--- description: Learn more about Dia Diagram Editor pricing, benefits, and disadvantages for your business in Canada. Read verified software reviews and find tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Dia Diagram Editor Pricing, Reviews & Features - Capterra Canada 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Diagram Software](/directory/30941/diagram/software) > [Dia Diagram Editor](/software/158555/dia) # Dia Diagram Editor Canonical: https://www.capterra.ca/software/158555/dia Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/158555/dia?page=2) > On-premise structured diagrams drawing tool that helps with drawing for building sites, chemistry labs, electronic designing, optics, a > > Verdict: Rated **4.2/5** by 28 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Dia Diagram Editor? Designed to assist builders and engineers, it is a structures diagrams drawing tool that provides shapes for digital logic gates, optic fiber systems, CMOS transistor models, and more. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 28 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: The Dia Developers - **Location**: Uelzen, Germany ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Dia is provided for free. - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: Spanish - **Available Countries**: Germany ## Features - Flowchart Software - Organizational Charting ## Category - [Diagram Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30941/diagram/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[FlowCharts](https://www.capterra.ca/software/1016966/flowcharts-ai-survey-form-generator) — 4.0/5 (1 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Simple and Versatile, You can build almost any technical diagram that you can need with this app\!" — 3.0/5 > **Angel** | *June 19, 2018* > > **Pros**: Multi-platform, You can find this app for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X basically; Support for Mobile devices like Android and IOS what means it's multiarchitecture; There is much official documentation and too much around the web; Ideal for making technical diagrams, It has many libraries, you can find support for Electricity, Electronics, Mechanics, Civil Engineer, Flow diagram, Networking, Thermodynamics, UML and much more what makes it flexible; It's in continuous development and its developers are always waiting for your opinions, so the issues can be fixed quickly; The projects can be saved or export to various formats like "jpg, png, svg, ps, tif, ico, BMP" and much more; In a nutshell: Useful, if you need to deliver a homework or build a quick sketch this app fits you. > > **Cons**: Its interface is too simple and ugly; The final work when it's exported does not have the same quality as the initial sketch; Sometimes it's difficult to connect the lines and objects; To group objects it's difficult; The manual in the app is only in English despite the app can be in another language; ----- ### "Nice for presentation of UML diagram" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *June 18, 2018* | Graphic Design Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Good user interface and thus user friendly. Easy and fast installation due to its small size. Variety of menus for your needs. Good for representing use cases. > > **Cons**: Dia software is not colourful and appealing to the eye. Its black and white majorly thus looking quite boring with its colours. ----- ### "DIA is a graphics editor, simple to use, I could make diagrams, conceptual maps in a very easy way" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *May 24, 2018* | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: 1.) DIA gives you the different styles of diagrams and gives you the basic tools for a better style 2.) DIA has a work area where we can easily locate the competitors that we want to > > **Cons**: 1.) DIA does not have an evaluator that indicates whether the diagram would be correct or not. 2) DIA should integrate an assistant, there are things that very few people use because they do not know what it is for, there is no online support that allows you to document about it > > At the time, DIA facilitated a lot the analysis of annoying diagrams and diaframes for the analysis and implementation phase of software or database ----- ### "Using the Dia Diagram Editor" — 4.0/5 > **Kevin** | *October 31, 2022* | E-Learning | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The number of sheets \& objects available out of the box is impressive.The fact that this package is cross-platform makes it very attractive. > > **Cons**: The look and feel of Dia is slightly dated, but any users of early Visio will feel right at home. > > A while ago I looked for a viable free alternative to Visio and I found Dia. This free cross-platform diagramming tool is incredibly similar to older (pre-ribbon) versions of Visio. Whilst the look and feel of the program is a little dated, it gets the job done. Coming with a plethora of sheets \& objects (like stencils in Visio) right out of the box means you can start creating straight off the bat. Almost anyone can produce professional looking diagrams with this tool by simply dragging the stencil shapes onto the canvas and linking them together from simple flowcharts to complex Entity Relationship Diagrams. I have used Dia on and off for a number of years and would not hesitate to recommend this clever little drawing tool. ----- ### "Dia is an excellent software" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *August 19, 2018* | Program Development | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: mainly what I liked in the day, is its easy use, in addition to its variety of elements for the construction of diagrams, such as E-R diagrams, and especially the variety of ways to express cardinalities for databases > > **Cons**: At my discretion, day does not have any points against, since it fits the needs of the diagrams to eleborate, suddenly it would be good that you could be like an app for mobile, it would be a good option. > > my experience with day, is very good, it is easy, practical, light, with export options, really very useful for the layout for the design of any software or application ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/158555/dia?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/158555/dia) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data