Lekh vs System Designer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lekh
This app provides an infinite canvas for freehand drawing and creating various diagrams. It intelligently converts sketches into precise shapes and connections, supporting a wide range of diagram types for business, design, and planning.
- Infinite canvas for drawing
- Smart diagram and flowchart creation
- Layout and inspection report drawing
- Swimlane and business process mapping
- Rapid UI wireframing
- Support for numerous diagram types
- Online and offline modes
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Lekh is a diagram and flowchart maker that understands your sketches. Draw a box, an arrow or a wall by hand and Lekh turns it into a clean shape. Make flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans and layouts, mind maps, UML and network diagrams, mark up photos and take visual notes, on Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web, online or offline. Infinite canvas: Lekh whiteboard offers an infinite canvas, giving you the freedom to draw concepts, ideas, or diagrams as if you had limitless and endless paper. Diagram & flowchart maker: You can draw flowchart shapes and diagramming shapes such as rectangles, circles, connection lines etc just by sketching. In smart mode, you draw as naturally as on paper, and Lekh automatically transforms your rough sketches into precise shapes and connections. Lekh features best-in-class shape recognition technology. Photo markup & visual notes: Import a photo, screenshot or plan and draw on it: circle problems, add arrows, measurements and text. Keep handwritten notes and sketches next to your diagrams on one infinite canvas. Floor plans, site plans & inspection drawings: Lekh is perfect for creating roof, window, or house inspection drawings where you need to design layouts and add measurements. With Lekh's smart mode, you can quickly sketch layouts on the screen and easily add text by double-clicking anywhere. It's also great for quickly drawing basic floor plans, house plans, street maps, parking lot layouts, fence layouts, and more. Mark posts and gates on a fence run, write window and door sizes on a photo of each opening, draw gutter and downspout runs on a house photo, and sketch deck, patio and shed site plans. Turn on scaling to draw to scale in inches or cm, write the measurements on, and export a PDF for your customer. Sketch simple wiring and electrical layouts with lines, shapes and labels. Swimlane diagram & business process mapping: With Lekh, you can create swimlane diagrams, process flow diagrams, and business process mapping diagrams. The Lekh shape library includes BPMN and Archimate shapes, allowing you to draw any type of business diagram. Rapid UI Wireframing: Lekh enables you to create UI wireframes swiftly. The shape library offers customizable wireframe shapes that can be easily configured to achieve your desired results in no time. More diagram types: With Lekh, you can create a wide variety of diagrams, including mindmaps, UML, ERD, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, use cases, data flow diagrams (DFD), org charts, and cloud architectures like AWS, GCP, and Azure, among others. Works with AI: Connect Lekh to Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to draw or change a diagram on your board. The result is a normal Lekh board you can keep editing by hand. Online and Offline mode: Lekh functions in both online and offline modes. In online mode, your drawings and diagrams are stored on the Lekh cloud, allowing you to access them from any device, including through browsers. This mode also enables real-time collaboration, where multiple users can draw on the same canvas simultaneously. In offline mode, all drawings are saved directly to your device, and no internet connection is needed. Cross platform: Lekh is a cross-platform app that works on a wide range of devices, including browsers. Visit our homepage to learn more. Free and Individual plans: Free: 3 cloud boards and unlimited boards on your device. Individual plan: unlimited cloud boards, sync, real-time collaboration and custom shape libraries. We appreciate every feedback we receive. Your constant interest and improvement ideas keep the updates coming. Check out https://lekh.app for more info. Reach out to us at info@lekhapp.com for any query. Visit our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiNazNZGwEkefO_kJXXdX6g for video demos. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
System Designer
Design complex systems using a low-code platform that leverages UML standards. Generate code skeletons and manage components graphically. Run and test your system with dynamic type checking.
- UML-based system modeling
- Code skeleton generation
- Graphical component creation
- MSON format for model definition
- Dynamic type checking
- Cross-device synchronization via GitHub
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System Designer is a low-code development platform for creating systems. No matter the frameworks you use and the code you write, the most important is the model that you define to create your system. System Designer helps you to design this model and to generate the classes and components to build your system. DESIGN YOUR SYSTEM WITH EASE If you look at the different JavaScript frameworks on the market, you will notice that they all have their own way to define a model, generally only with code. System Designer uses UML, a standard, to define your model. So you probably already know how to design in System Designer even if you have never run it. The definition of the model is stored on a JSON format called MSON. With MSON you can define types, classes, one to one / one to many relationships and multi inheritance between classes. CODE THE BEHAVIOR OF YOUR SYSTEM Once you have created your model, System Designer generates the skeletons of all your methods. You only have then to add your code to implement them. System Designer provides you helpers to manage your components. You can easily navigate threw your components to create your application. CREATE COMPONENTS GRAPHICALLY There is no need to code to instantiate a component. Create a component in System Designer is like creating a document in a NoSQL Database. In fact, System Designer acts as an ODM (Object-Document Mapper) to manage your components as NoSQL Documents. RUN YOUR SYSTEM You can run your system directly from System Designer. Because you have defined a model for your application, a Dynamic Type Check is done on every action of your system. All warnings are send and shown in System Designer. DESIGN ON THE GO System Designer can be used on macOS, iPad or any browsers. System Designer has a Github module to synchronize your work between all these apps. You can begin your design on your Mac and then continue it on your iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: System Designer at none against Lekh's 2. System Designer also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.2). Lekh's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lekh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. System Designer asks for nothing beyond the download.
System Designer holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Lekh's written reviews are positive against 78% of System Designer's.
Lekh ships an update fortnightly, System Designer monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lekh | System Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (15 ratings) | 4.4 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEKHAPP LLC | Erwan Carriou |
Customer experience
Lekh
System Designer
In-app purchases
Lekh
- Lekh Premium for one month$3.991 Month
- Lekh Premium for one year$34.991 Year
System Designer
No in-app purchases








