# Brief 14 Great Software to Draw Architect Diagrams
# draw.io
draw.io (opens new window) is a collaborative tool for drawing diagrams. It provides online tool and offline desktop application.
Key features:
- Realtime collaboration;
- Support both online and offline;
- Store diagrams locally in the browser;
- Store diagrams with Google Drive, OneDrive, GitHub, GitLab, Dropbox, Notion etc.
- Many icon packs.
# ProccessOn
ProccessOn (opens new window) is the best online tool for Chinese.
# Excalidraw
Excalidraw (opens new window) is a collaborative virtual whiteboard tool. The Excalidraw+ is a paid option with more features.
Some features:
- Rapid sketching with handwriting style;
- beautiful libraries.
# OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle (opens new window) is a macOS and iOS desktop application for diagramming and prototyping. It support Mac/iPad/iPhone.
# Gliffy
Gliffy (opens new window) is best diagramming app for confluence. But it's not free.
# PlantUML
PlantUML (opens new window) is an open source tool and syntax that allows you to make sequence, use case, class, object, and other diagrams from code.
# Mermaid
Like PlantUML, Mermaid (opens new window) follows the diagrams-as-code model. It is supported by GitHub and uses Markdown-style notation to create and modify diagrams. This makes diagramming with Mermaid very convenient if you're developing software on GitHub.
# Visio
# LucidChart
LucidChart (opens new window) is the intelligent diagramming application that brings teams together to make better decisions and build the future.
It looks great but it's not free.
# Tldraw
Tldraw (opens new window) is also a collaborative online tool for sketching diagrams. It's free and open source.
# Miro
Miro (opens new window) is a collaborative whiteboarding tool with templating and team-based tooling to help facilitate workshops.
# CloudSkew
CloudSkew (opens new window) is an online tool for drawing cloud architecture diagrams.
Price:
# Whimsical
Whimsical (opens new window) is online tool for diagramming.
Pricing:
# Zen Flowchart
Zen Flowchart (opens new window) is helping people to make flowchart.
Pricing:
# PDDON
PDDON (opens new window) is online drawing tool. It is verly easy to drawing, object modeling, database modeling, and code generation. A variety of customized drawing functional components provide you with a more intimate and easy-to-use design experience. It can be used to draw Flow chart, Architecture diagram, Mind map, UML, BPMN, Network topology diagram, Venn diagram, Fishbone diagram, etc.
PDDON provides many good templates for us:
