The best tier list templates are pre-made ranking charts with the rows and items already loaded — you drag, rank, and export. Our library covers about 90 ready-made boards, from fast food to Smash Bros, each opening in the same free editor with five letter-grade rows (S, A, B, C, D) you can rename or recolor.
Skip the setup and start ranking with a ready-made board. These are the best tier list templates — pre-loaded and fully customizable, free and no login.
The most popular category — everyone has food opinions. Top picks: fast food, soda, pizza toppings, snacks, candy, coffee and ice cream. Each loads the options so you just drag and rank. Start with the templates hub.
Every pick has its own board a click away: fast food, soda, pizza toppings, snacks, candy, coffee and ice cream — plus deeper cuts like cereal, chips and Halloween candy.
Rank movies, music genres and album covers. Great for sharing your taste — and the image-based ones let you upload your own pictures like posters and cover art.
Characters are the other half of this category. The anime board and the Pokémon board are fan-ranking staples, Smash Bros Ultimate covers the fighting-game crowd, and video games and Disney movies take on whole franchises at once. Ranking video game characters from a series without a preset? Upload their portraits to a blank board — TV shows, celebrities, books, artists, animals, or every season of one show work exactly the same way.
Beyond food and film: NFL teams, car brands, programming languages, dog and cat breeds, US states, colors and more. If you have an opinion on it, there is probably a board for it.
Direct links for the big ones: NFL teams, car brands, programming languages, dog breeds, cat breeds, US states and colors.
Do not see your topic? Start from a blank text board or a blank image board, add your items, and you have a custom template in seconds.
Every board — pre-loaded or blank — runs on the same drag and drop editor. Rename tiers to whatever tier labels fit, add rows or delete rows past the default five, upload images in batches, and pass the finished thing around as a share link that packs the board into the URL — or as a PNG once your own photos are on it, since uploads stay on your device. No account needed on either end.
A tier list template is a ready-made structure for a ranking chart: the framework of lettered rows comes pre-built, and the things you’ll rank are already loaded as tiles. Instead of starting from scratch, you open the board and make calls. Wikipedia’s tier list entry pins the format to gaming culture, but the template idea stretches to anything rankable. The template sets no criteria — you decide whether “S” means tastiest, most reliable, or most rewatchable — it just gives your opinions a visual ranking to live in. A blank template is the same framework with the item pool left empty, and any filled-in board doubles as a tier list example; the community gallery is full of them.
A blank tier list template is more useful than it sounds. Hit export on an empty board and the PNG download comes with the rows drawn and no tiles — the empty-board warning has an “Export empty board” override for exactly this. That blank PNG works as a printable sheet, a meme template to annotate in any editor, or a base layer for Photoshop. The Print button goes further and downloads the board as a PDF. For a funny tier list template, start blank and swap the letters for joke labels — creative tier names has sets worth stealing.
Building the chart inside office tools instead? The walkthroughs exist: Google Sheets, PowerPoint (the same tricks cover Google Slides), and Canva. Excel and Word can fake a grid with table cells, but they fight you on every drag. One thing you won’t find here is a 1920x1080 export preset — the PNG renders at the board’s own dimensions, and tier list image sizes covers what those are and when they matter.
The format works past hobbies too. Teams use tier boards for prioritization — rank tasks or feature ideas into “now,” “next,” and “someday” rows, and the decision-making argument happens in front of everyone instead of inside a doc nobody reads. It beats a spreadsheet for brainstorming because moving a tile costs nothing; priorities stay negotiable until the board settles. For collaboration, send the share link — the entire board is packed into the URL, so nobody needs project management software just to look at it.
Mostly to save time. A pre-loaded board turns ten minutes of setup into one quick first drag, and the result stays organized because the visual hierarchy does the explaining — best on top, worst at the bottom. Templates also keep group rankings consistent: everyone starts from the same item pool and argues over the same ranking criteria, so finished boards compare cleanly. And since every free tier list template here is customizable end to end, the starting point never locks you in.
It depends what you want to rank — food templates like fast food and snacks are most popular, but there are also boards spanning entertainment, sports and lifestyle.
Yes. Every template is free, pre-loaded, and requires no login.
Absolutely — rename and recolor tiers, add or remove items, then export a PNG.
Open a blank board in the free tier list maker, type or upload your items, then drag each one into a row. Rename tiers, recolor rows, add extra rows if five isn’t enough. When you’re done, export a PNG or copy the share link. The board autosaves in your browser as you work, so you can close the tab and pick it up later.
Sort of — a chatbot can draft a ranked list as text, but a tier list is your opinion, and outsourcing the ranking defeats the point. There’s no AI on this site. The closest aid is Duel mode, which shuffles your items into head-to-head matchups and builds the order from your picks, two at a time. You still make every call; it just breaks one big ranking into lots of small ones.
Decide your criteria before you drag anything — one question, like “how often would I actually order this?” Then rank the extremes first: the obvious S-tier and obvious bottom picks anchor the scale, and the middle sorts itself against them. Keep the row count modest; past seven tiers the distinctions stop meaning much. If two items feel identical, put them in the same row — that’s the format doing its job.
Load a blank board with your full item pool, rank nothing, and copy the share link — whoever opens it gets the same unranked board to fill in themselves, because the link carries the items along with it. For a paper-and-pen version, use the empty-board PNG export instead and you have a printable blank chart.
Speed and clarity. A tier board forces relative judgments — is this better than that? — which is quicker and more honest than scoring everything out of ten. The result reads at a glance, and because every item has to land somewhere, you can’t dodge the hard calls. In a group it doubles as a decision-making tool: disagreement is visible on the board, so the argument is about specific tiles instead of vague vibes.
The scale copies Japanese game grading, where S sits above A and the letters below run like school grades. Full breakdown in tier list letters explained.
Farasat is an engineer who designs websites and builds practical online tools in his spare time. He created Tier List Maker after using other ranking sites that asked for an account, stamped watermarks on downloads, or simply did not work well on a phone. He is not a professional gamer or a self-described tier-list expert — he builds and maintains this site himself, fixes issues, and adds features based on what visitors actually ask for.