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When comparing yEd vs Diagrams.net, the Slant community recommends Diagrams.net for most people. In the question“What are the best flowchart / diagram softwares?” Diagrams.net is ranked 1st while yEd is ranked 4th.
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Pros
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.
Pro Rich functionality for a web-based application
Pro Integrates with multiple cloud storage services
Draw.io offers saving files directly to services such as Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox along with saving to to computer.
Pro Real-time collaboration
Pro Great flexibility customizing text labels
Pro Completely free
Pro There is also a Desktop version
Pro Good list of different output formats
Draw.io supports export for PNG, GIF, JPEG, PDF, SVG, HTML, and XML.
Pro Internet Explorer 6-8 and touch device support
Draw.io works with every browser (even IE 6) without plugins.
Cons
Con Clumsy UI
Con Not free-as-in-freedom
Not released under an open-source license.
Con Import from Visio .vsd is useless
Even simple diagrams get all scattered.
Con Behaves strangely for certain diagram types
For example the snapping function for arrows doesn't work properly for the sequence diagram template.
