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ALL FREE TOOLS:
I like yEd from https://www.yWorks.com (If you like to move your mouse/cursor).
To render DLS I use http://blockdiag.com/en/actdiag/index.html
(PlantUML is complexer: it allows more complexity in your diagrams, but you have to write more code to get the same diagram rendered).
I think this page is very usefull for questions like this:
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draw.io can be used to draw flowcharts among other schematics and drawings. If you want an offline version, you can download the app at https://about.draw.io/integrations/.
I have used both the online and the offline versions for flowcharts on OSX and I can say they work quite well.
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