Out now!
Major release
yFiles 2021
The new major yFiles for HTML 2.4 release is now available!
See what's new, and learn how your app or developer experience can benefit from the new features.
Case Study: Airbus
Visualizing factory workflows
Discover how Airbus visualizes specific technical dependencies, without building a graph library from scratch.
Try now!
Test and experience
yFiles the diagramming SDK free of charge!
Available for Web, Java and .Net platforms.
Out now!
Major release
yFiles 2021
The new major yFiles for HTML 2.4 release is now available!
See what's new, and learn how your app or developer experience can benefit from the new features.
Case Study: Airbus
Visualizing factory workflows
Discover how Airbus visualizes specific technical dependencies, without building a graph library from scratch.
Try now!
Test and experience
yFiles the diagramming SDK free of charge!
Available for Web, Java and .Net platforms.

Why visualize data?

Graph visualization is a key element for analyzing complex information and making data-driven decisions. They let you easily identify and understand relationships, patterns, and outliers. In today’s big-data world, this is more crucial than ever.
Clear & easy
People are very visual. Seeing data as graphs helps you absorb the information faster, explore it intuitively, and work with it more easily. Visualization can help monitor large networks and improve all types of workflows.
Adjustable
Multiple points of view broaden the horizon. Change your perspective with just one click: get an overview or explore a specific area in detail. Graph visualization puts the possibilities at your fingertips.
Interactive
Experience the direct impact of data in real time. Work with your dataset and see how the changes affect certain aspects of the graph. This can deliver valuable insight into past developments and present events, and improve future projections.
Informative
Tap into a human talent: pattern recognition. Graph visualization helps you to recognize patterns and trends at a glance. What’s more, graph analysis algorithms can be used to visualize key information within the data.

What sets yWorks apart?

Experience

yWorks has been providing data visualization solutions for over 20 years. Building on our university background, we combine the latest scientific findings, current technological standards, and profound software development expertise – to bring the future of graph visualization to life. We aim to deliver optimum advice and support for every use case you can think of."


Confidence

With more than 1 million users and customers in over 60 countries, yWorks is trusted by many different types of companies around the world. Our customers value our experience and appreciate our enthusiasm. Plus our graph drawing algorithms are second to none.


Excellence

We offer solutions for almost every technology and platform. Each customer benefits from direct support provided by our core developers and data visualization specialists. We are proud to offer the industry-leading software library for visualizing, editing, and analyzing graphs.

Make the most of your data!

A graph laid out automatically with yFiles

Add value to your data
by visualizing it –
the results will look amazing!

From southern Germany to Silicon Valley

Numerous world-renowned companies, research institutes, and universities rely on the expertise of yWorks.

yWorks products

yFiles ‑ the diagramming SDK

yFiles is the industry-leading software library for graph visualization, editing, and analysis.

The well-documented software development toolkit offers you every conceivable possibility to create custom graph software, interact with your data, and gain deeper insights. If there is a solution, you can find it with yFiles!

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The diagram editor family

Whether you are a software developer or not, creating diagrams with our intuitive family of diagram editors will make you happy!

Choose between the free and powerful desktop application yEd, its lightweight, modern online version yEd Live – also free of charge – and the specially adapted version Graphity for Confluence. Graphity offers enterprise features for teams like collaborative working and user rights management.

Our editors can be used to quickly generate high-quality graph drawings. They let you do it all: from creating diagrams manually to importing your data for analysis. The automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets at the press of a button.

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Tools

As a provider of holistic solutions, we offer a selection of tools to support graph drawing and software development.

For graph drawing

Use a selection of yFiles features with third-party software like Neo4J or Cytoscape.

Connect to your Neo4j database and explore the data – interactively and visually.
start application
Arrange your Cytoscape networks – in a clear and concise way.
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Rapidly create diagram and graph visualization apps from your own data with no-code techniques.
start application

For software development

Ensure secure code, provide good documentation, and enjoy high quality PDF graphics.

Prevent unwanted access to your source code with this free Java bytecode obfuscator.
more information
Automatically generate UML diagrams from your software project’s classes.
read more
Embed (high quality) SVG content in PDF files - directly in the browser.
get to github
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yWorks services

As the diagramming experts, we offer a comprehensive range of services.
From software support to training courses – everything you need to work successfully with data structures, complex algorithms, and advanced data visualization.

Learn from yWorks: We invite you to participate in our free webinars, customized online seminars, and coaching sessions.

Get support from yWorks: We offer rapid support during your project, as well as professional workshops and in-depth consulting services.

Delegate tasks to yWorks: Let us take care of project reviews, code reviews, coding, and more.

Webinars
Workshops
Coding
Consulting
Email support

Stories & news

You can count on yWorks to share lots of information and exciting news items about data visualization and our products. Find the latest case studies, use cases, blog articles, and more.

case study
Airbus
Visualizing factory workflows
case study
DbVisualizer
Working with large volumes of data is often essential for securing market share and ensuring a strong future.
retrospect
The Making of yFiles
Sebastian shows the journey of yFiles and our other products in this presentation and reveals some secrets of the past and what is to come in the future!
yfiles
yFiles for HTML 2.4 major release
Creating and developing new graph visualization applications has never been easier. This post will focus on the new additions to the yFiles diagramming library.
case study
Jetbrains
As codebases grow larger, it becomes more and more important to keep an overview. Automatic UML and class diagrams can quickly and easily create this overview.
case study
Langner, Inc.
Outsmarting cybercrime — with network diagrams
Blog

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