Naqsha

Yes. Naqsha is a native diagramming app in the spirit of Microsoft Visio: stencils, connectors that stay glued, containers and swimlanes, layers, pages, themes and auto-arrange. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux and in the browser, and it opens and saves Visio .vsdx files, so you can work with colleagues who use Visio.

Yes. There is an installer and a portable version for Windows 10 and 11, .deb packages for Ubuntu and Debian, .rpm packages for Fedora, RHEL, Rocky and Alma Linux, and a .tar.gz for other Linux systems. The Mac version is a universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel.

Yes. Naqsha opens Visio .vsdx drawings — masters, styles, groups, text, layers, shape data, glued connectors and embedded pictures — and can save your changes back as .vsdx. Legacy binary .vsd files need to be re-saved as .vsdx in Visio first.

Yes. Naqsha opens and saves draw.io / diagrams.net files (.drawio and .xml, compressed or plain), keeping pages, layers, containers, labels, shape data and connector waypoints.

Yes. Open or drop a GitHub Actions workflow, .gitlab-ci.yml, azure-pipelines.yml, bitbucket-pipelines.yml or a declarative Jenkinsfile. Naqsha draws the trigger and the jobs in stage columns based on their dependencies, labels matrix builds, environments and approvals, and gives each job its own page of steps with the scripts shown as code.

Yes. The desktop app runs entirely on your computer and saves diagrams as files on your disk. The browser version also runs on your device: nothing is uploaded, and Save downloads a .nqs file.

Yes. The same editor runs in your browser at nixpx.com/naqsha/app, with no installation and no account. Save downloads a .nqs file, and unsaved work is kept in the browser if you close the tab. Stencil folders and your own templates need the desktop app.

Naqsha is free. Naqsha Pro adds tools for engineers who deliver drawings — P&ID, electrical single-line, production line and IoT symbols with automatic tags, line balancing and value stream maps, sheets with your title block, drawing sets with a legend and register, multi-sheet PDFs, DXF export for AutoCAD, equipment and cable schedules, and a bill of materials from your own product list. It runs in the desktop apps and the browser, starts with a 14-day free trial, and is available as a subscription ($8 a month or $79 a year) or a lifetime licence ($129, with a year of updates). Diagrams made with Pro open in every edition of Naqsha.

Yes. The Naqsha add-in for Microsoft Office adds Insert › Naqsha Diagram to Word, Excel and PowerPoint on Windows, Mac and the web. The diagram goes into the file as a picture and the diagram itself is kept in the file, so selecting it and choosing Edit opens it in Naqsha again. The add-in needs an internet connection.

Yes. The Naqsha plugin for ONLYOFFICE Docs and Desktop Editors inserts diagrams into documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The document shows and prints a picture of the diagram and keeps the diagram itself, so double-clicking it opens it again for editing. Install it from Plugins › Plugin Manager in ONLYOFFICE. The plugin needs an internet connection.

Yes, with Naqsha Pro. Draw the line with equipment symbols for food, packaging and pharma (fillers, cappers, labellers, case packers, palletizers, tablet presses, coaters, blister packers and more), give each machine its cycle time and uptime, and Line Balance works out the takt time, the bottleneck and the line output, and marks the bottleneck on the drawing. Value stream maps get their data boxes and lead-time ladder built for you.

Yes. Any connector can show flow (dashes or dots running along it) and any shape can glow, pulse, blink, spin or shake. Animations play in the editor, export as an animated GIF for email and slides, and stay animated in SVG for web pages.

Two ways. Naqsha draws Node-RED flows: open a flows.json or paste a copied flow, and every tab, subflow and group comes out as a clean diagram for documentation. And the free node-red-contrib-naqsha add-on shows a Naqsha drawing as a live view from your flows, with values, running states and alarms on the P&ID or line drawing (monitoring only, nothing is sent back to the plant).

Yes. Naqsha is available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Persian, Urdu, Malay, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Filipino and Swahili. It starts in your system language, and the globe button in the title bar switches language. Arabic, Persian and Urdu get a mirrored right-to-left layout. Text in diagrams is shaped and ordered correctly in all these scripts, including Arabic mixed with Latin tags and numbers, and SVG, PNG and PDF exports keep it as real, selectable text.

Naqsha (نقشه) means a plan, a map or a blueprint in Persian, Urdu and Hindi; the related Arabic word naqsh means a pattern or engraving. The app’s icon is an eight-pointed girih star drawn as a connector between nodes.