Microsoft Office Visio Alternatives for Mac

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.
- good functionality, when all custom pallets are in place, over the years. Guest • Mar 2018 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Mac Windows Linux Web BSD
Excel import Class Diagrams Component Diagrams ER Diagrams ... Flow diagram visualisation Portable Sequence Diagrams Add a feature

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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.
- Does not map network layout easily enough, which is what Visio was designed to do from the start Guest • May 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Good for UI mockups, not for UML guss77 • May 2016
- Used to make sketchups for a mobile GUI. Guest • Jan 2017
- 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 • 3 agrees and 5 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Electron / Atom Shell ... Firefox
Cliparts Firefox extension Wireframing Add a feature

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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.
- 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 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's free and open source, while Visio is proprietary and expensive. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Draw is very similar to Visio. It's basically the free and open source version of it. You can create flowcharts with it like you can in Visio, and other things you can't do with Visio. Although Visio is more focused at creating flowcharts & diagrams and does very well at it, it's extremely expensive while Draw is free and open source. Guest • Aug 2018
- It is hard to tell you that when I haven't started using it yet, but it appears to have the functionality I require without the expensive price, for sure. Guest • Sep 2018
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
Portable Export to PDF Add a feature

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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.
- Discontinued No new versions since 2011. Last release, 0.97.2, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Clumpsy Handling, old fashion style look Guest • Jul 2016
- Dia has no cross platform copy paste capability. Guest • Oct 2016 • 4 agrees and 4 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com FreeBSD ... Xfce DragonFly BSD NetBSD OpenBSD
Lightweight WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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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 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.
- Easy to use and seems more powerful than MS Visio itself. Guest • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- On the Mac there is no other program that is so versatile compared to Visio (which isn’t available for Mac OS). Guest • Nov 2018
Commercial Mac iPad
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Edraw Max

Creating flowcharts, organizational charts, business diagrams, science illustration, network diagrams, mind map and lots more. Free Examples Download.
- 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
Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Real time collaboration Export to PDF Add a feature

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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 Windows Linux
Desktop publishing Add a feature

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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.

Free Personal Mac Windows Linux
Sequence Diagrams 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.
- Easy to use. Very professional look. Guest • Nov 2016
Free Mac Windows Linux iPad
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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.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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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 Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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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.
- Visto can turn visual workflows into real automated workflows. eduardobrazdovale • Feb 2016
Freemium Mac Windows Web Android Android Tablet
Real time collaboration Task Automation Workflow Automation Add a feature

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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.

Commercial Mac
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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.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows 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.
- It supports stencils, and most importantly provides a tool that convert visio diagrams to Touchdraw format Guest • May 2017
Commercial $ $ $ Mac Android iPad
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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.

Free Personal $ $ $ Mac Windows Android Kindle Fire
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 Windows Linux Web
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diagrams

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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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UMLGraph

UMLGraph allows the declarative specification and drawing of UML class and sequence diagrams. The current features are part of an ongoing effort aiming to provide support for all types UML diagrams.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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MyDraw

MyDraw is an advanced diagramming software for drawing flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, UML diagrams and business diagrams. Identical experience under Windows and Mac OS X MyDraw is absolutely identical under Windows and Mac in terms of both - looks and functionality.
- It supports VSD and VSDX file import and export, Visio stencil import, is very cost effective and is not based on a SaaS pricing model. This is the only application in this price range that covers all those Visio compatibility requirements. bobbymilanov1 • Feb 2018
- It has similar features and was designed to be a Visio competitor. Guest • Feb 2018
Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
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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 iPad
Built-in PDF converter Sync with iCloud Distraction-free UI WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

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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 Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad
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Creately

Creately makes diagramming and design easy. We do this with an access anywhere, online application that is purpose built for collaboration. Creately allows teams to solve problems and collaborate visually. It stands out from the crowd for its ease of use and intuitive interface. Built-in collaboration, revision control, 1-click publishing on the Internet and Smart Objects make Creately the easiest and most powerful online diagramming application today.
- Visio Import, More Diagram Types Than Visio, 1000s Templates and Examples elraymonds1 • Aug 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone
Flow diagram visualisation Google Chrome extension Multiple export options Confluence integration ... Custom templates Document templates ER Diagrams Jira integration Real time collaboration Export to PDF Svg export Team Collaboration Website wireframing 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++.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
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