Fishbone Diagram Maker

Create professional fishbone and cause and effect diagrams

The Easy Choice for Creating Fishbone and Ishikawa Diagrams Online

Easy to Use

Click simple commands and SmartDraw builds your fishbone diagram for you. Add or remove a branch, and SmartDraw realigns and arranges all the elements so that everything looks great.

Easy to Work With Other Apps

SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add fishbone diagrams to:

  • Microsoft Office®
    • Word®
    • PowerPoint®
    • Excel®
  • Microsoft Teams®
  • Google Workspace
    • Google Docs
    • Google Sheets
  • Atlassian apps
    • Confluence
    • Jira

Easy to Save to Your Existing Storage Solution

SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your fishbone diagrams directly to:

  • SharePoint®
  • OneDrive®
  • Google Drive
  • DropBox®
  • Box®

There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.

Easy to Share

Share your cause and effect diagram with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link. You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image formats like PNG or SVG.

Easy to Share

Easy to Get Help

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Easy to Get Help

Easy Collaboration

SmartDraw makes it easy to collaborate with your team so you can work together and examine why something happened with potential causes and effects.

You can save your fishbone diagram to a shared folder and work on it together. Your team can easily add comments and feedback.

SmartDraw also works where you already communicate with your team. You can collaborate on cause and effect diagrams in Microsoft Teams®, Slack or Confluence.

Collaborate on Fishbone Diagrams

The Best Fishbone Diagram Maker

The power of SmartDraw lies in the number of templates and examples you'll have access to. Select a fishbone template, add "bones" to the diagram, and type in your information. It's that simple.

SmartDraw's fishbone diagram maker does much of the drawing for you. Causes are connected automatically and you can move or delete them without having to redraw connections manually. Let SmartDraw help you do the drawing while you explore the causes and effects of your process.

Fishbone diagram template

Fishbone Diagram Examples and Templates

Dozens of professionally designed fishbone diagram examples make you instantly productive. Simply choose the template that is most similar to your project, and customize it to suit your needs.

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