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vscode-drawio
This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io (also known as diagrams.net) into VS Code.
★ 9.5k starsGPL-3.0
View guide →draw.io Desktop — the official offline desktop app for diagrams.net: flowcharts, architecture diagrams and wireframes in an Electron app that never sends your diagram data anywhere, GPL-3.0
draw.io Desktop is an open-source design project by jgraph (jgraph/drawio-desktop on GitHub). It has 63,554 GitHub stars and 5,791 forks, is released under the GPL-3.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 18 October 2026.
Get the current release for your platform from the repository releases section — built binaries are the supported route, per the README.
On Windows choose the NSIS installer (per-machine, needs admin), the MSI (per-user, no admin), the portable zip, or the Microsoft Store build; macOS and Linux builds install the usual way for those platforms.
Create diagrams on the canvas, save them as .drawio files, and export to PNG, SVG or PDF for documents and wikis.
Designed to be isolated from the internet except for update checks — diagram data and analytics never leave your machine.
The same shape libraries, connectors and templates as diagrams.net, including AWS/Azure/GCP icon sets for architecture work.
Windows (including native ARM64), macOS and Linux builds, plus portable and Microsoft Store options that need no admin rights.
Diagrams save as editable .drawio files and export to PNG, SVG, PDF and HTML, so nothing is locked into the app.
The README route: built binaries from the releases section of the repo.
https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releasesFor developers: clone recursively (the editor core is a submodule), then install dependencies per the README.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop.git
cd drawio-desktop
npm installDownload the .zip (or ARM64 no-installer .exe) from releases, extract anywhere, and run draw.io.exe — no installation, no admin rights.
JGraph, the company behind diagrams.net (jgraph/drawio-desktop on GitHub); this repo is the official Electron desktop build of the draw.io editor.
Yes — GPL-3.0 licensed. The README puts it plainly: you can use it for any purpose, free, if you do not change the code and accept it is provided as-is.
No. The project states the desktop app is designed to be completely isolated from the internet apart from checking GitHub once a day for updates, and that no diagram data or usage analytics are sent externally.
Against Excalidraw (also on LibreAI), draw.io is the structured, shape-library diagramming tool — stronger for architecture and technical diagrams; Excalidraw is the looser hand-drawn whiteboard. Against the diagrams.net web app, the desktop build is the same editor with offline, no-data-leaves-the-machine guarantees.
Download the build for your platform from the releases section, install (or unzip the portable build), and start drawing.
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