yEd vs Continuity
When comparing yEd vs Continuity, the Slant community recommends yEd for most people. In the question“What are the best flowchart / diagram softwares?” yEd is ranked 4th while Continuity is ranked 25th. 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 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 Free
Free for personal and commercial use.
Pro Extensible
Extensible with scripts and images.
Cons
Con Not free-as-in-freedom
Not released under an open-source license.
Con Mono needed
Needs Mono .NET with GTK# to be installed.
