# Ameliorate

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Ameliorate and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free app for visual diagrams, suited to running LEAN activities. Critics question the graph interface and find it hard to navigate.

## Why people recommend it

- Visual way to run LEAN activities (1 comments): "I think this can be a good visual way to run LEAN activities" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402216))
- Shareable examples people can reuse (1 comments): "Here are some I could share" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383971))

## What people warn about

- Graph creation interface questioned (1 comments): "I question if the interface is optimal for creating the graphs vs something more conversational" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403194))
- Hard to know where to look (1 comments): "one major issue with the app has been that it's just hard to know where you're supposed to look" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406201))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Excalidraw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/excalidraw.md): 56 recommend
- [Monodraw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/monodraw.md): 17 recommend
- [draw.io](https://hackerapproved.com/p/draw-io.md): 16 recommend
- [Microsoft Visio](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-visio.md): 10 recommend
- [OmniGraffle](https://hackerapproved.com/p/omnigraffle.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ameliorate", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ameliorate/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).