You screen and decide; CoChat draws and counts.
Free to start. Built into the workspace where you search and verify.