UML Diagram Online

Create Professional UML Diagrams Online

An end-to-end, integrated and easy-to-learn platform to create UML diagrams. Use Creately’s UML diagram creator as an effective tool for UML modelling, architecture and design.

  • Intelligent, standards-compliant UML shapes
  • Real-time collaboration for team design sprints
  • Link models, add notes, and centralize your design docs
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How to Create a UML Diagram Online in Creately

  1. Launch Creately

Sign in to your account and open a new workspace. With the UML diagram online editor, you can start from scratch or choose a pre-designed template to save time.

  1. Add UML Shapes & Connectors

Use Creately’s drag-and-drop UML shapes library to build your diagram. Add classes, objects, and relationships with standard notations, and connect them effortlessly to visualize system behavior.

  1. Organize & Customize

Map out your objects, classes, and relationships. Use sticky notes, the notes panel, and connectors to add details, annotations, and context right inside your diagram.

  1. Collaborate in Real Time

Invite teammates to co-create. Use inline comments, live mouse tracking, and shared editing to build your UML diagram online together, no matter where your team is.

  1. Review, Update & Share

Finalize your diagram and share it with stakeholders using secure links or export options. Update easily as your system evolves, ensuring your UML stays relevant and accurate.

How to Create UML Diagrams?

VISUALIZE

Model Software Systems with Intuitive UML Diagram Generator

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  • Create intuitive UML diagrams with a comprehensive UML shape library and drag-and-drop tools to easily add any shape onto the canvas.

  • Visualize actors, objects, attributes, and more on a single, connected workspace for clear system modeling.

  • Easy-to-use diagram tools to simplify the visualization process when designing complex systems.

  • Multi-perspective modeling with adaptive shapes that change according to the context.

  • Intuitive features like color themes, formatting options, and reusable templates to speed up diagram creation.

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SIMPLIFY

Create Simple Representations of Complex Systems

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  • Easily locate specific information within large and complex UML diagrams with universal full-text search functionality.

  • Use connected shape links to build navigation structures to easily represent how components in a system interact.

  • Streamline the process of editing, reviewing and sharing UML diagrams across teams, with advanced collaborator controls.

  • Simplify complex workflows by grouping related shapes, adding notes, and managing diagram layers effortlessly.

COLLABORATE

Easily Design Systems Together With Your Team

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  • Work with team members on your UML diagram online in real-time; add multiple collaborators.

  • Use @mentions and contextual commenting, to discuss and follow up on the same canvas. Async!

  • Version history to save and revert back to streamline reviewing and revising.

  • Access-controlled sharing options make it simple to invite stakeholders or export diagrams for presentations and documentation.

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EXECUTE & EXTEND

Augment and Interact with Your Data

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  • Add notes, key details, and custom properties to your UML diagrams to make them rich in context and actionable.

  • Use frames to split the canvas into multiple boards and create several UML diagrams on the same workspace.

  • Connect seamlessly to Slack, GitHub, Confluence, and other platforms using Creately UML Maker’s plug-ins.

  • Enhance diagrams with interactive features like hyperlinks, data fields, and embedded references for better team understanding.

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What Are UML Diagrams?

What Are UML Diagrams?
UML or Unified Modeling Language is a modeling technique used to document software. UML diagrams visually represent a system along with its main actors, roles, actions, artifacts or classes, in order to better understand, alter, maintain, or document information about the system.

Things to Remember While Creating UML Diagrams

  • When creating UML diagrams, it is important to remember to create levels of abstraction that meet the needs of your audience. Creating unnecessarily complex diagrams with too much information can confuse stakeholders. When creating an online UML diagram with Creately’s UML diagram tool, you can create multiple diagrams on different workspaces and link them together for better comprehension.
  • Avoid lines crossing over each other when you make UML diagrams. This allows your diagrams to be more readable and understandable. If two lines must cross, use a “bridge” to show that the lines do not intersect.
  • Try to make sure all lines go horizontally or vertically and create right angles with each other. When drawing connectors, having lines with multiple connectors makes diagrams look messy and confusing.
  • When drawing generalization or realization hierarchies on a diagram, always make sure the parent elements are higher than the child elements so the arrows always point upwards.
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FAQs About the UML Diagram Maker

What are Creately’s UML diagram online pricing plans?

  • Free Plan — $0/month for basic UML diagram creation and collaboration
  • Starter & Team Plans — $8/month or $5/month billed annually
  • Business Plan — $149/month or $89/month billed annually

Annual billing helps you save more while unlocking advanced collaboration, workspace management, and enhanced UML diagram features. You can compare all available plans and features on the Creately Pricing Page.

How can you create UML diagrams faster?

Creately helps you create UML diagrams faster with an infinite canvas, drag-and-drop diagramming, smart connectors, and professionally designed templates. You can start with a ready-made layout or build from scratch, then collaborate and refine everything in one shared workspace.

Are there templates for different UML diagram use cases?

Yes. Creately offers editable templates for different UML diagram use cases, so you can start with a relevant structure and customize it to match your workflow, team, or project requirements.

Can teams collaborate on UML diagrams?

Yes. Teams can work together on the same UML diagram in real time using live cursors, comments, mentions, and shared workspaces. This makes reviews faster and keeps everyone aligned.

Can I add notes, data, and files?

Yes. Creately lets you enrich your work with notes, links, images, documents, and additional context attached directly to shapes and items on the canvas. This helps you keep supporting information connected to the visual.

Can I share, present, or export UML diagrams?

Yes. You can share UML diagrams with a link, present them directly from the workspace, or export them in formats like PDF, PNG, SVG, and JPEG. This makes it easy to use Creately in meetings, documentation, reviews, and presentations.
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