Pencil Project Alternatives

Online diagramming application

Open Source

Introducing SuperNotecard. SuperNotecard is an online writing tool that features virtual notecards to help arrange facts or scenes, track details, organize paragraphs, and clarify your composition process.

Ideanote is the #1 rated Idea Management solution for companies of all sizes. Collect, develop and manage more of the right ideas from customers and employees to drive your growth.

Try for free freemium $49.0 / Monthly (Business Plan, 15 Users)

A macOS/iOS apps to treat ideas as links of concepts.

Freeplane is a powerful and free software for building mind maps.

VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts.

Design freedom for teams

Open Source

Team-based interface design, Figma lets you collaborate on designs in real time.

LucidChart is the missing link in online productivity suites. LucidChart allows users to create, collaborate on, and publish attractive flowcharts and other diagrams from a web browser.

Draw, LibreOffice, ODF, open standards, creative software, vector drawing

yEd is a free desktop application to quickly create, import, edit, and automatically arrange diagrams. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix/Linux.

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a mind-mapping and concept-mapping tool.

OmniOutliner is a writing app for collecting information, outlining ideas, adding structure to any sort of writing.

Marked takes Markdown text–a simple syntax you can learn in minutes–and turns it into beautiful...