Coming soon
Major release
yFiles 2021
The new major yFiles releases in 2021 are close!
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.
Coming soon
Major release
yFiles 2021
The new major yFiles releases in 2021 are close!
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 large amounts of complex information and making data-driven decisions. It allows you to easily identify and understand relations, patterns, and outliers. In a big-data world, this has become even more important.
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.
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. Work with your data and observe in real-time how the changes affect certain aspects of the graph. This is extremely helpful for understanding past developments, present events, and future projections.
Informative
Tap into a human talent: pattern recognition. Graph visualization helps you to recognize patterns and trends at a glance. In addition, graph analysis algorithms can be used to visualize key information from 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 and to deliver optimum advice and support for every use case."


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.


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 visualizing, editing, and analyzing graphs.

The well-documented software development toolkit offers you every conceivable possibility to visualize, edit, and interact with your data. If there is a solution, you can do 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.
read more
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
retrospect
Jan
12
yWorks Year in Review: 2020
In retrospect, we found lots of bright moments among the challenges in 2020. Let’s revisit the highlights together.
Surprises await…
event
Nov
10
Hacktoberfest 2020
Open-source software is crucial for the software industry. yWorks took part at Hacktoberfest 2020 to celebrate this during the month of October.
case study
Apr
14
DbVisualizer
Working with large volumes of data is often essential for securing market share and ensuring a strong future.
retrospect
Oct
28
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!
case study
Langner, Inc.
Outsmarting cybercrime — with network diagrams
Blog

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