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Flowchart Maker and Online Diagram Software (draw.io / diagrams.net) and Excalidraw both land on Worth it.
Buy if you want capable free diagramming . flowcharts, UML, ER, BPMN . with zero budget risk; skip if you need real-time team collaboration or polished templates, where paid rivals win.
Buy the free, open-source version for quick diagrams and sketches . it costs nothing and reviewers love it.
| Compare | Flowchart Maker and Online Diagram Software (draw.io / diagrams.net) | Excalidraw |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Worth it | Worth it |
| Best for | Engineers sketching UML and architecture | Quick sketches and wireframes |
| Who it's not for | Teams wanting real-time collaborative whiteboarding (Guess: Miro fits better) | Enterprises wanting Miro-style workshop templates and facilitation |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.² | Open-source with past medium-severity XSS CVEs; Excalidraw+ adds SOC 2 certification and E2E encryption. |
| Support quality | No evidence found | No support evidence in sources |
| Public sentiment | Users repeatedly name among the best free diagramming tools on Quora and LinkedIn; the main complaint found is an occasional file-opening bug.⁴ | Users love Excalidraw for quick, effortless sketching and rate it around 4/5, with minor gripes about scaling and drawing-tool limits.11 |
| Biggest gotcha | File-open bugs reported (.drawio stuck); export backups regularly.³ | Excalidraw+ ($7/mo) needed for team persistence and workspaces; free version stores locally13 |
