Mermaid AlternativesDiagram Editors & UML Modeling Tools like Mermaid

Mermaid is described as 'Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code? This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating flowcharts, Gantt charts and sequence diagrams from text via JavaScript' and is a Diagram Editor in the business & commerce category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Mermaid for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Mac and Flathub apps. The best Mermaid alternative is yEd Graph Editor, which is free. Other great apps like Mermaid are PlantUML, quiver diagram editor, Graphviz and Kroki.

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  1. yEd Graph Editor icon

    yEd Graph Editor

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    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 sets by just pressing a button. You can use yEd to quickly create flow charts, BPMN and UML diagrams...

    117 yEd Graph Editor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
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    • yEd Graph Editor is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Mermaid.

    • yEd Graph Editor is the most popular free alternative to Mermaid.

    • yEd Graph Editor is Free and ProprietaryMermaid is Free and Open Source
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    PlantUML

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    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 application such as wiki, text editor, IDE, programming language, documentation generator, and others.

    115 PlantUML alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Android
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    Common PlantUML JAR GUI application that will render text file into image.
     
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    Comments about PlantUML as an Alternative to Mermaid
    Maxim Kamalov
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    Both can be integrated into markdown files.

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    • PlantUML is the most popular Android alternative to Mermaid.

    • PlantUML is the most popular Open Source alternative to Mermaid.

    • PlantUML is Free and Open SourceMermaid is also Free and Open Source
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    quiver diagram editor

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    Efficient web-based tool for constructing high-quality commutative diagrams. Offers LaTeX export with embedded links, intuitive interface supporting both mouse and keyboard inputs, and features like multiple selections, macro support, and smart label alignment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  5. Graphviz icon

    Graphviz

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    Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in networking, bioinformatics, software engineering, database and web design...

    56 Graphviz alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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    Maxim Kamalov
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    Mermaid is more about diagrams that follow strict conventions (like UML diagrams). Graphviz is more about graphs that don't bother with conventions.

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    • Graphviz is Free and Open SourceMermaid is also Free and Open Source
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    Kroki

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    Creates diagrams from textual descriptions! It provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag, BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), Ditaa, Erd, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, PlantUML, SvgBob, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom.

    24 Kroki alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Kroki is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Mermaid.

    • Kroki is Free and Open SourceMermaid is also Free and Open Source
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    Penrose

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    Penrose is a platform that enables people to create beautiful diagrams just by typing mathematical notation in plain text. The goal is to make it easy for non-experts to create and explore high-quality diagrams and provide deeper insight into challenging technical concepts.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  9. StarUML icon

    StarUML

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    StarUML is a program to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML...

    57 StarUML alternatives

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    • Pay once
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    • StarUML is the most popular commercial alternative to Mermaid.

    • StarUML is Paid and ProprietaryMermaid is Free and Open Source
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    Visual Paradigm

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    Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML) is a UML design tool and UML CASE tool designed to aid software development. VP-UML supports key modeling standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.4, SysML, ERD, DFD, BPMN 2.0, ArchiMate 2.0, etc.

    81 Visual Paradigm alternatives

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    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    DHTMLX

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    DHTMLX is a set of JavaScript UI components for speeding up web app development. It offers ready-made widgets for project management apps, ERP and CRM systems, healthcare, educational, and financial software solutions. DHTMLX supports React, Angular, and Vue.

    24 DHTMLX alternatives

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    • Pay once
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    • Online
    React Gantt Chart component by DHTMLX
     
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    DBDiagram.io

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    Quick and simple free tool to help you draw your database relationship diagrams and flow quickly using simple DSL language.

    25 DBDiagram.io alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  13. Umbrello icon

    Umbrello

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    Umbrello is a Unified Modelling Language (UML) modelling tool and code generator. It can create diagrams of software and other systems in the industry-standard UML format, and can also generate code from UML diagrams in a variety of programming languages.

    52 Umbrello alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    ChartDB

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    Visualize your DB via one-single query. Free and open source, database design editor.

    20 ChartDB alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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    • npm
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