One canvas for mind maps, flowcharts, whiteboards & block diagrams — with real-time co-editing and Writer-style sharing, right inside your Frappe site.
Frappe Draw puts every diagram type on a single canvas — no separate editors, no type picker. Start drawing immediately, and pull in exactly what you need:
- Shapes panel drops auto-laid-out mind-map and flowchart frames onto the canvas, like templates.
- In-frame editing — double-click any frame to focus it and edit with that type's full dedicated editor, then step back to the canvas.
- Mix mind maps, flowcharts, whiteboard sketches and block shapes in one document.
- Mind maps — auto-laid-out, balanced two-sided trees with keyboard-first editing, cross-links, markers and per-node styling.
- Flowcharts — typed nodes (process, decision, terminator, …), auto-routed orthogonal connectors, branch labels, auto-numbering and one-click tidy.
- Block diagrams — shapes, connectors with attached endpoints, alignment/distribution, rich text and a floating contextual toolbar.
- Whiteboards — pen, highlighter, partial eraser, sticky notes, tables, lines, laser pointer and image insert.
- Real-time co-editing — multiple people on the same canvas at once, with live cursors.
- Sharing — Writer-style view / comment / edit access per person, plus public or restricted general access, built on Frappe's native permissions.
- Library — organise diagrams into folders, pin favourites, search and filter; per-user and permission-scoped.
- Navigation — minimap, zoom/pan, fit-to-view, alignment guides and named sections.
- Export — PNG and PDF.
- Desk app launcher — appears in the Frappe
/appsscreen with its own icon. - Optional Frappe Drive integration — a diagram shows up in Drive as a file that opens right back in Draw.
Install on any Frappe site using the bench CLI:
cd $PATH_TO_YOUR_BENCH
bench get-app https://github.com/frappe/draw
bench --site your-site.localhost install-app drawThe Vue frontend is built automatically during install (via bench build). Then open
https://your-site.localhost/draw.
Upgrading an existing install? Pull the latest and rebuild the frontend:
bench get-app draw --branch main bench build --app draw && bench --site your-site.localhost clear-cache
Add the app to your bench group from https://github.com/frappe/draw (branch main),
let the deploy build it, then install it on a site and open /draw.
This app uses pre-commit for code formatting and linting. Please install pre-commit and enable it for this repository:
cd apps/draw
pre-commit installPre-commit is configured to use ruff, eslint, prettier and pyupgrade. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full workflow.