An open-source diagram editor with an AI assistant that draws, edits and animates real architecture diagrams,
using your own model and keeping your files on your disk.
Open it in your browser · arkdraw.com · Download for Windows, macOS and Linux
Real recording: one prompt, official AWS icons, routed arrows, animated flow. Nothing edited afterwards.
Open the AI tab (Ctrl/⌘ + I) and say what you need. There is no mode to pick: on an empty canvas it draws, on an existing diagram it edits.
- Real diagrams. Native shapes and connectors you can keep editing, never a picture. It uses the official AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle and Kubernetes icons, and groups them in VPCs, VNets, subnets and resource groups with their logos.
- Clean layout. Connectors are routed together, so they don't overlap, don't cross shapes, and each one gets its own port.
- It edits. Try "add a cache in front of the database", "label every connection" or "make the failing service pulse". Every change pops in place and is a single Ctrl+Z away.
- It animates. Ask it to "animate the request flow" or "build it step by step", then export the result as a GIF.
- Your model, your key. Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Azure AI Foundry, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, OpenRouter, Groq and more, or Ollama fully offline. Keys stay in your system keychain (desktop) or encrypted in your browser (web), and requests go straight to your provider. ArkDraw has no servers.
Edit an existing diagram: "Add an ElastiCache Redis cache between the instances and the database, and animate the data flow." |
Azure: "Front Door → App Service inside a VNet, talking to Azure SQL and Key Vault. Animate the traffic." |
Flowcharts too: "Password reset flowchart. Build it step by step." |
Google Cloud: "Pub/Sub → Dataflow → BigQuery, with a Looker dashboard. Show the events moving as dots." |
| OS | Get it |
|---|---|
| Windows 10/11 | Microsoft Store, winget install 9PG6WQTHD78Q, or the windows-installer.exe from Releases. Signed by Microsoft, updates automatically |
| macOS 11+ | Universal .dmg (Apple Silicon and Intel) |
| Linux | .AppImage (any distro), .deb, .rpm, x64 and arm64 |
| Web | app.arkdraw.com, installable as an app, or self-host it |
Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt on every release.
macOS says the app is from an unidentified developer?
The macOS build isn't notarized yet: right-click the app in Applications and choose Open, or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine on it.
- Local-first.
.arkdrawis plain JSON that diffs in git. No account, works offline. - Open formats. Opens and saves
.drawioand.vsdx; imports Mermaid, Graphviz, CSV and SQL. - 14,000+ icons with search that forgives typos (
lamda) and knows acronyms (vnet). - Straight connectors on demand. Hover a segment, drag it, and it snaps into line with the shapes.
- 10 languages, light and dark themes, plugins and custom shapes.
git clone https://github.com/gabe-santana/arkdraw.git && cd arkdraw
npm install
npm run icons:fetch # official cloud icon packs (optional)
npm run dev # web app at http://localhost:1420
npm run tauri dev # desktop app (needs Rust)Features and formats · Web and self-hosting · CLI export · Plugins · Animation · Releases
Note
Vendor icon packs are third-party trademarks under their own terms, not MIT. They are downloaded by npm run icons:fetch, not committed; see public/icons/LICENSES.md.
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md and the good first issue label, follow the Code of Conduct, and report vulnerabilities privately (SECURITY.md).
The GIFs above are recorded from the real app with npm run media:ai (AI demos) and npm run media:gifs (template animations).
MIT © 2026 Gabriel Santana