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 five of them are Mind Mapping Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mind Mapping Tool alternatives to Mermaid are PlantUML, Kroki, IngaBoard and Beauty Diagram.

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  1. yEd Graph Editor icon
     447 likes

    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...

    124 yEd Graph Editor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
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  2. PlantUML icon
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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.

    127 PlantUML alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
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  3. Kroki icon
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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.

    30 Kroki alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. IngaBoard icon
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    IngaBoard is a minimalist, keyboard-driven application that turns fragments of "Cause and Effect" into structured Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) instantly. No manual boxes, no dragging lines. By stripping away superficial decoration, we reveal the inherent beauty of structural truth.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. Mermaid, PlantUML, and drawio diagrams that don't look auto-generated.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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