Limitation on Number of Diagram Elements?

[Rob Muhlestein]

I am preparing to use this wonderful app to help students learn computer programming by diagramming their code and flow. I have been burned by other tools that limit the number of elements that can be in a single diagram. Rather than be burned again I want to make sure there is no limit on the complexity of any single diagram created with draw.io. Anyone have any feedback on this?

Thanks in advance,

Mr. Rob

[David Benson]

Hi Rob,

There is no limit on complexity or numbers of diagrams. I would guess you've been enjoying Lucidchart's change of package for edu orgs...

Lucid are a venture capital backed company, they have have revenue targets to meet. We're a small, bootstrapped, all engineering team with a mission statement of "Build free, high quality diagramming software for everyone". To avoid the temptation to change packages, we take specific steps:

1. You store your data, we never even see it
2. We open source the app, https://github.com/jgraph/drawio, so you have the app and data if we did something you really don't like, and
3. We provide free, open source desktop versions, https://download.draw.io/, since running the web app isn't trivial if you don't have reasonable IT knowledge.

Thanks,

David