Free alternative to Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Visio is a diagramming program that makes use of vector graphics to create diagrams or patterns. It is currently available in two versions: Standard and Professional.

The Standard and Professional editions both share the same interface, but the Professional version possess additional templates for more advanced diagrams and layouts as well as a feature allowing users to connect their diagrams to a number of data sources and display the information graphically.


Even if they are not as performant as Visio,these open source software can meet certain requirements:

• GraphViz: http://www.graphviz.org/
• Dia: http://wwwdia-installer.sourceforge.net/
• yEd: http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.htm
• Inkscape:http://www.inkscape.org/download/
• Sodipodi:http://sourceforge.net/projects/sodipodi/
• xfig:http://www.xfig.org/
• jfig:http://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/jfig/download.html
• Skencil:http://www.skencil.org/download.html
• XaraLX:http://www.xaraxtreme.org/download.html
• Kivio:http://www.koffice.org/kivio/