Graffle
MacOS diagramming and vector drawing app
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Native macOS diagramming and vector drawing app built with Swift and AppKit: shapes, smart connectors, layers, gradients and a Bézier pen. By EVM.
PH · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: diagramming and flowchart tools · 116 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Productivity
- Sketch
- GitHub
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More like this: all 116 launches in diagramming and flowchart tools →
Could you build this?
No Building a performant, native macOS vector graphics editor in Swift and AppKit with Bezier curves, layers, and smart connectors requires deep domain knowledge of desktop graphics programming.
What it would actually take: Requires Swift, AppKit/Cocoa, Core Graphics/Metal, and custom geometry engines for Bezier curve manipulation and layout constraints. The hardest part is building a snappy, bug-free 2D vector rendering engine with handle hit-testing, layer hierarchies, undo/redo state management, and smart routing connectors. This requires an experienced macOS native systems and graphics developer.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 168 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #111 of 169 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
- Graffle-iPad · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- Graffle · github · 2026-10-17 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS · hn · 2025-10-29 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Rindraw · hn · 2026-11-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TapWall · github · 2026-09-17 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Chalk: a Mac app for technical diagrams with a built-in MCP for Claude · hn · 2026-07-21 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Shapely 3D · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- HelloScript · github · 2026-10-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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