Alternatives to CADE for all platforms with any license

Lucidchart Sponsored

Lucidchart is an online diagram and flowchart software that supports Microsoft Office Visio import and can work on any operating system.

Freemium $ $ $ Web Android iPhone Chrome OS Microsoft Office Word ... Google Drive Google Drive - Docs Google Apps Google Drive - Sheets Microsoft Office Suite
Real time collaboration Team Collaboration General-purpose diagramming Real time collaboration ... Export to PDF Sequence Diagrams Web-Based Wireframing Add a feature

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draw.io

draw.io is a free online diagram drawing application for workflow, BPM, org charts, UML, ER, network diagrams. No login or registration are required and features include...

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted Chrome
Export to PDF Svg export Auto aligment rulers Google Chrome extension ... Document templates Sync with Dropbox Flow diagram visualisation Sync with Google Drive Interior Design Multiple export options Office Online integration Works Offline Single Line Diagram Web-Based Website wireframing Add a feature

542 Like
Pencil Project

Pencil is a standalone app or Firefox extension that lets you create diagrams or UI mockups. It doesn't have collaboration/multi-user features. The Pencil...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Electron / Atom Shell ... Firefox
Cliparts Firefox extension Wireframing Add a feature

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Dia

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix, Mac OS X and Windows released under the GPL license. Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com FreeBSD ... Xfce DragonFly BSD NetBSD OpenBSD
Lightweight WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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- Discontinued No new versions since 2011. Last release, 0.97.2, can be still downloaded from the official website.
yEd Graph Editor

yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly create diagrams manually or import external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data...

Free Mac Windows Linux Web BSD
Excel import Class Diagrams Component Diagrams ER Diagrams ... Flow diagram visualisation Portable Sequence Diagrams Add a feature

369 Like
LibreOffice - Draw

Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan, and gives you the means to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
Portable Export to PDF Add a feature

208 Like
Microsoft Office Visio

Microsoft Office Visio makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Go from complicated text and tables...

Commercial Windows Windows RT
Network mapping Add a feature

226 Like
Lucidchart

Online diagram and flowchart software that supports Microsoft Visio import and can work on any operating system.

Freemium $ $ $ Web Android iPhone Chrome OS Microsoft Office Word ... Google Drive Google Drive - Docs Google Apps Google Drive - Sheets Microsoft Office Suite
Real time collaboration Team Collaboration General-purpose diagramming Real time collaboration ... Export to PDF Sequence Diagrams Web-Based Wireframing Add a feature

488 Like
LibreCAD

LibreCAD (originally QCad then CADuntu) is an open source 2D CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. It is based on Qt, which is a leading cross-platform...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Construction layers Portable Add a feature

100 Like
Autodesk AutoCAD

Autodesk AutoCAD is a commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... iPad
Batch plotting DWG support Add a feature

151 Like
PlantUML

PlantUML is an open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw UML diagrams. The generator can be run anywhere within JVM and integrated with various...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... Chrome OS
Create UML entities Portable Text Based Format VCS Friendly Add a feature

83 Like
Apache OpenOffice Draw

Draw, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a graphics editor that gives you the tools to communicate with visuals and diagrams. With a...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Desktop publishing Add a feature

108 Like
Google Drive - Drawings

Google Drawings allows users to collaborate creating, sharing and editing images or drawings.

Free Web Chrome OS Chrome
No features added Add a feature

56 Like
OmniGraffle

OmniGraffle can help you make eye-popping graphic documents—quickly—by providing powerful styling tools, keeping lines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, and...

Commercial Mac iPad
No features added Add a feature

169 Like
Edraw Max

Creating flowcharts, organizational charts, business diagrams, science illustration, network diagrams, mind map and lots more. Free Examples Download.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Real time collaboration Export to PDF Add a feature

36 Like
ThinkComposer

Create deep visual documents, adaptable and multi-level diagrams, flowcharts, concept maps, mind maps and models. Users can: - Define their own types of nodes and...

Free Open Source Windows
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature

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