Lipstick Bar Chart

by Nova SilvaMicrosoft 365Freemium

Compare primary and secondary measures by category in Power BI with overlaid bars.

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PRICINGFreemium
DEPLOYMENTCloud
CATEGORYAnalytics
UPDATED ON MARKETPLACE
Lipstick Bar Chart — screenshot from the Microsoft Marketplace listing

What it does

Displays the primary measure in front of the secondary measure for each category in Power BI. The overlaid bars show both values for each category. Bar and axis formatting follows options available in Power BI Clustered Bar and Column charts. The visual also supports selection and highlighting, context-menu data inclusion or exclusion, tooltips, bookmarks, conditional formatting, data labels, and reference lines.

Key capabilities

from the Microsoft Marketplace listing

Overlaid measure bars

Places the primary measure in front of the secondary measure for each category.

Bar formatting

Allows both primary and secondary bars to be formatted.

Axis formatting

Provides axis formatting options aligned with Power BI Clustered Column and Bar charts.

Tooltip support

Supports default tooltips, additional tooltip fields, and another report page as a tooltip.

Bookmark support

Supports bookmarks.

Conditional formatting

Supports conditional formatting for both bars.

Reference lines

Allows reference lines to be configured in the Analytics pane.

Use cases

  • Compare a primary measure with a secondary reference measure across categories.
  • Display two measures per category using overlaid bars.

How it compares

Lipstick Bar Chart is freemium, while 100% Clustered Stacked Bar Chart (Standard) and Multi Line Chart with Tooltips are paid. Lipstick Bar Chart and all listed alternatives use cloud deployment. Lipstick Bar Chart was updated on Jul 2026; the listed alternatives were updated between Apr 2024 and Jul 2026.

NamePricingDeploymentUpdated
Lipstick Bar Chartthis pluginFreemiumCloud
100% Clustered Stacked Bar Chart (Standard)Not in catalog
Multi Line Chart with TooltipsPaidCloud

In the catalog

657 plugins in Power BI · Analytics

Price distribution: 73 free, 108 freemium, 441 paid, 35 price not published

Pricing & deployment

Platform
Microsoft 365
Product
Power BI
Deployment
Cloud
Pricing
Freemium

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What the vendor says

«Regularly the standard Clustered Bar chart is used to compare two measures within a number of categories. If one of these measures has been added as a reference (secondary measure) to increase the context of the primary measure it would be better to clearly show this priority difference. This is precisely what the …»

Official marketplace listing

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Nova Silva
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