UMLBoard 4+
UML diagramming simplified.
Patric Genfer
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- $4.99
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Description
UMLBoard is an easy-to-use UML class designer with a nice hand-drawn whiteboard look.
Whether you want to visualize an architectural concept, add additional documentation to your code, or need some nice looking diagrams for your presentation or publication:
UMLBoard is the perfect tool for creating and editing UML class diagrams quickly and easily.
Say goodbye to complicated UML editors that require several steps and dialogs to change just a single class member:
UMLBoard provides a clean and minimalistic user interface with in-place editing and full WYSIWYG support.
Some feature highlights:
- Easy-to-use interface for creating and editing UML class diagrams.
- Gives your diagrams a nice hand-drawn and sketchy look.
- In-place-editing of properties and methods.
- Move members between classes via simple Drag&Drop
- Automatic connector routing which can easily be configured with custom anchor points.
- Create groups to organize your classes and customize the visual appearance of your groups
- Use any custom font and size you like for your diagrams.
- Choose between different drawing styles: Sketchy, Enterprise and Too-much-caffeine.
- Pick a predefined background or choose your own custom image to give your diagram an individual touch.
- Dark and light color themes.
- Auto-layout your diagrams.
- Export your diagram as a PNG or SVG image or as PDF or PlantUML text file.
- Use freeform text fields to enter custom class members.
- Notes support markdown syntax.
- Set access specifiers for your class members.
- Auto-update properties or methods if a reference class changes.
- Define custom stereotypes to give your classes specific domain roles
- Validates your diagram and ensures compliance with UML rules.
- Contains example design patterns you can use as a base for your diagrams.
- Full keyboard and shortcut support.
- Full undo/redo support also for delete operations.
- Uses a new and intuitive context-menu approach.
No registration or subscription required, just install it, and you're ready to go!
What’s New
Version 1.12.0
New in Version 1.12:
- Add stylish background images to your diagrams, choose between predefined backgrounds for different themes or pick your own images.
- Docking side can be set right when you creating your connection. Or let your relation automatically choose the best connection side automatically.
- Align your elements more easily by following the new auxiliary lines.
For a complete list of features and bug fixes, please also check the release notes.
Ratings and Reviews
A Great Start
This little app shows a lot of promise. It's great for sketching quick UML class diagrams with a minimum of effort.
There are two areas where it badly needs improvement.
First, it does a very poor job of following basic macOS file management conventions. For example, if you double click one of its documents, the Finder launches the app, but the app refuses to open the doccument. The only wan to open an existing document is from the File menu within the app.
The second area where this app badly needs improvement is in the routing algorithm for class associations. The app sometimes routes these in crazy ways and the user has no way to nudge the lines into a more sensible position.
Despite these two flaws, this is still a useful tool and is worth the 99 cents price.
I hope the author continues to improve this very nice little app and addresses the issues I noted above.
Developer Response ,
Hi K. Rande,
Thank you very much for your feedback and sorry for the inconvenience regarding the file opening behavior, I will investigate the issue asap and try my best to fix it in the next release.
The next version (1.6) will also provide an update to the routing algorithm, along with custom anchor points to adjust the routing and additional docking ports.
If you encounter any other issues, please don't hesitate to contact me at contact@umlboard.com.
Best regards,
Patric
cute & useful class designer / notepad
This is a clever little app that knows what it shoud focus on - class diagrams and explanatory text around those diagrams. you can almost treat it a bit like a word processor with embedded diagrams, i find i can construct nice little design explanations with it.
It would be nice if it did multi-page or something equivalent, so i could hold a larger model, but in it's current form it's very tight and useful so it's hard to complain!
Developer Response ,
Hi KingPurply,
Thank you very much for your review. I'm happy to hear that you like the app!
Support for multiple pages/diagrams is definitely an important feature. It's already in the backlog, but it might take a bit until it's available.
If you have any additional feature ideas or encounter any issues, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks!
Best regards,
Patric
LOVED the interface
I've played with lots of UML tools, and this one really stands out. It's both simple and fun - this makes it a tool I want to come back to, where I can just focus on accomplishing what I want. Really appreciated how fast it was to lay out and manipulate designs.
Developer Response ,
Hi Happy-Days619,
Thanks a lot for your review, I'm happy to hear that you like the UI, but I'm also very sorry that you weren't able to save your file.
There seems to be a weird bug in Version 1.8.2 that affected some users when saving a file, but I wasn't yet able to reproduce it.
If you don't mind, could you please contact me at contact@umlboard.com and I will do my best to fix the issue as soon as possible.
Thank you in advance and best regards,
Patric
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Information
- Seller
- Patric Genfer
- Size
- 248.8 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 - 2024 Patric Genfer
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.