Graffle
A native macOS diagramming and vector drawing app (Swift + AppKit), inspired by OmniGraffle.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 75%) · 0 views
Niche: diagramming and flowchart tools · 116 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 116 launches in diagramming and flowchart tools →
Could you build this?
Partial A basic vector canvas with shapes, connectors and export can be vibe-coded in Swift and AppKit. Matching a mature app like OmniGraffle requires years of work on a complex document model, rendering performance, file-format compatibility and a polished UX.
What it would actually take: The core is an AppKit or Core Graphics canvas with a scene graph, undo system, constraint-based layout and connector routing, plus import and export for formats like SVG, PDF and .graffle. Performance on large diagrams and fidelity of Apple-native behaviour are the difficult parts. Building it well takes experienced native macOS developers and sustained effort.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2741 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2136 of 2742 (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 0.80
- Graffle · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Rindraw · hn · 2026-11-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- HelloScript · github · 2026-10-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- SynthezKit · github · 2026-10-11 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- SketchyCraft · hn · 2026-11-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- VectorXposed-it · github · 2026-09-24 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- paper-rs · github · 2026-10-11 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.60
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