CoSketch vs Mermaid

CoSketch

Education & Reference

CoSketch is a free online whiteboard tool for collaborating on drawings, diagrams and sketches in real-time. It allows multiple people to visually brainstorm together with virtual sticky notes, shapes, diagrams, handwriting/drawing, and uploading images.

Mermaid

Development

Mermaid is an open-source tool that allows you to create diagrams and visualizations using text and code. It is designed to integrate with documentation sites and wikis to add charts and graphs through a simple markdown-inspired script language. The key benefit is the ability to generate complex diagrams that are portable, themeable, and easy to edit programmatically.