System Designer Alternatives

System Designer is described as 'Integrated development environment that can help you define models for your applications in a streamlined manner and test the results' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to System Designer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Eclipse and Web-based apps. The best System Designer alternative is PlantUML, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like System Designer are Visual Paradigm, StarUML, Modelio and UMLet.

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  1. PlantUML icon

    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 Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to System Designer.

    • PlantUML is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to System Designer.

    • PlantUML is Free and Open SourceSystem Designer is also Free and Open Source
  2. 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

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    Platforms

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

    • Visual Paradigm is Paid and ProprietarySystem Designer is Free and Open Source
  4. StarUML icon

    StarUML

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    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...

    57 StarUML alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Modelio icon

    Modelio

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    Modelio is an open source modeling tool supporting natively UML, BPMN and model exchange with XMI. It allows to draw all UML2 diagrams and specific diagrams for business process modeling. It is easy and powerful with the capacity to add new functionalities to the application.

    34 Modelio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Eclipse
    Class diagrams
     
  6. UMLet icon

    UMLet

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    UMLet is an open-source UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    UMLet screenshot 1
     
  9. Software Ideas Modeler icon

    Software Ideas Modeler

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    Lightweight, powerful, easy to use, UML tool

    Software Ideas Modeler is a lightweight and powerful CASE tool. It supports UML 2.2 diagrams and a lot of other ones. Software Ideas Modeler is freeware (for non-commercial use). Commercial user may use this software only after buying.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Software Ideas Modeler screenshot 1
     
  10. NClass icon

    NClass

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    NClass is a free tool to easily create UML class diagrams with full C# and Java language support. The user interface is designed to be simple and user-friendly for easy and fast development. Properties, enums, delegates and other language specific elements are fully supported...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    NClass screenshot 1
     
  11. Violet UML Editor icon

    Violet UML Editor

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    Violet is a UML editor with these benefits: Very easy to learn and use. Draws nice-looking diagrams. Completely free. Cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers, students, teachers, and authors who need to produce simple UML diagrams quickly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Example
     
  12. WhiteStarUML icon

    WhiteStarUML

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    WhiteStarUML is a fork of StarUML with an intent to revive its Delphi code base by updating code to recent Delphi editions, reducing dependence on third party components and fixing bugs and adding new features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Basic class diagram
     
  13. TopCoder UML icon

    TopCoder UML

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    TopCoder UML Tool is an easy to use, consistent modeling tool for use in Design and Development competitions. The new tool was built to model sequence, class, use case, and activity diagrams. On top of that, all those elements can have documentation easily attached to them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    TopCoder UML screenshot 1
     
  14. BOUML icon

    BOUML

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    BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box (under development) allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Overall
     
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