Diagramming: best apps and software

Excalidraw

Excalidraw is a free collaborative whiteboard for creating diagrams and visuals, supporting real-time editing and integration with various export formats.

Napkin AI

Napkin AI is a web-based document editor that uses AI to create engaging visuals from text, enabling users to enhance their documents with diagrams, charts, and videos.

Miro

Miro is a visual collaboration tool that enables remote teams to brainstorm, design, and manage projects on an infinite digital canvas.

Mermaid Live Editor

Mermaid Live Editor allows users to create and edit diagrams using Mermaid syntax, supporting both code and graphical modes for clear visualization of complex information.

Lucidchart

Lucidchart is a web-based tool for creating and sharing diagrams and charts, enabling real-time collaboration and integration with services like Google Drive.

diagrams.net

Diagrams.net is an open-source diagramming tool for creating various types of diagrams, available online and as a desktop application, with integration for cloud storage and collaboration.

Mermaid Chart

Mermaid Chart is a diagramming tool that enables users to create charts using markdown syntax, facilitating real-time collaboration for various diagram types.

Lucid

Lucid is a visual collaboration tool for teams, offering virtual whiteboarding and diagramming to enhance planning and project execution.

Google Drawings

Google Drawings is a web-based tool for creating simple diagrams and visuals, allowing real-time collaboration and easy integration with other Google apps.

Excalidraw+

Excalidraw+ is a collaborative digital whiteboard tool for creating hand-drawn style diagrams with real-time collaboration and AI features.

tldraw

tldraw is an online drawing app that allows users to create and manage workflows on an infinite canvas, integrating AI for natural language instructions and content generation.

Whimsical

Whimsical is a collaborative workspace for product teams, offering tools for documentation, flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps, and AI-assisted brainstorming.

OnUML

OnUML is a web app that allows users to create and edit UML diagrams via chat, offering real-time collaboration and live previews for software and system design.

FigJam

FigJam is a collaborative whiteboard app for teams to brainstorm, sketch ideas, and manage projects in real-time using various tools and templates.

Creately

Creately is a visual collaboration platform for teams to ideate, plan, and execute projects using various templates and real-time collaboration features.

SmartDraw

SmartDraw is a diagramming app that allows users to create flowcharts, floor plans, and data visualizations with collaboration features for teams.

Coggle

Coggle is a free mind-mapping web app that allows users to create structured diagrams for brainstorming and collaborative idea-sharing.

Wondershare EdrawMax

Wondershare EdrawMax is a versatile diagramming tool for creating over 300 types of diagrams, including flowcharts and mind maps, available on multiple platforms.

Moqups

Moqups is an online visual collaboration tool for creating wireframes, diagrams, and prototypes, allowing real-time teamwork and feedback.

Gliffy

Gliffy is a diagramming tool for creating flowcharts, UML diagrams, and more, integrated with Confluence and Jira for collaborative project management.

Zapier Canvas

Zapier Canvas is a diagramming tool that helps users visualize, plan, and automate business workflows, integrating with various apps for streamlined processes.

iCraft Editor

iCraft Editor is a free tool for creating and visualizing 3D architecture and network diagrams, with features for easy design and real-time data integration.

Diagramming AI

Diagramming AI is a tool that uses AI to create and edit UML diagrams, offering real-time collaboration and customization options for various users.

Cawemo

Cawemo is a BPMN platform for workflow management, allowing users to create and optimize business processes collaboratively for improved efficiency.

Visual Paradigm Online

Visual Paradigm Online is a web-based diagramming tool for creating and sharing various diagrams, supporting collaboration and integration with other tools.

Cloudcraft

Cloudcraft helps visualize and manage cloud architectures, offering diagram design, real-time updates, cost estimates, and collaboration features for cloud infrastructure teams.

AI Diagram Generator

AI Diagram Generator is a free online tool for creating various diagrams like flowcharts and mind maps, using minimal user input.

Puzzle

Puzzle is a platform for visualizing operations by mapping workflows, allowing users to create flowcharts synced with data from tools like Hubspot and Zapier.

ERDCloud

ERDCloud is a free cloud-based tool for creating and managing entity-relationship diagrams collaboratively in real time.

Boardmix

Boardmix is an online whiteboard for collaboration and creativity, offering tools for prototyping, mind mapping, and user flow diagram creation, with real-time collaboration features.

ASCIIFlow

ASCIIFlow is a web app for creating ASCII diagrams, enabling users to draw, modify, and export text-based diagrams without installation.

Cacoo

Cacoo is an online diagramming tool that allows users to create and collaborate on diagrams and flowcharts in real-time.

Lucen Software

Lucen helps teams plan projects, create timelines and process diagrams, track time, and report progress using Microsoft 365 tools.

React Flow

React Flow is an open-source React library for creating interactive, customizable flowcharts and diagrams in applications.

ProcessOn

ProcessOn is an online platform for creating various diagrams and facilitating collaboration on workflows and processes.

Diagram

The Diagram app helps users create and manage various diagrams like flowcharts and organizational charts, supporting collaboration and integration into workflows.

FlowMapp

FlowMapp is a UX design tool for creating sitemaps, user flows, and wireframes, enabling collaborative planning and organization of digital experiences.

DGM

DGM app allows users to create sketches and diagrams with smart shapes, collaborate in real-time, and generate code using Vision AI.

Bubbl.us

Bubbl.us is a web-based app for creating mind maps and visual diagrams to organize ideas and collaborate with others.

Fluig AI

Fluig AI converts documents and ideas into visual diagrams like mind maps and flowcharts, facilitating brainstorming and collaboration through a user-friendly platform.

Organimi

Organimi is a cloud-based organizational chart software for creating and customizing org charts, directories, and photoboards for businesses.

PDNob Mind Map

Create and edit mind maps, flowcharts, UML diagrams, timelines, fishbone and org charts in a web browser for brainstorming, planning, and visualizing information.

Beauty Diagram

An online editor that previews and cleans up Mermaid, PlantUML, and draw.io diagrams, with SVG and PNG export.

Diagrimo

AI tool that turns text into structured diagrams like roadmaps, timelines, and infographics, with editing and writing assistance.

textografo

Textografo transforms text into visual flowcharts and diagrams, simplifying the organization of complex information and enhancing visual communication.

Gleek.io

Gleek.io is a keyboard-only diagramming tool that creates various diagrams like Gantt charts and entity-relationship diagrams for project and data management.

Overflow.io

Overflow.io is a user flow diagramming tool for product design teams, enabling designers to communicate their work through interactive presentations.

Edraw.AI

Edraw.AI offers AI solutions for data extraction, processing, and analytics, facilitating automation with a user-friendly interface.

FlowChart AI

Converts text, prompts, or images into editable flowcharts using AI; offers layout adjustment, symbols, templates, real-time editing, and cross-device compatibility.

knotend

Knotend is a flowchart editor that enables quick creation and organization of charts using keyboard shortcuts and automatic layout features.

yEd Live

yEd Live is a diagramming tool for creating various types of diagrams, supporting data import/export and collaboration for effective visualization and analysis.

ERD Lab

ERD Lab is an online tool for designing and managing ER diagrams, allowing users to visualize databases, collaborate, and export designs without coding.

UpDiagram

UpDiagram is a free project management tool that offers collaborative features and multiple work views such as Kanban, Calendar, and Mindmap, suitable for various industries.

Diagramr

Diagramr is an AI-powered visual search engine that helps users quickly find relevant educational diagrams without ads or clutter.

Schematic

Schematic is a monetization platform that facilitates usage-based billing, sales support, and includes components like customer portals and checkout flows.

ChatFlowchart

AI tool that turns plain text or chat prompts into editable diagrams like flowcharts, UML, and ERDs.

Bhava

Bhava converts text and sketches into flowcharts, cloud architectures, UML, ERDs and other diagrams, with AI-assisted editing, real-time collaboration, and free and paid plans.

Cloudockit

Cloudockit is a cloud documentation tool that automates architecture diagram creation and documentation for major cloud providers, ensuring accuracy and facilitating collaboration.

Jeda.ai

Jeda.ai is an AI-powered visual workspace that transforms ideas into visuals, aiding collaboration and efficiency in content creation and strategy development.

Zen UML

ZenUML is a multi-platform tool for creating and managing UML diagrams, enabling collaboration and visualization of software systems.