What is Gravizo?
Gravizo is an open-source diagramming and visualization tool that allows users to create a wide variety of diagrams like flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, ER diagrams, Gantt charts, and more using an easy-to-learn text-based domain-specific language. With Gravizo, users write Gravizo script in a text editor, markdown file, or other document using simple intuitive syntax. The script is then rendered by Gravizo as professional-quality diagram images.
Some key benefits and features of Gravizo include:
- Intuitive text-based syntax - no visual diagramming required
- Support for flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, ER models, user journey maps, and more
- Output rendered as PNG, SVG, or LaTeX images
- Easily integrate diagrams into markdown files, wikis, documentation, and more
- Hosted diagram rendering requiring no installation
- Local rendering also available for privacy/security
- Diagram design flexibility - customize colors, shapes, text, and layout
- Free and open-source under Apache 2.0 license
With its straight-forward syntax and hosted rendering capabilities, Gravizo makes it easy for developers, writers, and engineers to create a variety of diagrams to visualize processes, architectures, workflows, and more without needing to use complex diagramming software. Its text-based approach also makes Gravizo diagrams easy to integrate into documentation, wikis, markdown files, and more.