Monodraw

Monodraw

By Helftone

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2015-05-21
  • Current Version: 1.6.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 4.86 MB
  • Developer: Helftone
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 11.0 or later.

Description

Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art (like diagrams, layouts, flow charts) and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. Because it's all just text, it can be easily embedded almost anywhere. * A picture is worth a thousand words. A diagram is probably worth twice as much. Enhance your technical documentation (code, specs) with easy to comprehend textual art. Visualisation of data structures, algorithms and data formats plays a crucial role in understanding. You will be reading the code more often than writing it, so why not make it much easier to grasp. * Easily create text banners with just a single click. FIGlet is built into Monodraw and we bundle 148 fonts as standard (custom ones are supported, too). You can interactively resize the text box, change the font and adjust the alignment – no need for a terminal. * Combine the simplicity of plain text with the power of mind mapping. Monodraw gives you the freedom to manage your textual data exactly the way you want. Move text around anywhere in the infinite canvas – no need to be constrained by the linear structure of a text file. * Do you deal with databases? Then you know how useful entity-relationship diagrams can be. Visually describe your data model with a simple ER diagram. Monodraw supports Crow's Foot notation in three different variants to suit your personal preference. * Monodraw is powered by a custom CoreText-based text engine giving you precise control over the layout. You can adjust the alignment, position, line sweep direction and line movement. Adding a border around your text is only a click away, too. * The line tool makes connecting shapes as easy as pie. Orthogonal and staircase lines are supported with the ability to set a line dash pattern. Attachment points allow you to dynamically attach your lines to other shapes so that you don't have to re-arrange them each time you move things around. * The rectangle tool can be used to create all kinds of boxes which are the most commonly used element in text art. Specify border or a background with just a few clicks. Oh, you can add shadows, too! Last but not least, custom attachment points will help you attach your lines at exactly the right place. * The basic drawing tools that you would expect make their usual appearance. The Pencil, the Eraser and the Bucket Fill are all indispensable when it comes to producing textual art.

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Reviews

  • Pretty good

    4
    By TopRamen
    Works fairly well. Would be nice to have an option to inverse font and background color. Makes pure text websites much easier, I used to do this all by hand in sublime text and it was a pain.
  • Does what its says!

    5
    By The Expensive Manzana
    A treat to use. Monodraw is an outstanding example of software at the service of the user. Unassuming, effective, uncluttered, Monodraw is a rare gem. It helps visual thinkers without burdening their attention. An excellent choice to add diagrams along with code comments, and just as good to insert simple visuals into text notes. Kudos to the developers!
  • Phenomenal

    5
    By xi_99
    Maybe my best purchase yet. Invaluable for diagramming, showing relations in code comments, etc. The PNG/SVG output is icing on the cake for smacking something on the web. Great software. Intuitive. Practical.
  • Text as Objects! Brilliant reifying!

    5
    By motorrader66
    Having done ascii drawings since the 1980's, this is a huge productivity booster, especially with the modern software development toolchains. Being able to whip up an ascii drawing to help self document algorithm code will make my future self happy not to mention others. Markdown docs will be easier for others to comprehend with concrete ascii diagrams.
  • One of very few favorite apps

    5
    By stonevil
    Very usefull to make docs for my architecture and code! Many thanks!
  • I love this App

    5
    By @deliverednuke
    been developing software for varios operting system for years...I love this app, powerful and simple. I can describe anything I like with it!
  • Love it! Really fun and useful

    5
    By macaddiict
    If you've ever wanted the computer to work a little bit more like it was a typewriter and a piece of paper you can write on anywhere... this is it. ASCII art is awesome, but my main goal was a brain-friendly, uncomplicated diagramming tool and this works great. Think design/development environments... easy to copy a selection into another app to save in your Markdown or HTML files elsewhere. Love it! Thanks to the developers for the M1 version.
  • I Love MonoDraw

    5
    By A Lover of detailed diagrams
    Super easy to pick up. I work in Software and Monodraw make it super easy for me to create any diagram that I need.
  • Essential

    5
    By harrymfa
    This application is fantastic as a diagraming tool and an art application, once you get it, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. The only negative is that it isn't available on Linux nor Windows, now I feel forced to use Mac OS only so I can enjoy using it.
  • Wonderfully flexible and capable

    5
    By Travis_J_T
    Very useful especially for documentation in source controlled documenation. This is one of the few tools that make me like making documenation.

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