Best free diagram tool alternative in 2023?

Digital Whiteboard Open Source Diagrams

Whimsical Landing Page

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Whimsical

The visual workspace for teams.

My way-to-go tool in the past year and a half is Whimiscal. It is by far one of the best tools I've used to make architectural diagrams. The main reason is that the end result is beautiful by default. They nailed the UI. I am an engineer with bad graphical design skills, but the result makes people think I invested a lot of time polishing the design of my visualizations, choosing the right color tone, aligning boxes, etc, which I didn't. The tool just helped me. Big win! :).

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 56 social mentions
Miro Landing Page

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Miro

Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration tool for distributed teams. Join 2M+ users & 8000+ teams from around the world.

Https://miro.com/ - Seems also a tool that nailed the UI and will help make beautiful diagrams without major efforts. But, also has a limit. By their pricing table, I couldn't really understand what it is. Maybe someone has used it and can throw some light.

#Digital Whiteboard #Team Collaboration #Visual Collaboration 232 social mentions
Excalidraw Landing Page
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Excalidraw

Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I've used https://excalidraw.com/ in my personal project: https://github.com/HerrKurz/Esports_Data_Pipeline Was super simple and visually appealing to me.

#Sketching #Digital Whiteboard #Digital Drawing And Painting 208 social mentions
flowchart.fun Landing Page
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flowchart.fun

An open-source tool for generating flowcharts from text
Pricing:
- Open Source
Flowchart.fun (shameless plug) is one that I'm building. It's text-first, like mermaid or graphviz, but it's also interactive so you can swap out layout algorithms or drag nodes to suit your needs.

#Open Source #Software Engineering #Developer Tools 38 social mentions