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Affinity Designer might be a bit more popular than IcePanel. We know about 46 links to it since March 2021 and only 35 links to IcePanel. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There's Affinity Designer, too. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Affinity Designer (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/) is a good choice for doing layouts, although Scribus (https://www.scribus.net/) may be all that you need depending on the complexity of your layouts. Source: 12 months ago
Done in Serif Affinity Designer as a learning execise I guess. Source: about 1 year ago
You'll need inkscape. It's free at inkscape.org. Affinity Designer can do the same job. It's $70 at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/. Source: about 1 year ago
If you want to do very sophisticated edits, you can actually use Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer to edit PDF files (but they are obviously terrible readers). Source: about 1 year ago
https://icepanel.io/ The best I've ever used. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago
I use UML quite a bit but it's never really what I'm after, somnething more modern and fluid and gui driven that more people can use. Icepanel [1] looks really cool but I haven't tested it and I'm not sure it really fits my use case. It seems like it's mostly for api driven rpc/grpc/rest services when I kind of want to use it to visualize backend/infra/terraform sort of things. Might be interesting to you. [1] -... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
1. We started using https://icepanel.io/ for microservices, Software, anything thats documentable for later read. 2. More diagrams, less key strokes 3. We have dedicated page owners on confluence, its mix of engineers, leaders, PM's, QA etc. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
The best tool for writing C4 documentation I have seen so far is https://icepanel.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
I really like the C4 model as part of a larger toolset. If you’re also using it then I recommend looking at https://icepanel.io/ Great tooling strongly based on C4, I use it a lot. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Sketch - Professional digital design for Mac.
draw.io - Online diagramming application
Inkscape - Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Structurizr - Structurizr is a workspace editor that creates software architecture diagrams and documentation based on the C4 model.
Adobe Illustrator - Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor.
Terrastruct - A diagramming tool for software architecture