EdrawMax vs Ilograph

EdrawMax is diagramming software for creating, importing, and exporting a wide range of diagrams. Its online edition offers more than 210 types, including flowcharts, circuit diagrams, floor plans, UML, and network diagrams. The product advertises 20,000+ free templates and 26,000+ symbols, plus AI tools for diagramming, presentations, drawing, symbols, analysis, copywriting, OCR, and stickers. It supports Visio, SVG, and CAD imports and exports to PNG, JPG, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SVG, and Visio. EdrawMax is available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web. The browser edition processes files on its servers, while the desktop edition processes documents locally. The free plan includes 500 AI tokens and 100M cloud storage, but limits shapes and document pages and adds a watermark to exports. Basic is listed at $5.90 per month billed annually; Unlimited is listed at $11.90 per month billed annually. The pricing note lists a 7-day trial. Premium users can save and open files directly with Google Drive and Dropbox.

Ilograph creates interactive visual documentation for systems and the ways their components interact. Users can zoom between detailed and broad views, switch perspectives, and use sequence perspectives to show data, business and security flows. Its model-based diagrams-as-code approach adds structure and supports consistency and reuse. Diagrams can be navigated by keyboard and are designed for screen readers; environments include AWS, Azure, GCP and networking icons. Ilograph Desktop runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and works with local files without internet access for offline or high-security environments. The Export API runs in an on-premises Docker container without external internet access and produces standalone HTML files. Its Confluence Cloud app stores diagrams in the Confluence instance and does not require an Ilograph account. The free plan includes unlimited public and private diagrams, unlimited diagram size and 14 days of history. Listed paid options include Pro at $18.00 per month billed yearly, Team at $30.00 per month billed monthly, and Desktop at $14.99 per month billed monthly.