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I was looking for one of these yesterday and honestly they’re all pretty clunky web browser applets. If I’m replacing a Microsoft Office program I want a fully featured desktop app, not a .io website, yknow?
I like drawdb.app.
I love yEd graph editor because you can import your own assets and make it like Visio.
Draw.io is pretty good. It has a desktop version you can download as Flatpak. I even use it at work and got the IT dept. to install it by default. They’re saving hundreds a month due to this.
Wait, has that become open source again in recent releases? I remember it not being for a while, but the repo currently says Apache 2.0? Anyone know more about it?
I think this quote says enough:
The icon sets and stencil libraries included in this software, and any derivatives thereof (including conversions to other formats, traced reproductions, substantially similar visual representations, or AI-generated images created using these icons as reference or training input), may not be used as software assets in, distributed for use with, or incorporated into Atlassian products or products distributed through the Atlassian marketplace or plugin ecosystem, without explicit written permission.
LibreOffice Draw worked well enough for me. It can even open Visio documents. It doesn’t save to Visio though, so I had to give up on it eventually as the company mandated Visio documents, even though they just end up being inserted into other documents as PNG.
But the drawing part was solid for me.
Draw.io my feeling is you you need anything more fancy, you have missed the point of flowcharts and things like it. I have used the basic tools in libre office and word, it just depends on what you need to do.
Plus its just XML to its easy to derive flows programically
And you can export to PNG with the source XML embedded in the PNG metadata, effectively making it an editable PNG
What the what?!? I need to know more
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Do you prefer to code your diagrams? Many options to see and try at:
Pikchr is surprisingly quick to get results in.






