Good freeware for flowcharts on Windows? [closed]

Question

I have to present some 'process' or 'flow' of the application at work on friday. I was hoping to prepare a flow chart before I begin the hands on demo.

Any suggestions for freeware sw to make simple flowcharts on Windows?

Answer 1

Dia might be worth looking at.

It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

Here is a download page.

Answer 2

Tried yEd after finding this thread. It's brilliant. Nothing better, for free.

Answer 3

I used draw.io and it is very good.

Answer 4

Use GraphViz. At its core, it's a description language that produces decent graphcs automatically. Another answer recommended Dia... Dia is a GUI tool that produces GraphViz .dot files. If you want total layout control (generally not necessary for a flowchart), use Dia. If you just want something that produces a reasonable layout by itself, use GraphViz directly.

As an added bonus, GraphViz works with many wiki packages as a plugin... Confluence, MediWiki, Trac, for starters.

Answer 5

Lovely Charts- online solution.

Answer 6

Google Drawings has been released since this question was answered. It has several built-in flowchart stencils, or check out the templates to find some more elaborate flowchart elements that you can copy-paste into your document.

Answer 7

code2flow is an online pseudo-code to flowchart generator, just click on the image to play with it:

Answer 8

Bizagi Process Modeler is a freeware that is quite feature rich. Only for Windows

Answer 9

Try this:

http://www.nchsoftware.com/chart/

simple ... free ... less than 1MB in size. It does the job well. I enjoyed it. Give it a try.

Answer 10

If you have Microsoft Word or Excel you can select Insert|Shapes|Flowchart to create a Flowchart. I know it is not free but if you have Microsoft Office already, it may be an option.