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Add to SafariWhen comparing yEd vs Microsoft Visio, the Slant community recommends Microsoft Visio for most people. In the question“What are the best flowchart / diagram softwares?” Microsoft Visio is ranked 3rd while yEd is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Microsoft Visio is:
Visio has the most thorough set of standard support and tool-set.
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Question Ranking
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 Complete set of tools
Visio has the most thorough set of standard support and tool-set.
Pro De facto standard
Microsoft Visio is the de facto industry standard diagram creation software.
Pro Looks good
Pro Easy usage
Cons
Con Clumsy UI
Con Not free-as-in-freedom
Not released under an open-source license.
Con Very clumsy for state diagrams, limited features
Con Proprietary
Con Pretty expensive
Con Imperfect integration with Office
Since Visio was acquired, not originally developed by Microsoft, integration is not as seamless as the core Office Suite is known for. Diagrams can get corrupted while importing from Visio to Word or Powerpoint.
