


The problem you encountered was an "improvement" MS introduced in with Office 2016. I don't enjoy spending as much time as I have hunting for the ideal solution. It's also familiar/intuitive enough to old-school Office users and feels like a regular graphics application to those of us less Office-oriented. On Windows there is also the fully-featured desktop client. It has an online client that works in Chrome in Mac, Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD. It is primarily click-and-drag and has great suggested connecting, sizing, grouping, and arranging features. The simplest tool I've seen that just works is Visio. Omnigraffle is out of the picture since I need to be able to share and use graphs across Mac, Windows, and Linux users - without needing to describe multiple tools and conversion between formats or anything. Most other tools I've found when googling around require the same level of effort to use as Draw.io: AsciiFlow, Gliffy.

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Sketch for example.)ĭraw.io is free but requires you to do so much work yourself to create objects, size them, group them, connect them, arrange them. However I doubt that is the case as over time there have been more fully-featured, once-desktop-only applications competing successfully cross-platform. Or there is just no market for cross-platform applications. I've been looking off and on for the past year or two.
