Two big updates this release:

1. Exports got a full redesign. The new export modal puts scope first — export your whole diagram, or use subset export to multiselect just the tables you need and export only those, across every format. Paid plans can now also export to SVG — crisp, infinitely scalable vector output for docs and slides, generated instantly in your browser.

2. A canvas minimap makes big diagrams easy to navigate. Turn it on from the canvas toolbar menu (or press Option+M / Alt+M) to see your whole schema at a glance and jump around without endless panning.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Group colors — set a color for an entire group at once from the group menu

• Relationships — Fixed: deleting a table now clears its relationship lines instead of leaving them behind

Questions, decisions, and context can now live exactly where they belong: next to the schema.

Start a thread on any table, group, or sticky note by right-clicking it and choosing Discuss, or create a diagram-level thread from the Discussions panel. In multiplayer diagrams, replies appear in real time, and numbered badges show open threads on each node.

Resolve threads when they’re settled. New replies reopen them automatically, and unread indicators make it easy to see what changed.

Open the Discussions panel from the right side, or toggle it with Cmd+; / Ctrl+;

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Comment access — a new "Can comment" permission under the Share menu lets you invite teammates or guests to start and reply to threads without giving them edit rights

• Locate highlight — tables, groups, and sticky notes you locate from the sidebar, command palette, AI chat, or a discussion thread now pulse a soft aqua glow so you can spot them instantly

• Hover outline — tables, groups, and sticky notes now show a subtle outline when you hover them, so it's clear what you're about to select

You can now right-click any table, group, or sticky note to act on it right where your cursor is — no trip up to the toolbar. The menu gives you Copy, Cut, Duplicate, and Delete, plus Add column and Add index on tables. Right-click a relationship to delete it, or right-click empty canvas to paste. Every action mirrors its keyboard shortcut, so the menu doubles as a reminder of the one you forgot.

3 major improvements landed:

1. Image export got a big upgrade. New formats to pick from — JPG and the smaller WebP — plus a Print mode that drops the grid and canvas shadow for a clean white background, so your diagrams go straight into docs, slides, or an actual printer. Also, paid plans now export with no watermark.

2. We taught DrawSQL AI to think about space. It now understands how your diagram is laid out, so new tables land where they make sense instead of off in an empty corner — and things stay tidy as your schema grows.

3. The auto-layout algorithm behind Cmd+Shift+L (Ctrl+Shift+L) was rebuilt — tighter spacing, fewer crossing relationship lines, and cleaner handling of groups and the tables nested inside them.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Canvas UI — double-click anywhere on a table/group header or sticky note to rename it, instead of aiming for the small edit button

• AI chat error visibility — when the AI provider returns an error, the chat now tells you instead of silently stalling

• Importer — Fixed several SQL import edge cases — MySQL AUTO_INCREMENT on indexed columns, duplicate foreign keys, composite foreign keys, PostgreSQL CHECK constraints, and multi-element array defaults

The relationship popup got a major upgrade — smarter positioning that avoids overlapping your tables, animated lines on selected relationship that shows direction, and a new swap action to flip source and destination. Source and destination columns are now highlighted on the canvas so you can see more context of the connection at a glance.

New Auto-layout action. Cmd+Shift+L (Ctrl+Shift+L) arranges your entire diagram — tables, sticky notes, groups — into a clean layout that follows relationship lines. Select a few elements first to layout just those. Also in the toolbar's overflow menu (...) and the command palette.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Bulk table color change — select multiple tables (or a table group) and pick a color from the toolbar's overflow menu. All selected tables update at once

• Create Group shortcut — press Cmd+G (Ctrl+G) to instantly create a group from selected tables or sticky notes

• Visibility badge — public diagrams now show a badge in the canvas navbar

• Template search — refreshed the template gallery search UI

• SQL import relationship inference — SQL import now links foreign keys to tables that already exist in your diagram, not just newly created ones

• Canvas performance — large diagrams now load and preview noticeably faster

• Fixed share modal where clicking a teammate's checkbox did not register

• Fixed "Move to folder" popover closing immediately when clicked; the option is now hidden when the team has no folders

• Fixed command palette losing focus on open; fixed help docs search returning stale results

• Fixed login on template pages redirecting to the dashboard instead of back to the template

• Fixed a bug when quickly switching between diagrams

• Fixed edge case issue causing intermittent issues when adding tables in certain scenarios

• Fixed fullscreen toggle errors on browsers that don't support the Fullscreen API

A round of improvements to DrawSQL AI since launch — diff summaries that show exactly what each response changed, stop and regenerate for mid-stream corrections, and several interaction fixes across the editor.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• AI diff summary — each AI response now shows a compact summary of what changed (tables added, columns updated, etc.) so you can decide whether to keep or undo each change.

• Stop and regenerate — cancel an in-progress AI response and regenerate it — the stopped response is replaced with a fresh attempt using the same prompt

• Fixed keyboard shortcuts in AI panel — canvas keyboard shortcuts (copy, paste, undo, delete, etc.) are now disabled when focus is inside the AI chat panel, so standard text editing works naturally

• AI error messages — now user-friendly instead of showing internal validation jargon

• Fixed AI-created groups not containing existing tables — groups now reposition and resize to wrap around the tables they contain

• Fixed moving a group not moving the tables inside it

• New diagrams now show a streamlined launchpad

• Fixed intermittent crashes in the navigation bar user dropdown

• Fixed "Add a description" button not responding when no description existed yet

Meet DrawSQL AI—a schema design assistant built right into the diagram editor. Describe your app in plain language and watch tables, columns, relationships, and indexes appear on your canvas. Ask it to review an existing schema for missing indexes, naming drift, or normalization issues. Or point it at a legacy schema and get safe refactoring suggestions you can apply with one click.

The AI understands your DBMS, detects your naming conventions, and applies changes directly to the canvas—every modification is shown as a visual diff you can review

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Clearer guest access tooltips for free and solo plan users

• New "Locate nodes" button in the multiselect panel to scroll the canvas to the selected elements

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Revamped canvas scroll and trackpad zoom and pan behaviour — scrolling, pinching, and panning on the canvas now feels natural and responsive across all devices

• SQL export now includes table and column comments for all supported DBMS

• Support IDENTITY columns for SQL Server

• Fixed a bug causing inverted foreign key relationships in SQL exports

• Faster image exports with a new Standard (Fast) and High Quality option

DrawSQL now differentiates whether a column default is a SQL function, numeric value, or string literal—and infers & exports them accordingly. Enter now() and it exports as DEFAULT now() (unquoted). Enter 123 on a numeric column and it exports as DEFAULT 123. Enter pending and it exports as DEFAULT 'pending' (quoted).

Depending on the DBMS: PostgreSQL accepts any function call, while MySQL and SQL Server validate against known built-ins. Override by wrapping in single quotes: e.g. 'now()' forces string treatment.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fixed sticky notes with blank lines in content causing a render error

You can now drop Sticky Notes anywhere on the canvas to annotate your diagrams. Document design decisions, leave reminders for teammates, or call out areas that need attention—right next to the tables they relate to.

Added support for PostgreSQL array data types. You can now define columns with array types such as integer[], text[], varchar[], and more. The importer has also been updated to correctly parse and import array data types from your existing PostgreSQL schemas.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fix MySQL exporter issue when diagrams contain YEAR or DATE column types

Introducing Table Groups—a clean way to cluster related tables into clear subject areas so big diagrams stay readable. Grouped sections move as one, and collapse when you need focus—speeding up layout, reducing visual noise, and making collaboration smoother at any scale.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• New inspector left panel for multiselect & bulk actions

• Improved multiselect lasso to show included elements within the region

• Improved visuals table list sidebar

• New "Add new" toolbar for precise placement when adding new nodes

• Editor - Keep node selected when panning canvas

• Fix missing leading underscore in Laravel migrations export

• Fix Laravel migrations export when driver data type param is 0

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Import - New option to overwrite existing table, when there's a duplicated table name in the import

• New keyboard shortcut - Cmd/Ctrl + A to select all tables

• All SQL exports - Handle cases when auto-generated index names are too long as they show as warnings when being imported.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Added missing SET datatype to MySQL

• Adonis Export - Include column params when exporting specificType columns

• Importer - Import ENUM and SET values

We've made a bunch of improvements to the zoom in zoom out experience:

• ⚡ Major performance upgrade when zooming in and out with the mouse or trackpad. It now feels less janky and much smoother

• 🎯 Improved zoom feel – Navigating around a larger diagram now feels more natural and fluid.

• 🔍 Smarter zoom intervals when using zoom buttons, for a more intuitive experience.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fixed bug with column data type input not updating correctly during undo and redo, if the input is focused

• Fixed issue with cut/copy/paste not working within text fields

Many of you have been waiting for this — and it's finally live.

Collaborate with your team in real-time, with instant updates, live cursors, and a smooth multiplayer experience.
This marks the next phase for DrawSQL, and we're just getting started. Available now on all team plans.

Added functionality to clone a selection of tables and the attached relationships. We've also added the related keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl/Cmd + X to cut

• Ctrl/Cmd + C to copy

• Ctrl/Cmd + V to paste

• Ctrl/Cmd + D to duplicate

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Enhanced importer, added ability to undo after an import

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fixed intermittent issue where clicks do not register on edit table name button

• Fixed issue with leftbar overlapping diagram even when collapsed

A visual quick-win for navigating your database schema - when selecting any table, its attached relationships are now highlighted to help visually find sibling tables.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Focus on edit table name input on creating new tables

• Hide update relationship popup when view-only mode

• Fixed intermittent issue where two clicks are sometimes needed to edit table name

• Exporter - Fixed issue when exporting to Laravel migration, when enum values contains colon

We’ve rolled out Undo and Redo support to improve your database diagram editing experience. Effortlessly prototype and rollback changes. — enjoy! 😎

1. Undo: Made an unintentional change? Simply use Cmd/Ctrl + Z to revert your last action, whether it’s moving a table, editing a column or removing a relation.

2. Redo: Undid something and changed your mind? Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Z will bring it right back!

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Highlight selected column in sidebar and in canvas

• Bring selected table to front in canvas

• Improved visual display of active table in sidebar

• Fixed occasional positioning issue on table resize

• Fixed issue with incorrect index data displayed on canvas when a column is unselected from a composite index

Added some new keyboard shortcuts this release:

• Add column to last table

  • MacOS: Meta + Enter (With no table selected)

  • Windows: Control + Enter (With no table selected)

• Add index to last table

  • MacOS: Meta + ' (With no table selected)

  • Windows: Control + ' (With no table selected)

• Add index to selected table

  • MacOS: Meta + ' (With table selected)

  • Windows: Control + ' (With table selected)

• Toggle sidebar

  • MacOS: Meta + \

  • Windows: Control + \

• Save

  • MacOS: Meta + s

  • Windows: Control + s

Visit the keyboard shortcuts documentation page for a full list of shortcuts.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fix importer bug when handling statements with 'USING BTREE'

• Visual enhancements for tooltips in canvas

This one's for the pro users - we're introducing the command palette to supercharge your editing workflow. Here’s what’s new:

• Quick Access to Contextual Actions: No more hunting around for buttons or fields. Hit Cmd + / (or Ctrl + /) to instantly bring up the palette with suggested actions, or search for any action you need.

• Lightning-Fast Navigation: Search to locate and jump to any table or column, both in the sidebar or on the main canvas.

• Fuzzy Search: Don’t worry about exact matches – the palette is smart enough to figure out what you mean, even if your spelling is off.

• More Commands Coming: We've included all the essential actions in this first release, but we're just getting started. Let us know if you have any suggestions for useful ones to add!

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Improved behaviours for lasso and multi-select modes

A small QoL improvement to navigating the canvas - you can now quickly locate tables in the canvas from the left panel.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Button to collapse any expanded tables on the left panel

• Improved handling of geometry datatypes

• Added geography datatype for all schemas

• Fixed export issue with subset of datatypes

New supported format, export and import database schema to/from JSON. The JSON object contains details of every table, column, index and relationships, useful for recreating your DB schema via an import, or for tracking a snapshot of your DB schema in git.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• UX refresh of the import modal to better show the multiple steps

• Show DBMS/database type in diagram listing

We’ve turbocharged diagram load and save speed with performance tweaks across the board. Every diagram should feel quicker to load & save. Even more so for large diagrams with complex relations - They’ll load in 1/10th (or less) the time compared to what it was before!

We've reworked the DDL/schema importer, which provides major improvements in parsing PgSQL and SQLSrv DDL syntaxes. Some other notable improvements in the importer:

• Parses foreign key constraint DDL statements to import relationships between table columns, and can infer their cardinality

• Parses and imports enum values

• Improved algorithm for auto-layout of tables post-import

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fix issue with diagram ownership and view count when cloning templates.

• Improve routing logic for relationship lines in canvas editor v2, includes scenario where a column has multiple relationships

• Fix issue with table comment showing when empty

• Fix issue with missing relationship port when adding new column

Added support for defining enum values for enum data types. Also updated the exporter to include these enum values for all export formats.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Show icon on hover columns, to make it clearer visually that columns can be reordered by dragging

• Revamped tooltips in canvas editor v2 to trigger on click instead of hover

• Visual update of the column attribute tooltip, with a more succinct layout, and to show the new enum values

Added the ability to duplicate tables within the schema editor. This feature allows users to quickly create copies of existing tables, including their column and indexes along with all their attributes. A straightforward addition, but should speed up the process of designing schemas, especially when tables share similar structures.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Infrastructure updates. Page loads are noticeably quicker across the board. Also huge improvement in time to generate the preview images in the diagram cards on the dashboard

Happy New Year 2024! We've been working on a new version of our canvas editor, the first major update to the canvas since launch. While it looks and feels the same as the current editor, under the hoods everything have been optimised for snappier performance and modularity for implementing next iteration of canvas QoL features.

The performance gains brings about huge improvement to the diagramming experience, and are even more apparent for larger diagrams of 50 tables or more. We've measured 9x to 12x reduction in canvas load time, and more importantly actions are snappier and more responsive when editing the diagram and moving things around.

Some new features that are immediately available with the new canvas:

1. Table resizing

   • Users can now adjust table sizes for better layout customisation.

2. Snap to grid

   • For more precise alignment of elements on the canvas.

3. New lasso tool

   • For bulk selecting tables, and performing actions on multiple tables (e.g. repositioning) as a group

Additionally, these features are upcoming soon on the new canvas editor

• Custom path of relationship lines between tables

• Search

• Jump to table

• ... and more

This new canvas is being gradually rolled out over January, would love to hear of any feedback from using it.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fix issue with text selection in inputs in the left panel

• Fix issue with Laravel migration export when there's a colon in default val

• Fix issue with all exports, where column defaults were not being generated when they have a value of 0

Users can now invite people external to their team as guests, providing them with view access to individual database diagrams. This is especially useful for sharing private diagrams securely with temporary contractors, auditors, or stakeholders outside the team.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fixed issue when inviting team members or groups without also inviting a guest

• Fixed a bug where the diagram edit modal was not showing on the dashboard/diagram listing page

• Fixed the slow load time of the "Members & Groups" page

Following the release of the revamped diagram permissions, we've added User Groups, which would allow easier bulk assignment of diagram permissions to a common group of users. We've also added a config so that you can define default group(s) that will be automatically assigned for each new diagrams.

Refer to the docs on User Groups to learn more.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Allow length to be specified when setting default column datatype, eg: CHAR(36)

We have deployed a major revamp of diagram permissions. Previously, every team member had access to all diagrams in the team. The admin could determine whether it was view-only access (e.g., observers) or full access (e.g., editors).

With today's release, you can now configure access permissions on a per-diagram and per-user basis. Any user can be granted view-only access, edit access, or admin access to individual diagrams. This new feature provides even greater flexibility in managing data access, particularly for larger teams.

For more information on diagram-level permissions, please refer to the additional documentation available here.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Fix exporter handling of default values with keywords

• Fix exporter generating non-valid syntax when columns have auto-increments attribute

The diagrams index page is one of the most frequently used pages but has not received much attention since its inception. As teams are now creating even more diagrams, it is becoming increasingly challenging to browse and locate the desired diagram. The slow page load speed exacerbates this issue.

This week, we have added sorting options to address this. Diagrams can now be sorted by their creation date, updated date (the default), or alphabetically. Moreover, we have significantly improved the page load speed. We identified and resolved two main bottlenecks that were causing this slowness:

1. Presigned urls for the diagram images were loaded sequentially, and these were performed in sync with the main diagram listing query.

2. We had a N+1 query issue that had snuck into the main query

3. We were needlessly loading the entire diagram schema for each diagram

Overall, users should notice a considerable improvement in the page's performance with this update.

Finally, a long-awaited feature enabled by our new backend rebuild has arrived. We occasionally hear painful stories of users losing their work due to sudden interruptions or simply forgetting to hit the save button. Autosave does not completely prevent data loss, but it effectively minimizes any lost effort by autosaving at 5-minute intervals.

🌟 Improvements and Fixes

• Importer to parse column comment and column datatype params (MySQL)

• Set a default table name if it's empty

• Fixed missing length param for VARCHAR datatype (SQL Server)

• Fixed incorrect default length for VARCHAR and CHAR datatypes