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Export a diagram as PDF, a slide deck, or a GIF of it drawing itself

Diagramly now exports PDF for everyone, and for Pro a 16:9 slides PDF plus an animated GIF or MP4 of the diagram sketching itself in, made for feeds.

13 October 20263 min readreleaseexport

The Share sheet's Image tab is now called Export, and it does a lot more than PNG and SVG. Here's a look at what's in it, and the one I'm most pleased with.

The Share sheet's Export tab with Picture, Drawing itself and Slides sections — Share → Export. Three groups: still pictures, the diagram drawing itself, and slides.

Still pictures: PNG, SVG and PDF

These three are free for everyone.

PNG at double resolution, for chat, slides and anywhere a picture goes.
SVG with the fonts embedded, so it looks the same on a machine that doesn't have them. It scales to any size and opens in Figma or a browser.
PDF, new: the whole diagram on one page at its natural size, rendered at 2× so it prints cleanly. For design docs and anything that gets attached to an email.

All of it is made in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

The diagram drawing itself

This is the one. A hand-drawn diagram already stands out in a feed. A diagram that draws itself stops the scroll. Here's a real export, straight from the GIF button:

An animated GIF of a checkout platform diagram sketching itself in, shape by shape — The actual output of the GIF export. Frames first, then shapes, then arrows, then it holds and loops.

GIF: 800 pixels wide, 20 frames a second, about five seconds, looping. For places that autoplay GIFs: GitHub READMEs, Slack, Notion, X.
Video: 1280 pixels wide at 30 frames a second. Chrome and Safari make an MP4; Firefox makes WebM. For LinkedIn, X, and inside a talk.

Both use the same choreography as Present mode, and the colours come from the finished diagram so nothing shifts while it builds. Rendering happens in the browser with a progress bar. Video takes a little longer than GIF, because browsers can only record in real time: the frames are rendered first, then played back into the recorder.

Slides: one page per frame

If you present a diagram with Present mode, the slides PDF gives you the same presentation as a file: a 16:9 page for every frame and pinned view, then an overview, each page showing what would have been drawn by then, with the slide's name and number in the corner. Send it to the organisers or keep it as the handout.

Which one when

You want to	Export
Paste a picture into a doc or chat	PNG
Edit it elsewhere or scale it up	SVG
Print it or attach it	PDF
Post it on GitHub, Slack or X	GIF
Post it on LinkedIn or put it in a talk	Video
Hand out the presentation	Slides PDF

Free and Pro

PNG, SVG and PDF are free. GIF, video and slides are part of Pro, along with unlimited saved diagrams, version history and publishing, for $6 a month or $48 a year. The buttons check your plan with the server when you press them, so there's nothing to set up: if you're on Pro, they just work.

Describe a system and the AI draws it, then Tidy lays it outDiagramly now draws from a sentence, edits on request, lays a messy diagram out in one click, routes arrows around shapes, and lets Pro users share templates.
Post a diagram on LinkedIn, X or GitHub that people actually stop forHand-drawn diagrams stand out in a feed, and one that draws itself stops the scroll. Which Diagramly export to use on LinkedIn, X, GitHub and Slack, and how.
Present a diagram like a talk, without making slidesDiagramly's Present mode turns frames and pinned views into slides. The camera flies between them and each shape sketches itself in as you speak.