Diagram from anywhere

Cacoo’s online diagramming tool allows users to visualize a wide range of workflows, from simple mind maps to complex system architectures. The platform is easy for everyone to use, with a simple drag-and-drop interface backed by a range of powerful features advanced users will love.

Over 4 million people use Cacoo to visualize different workflows and structures. Cacoo can be used for an endless array of tasks across every stage of the typical workflow for any given project, including:

• Ideation: collaborative brainstorming tools enable teams to generate and iterate creative new ideas.
• Creation: visual design features help teams bring their ideas to life through wireframes, mind maps, diagrams, and more.
• Approval: teams rely on Cacoo to power communication with features including live chat, live cursor view, and even in-app video calling.
• Launch: Cacoo is the perfect solution for presenting major new ideas, allowing users to present and share diagrams across various platforms.

Cacoo has a huge selection of pre-built templates and icons that help users synthesize complex ideas into eye-catching visual displays. Get started by browsing Cacoo’s Template Library. Templates are organized in multiple categories, including Engineering & Infrastructure and Diagramming and Modeling categories, which include templates for advanced designs, including AWS architecture and iOS wireframes.

Each template comes with all the design elements you need. If you want to create something more custom, you can choose from a broad selection of shapes and icons. With icon categories for popular systems, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, you’ll find everything you need to create impactful diagrams that visualize complex design elements.

Cacoo also allows users to create their own shapes and icons or import files from an external source. No matter what you need to create a visual representation of, you’ll be able to do it in Cacoo.

Mind maps offer creative teams a proven way to innovate new ideas and turn these ideas into a reality. In Cacoo, it’s easy to create mind maps and other diagrams that help your team brainstorm new concepts.

With an entire category of Cacoo templates dedicated to popular meeting and brainstorming frameworks, it’s easy to find the right framework to shape your thinking. Once you’ve created the structure for your mind map, everyone can work together in real time to add ideas and exchange feedback on new concepts.

Team members can all view the same mind map together, watching each other’s cursors move around the screen as they work. Users can share feedback in sticky notes, comments, or a dedicated chat for each diagram. When teams need to connect in real-time, they can start a video call directly from their Cacoo diagram, ensuring high-fidelity brainstorming, regardless of where team members are based.

Absolutely. Cacoo can be used to create diagrams illustrating a wide variety of processes and workflows. This is an extremely valuable activity for all businesses, helping document organizational knowledge and replicate proven workflows across teams. Keep your diagrams updated by editing your Cacoo design, safe in the knowledge that your changes will flow through to every online platform hosting your diagram

Whether it’s clarifying technical processes, such as the architecture of your organization’s internal networks, or creating simple flowchart diagrams that outline routine workflows, you’ll find a pre-built Cacoo template to help you get started. You can even customize your diagrams to reflect your organization’s branding, colorways, and fonts.

Cacoo offers users an impressively diverse range of pre-built templates, including a wide variety of both technical and organizational diagrams. The Cacoo template library is organized into several key categories:

• Diagramming & Modeling: includes wireframing, network architecture, flowcharts, and more.
• Meeting & Brainstorming: templates for standup meetings, mind mapping, Gantt charts, and more.
• Engineering & Infrastructure: technical diagrams for system architecture diagrams for popular technologies, including AWS, Azure, and more.
• Research & Design: includes product roadmaps, wireframes, presentation templates, and more.
• Planning & Management: org charts, calendar whiteboards, kanban boards, and more.

In all, you’ll find dozens of templates in Cacoo. If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, you can create and save your own templates for your team to use.

Cacoo administrators control access to their diagrams and data, inviting new users to each diagram as needed. Administrators can specify privilege levels, determining whether users can view or edit the diagram.

Cacoo also comes with a range of enterprise security measures. Our platform uses HTTPS, which encrypts data sent and received with SSL. Data is routinely backed up to prevent data loss and is not shared with any outside parties. All Cacoo servers are in a data center with 24/7/365 surveillance and security.

If you’re looking for an extra layer of protection, we also offer Nulab Pass – our enterprise-grade security subscription. Nulab Pass provides SAML single sign-on, user provisioning, and audit logs to help administrators closely manage the security of their diagrams and data.

Yes. Cacoo offers users a wide variety of tools that support real-time collaboration on complex diagramming projects. They include:

• Multi-user editing: several team members can work on the same Cacoo diagram simultaneously without lag. Users can even see each other’s cursors to minimize confusion.
• In-app chat: teams can exchange real-time feedback with a live chat for each diagram.
• In-app video calls: for more complex issues, teams can get on a video call together directly from their Cacoo diagram – no need to switch to another platform.
• Sticky notes: attach sticky notes to individual elements of a diagram to leave feedback, ask questions, or create a reminder.
• Comments: exchange comments with teammates on specific items, tagging them to send them a notification.
• Revision history: understand who made what changes and when with revision history for every diagram.

Together, these features make real-time team collaboration on complex diagrams straightforward, particularly for remote and hybrid teams.

Cacoo offers users an affordable diagramming software solution that includes all the features you’d expect from a more expensive tool. The platform is easy to use for new users while packing a series of sophisticated design tools well-suited to the needs of power users.

Reviewers on independent review sites such as Capterra rate Cacoo favorably, awarding the platform just shy of a 5.0-star rating. This rating trumps many of the other diagramming software tools available in the market. Reviewers award Cacoo particularly high marks for the platform’s ease of use, value for money, and customer service.

Unlike many other diagramming software tools, Cacoo offers users a free plan they can access to learn whether Cacoo is the right fit for them and their team. Try it for yourself to see how Cacoo stacks up to other diagramming software tools.

Yes. Cacoo integrates closely with a wide range of enterprise software apps, including our other apps at Nulab.

Integrating Cacoo with Backlog allows teams to insert Cacoo diagrams in Backlog comments, issues, and wikis, seamlessly sharing mindmaps, wireframes, and other diagrams in a centralized project management hub.

Cacoo also works closely with Nulab Pass, our centralized security solution that protects all your Nulab apps. Cacoo user activity is tracked in audit logs; teams can sign into their Cacoo account with SAML sign-on (SSO), and administrators can manage Cacoo users through user provisioning.

Diagrams play an important role in all kinds of processes across every organization. They provide teams with a way to create, edit, and share simple visual frameworks explaining complex concepts.

Teams can use diagrams in a wide variety of ways, from creating mind maps to brainstorming innovative ideas to creating a network diagram that displays how all the elements of a computer system work together. When it comes to diagramming, the only real limit to what you can create is your imagination.