The Best 15 System Designer Alternatives

  • StarUML

    StarUML is a program to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • UMLet

    UMLet is an open-source UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Software Ideas Modeler

    Lightweight, powerful, easy to use, UML tool Software Ideas Modeler is a lightweight and powerful CASE tool. It supports UML 2.2 diagrams and a lot of other ones. Software Ideas Modeler is freeware (for non-commercial use).

    Free Personal Windows

  • Modelio

    Modelio is an open source modeling tool supporting natively UML, BPMN and model exchange with XMI. It allows to draw all UML2 diagrams and specific diagrams for business process modeling.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Eclipse

  • WhiteStarUML

    WhiteStarUML is a fork of StarUML with an intent to revive its Delphi code base by updating code to recent Delphi editions, reducing dependence on third party components...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Papyrus UML

    graphical modelling open source uml2 tool based on eclipse environment.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Eclipse

  • Violet UML Editor

    Violet is a UML editor with these benefits: Very easy to learn and use. Draws nice-looking diagrams. Completely free. Cross-platform. Violet is intended for developers...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • NClass

    NClass is a free tool to easily create UML class diagrams with full C# and Java language support. The user interface is designed to be simple and user-friendly for easy...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • BOUML

    BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box (under development) allowing you to specify and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python. BOUML runs under Unix/Linux/Solaris...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • TopCoder UML

    TopCoder UML Tool is an easy to use, consistent modeling tool for use in Design and Development competitions. The new tool was built to model sequence, class, use case...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • ObjectAid

    The ObjectAid UML Explorer is an agile and lightweight code visualization tool for the Eclipse IDE. It shows your Java source code and libraries in live UML class and...

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Poseidon for UML

    Dont lose the advantage of clarity and simplicity to an overly complicated tool - the Poseidon for UML software line lets you get down to work without entanglements in...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux