MyDraw for Mac

MyDraw for Mac is an easy, affordable yet powerful software that can help you create a vast amount of diagrams including: flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, family tree diagrams, UML diagrams and many more.

Whether you need a simple vector drawing tool or a full featured Microsoft Visio ™ alternative, the app is the perfect fit that will not break the bank.

MyDraw for Mac is a powerful diagram designer, providing all the functionality needed for creating professional flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams, floor plans, mind maps, workflows, UML diagrams, electrical diagrams and a lot more!

Simple to work with, yet extremely powerful. the tool has been designed to provide powerful diagramming software which is easy to use and not overwhelming. With completely customizable user interface and neatly organized layout users can get started with MyDraw in just seconds.

Advanced formatting features. With the app any flowchart, organizational chart, mind map, network diagram, floor plan, workflow, UML diagram, electrical diagram can be styled to look absolutely amazing.

MyDraw for Mac offers a vast number of formatting features including multiple fill styles, Photoshop-like effects, control over transparency on every aspect of the shapes and a lot more. The tool comes with a collection of ready to use diagram templates.

The app offers detailed How To topics with screenshots, covering both basic and advanced functionality within the software as well as many tips and tricks that can help make diagram designing an easy and enjoyable task.

Features and Highlights

Visio® Compatibility
MyDraw is the best Microsoft Visio® alternative for Windows and macOS (Mac OS X). You can use the tool to import your Visio® drawing files (VSD, VDX and VSDX import) to easily convert your diagrams and work with them in Apple macOS and Windows Operating Systems. With the app you can also export Visio® drawings (VDX and VSDX export). Users can take advantage of the Visio® stencil import (VSX, VSS and VSSX) and use Visio shapes in their diagrams.

Hundreds of Diagram Examples and Templates
The app includes many ready-to-use templates for flowcharts, organizational charts, flyers, certificates & business cards, and various diagram types. You can easily get started by editing existing diagram templates or by making your own one. The app Team is constantly working on creating new templates and examples, new diagram shapes and symbols to support your work, now and in the future.

Diagram Shapes and Symbols
The tool is easy to use diagram tool that comes with a large set of predefined shapes which you can directly drag and drop into your drawings. The shapes are divided in different libraries based on their purpose of usage. Moreover, the app allows you to create your own custom shapes, arrange them in libraries and reuse them within your diagrams.

Powerful Drawing Tools
The app comes with a large set of drawing tools which help you easily create any shape you need and style it to match your company's corporate identity or your personal demands. You can freely draw shapes using the Nurbs tool, or use the composing functions (Union, Intersect, Subtract, and Exclusive Or) to create new shapes from the basic ones.

Advanced Printing and Export Options
With the tool you can export your diagrams to images (PNG, JPEG, BMP and TIFF), or PDF, SVG and EMF vector files in just a few clicks. You can choose to export your images with high resolution, creating pictures which can be printed even on billboards. The app allows you to select the margins of the page (i.e. how much space remains blank between the end of the page and the end of your diagram/drawing), the page orientation, the zoom level, and others.

Automatic Diagram Layouts
The app comes with lots of Automatic Layouts to help you quickly arrange your diagrams. Whether your diagram is large or small, you can have it perfectly layouted with just a few clicks. Each layout type provides many additional options, allowing you to customize the layout to your specific requirements. Simply create your diagram without spending additional time on aligning shapes and once you're done - go to the Arrange tab -> Layout Shapes button and arrange your diagram.

Powerful Rich Text Support
The tool has powerful support for rich text and text formatting. With the advanced text formatting features in the app, you will be able to make your diagrams outstanding. You have control over the text font, text styles, paragraph alignment, bullets and numbering, etc.

Spell Check and Proofing Languages
MyDraw for macOS includes a Spell Checker which is compatible with Open Office dictionaries (Hunspell Spell Check Dictionary .OXT files). By default the tool comes with English (United States), Bulgarian (Bulgaria), German (Germany), Spanish (Spain), French (France), Portuguese (Portugal), and Russian (Russia) dictionaries.

ESRI Shapefile Import for Drawing Maps
The app supports importing of geographical map data from the popular ESRI shapefile format. This makes it an ideal map drawing software solution. The shapefile format is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software.

Barcode Drawing
With this product, you can insert linear and matrix barcodes in your diagrams. The barcode widget in the app can help you include additional information within your diagrams and drawings.

GEDCOM Format Family Trees
The tool supports importing from and exporting to GEDCOM format. This makes it the perfect tool for drawing family tree diagrams. A GEDCOM file is plain text, containing genealogical information about individuals and meta data linking these records together.

Mail Merge
The app comes with built-in mail merge functionality. Create your diagram, insert a merge field and connect your diagram to a contact database. You can match any field you have in your database and display it in your diagram. When the fields are matched you can select to either save copies of your diagram (drawing) for each value of your database or to directly send emails to all recipients.

Presentations
My Draw lets you easily make presentations by switching to presentation mode. In Presentation mode you will see your drawing in full screen. During the presentation, you can navigate between the different pages of your drawing, navigate through the bookmarks in the selected page, or control the zoom level.

System Requirements

Operating System: macOS X 10.9 or higher

RAM: Minimum 1 GB

Storage: At least 600 MB of free disk space

Display: Minimum resolution of 1280 × 720 (720p); optimal performance at WXGA (1366 × 768) or higher.

PROS

• Affordable Pricing – Budget-friendly alternative.
• Extensive Templates – Wide range of diagram options.
• Visio Compatibility – Supports importing Visio files.
• Cross-Platform – Works on Windows and macOS.
• User-Friendly UI – Intuitive and easy to use.

CONS

• Limited Collaboration – No real-time team editing.
• Basic Graphics – Lacks advanced visual effects.
• No Cloud Sync – No built-in cloud storage.
• Slower Updates – Fewer frequent feature upgrades.

Note: 30 days trial version.

Also Available: Download MyDraw for Windows