Creately is a visual collaboration platform built around an infinite canvas for brainstorming, diagramming, planning, workshops, project management, and research.
Alternatives to SmartDraw
SmartDraw combines scaled floor plans with professional diagrams such as flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, ERDs, timelines, mind maps, and Gantt charts. SmartDraw AI converts natural-language prompts into editable diagrams and floor plans, while templates and automatic layout adjustment help as shapes change. Multi-user editing, comments, version history, integrations, cloud storage, data visualizers, and an Open API support team and…
Structurizr is a models-as-code tool for creating multiple software architecture diagrams from one C4 model written in Structurizr DSL.
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draw.io
draw.io is a free, open-source diagramming tool for making visual layouts ranging from flow charts and mind maps to network diagrams, floor plans,…
Free planOpen sourceAndroidiOSWebWindows8.4Free plan - 5

EdrawMax
EdrawMax is a diagramming product for creating and exporting many kinds of diagrams.
Free planAndroidiOSWebLinux8.3From $5.90 a month - 6
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio is diagramming software for turning complex information into visual diagrams.
Free planWebmacOSWindows8.2From $5 a month - 7
Gluu
Gluu is a paid process management platform from Gluu, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
AndroidiOSWebAPI8.2From €2 a month - 8
Lucidchart
Free planAndroidiOSWeb8.1Free plan - 9

Eraser
Eraser is a diagramming tool for technical teams that can create diagrams from prompts, code, files and private Git repositories.
Free planWebAPIExtensionSelf-hosted8.1From $15 a month - 10
Visual Paradigm
Visual Paradigm is a visual modeling and development platform spanning diagramming, code engineering, agile management, and enterprise architecture.
Free planWeb8.0From $4 a month - 11

Cacoo
Cacoo is an online diagramming and visual collaboration tool for creating flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps, workflows, and other visuals.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted8.0From $6 a month - 12
Software Ideas Modeler
Software Ideas Modeler is a CASE tool for software and process design built around diagrams.
LinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows8.0$59 one-time - 13

Mermaid
Mermaid is an open-source JavaScript tool that turns Markdown-inspired text definitions into diagrams and visualizations.
Free planWebAPIExtensionLinux7.8From $10 a month - 14

Ilograph
Ilograph creates interactive visual documentation for systems and the relationships and flows between their components.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.8From $14.99 a month - 15

Gliffy
Gliffy is a web-based diagramming tool with support for a wide range of visual formats, including flowcharts, UML and BPMN diagrams, network maps,…
Free planWeb7.7From $2.80 a month - 16
Preceden
Preceden is a web-based tool for creating visual timelines about projects, history, legal cases, research, and writing.
Free planAndroidiOSWeb7.7From $10 a month - 17

Camunda
Camunda is a business-process orchestration platform for coordinating people, AI agents, systems, and devices across end-to-end workflows.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.6Free plan - 18
PlantUML
PlantUML turns textual descriptions into diagrams, covering UML types such as sequence, use-case, class, object, activity, component, deployment,…
Free planWebAPIExtensionLinux7.4Free plan - 19
UMLet
UMLet is a free, open-source tool for quickly sketching UML diagrams.
Free planWebExtensionLinuxmacOS7.4Free plan - 20

Bizagi Modeler
Bizagi Modeler lets users create, document, simulate, publish, and share business processes using BPMN.
Free planWebWindows7.3Free plan - 21

OmniGraffle
iOSmacOS7.3 - 22
MyDraw
WebmacOSWindows7.3 - 23

IcePanel
IcePanel is a collaborative software-architecture diagramming and modelling tool built around the C4 model.
Free planWebAPI7.3From $40 a month - 24

Arcentry
Arcentry is software for creating interactive infrastructure diagrams for cloud, on-premises, and open-source systems.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted7.3From $9.90 a month - 25
Flowdia Diagrams
Flowdia Diagrams is diagramming software for creating flowcharts, mind maps, network and cloud architecture diagrams, UML diagrams, and process visuals.
Free planAndroidiOSWindows7.3$9.99 one-time - 26

yEd Graph Editor
yEd Graph Editor is desktop software for making diagrams manually or importing external data and arranging it with automatic layouts.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows7.2Free plan - 27

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM
macOSWindows7.2$199 one-time - 287.2$129 one-time
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CloudSkew
CloudSkew is a web editor for cloud architecture diagrams, network diagrams, and flowcharts.
Free planWeb7.2From $36 a year - 30

Hava
Hava generates interactive cloud infrastructure diagrams from connected AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
Free planWebAPISelf-hosted7.2From $59 a month


