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An open-source alternative to Microsoft Visio

Next AI Draw.io is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Microsoft Visio. It is design software with 36.5K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Describe a diagram in plain words and get an editable draw.io file.

Next AI Draw.io is for people who need diagrams but do not want to place every box and arrow by hand. You describe what you need and get a normal draw.io diagram that you can keep editing yourself or with the AI. It can run in a browser, as a desktop app, on your own server or inside AI coding tools.

  • Draws flowcharts, architecture and sequence diagrams from a short description.
  • Turns each AI change into a version you can compare, restore or undo.
  • Works with 25 model providers, including local models through Ollama.

What people use it for

Draw a cloud architecture diagram

Describe the system in the chat panel, such as the load balancer, services and database, and the AI draws it with the built-in AWS, Azure, GCP or Kubernetes icon libraries. Select shapes and ask the AI to change only those, or drag and restyle them by hand. Export the result as .drawio, .png, .svg or .drawio.svg.

Turn a sketch or document into a diagram

Upload a screenshot or a hand sketch and the AI redraws it as an editable diagram. You can also upload PDF, Markdown, code or other text files and get a diagram of their content. Every AI change appears as a version card with a thumbnail, so you can compare it with the canvas or restore an earlier one.

Give a team access on your own server

Run the Docker image from ghcr.io with your provider, model and API key set as environment variables. List several models in AI_MODEL or AI_MODELS_CONFIG so users do not need keys of their own. Set ADMIN_PASSWORD to manage models, access codes and quotas from the /admin page.

36.5K starsApache-2.0TypeScriptLatest release todayWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Next AI Draw.io.

  • Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 31, 2026 (today)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in TypeScriptMain language on GitHub
  • Does not meet: Recommended in a stackNot in any of our stacks yet

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