draw.io
Feature-rich diagram editor offering privacy-focused, ad-free experience with real-time collaboration, offline usage, dark mode, and cloud storage support. No registration required and compatible with various diagram formats, it excels in simplicity by not tracking user data.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Notion
- Self-Hosted
- Nextcloud
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Flathub
- Microsoft OneDrive
- PortableApps.com
- Google Drive
- Google Docs
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Slides
- Flatpak
- Google Sheets
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Flow Chart
- Works Offline
- Export to PDF
- Mind Mapping
- Web-Based
- Sync with Google Drive
- Multiple export options
- Export to SVG
- Dark Mode
- Interior Design
- Ad-free
- Workflow
- Document templates
- Single Line Diagram
- No registration required
- Auto aligment rulers
- Drawing Board
- Flow diagram visualisation
- Visio stencils
- Hierarchical Structure
- No Tracking
- Export to PNG
- Website wireframing
- Export to JPEG
Office Online integration- Export to XML
- No Coding Required
- Live Preview
- Real time collaboration
- Support for Layers
- WYSIWYG Support
Support for LaTeX
Sync with Dropbox- Export to HTML
- Electron based
- GCP Diagrams
Tags
- UML
- Mockups
- business-process-management
- visualization
- Google Chrome Extension
- Javascript
draw.io News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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What is draw.io?
Draw.io (aka Diagram.net) 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 the ability to save locally (including SVG), a range of stencils, .vsdx, Lucidchart and Gliffy import.
You can also store your diagrams on cloud (e.g. Google Drive), and edit them in real time collaboratively with other users of Draw.io.
You can also create a diagram from a CSV file that specifies which node is connected to which other node.
draw.io information
Developed by
JGraph Ltd Licensing
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Rating
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Comments and Reviews
i tried a bunch of other softwares out there to see which diagramming tool I like the most. I don't like visio its bloated and slow
I like this program because its simple to use and understand, flexible and useful. But it took me awhile to figure out how I wanted to set it up for long term scalability
There's a number of options here to setup for backup, as of writing this post
If you use google drive, the file just gets saved in the root folder making it a really big pain to manage If you save it in github, you have to select a repo everytime + commit which is way too time consuming. Plus it doesn't autosave One drive is crap, I suggest you not touch it at all Device is okay but is limited with backup functionality, You could dump it into your cloud storage from here but I suggest just integrating it all together
I suggest using dropbox. It will save into dropbox/apps/draw.io. The reason why is because it autosaves every change you make.
Also, if you save using this automatic method, it saves as a .html file instead of .xml so you can just click the file and see what revision changes were made
There's 2 ways to use draw.io. There's the webapp and there's a desktop app
in either case you probably want it attached to dropbox or one of those other solutions if you intend to use your diagrams across multiple pc's
dropbox is best here
whenever you want to opening the file, i suggest doing it straight from your dropbox/apps/draw.io folder, the open dialog box is horrendous in draw.io right now. this way you can open the file with multiple pc's etc.
in fact you could just double click the file inside dropbox its better off
Whenever you make a diagram just keep your revision notes off to the side because you can make the daigram as big as you need it to be
also your better off using the desktop version if you use dropbox since this program is saving every few seconds dropbox will spam you with notifications
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[Edited by Kagerjay, June 02]
[Edited by Kagerjay, June 02]
It's useful for Creativity but the Export functions are very limited: PDF and PNG work well but SVG is not standard compliant and HTML-Export produces an HTML page with the PNG as full page.
The 2021 version has extended export to SVG, HTML, XML & PDF. All standard compliant
Update: it's not fully open source apparently. Some code is obfuscated.
Just switched to draw.io for my flowcharts—so much better than Visio! Love how it autosaves to Dropbox, though the notifications can get spammy. Wish it had a built-in visor de mermaid en línea for quick previews, but still my go-to for clean diagrams. Anyone else using the desktop version?
It's just super good for diagrams
I've always been on the lookout for MS Visio alternatives and the free web application is just way too limited. After trying a number of alternatives, I finally settled with diagrams.net (formerly known as draw.io).
It's amazingly powerful and feature rich, and free! The main bonus for me is the ability to connect to cloud services for collaboration. At work we use Office 365, so I use OneDrive/Sharepoint for sharing.
If you don't connect it with a cloud service be aware that you will have to download to your machine to keep the diagrams. And there's no auto-save. Personally, I connected it Google Drive.
Draw.io is highly intuitive and efficient to use, very offers a large variety of diagrams out of box, creates beautiful diagrams, is an open source freeware, and gets updated frequently with new features.