Mermaid AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Mind Mapping Tools

The best Mind Mapping alternative to Mermaid is yEd Graph Editor, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Mermaid and three of them are Mind Mapping Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mind Mapping Tool alternatives to Mermaid are PlantUML and Kroki.

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  1. yEd Graph Editor icon
     442 likes

    yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly create diagrams manually or import external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button. You can use yEd to quickly create flow charts, BPMN and UML diagrams...

    117 yEd Graph Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • BSD
     
  2. PlantUML icon
     119 likes

    PlantUML is an open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw UML diagrams. The generator can be run anywhere within JVM and integrated with various application such as wiki, text editor, IDE, programming language, documentation generator, and others.

    116 PlantUML alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
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    Comments about PlantUML as an Alternative to Mermaid
    Maxim Kamalov
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    Both can be integrated into markdown files.

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    • PlantUML is Free and Open SourceMermaid is also Free and Open Source
  3. Kroki icon
     7 likes

    Creates diagrams from textual descriptions! It provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag, BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), Ditaa, Erd, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, PlantUML, SvgBob, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom.

    25 Kroki alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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