As a Technical Architect, I am using yEd to create ERD data models, System class diagrams and integration diagrams. It gives me the tools I need without having to pay for additional software licenses.

This is an great solution for those who don't have enough budget to go for a paid charting tool. It provides a good set of basic shapes and graph types which enable you to complete your work. It works fast and does not demand a lot of computer resources.

The shape and graph tool library is sometimes not large enough so in that case you will have to go with a paid solution like Visio or Lucidchart.

It is very easy to use and you could start to work once you open it.

Maybe a more rich library of symbols could get the best from this software

There is a constant need for diagrams, mostly network and server ones, in our company and the solutions we found were expensive and/or didn't provide the results we expected. After some research, we found yEd that is free and fulfills the majority of our needs. My only wish is for a larger palette of icons, but otherwise, it is a good software.

yEd is free, easy to use and fulfills the majority of our needs for diagramming networks and servers.

The palette of icons is limited in terms of available computers / servers / networking equipment, therefore the diagrams look a little repetitive.

yED is a feature rich experience that offers everything I need to present diagrams and flow charts to clients. I am able to format the charts professionally and change details on the fly, all the while making sure that the information stays correct.

What I like the most about yED is that it has absolutely any feature that you can think that a diagramming and graphing editor should have. It most useful, powerful feature is that it rearranges your flow diagrams for you based on criteria that you set. Using this feature allows you to go wild and add branches everywhere on your diagrams which yED will then rearrange neatly for you when the time comes.

What I liked the least about yED was the initial learning curve it took to get everything right. There are a lot functions that do not work seamlessly, and you need to click around a bit to figure out how to get the program to respond the way you expect it to. I also think it is outdated that you have to manually resize blocks when text overflows it; this is a bit of a downer for me.

Free way to create flow charts, process flows without needing to buy/install Visio.

Free software with capabilities similar to Visio.

User Interface isn't completely intuitive. Takes some time to learn it.

We use yED to map out workflow algorithms in a clinical laboratory.

This software is designed to help create flow charts and other types of organizational diagrams. It is similar to Vizio, but free. Can also import and export to Vizio. The interface takes a little bit of getting used to if you are familiar with MS Office type applications but after getting used to the way it works you appreciate quickly how it makes the process of making high quality illustrations very easy. It is superior in every way to trying to do the same thing in Word or Powerpoint where you have to fiddle constantly with alignments to get a diagram to look right. There are also a ton of customizations for nodes and different types of chart templates for a variety of standard uses. Files can be saved in native .graphml format or easily exported to many other files types.

There is a bit of a learning curve to get good at using this software. Not really a con, because the investment in learning to use it properly is worth it. Definitely recommend reading a bit about the software before jumping in.

I need to create network and infrastructure diagrams with a budget of £0. I would normally have used Visio but with a budget of £0 I searched for a free alternative. After tested various products within a few minutes of using yEd it was easy to see the program would do the job well. In the space of a few hours the diagrams were complete at zero cost.

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Would like a few more shapes and libraries.

Fulfilled 95 % of all my diagramming needs

Yed makes it simple to just start drafting relationships between entities in a drawing and worry about how to best order and present those at a later time.

I wish there was an option in Yed to easily make sequence diagrams similar to Web Sequence Diagrams.

I've used this nice little Java tool to draw the diagrams of my bachelor degree thesis, and I still use it sometimes at work. The styles and colors of the preset components are nice, choice is large enough but you won't spend days choosing. The alignment features are well laid out and intuitive, I've never had problems with finding the right "snap point". Being Java it runs on any OS. Can export in PDF, SVG and raster formats.

I've never managed to get anything good from the auto-arrange feature, it's probably worth only for massively imported data. It's not really a widespread program and although it uses a supposedly standard format, there's not much interoperability with other graphing tools (if you start drawing with this, you have to end with this).

Clean-cut, easy to prepare charts in our documentation

This piece of SW is dedicated to creating high quality flowcharts, org-charts, mind-maps and the likes with ease. You'd probably never ever need to pay for anything like Visio. Moreover, yEd is available for Win, MacOS, and Linux, and you can even run a live version from any suitable browser. And, being free, its performance/price ratio soars to infinity :).

yEd has a bit specific philosophy, including the user inetrface, but once you learn it, you make your charts in a snap.

I can use this application to create flowcharts and diagrams

yED is so easy to use, from a developer perspective. i use yED for the creation of flow charts and class diagrams for projects and

The software is abit easy to use from a developer perspective. However there are many non developers that create flowcharts. So maybe making a user friend interface will polish the app.