Alternatives to Microsoft Office Visio for Mac with any license

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 sets by just pressing a button. You can use yEd to quickly create flow charts, BPMN and UML diagrams, organization charts, mind maps, and many other kinds of diagrams, graphs, and networks. Choose from a wide range of highly sophisticated layout algorithms to automatically arrange diagrams in no time.

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Excel import Class Diagrams Component Diagrams ER Diagrams ... Flow diagram visualisation Portable Sequence Diagrams Add a feature

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- good functionality, when all custom pallets are in place, over the years. Guest • Mar 2018
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 Projects unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

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

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- Does not map network layout easily enough, which is what Visio was designed to do from the start Guest • May 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Visio is a native application while Pencil is a webpage disguised as an application, with the usual drawbacks, like poor performance and OS integration, etc... Guest • Jul 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
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 program Microsoft Office Visio, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PortableApps.com FreeBSD ... Xfce DragonFly BSD NetBSD OpenBSD
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- Discontinued No new versions since 2011. Last release, 0.97.2, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Dia has no cross platform copy paste capability. Guest • Oct 2016 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees
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 300cm by 300cm, Draw is a an excellent package for producing technical drawings, general posters, and much else.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
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- Can draw flowcharts and diagrams with almost all the features of Visio. You can drag a box, press F2, and start typing, for example. Guest • Sep 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's free and open source, while Visio is proprietary and expensive. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
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 application such as wiki, text editor, IDE, programming language, documentation generator, and others. Mostly based on Graphviz. Can render various diagram syntax such as PlantUML, Dot, and Ditaa.

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

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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 magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Create flow charts, diagrams, UI and UX interactions, and more. Whether you need a quick sketch or an epic technical figure, OmniGraffle and OmniGraffle Pro keep it gorgeously understandable.

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- Easy to use and seems more powerful than MS Visio itself. Guest • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
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 maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is powerful tool for posters, graphs, charts, and more.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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Edraw Max

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

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Real time collaboration Export to PDF Add a feature

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- It has table tool with merging,splitting and other table functions and collapsible trees Guest • Jan 2016 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
- It has the same UI and software features. Guest • Nov 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- The similar UI and less learn curve. Cross platform, good job. Guest • Apr 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
StarUML

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 tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux
Class Diagrams Add a feature

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CmapTools

This software empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. The toolkit is platform independent and network enabled, allowing the users to build, and collaborate during the construction of concept maps with colleagues anywhere on the network, as well as, share and navigate through others models distributed on servers throughout Internet.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux iPad
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Calligra Flow

Calligra Flow is an easy to use diagramming and flowcharting application with tight integration to the other Calligra applications. It enables you to create network diagrams, organisation charts, flowcharts and more.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
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Cacoo

Cacoo is a user-friendly online diagramming tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as wireframes, flowcharts, UML diagrams, network diagrams, mindmaps, sitemaps, database diagrams, and more.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Web Self-Hosted
Confluence integration Drag n drop Google Drive integration Multi-user editing ... Real time collaboration Svg export Wireframing Add a feature

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Umbrello

Umbrello UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language diagram programme for KDE. UML allows you to create diagrams of software and other systems in a standard format.

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Lovely Charts

Browser based Chart and Diagram tool. Requires sign up. Free account allows one diagram to be saved. Very easy to use, professional looking. Main advantage is that diagrams can be shared with collaborators easily, in the same way as Google docs etc.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Web iPad
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ProcessOn

ProcessOn provides an easier way to create diagrams.It's completely FREE OF CHARGE .Drag and drop shapes, icons and other usuful elements in your logic thinking or following your procedure, then optimize your diagrams’ color, style,so everyone even the beginner will become a diagram rockstar just in a minute. ProcessOn also has a diagram library where you can choose tons of shapes and objects then share them through social network.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Chrome OS
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SmartDraw

SmartDraw is the only alternative to Visio® that runs on a Windows desktop (behind the firewall), on a Mac, and online. With the best Visio® import and export capability in the industry, SmartDraw is the easy, powerful and affordable Visio® alternative. SmartDraw is the more powerful addition to Office® drawing tools. Any SmartDraw drawing can be inserted into Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint® with one click.

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Shapes

Shapes is an elegant Diagramming app for Mac OS X, that is both simple and powerful. Shapes gives you all of the most important features you need in a Diagramming tool without all the extra cruft, at an affordable price. Shapes is great for Programmers and Web Designers looking for a simple tool for quickly designing Charts, laying out Wireframes, or visualizing Model Relationships.

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Visto

Visto is a tool which provides efficiency to your business and your team through flows and forms. Visto turns every process in a step-by - step verification, facilitating the execution of each step, and avoiding noise in understanding the steps. Visto app is driven to boost your and your team productivity, organizing processes and increase the efficiency of your business.

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Real time collaboration Workflow Automation Add a feature

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- Visto can turn visual workflows into real automated workflows. eduardobrazdovale • Feb 2016
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ClickCharts

Create flowcharts easily with this flowchart and diagram maker software. Whether you're mapping out ideas, laying out the structure of your organization or creating UML diagrams, ClickCharts is the perfect user-friendly program to get you going. Simplify complex processes, troubleshoot bottlenecks and find areas for improvement. Organize your ideas visually and make even the most complicated process easier to understand.

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ER Diagrams Flow diagram visualisation Add a feature

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IYOPRO

IYOPRO, Improve your Processes, is a professional online BPM and workflow system that utilizes the BPMN 2.0 standard. Run it in less than one minute - without installation - always in the latest version. IYOPRO offers modelling, simulation and workflow automation in three editions. There are various operating modes available: SaaS within the browser, installed out of the browser and on premise.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Web
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TouchDraw

TouchDraw is a vector drawing application that gives you everything you need to create structured 2D vector graphics such as flow charts, graphs, diagrams, illustrations, logos and floor plans just to name a few. What makes TouchDraw especially valuable is that it allows you to not only create complex graphics, but to change them easily as well. TouchDraw differs from a paint program in that objects are always managed independently of the drawing they're in.

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- It supports stencils, and most importantly provides a tool that convert visio diagrams to Touchdraw format Guest • May 2017
diagrams

Diagrams is a powerful, flexible, declarative domain-specific language for creating vector graphics, using the Haskell programming language.

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Cubetto

Cubetto gives you the opportunity to model in modeling languages from a vast set of selections. You can choose between BPMN, Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) to Flowcharts. Even a generic modeling language for your own needs is available. The app features a full auto-layout and the specially designed Process-Flow-Wizard, which guides you step by step through the modeling process. The app has an English and German interface.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad
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Delineato Pro

Delineato - the italian word for "outline". Designed using the WYSIWYN paradigm - What You See Is What You Need - this carefully crafted application is targeted at creating simple diagrams, mind maps, brainstorming, to-do lists, architectural diagrams. A clutter-free interface allows you to concentrate and focus on the essence of your work.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac OS X iPad
Built-in PDF converter Sync with iCloud Distraction-free UI WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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MagicDraw

MagicDraw is an award-winning business process, architecture, software and system modeling tool with teamwork support. MagicDraw UML can do comprehensive UML diagramming, reverse and forward engineering for Java and C++.

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