yEd vs ThinkComposer
When comparing yEd vs ThinkComposer, the Slant community recommends yEd for most people. In the question“What are the best flowchart / diagram softwares?” yEd is ranked 4th while ThinkComposer is ranked 21st. 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 Multilevel
Diagrams can be multilevel, this means that they can have nested diagrams within them.
Pro Open source
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.
Pro Tables
Tables can be populated from CSV files.
Cons
Con Not free-as-in-freedom
Not released under an open-source license.
