CLUSTER TEXT-COMMAND-LINE · 27 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2009-10-17
Text-to-diagram generation tools
This cluster contains tools that generate diagrams from textual descriptions, including command-line converters, libraries, and extensions for documentation and planning. The dated history spans from 2009 to early 2026 with a low, steady cadence of entries, never exceeding two per month. ArchGen leads on traction with 6 stars, while untree and diagrammagic have 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled
Operator · 6 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21python-plantweb0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that renders plain text UML diagrams, ASCII diagrams, and complex graphs.
- 22python-sphinxcontrib-ditaa0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDocumentation extension that converts ASCII art sketches into diagrams and embeds them into published documentation.
- 23clip0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLanguage for creating charts and diagrams using a CSS-like syntax for developers.
- 24nwdiag0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line tool that generates network diagram images from text descriptions.
- 25treeform0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop app that draws linguistic syntax and semantics tree diagrams for language study and analysis.
- 26cdk-dia0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceGenerates diagrams of CDK-provisioned cloud infrastructure using the Graphviz dot language.
- 27USINN Modeler0★unknownliveDiagramming tool for creating USINN models.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.