ConceptDraw vs yEd
When comparing ConceptDraw vs yEd, the Slant community recommends yEd for most people. In the question“What are the best Swimlane applications for Mac OS X?” yEd is ranked 1st while ConceptDraw is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose yEd is:
With automatic layout you get great looking diagrams with very little effort. yEd has the most versatile and most complete collection of automatic layout algorithms.
Specs
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Pros
Pro a life-time license
Any ConceptDraw product has an amazing set of functionality and integrity along with a life-time license it allows a user to create new objects and documents perpetualluy.
Pro Automatic Layout
With automatic layout you get great looking diagrams with very little effort. yEd has the most versatile and most complete collection of automatic layout algorithms.
Pro Completely free
Pro Multi-platform
Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. There also is a Web application.
Cons
Con there is no multi-language UI
Only English is available by default as of yet unfortunately
Con Clumsy UI
Con Not free-as-in-freedom
Not released under an open-source license.