Teachers & students
Bring the water cycle, the digestive system or a history timeline to life, with numbered steps that match your lesson.
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Make your diagrams move
Drop in a flowchart, process or architecture diagram, trace the arrows, and export a glowing, looping GIF, video or SVG that drops straight into your slides, docs and posts.
Three steps to a moving diagram
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Bring a diagram
Drag in a screenshot, paste from your clipboard, or start from a ready-made template: a water cycle, a process flow, an org chart and more.
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Trace the flow
Drag over each arrow with straight, curved or elbow lines. Pick a style, add step numbers and labels, and watch it animate live.
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Export and share
Download a seamlessly looping GIF, a video, or an SVG. Choose slide, square or vertical shapes and a small file size for email and chat.
Made for anyone who explains things
If it has arrows, it can flow. No design or coding skills needed.
Product managers & consultants
Make a customer journey or approval process easy to follow in a deck, so your audience watches the flow instead of squinting at arrows.
Engineers & technical writers
Show how a request moves through your system in a README or runbook, with a lightweight animated SVG you can paste anywhere.
Creators & marketers
Turn an infographic or funnel into a scroll-stopping loop, exported in square or vertical shapes for social.
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
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Ready-made templates
Six starters across education, business and tech. Edit every part.
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Labels, steps & highlights
Text, numbered badges and pulsing boxes that guide the eye in order.
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One-click style presets
Neon, subtle, data stream, ping. Apply one look to every flow at once.
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Slide, square & vertical
16:9, 4:3, 1:1 and 9:16 exports that fit the diagram without cropping it.
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Small, seamless GIFs
Loops with no visible jump, with size presets for email, slides or sharpest quality.
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Undo & autosave
Pick up where you left off: your latest diagram is kept in your browser.
Your diagrams stay on your device
DiagramPulse does all its work inside your browser. Your images aren’t uploaded to a server, so internal architecture diagrams and unreleased slides stay private. Ads, which keep DiagramPulse free, come from Google and never see your diagrams. Read the privacy details.
Learn how, in a few minutes
Short guides to animating diagrams and getting them into slides, docs and lessons.
6 min read
How to Animate an Architecture Diagram
Turn a system architecture diagram into a looping animation that shows how requests flow, in about five minutes and for free. Step by step, in your browser.
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How to Add an Animated Diagram to Your Slides
Make a diagram move in your presentation: which format to export, the right size and loop length, and how to insert it in PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote.
6 min read
Build a Diagram from Text with Quick Build
Type a few lines like "order -> kafka -> notifications" and get a laid-out, connected, animated diagram. The full syntax, with examples you can paste.
Questions
Why are there ads?
DiagramPulse is free to use, and a few small ads pay for hosting. They sit on this page and in a slim bar below the editor, never over your diagram, and you can hide the bar with its close button. Your diagrams are never sent to the advertiser. See the privacy details.
How do I add the animation to PowerPoint or Google Slides?
Export a GIF, then use Insert → Image (PowerPoint) or Insert → Image → Upload from computer (Google Slides). GIFs loop automatically in slideshow mode. Use the “Small” size if you want a lighter file.
Which format should I choose?
GIF works almost everywhere, including email and chat. Video is the sharpest and smallest for websites and social. SVG is a tiny, crisp vector that you can paste into docs and READMEs.
Do you upload or store my images?
No. Everything is processed in your browser, including reading the boxes, arrows and text in a screenshot. Your latest project is autosaved in your own browser’s storage so you can come back to it.
Is it free?
Yes, DiagramPulse is free to use right now, with no account required.
Which browsers work?
Current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Video export uses your browser’s built-in recorder, so the file type (WebM or MP4) depends on the browser.