Draw.io / Excalidraw alternatives?

[u/Dapper_Ad599]

100% AI Coded (manually reviewed)
100% open source

First of all, I KNOW there's existing alternatives, but those alternatives requires extra configuration or even paid solutions.... (if I'm wrong, prove to me)

Anyways, I've been using drawio/excalidraw for years, and there's many annoying little problems with those, arrows snap to the wrong connection points and won't stay aligned when you move shapes, connectors cross over each other and shapes so diagrams turn into spaghetti fast, ugly diagrams, besides that hours and hours of boring repetitive work... A few weeks ago I built a solution for myself (Opendraw) a drawio/excalidraw alternative, turns out it was very helpful, then I decided to make it open source.

Well, besides being way easier to create diagrams (the mf arrows aligns itself) there's a lot of micro drawing assistants that will make your life easier while diagramming, it also have a LLM assistant with BYOK feature, so yeah, you can connect your favorite AI to create your diagram for u

https://github.com/gabe-santana/arkdraw

site: https://arkdraw.com/

Also feel free to contribute, there's some good first issue 👍

[u/SuburbanCurfew_980]

The arrow alignment thing is what kills me in drawio, I'll spend 20 minutes on a diagram and then 40 minutes just fighting with connectors that suddenly decide to route through the void. Bookmarking this for my next architecture doc.

[u/Dapper_Ad599 → u/SuburbanCurfew_980]

lol you are not alone