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Discussion on: What's the best software for creating flowcharts and other visuals to document application logic?

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Chris

the best one's missing :-)
Draw.io - draw.io

A browser-based, feature rich (stencil lib, visio im-/export, etc), well maintained, free and open source diagram editor. Has UML stencils for your use case.

Available as a free software as a service, as an oflline app (Chrome App in the Chrome store) or as web app for self-hosting. They earn money from selling a draw.io Confluence plugin (which is based on the open source draw.io, but is not not open source by itself). I highly recommend it if you use Confluence as the company wiki.

I would alwyas prefer draw.io over gliffy, Visio Online, etc.

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Dr. Gernot Starke

especially since they offer an offline version...

fancy export facilities, to png, svg and other formats.

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Abhishek Sharma

+1

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Jesse Lang

I'll second for draw.io. I'd much rather be coding than drawing, and draw.io is a slick tool that gets me back to the work I love ASAP.

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Patrick Schönfeld

Yeah, I second that recommendation, too.

Draw.io is not perfect and has some rough edges (e.g PDF export requiring contact to an external server) but has a quiet impressive featureset and is just helpful in getting things done.

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Kalyan

Draw.io is definitely the best choice if you want only handful of charts without any super sophisticated features 😊 .For a developer like me this tool is more than enough.