drawio-desktop

About
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**drawio-desktop** is a diagramming desktop app based on [Electron](https://electronjs.org/) that wraps the [core draw.io editor](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio).

Download built binaries from the [releases section](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases).

**Can I use this app for free?** Yes, under the GPL v3 license. If you don't change the code and accept it is provided "as-is", you can use it for any purpose.

Windows installation
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Three flavours of Windows download are published on the [releases page](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases):

- `draw.io-<version>-windows-installer.exe` — NSIS installer. Installs **per-machine** into `Program Files` and **requires administrator privileges**.
- `draw.io-<version>.msi` — MSI installer. Installs **per-user** into the user's profile and **does not require administrator privileges**. Use this one if you don't have admin rights on your machine.
- `draw.io-<version>-windows.zip` — portable build. Extract the zip anywhere and run `draw.io.exe`, with no installation (and therefore without admin rights). File-type associations are not registered.

The Microsoft Store (APPX) build is also installable per-user without admin rights via the Store.

### Windows on Arm

draw.io Desktop is built natively for Windows on Arm (ARM64) and is supported on Windows 11 ARM64 devices. Two native ARM64 downloads are published with every release:

- `draw.io-arm64-<version>-windows-arm64-installer.exe` — NSIS installer, per-machine, requires administrator privileges.
- `draw.io-arm64-<version>-windows-arm64-no-installer.exe` — portable build, no installation or admin rights needed.

The MSI and Microsoft Store builds are x64 only and run under emulation on ARM64 devices. ARM64 builds up to and including 31.4.4 were shipped with auto-update disabled; install a newer release manually once, after which the ARM64 installer build updates itself like x64.

Linux installation
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If you manage AppImages with [AppImageLauncher](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher), you need a 3.0 release of it (currently labelled beta). Since 31.4.2 the AppImage uses the static AppImage runtime so that it no longer depends on the end-of-life `libfuse2`, and AppImageLauncher 2.2.0, the last stable release, cannot load a static runtime. The app then fails to start with:

```
fuse: memory allocation failed
squashfuse 0.5.2 (c) 2012 Dave Vasilevsky
...
Can't open squashfs image: Bad address
```

Install a current AppImageLauncher from its [releases page](https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/releases), which provides .deb packages, or uninstall AppImageLauncher altogether. It is not needed to run the AppImage. See [#2538](https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/issues/2538) for the detail.

Updates
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How draw.io Desktop updates depends on how it was installed:

- **Windows installer (`.exe`), macOS and AppImage:** new versions download in the b