PhotoDiagram AlternativesDiagram Editors and other similar apps like PhotoDiagram

PhotoDiagram is described as 'Allows you to generate clean SVG diagrams from photos of your drawn diagrams on paper. Easily upload and convert your diagrams' and is a Diagram Editor in the business & commerce category. There are more than 10 alternatives to PhotoDiagram, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best PhotoDiagram alternative is yEd Graph Editor, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to PhotoDiagram are Mermaid, PlantUML, quiver diagram editor and Graphviz.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

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

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

    • yEd Graph Editor is Free and ProprietaryPhotoDiagram is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Mermaid icon

    Mermaid

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    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.

    26 Mermaid alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
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    • Mermaid is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to PhotoDiagram.

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

    • Mermaid is Free and Open SourcePhotoDiagram is Paid and Proprietary
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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.
     

    • PlantUML is the most popular Android alternative to PhotoDiagram.

    • PlantUML is Free and Open SourcePhotoDiagram is Paid and Proprietary
  5. quiver diagram editor icon

    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.

    55 quiver diagram editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  6. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  7. Kroki icon

    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

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Visual Paradigm icon

    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

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Visual Paradigm is the most popular commercial alternative to PhotoDiagram.

    • Visual Paradigm is Paid and ProprietaryPhotoDiagram is also Paid and Proprietary
  10. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  11. DBDiagram.io icon

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. PlantText icon

    PlantText

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    The PlantText tool is an online tool for quickly creating UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams. Unlike most tools, PlantText can build diagrams without the use of a mouse because it is based on PlantUML markup language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • PlantUML
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  14. Chart Mage icon

    Chart Mage

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    A tool for drawing flowchart and sequence diagrams with a simple, concise and easy to use syntax, in a similar manner as markdown.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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