Mermaid AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Mind Mapping Tools

The best Mind Mapping alternative to Mermaid is yEd Graph Editor, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Mermaid and three of them are Mind Mapping Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mind Mapping Tool alternatives to Mermaid are PlantUML 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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    • Windows
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    • 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    Common PlantUML JAR GUI application that will render text file into image.
     
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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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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

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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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