Steps, in order
Process flow diagrams, without drawing them
Write the steps in a sentence and the diagram is laid out for you — or bring the one that already exists and get it back consistent with everything else you ship.
Straight answer first: there is no canvas here and nothing to drag. You describe the process in a sentence, or bring a file you already have, and it is drawn for you — on your own brand. If you want to place every shape by hand, draw.io is free and better at that. If you have the numbers already, read on.
Your file is read once to draw the diagram and is never stored. Converting turns on anonymous usage analytics — we never send your file, its contents or your brand URL. What we measure
Paste any URL. We read its palette and type and redraw the diagram in them — about a second, no account.
Colour
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Or set it yourself
Every choice here redraws the diagram. Nothing is saved.
Language
The layout mirrors and the Arabic type scale applies, free. Translating the labels needs an account on a paid plan.
Skin
Type
Motion
Line
Depth
A bar in relief still measures correctly — the top face sits on the bar's end. A pie does not: squashing the circle makes the near slices read larger than the far ones at the same share.
Show
Font
Your diagram
Selected shape
Icon
Fill
Border
Label
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Paste this into the description box above — it is the example that produces the worked process in the gallery.
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The part that goes wrong is consistency, not drawing
Most teams can draw a process flow. What they cannot do is draw forty of them the same way — so a client pack arrives with three different blues, two typefaces and boxes at four sizes, and the work looks less careful than it was. That is the problem this solves: the layout is deterministic, so the same description gives the same drawing every time, and every diagram in the pack comes out on one brand.
What comes out
Drawn by this pipeline, not picked to flatter it.
What you get out
SVG and PNG on any plan. PowerPoint with real editable shapes and live text — not a picture of a chart you cannot fix a typo in — plus our own .dgm format, which is plain text you can edit and re-import. Every conversion returns a ledger saying what changed, because you know your own diagram and would notice anyway.
Questions people actually ask
- What is the difference from a flowchart?
- Very little, and the words are used interchangeably. A flowchart usually implies decisions and branches; a process flow usually implies a sequence of stages. Both are drawn here, and the type is picked from what you describe rather than asked for.
- Can it show decisions?
- Yes. A step phrased as a question is drawn as a decision diamond, measured as the rhombus it is rather than as a box with corners cut off.
- Does it handle a process with fifty steps?
- Yes, and nothing is dropped to make it fit — the canvas grows instead. Tools that redraw with a model tend to cap out around two dozen and quietly lose the rest.
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All 53 types have a worked example in the gallery.