Free flowcharting software alternatives
Unless you are one of those people who uses flowcharting software on a regular basis, it is hard to justify spending money on Visio, SmartDraw, or CorelDraw. So I set out to find some free flowcharting software alternatives.
Gliffy
Gliffy is a free web-based diagram editor. It has been referred to as the online visio killer. Gliffy is a great tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams.
You will need to register to begin drawing and must have a Flash plug-in installed in your browser.
Project Draw
Project Draw is another free web-based diagram editor. This applications offers all of the tools to create basic network, flowchart or quick form layout diagrams.
DIA
Dia is a desktop application that can be run on a Windows, Lunix, and Unix operating systems. In addition to drawing E-R diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, etc., the DIA homepage suggests that it is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files.
It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages).
ArgoUML
ArgoUML is an open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages.
Although these free solutions may not have all of the bells and whistles that the paid software offer, they will suffice the needs of most people.
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Thanks for the description and link to Gliffy! We appreciate your review: We like to think of Gliffy as offering 100% of what *most* people use in Visio (read we offer about 10% of what visio *can* do). Let us know what else you’d like us to do, we are always looking to grow,
Best,
debik at gliffy dot com
Nice list! You can also add to it Origramy – http://origramy.com. It is not completely free, but free for non-commercial use. Can be used for flow and org chart building.