Diagrams overview

Diagrams is a diagram editor for Mac that helps you increase the understanding of your structures and processes through visualization. Its approachable design, clean interface, crisp visual style, and streamlined canvas interactions allow you to produce beautiful diagrams and integrate them into your workflows in no time.

How It Works:

Interactive Canvas - Create diagrams on the canvas, the key area of the app, through direct manipulation of diagram objects. The canvas is fully interactive and employs powerful layout features that help streamline your workflows.

Elements & Relationships - Unlike generic vector graphics tools, Diagrams is specifically optimized for structured diagrams consisting of elements and relationships. By leveraging these core building blocks, you’ll create diagrams more quickly with no fiddling around.

Types - Each element and relationship is associated with a type that defines its meaning and its visual style. Utilize reusable types to make your diagrams more consistent and comprehensive.

Palettes - A palette is a collection of types attached to each new diagram. You can pick from built-in presets, customize existing palettes, or craft personalized palettes that contain only the types you need for your particular use cases.

The app encourages you to assign meaning to types, but you can decide to which extent you want to embrace it. Opt for the universal palette without any particular semantics, or make use of your very specific palette - or something in between.

Highlights:

Truly native Mac experience
Clean, distraction-free user interface
Infinite canvas with streamlined interactions
Smart grid layout and relationship routing
Built-in palette presets for universal use cases and flowcharts
Palette customization
Variety of styling options: shapes, colors, text formatting
Exporting to image or PDF formats

Use Cases:

Flowcharts for visualizing processes
Software architecture design
Simplified UML diagrams
User interface flows
Organizational charts
Business, consulting, information architecture
Planning, brainstorming, mind mapping

Trial & Contact:

You can find more information about the app, as well as a free 7-day trial, on our website

If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to us via email at support@diagrams.app or on Twitter @diagramsapp

What’s new in version 2.2.0

Updated on Oct 26 2021

Version 2.2.0:

This update adds new shapes and arrows to the palette, enabling the creation of richer diagrams. It’s also fully optimized for macOS Monterey and brings support for automation via Shortcuts. Learn more in our announcement blog post.

New:

Added 8 new shapes for configuring element types (pill, hexagon, octagon, parallelogram, doubled, sheet, stack, block).
Added 11 new heads for configuring relationship types (diamond, filled diamond, circle, filled circle, rectangle, filled rectangle, double arrow, half arrow, bar, flipped arrow, half circle).
The app has been optimized for macOS Monterey.
Added support for Shortcuts with three actions for creating and exporting Diagrams documents.

Improvements:

Updated palette presets with the new element shapes and relationship heads.
Added new element types to the Flowchart palette preset.
Lessened the restrictions of sizing rules for elements.
Minor visual tweaks in the items of the document palette.

Fixes:

Smoothened rendering of elements and relationships by preventing antialiasing artifacts.
When editing element captions, the text input area now always correctly follows the element shape.
Dialogs attached to the palette chooser now correctly close when switching to the dialog for opening a document.
Fixed an error message for loading a palette from an existing document that has an incompatible format.
Fixed a possible layout glitch in the palette chooser.