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yFiles

yFiles is the industry-leading software library for visualizing, editing and analyzing graphs.
The Graph Visualisation SDK is available for 5 major platforms and technologies: HTML, JavaFX, Java (Swing), WinForms, and WPF.
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Features

Diagramming that fits your needs

yFiles is the most advanced and complete diagramming solution available on the market. Our powerful and flexible API offers a huge array of functions out of the box. Choose the ones that match your needs best.

Suitable layouts for every use case
Choose the right layouts from a huge number of predefined layouts and configure them to perfectly fit the task at hand.
yFiles provides the widest range of high-quality automatic layout arrangements in the industry. More than a dozen different implementations with several hundred different settings allow for fine-grained control over the results. With the right algorithm and configuration, you can add relevant information to your visualizations, helping users find answers to their questions by merely looking at the diagrams.
Use business data, graph analysis results, and user input to drive the configuration and highlight important parts. Use animation to blend between different layouts and help users keeping their mental map with smooth incremental changes.
Layout styles live demo
Countless interaction possibilities
Easily customize the interaction with graphs and diagrams, for efficient and intuitive work on your use case. You decide what your app can do.
Use keyboard, mouse, touch, and pen input to interact with the diagrams and data. Configure interactivity to perfectly support your users with their tasks. Provide dynamic help, visual feedback, and fine-tune interactions to get the best possible user experience for your use-cases.
Contextual toolbar live demoTouch interaction live demo
Customized, meaningful designs
Include all of the information you want to show – within the design itself.
Adjust the design dynamically to the zoom level or data updates. Show dynamic data as part of the visualization and depending on the context. Add interactivity and reactivity to your visualizations. Configure the design to show just the right amount of information your users require.
Process mining live demo
Enjoy automatic layouts
Assist your users during the creation and exploration of their diagrams. Use automatic layouts to build clear and beautiful diagrams from your data at the touch of a button.
Automatically update your visualizations when data changes with a consistent design. Highlight important aspects both in the structure and the meta-data of your diagrams.
Mindmap live demo
Create intuitive interaction
Accept no limits. Implement the perfect interaction design that will make your users productive, no matter whether these are casual or power users.
Collapsible tree live demo
Connect all types of data sources
No matter where you data is stored or how you create it. yFiles can deal with all kinds of relational data.
Connect to one or more databases, graph databases, data stores, and other resources. Use every protocol that is available on the platform.
Graph builder live demo
Integrate in your system
yFiles will perfectly enhance your existing application or framework. Technically as well as visually – by reflecting your corporate design or the app’s look and feel.
No Matter what technology you are using. Add yFiles to existing apps, dashboards, and reports, or create new stunning apps that seamlessly integrate with your line of products' look and feel.
Connect to any of your data sources and systems to create reactive and engaging applications that integrate perfectly with your users' work flow.
Map integration live demoCSS styling live demo
All features in detail
Add on:
VSDX Export

Due to the high demand, we offer an additional add on that allows you to export all graphs also in Visio format VSDX.

This add on is only available for yFiles for HTML.

VSDX Export

See what’s on the horizon!

yFiles 2021 brings awesome new layouts and source-code demos, plus outstanding innovations for the HTML platform. This includes simplified support of technologies to make yFiles even faster and better, like WebGL2 and Web Workers.
We have set a high value on making it as easy as possible for new users to get started with yWorks. But experienced yFiles developers will appreciate the new yFiles Dev Suite as well.
By the way, all source-code demos are now available in JavaScript and in TypeScript!

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Upcoming free webinar:
Whats new in yFiles 2021?

The new major yFiles releases in 2021 are close! Hear what we have to offer, see what's new, and learn how your app or developer experience can benefit from the new features.
There will be a focus on yFiles for HTML in this webinar, but you will also learn about features that will be part of all platforms that yFiles is supported on:

  • new layouts
  • new developer tools
  • new library features and integrations
  • new demos


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    Technologies

    yFiles platforms & variants

    yFiles ist available for 5 major platforms: HTML, JavaFX, Java (Swing), WinForms and WPF.

    While yFiles is very similar on every platform, there are some minor differences due to the respective technical specifications.

    Thanks to similar APIs across the different technologies, it’s easy to migrate between yFiles products to cover new platforms. So there’s no need to start from scratch when technologies change (and they will)!

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    Advanced integration possibilities

    Interactive live demos

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    Isometric
    This demo displays graphs isometrically, adding an additional dimension to the visualization. This can be used to represent characteristics of the business data as height, or just because of the beautiful looks.
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    Layout Styles
    This demo showcases the most used layout algorithms of yFiles, including hierarchic, organic, orthogonal, tree, circular, balloon, and several edge routing styles.
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    Metaballgroups
    This demo shows how to render metaball-like background visualizations to show how nodes can be associated with zero or more groups. In contrast to regular group nodes, a regular node may belong to multiple metaball groups.
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    Process Mining
    This Process Mining Visualization demo shows how to create an animated visualization of a process flow. The diagram shows the various steps in a processing pipeline and how entities move through the pipeline. A heat map shows which elements in the graph are nearing their capacity limit. A custom node style for each process step shows the name of the process and the current load.
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    Sankey
    A diagram used for visualizing flow information in which the thickness of the edges is proportional to the flow quantity.
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    Template Styles
    This demo shows how to create SVG templates for nodes, labels and ports. It also shows how to customize various aspects of template styles.
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    Metaballgroups
    Process Mining
    Sankey
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    yEd Live

    Experience a rich demonstration created with yFiles for HTML.

    Try yEd Live our free online diagram editor.

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    Fully-functional yFiles version
    Free access to our high-quality support, to help you start easily
    More than 100 source-code examples for rapid prototyping
    Extensive step-by-step source-code tutorials that cover the essentials
    Free resources like our Developer’s Guide, documentation, IDE setup tips, and more
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    Support & help

    We want your development to succeed.
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    Source
    code

    Inspect the sources of more than two hundred source code applications and tutorial steps. Try out the apps online and browse the fully commented and documented sources in our GitHub repositories.

    Demos

    Play with hundreds of demos, online, to learn more about the features of yFiles. Find demos show-casing complete use-case, as well as technology demos focusing on specific features, integrations, and customization options.

    API docs

    Browse and read the complete documentation for the yFiles API. Find out more about the all the types, classes, interfaces, defaults, and configuration options. Find hundreds of source code examples and illustrations showing best-practices, common-idioms, and customization options.

    Developer's
    Guide

    Find a detailed description of the features available in yFiles in our extensive Developer's Guide. Get everything from a high-level introduction to detailed customization options on the concepts, data structures, layout- and graph analysis algorithms.

    Videos

    Get a wide selection of videos. Watch how-to clips to get started in no time. Learn from previously recorded webinars. We show you how to setup your IDEs to get productive in no time, how learn from and leverage the existing source code samples, and how to integrate the diagramming component into your existing apps and frameworks, smoothly.

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    Services

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

    We provide webinars, online seminars, coaching sessions, support, workshops, consulting services, project reviews, code reviews, coding, and more.

    Our high-quality e-mail support is included in the optional support & maintenance subscription.
    You get assistance directly from our core developers, from start to successful finish.
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    Licenses & pricing

    We offer a variety of licenses to match your precise needs.

    All yFiles licenses are perpetual, with zero royalty fees. You can add an optional annual subscription for maintenance and support.

    The right yFiles license is just a few clicks away. If your requirements are not covered, let us know – we also offer individual, customizable licenses.

    Choose what suits you:

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