SimpleDiagrams Desktop.
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Create simple diagrams on your desktop with a native user interface. Quick, like all good software should be.

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Add free hand-drawn libraries for different domains, from AWS and Google Cloud architecture to value stream mapping, networks, education and more.

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AWS Networking & Content Delivery

A selection of shapes from AWS Networking & Content Delivery

Hand-drawn versions of the AWS Networking and Content Delivery shapes.

22 shapes · Free · For SimpleDiagrams 5 for Mac

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Google Cloud Shapes

A selection of shapes from Google Cloud Shapes

Hand-drawn versions of the Google Cloud product shapes. Use them when you are building something complicated in Google Cloud and need to remember what on earth you were trying to do.

42 shapes · Free · For SimpleDiagrams 5 for Mac

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Energy

A selection of shapes from Energy

Batteries, solar panels, power plants, fuel gauges, oil barrels and the occasional hamster wheel.

16 shapes · Free · For SimpleDiagrams 5 for Mac

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Simple diagrams for everyday work

Flowcharts, architecture sketches, org charts, plans and screen flows, each drawn in minutes.

A flowchart on graph paper, from an alert through triage and a severity decision to mitigation and a post-incident review.

Incident response

Walk a team through who does what when an alert fires.

Blue ink on a yellow legal pad: customers reach three services through an API gateway, and each service has its own data store.

Cloud architecture

Show services, data stores and the systems they depend on.

A ballpoint sketch on a napkin of a Chief Technology Officer, three departments beneath, and their teams on the bottom row.

Org chart

Sketch who reports to whom as quickly as you would on a napkin.

A mind map on coffee-stained paper with a cloud migration plan in the centre and dashed branches to discovery, build, cut-over and risks.

Project plan

Map a project's workstreams and risks around one goal.

A blueprint with white lines on a blue grid: three source systems feed a warehouse that produces dashboards and board reports.

Data pipeline

Trace data from source systems to the reports people read.

A screen flow on handmade paper from a sign-in page through company single sign-on and a second factor to a portal home page.

Sign-in flow

Sketch the screens a user passes through, and where it can fail.

Or let your AI agent do the drawing

Two free, open-source skills teach Claude Code, Codex and other agents to make diagrams and shapes you can open and keep editing in SimpleDiagrams Desktop.

An order-flow diagram built by the skill: a customer, a web shop, an order service, payments, a warehouse and an orders database.

Diagram skill

Describe a process, a system or a team, and your agent builds the whole diagram: shapes from the built-in libraries, laid out on a grid and connected. It arrives as an ordinary document, ready to restyle.

“Draw how a customer order moves through our web shop, order service, payments and warehouse.”
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A written request for a 3D art museum with palm trees and a queue of visitors, and the hand-drawn shape the skill produced from it.

Hand-drawn shape skill

Can't find the exact shape you need? Ask for it. Your agent draws a hand-drawn SVG that converts to a native shape, with its fill and line colors mapped to the color chips. Build a small library that suits your project.

“Please generate a 3d art museum building with palm trees and a line of people waiting to get in. Add washed out color, opacity layers for shadow, and only link building stroke and fills to the color chips.”
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SimpleDiagrams Cloud.
Live data.
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Create simple diagrams on the web with easy-to-use drawing tools, add shapes with configurable properties, and then update your diagram in real time via API or MCP.

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Note: SimpleDiagrams Desktop and SimpleDiagrams Cloud are two separate products

At the moment, SimpleDiagrams Desktop and SimpleDiagrams Cloud are separate products. Buying or subscribing to one does not provide access to the other. They do not currently interoperate: diagrams cannot be imported, transferred, or synced between them. (At least not yet, we may work on that.)

Desktop is sold under the applicable App Store terms; Cloud is sold under the SimpleDiagrams Cloud Terms on this website.