Mermaid
Creates diagrams such as flowcharts and sequence diagrams from text descriptions.
MITPermissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 90.5k
- Deployment
- Library
Open-source alternatives to Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio in the Design & content category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.
draw.io
Diagramming tool for flowcharts, networks and architecture drawings, in the browser or on desktop.
Apache-2.0Permissive
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes
- GitHub stars
- 8.5k
- Deployment
- Docker
PlantUML
Creates UML and other diagrams from text descriptions.
LGPL-3.0Weak copyleft
SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes, with conditions
- GitHub stars
- 13.4k
- Deployment
- Library
WBO
Simple shared online whiteboard that is easy to deploy yourself.
AGPL-3.0Network copyleft (AGPL)
SaaS: Yes, with conditionsClosed product: No
- GitHub stars
- 2.7k
- Deployment
- Docker
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