livediagram is for teams who think visually and need to do that thinking together. A single-player diagramming tool is not the point. The product shines when several people are on the same canvas at once, building one shared diagram in real time. That said, it works just as well for one person sketching something out, and the canvas always works without signing in.
The teams it serves
A few groups feel right at home:
- Engineering teams sketching architecture, sequence flows, and system designs. Use shapes and arrows, technology icons for cloud and infrastructure marks, and tabs to keep related views together.
- Product and design teams mapping user journeys, information architecture, and brainstorms with shapes, text and fonts, and themes.
- Cross-functional groups in workshops, planning sessions, and retrospectives, where everyone needs to contribute at once and see each other's input live. Plan mode turns a tab into a board of cards for sprints, triage and roadmaps, and Facilitate mode puts timers, dot votes and polls in front of whoever runs the session.
- Anyone making something to hand out: Illustrate mode lays a tab out as pages for infographics, posters and one-pagers you can export or present.
Ways people use it
The same canvas covers a wide range of work:
Flowcharts and process maps
Boxes, connectors, and labelled arrows for any structured flow.
Architecture diagrams
System designs, service maps, and sequence flows.
Brainstorms and mind maps
Quick freehand sketches and fast, keyboard-driven nodes.
Workshops and retros
Switch a tab to Facilitate mode to run a shared timer, a live dot-vote or a quick poll while the group works together.
Boards and sprints
Columns of cards you drag from status to status, together, in Plan mode.
Infographics and handouts
Pages you size, paint and lay out in Illustrate mode, then export or present.
Whether you sign in or not
livediagram is friction-free on purpose. A first-time visitor can build a real diagram as a guest and only later create an account to sync across devices and join teams. A signed-in user can still hand a share link to a guest who edits without any account at all.
Not sure where to begin? Start with Your first diagram, it walks you through creating one in a couple of minutes.
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