License agreement
By downloading any version of Charta you accept the following license agreement. Please read it carefully.
- Charta is being developed by Charta Software.
- Copyright of Charta lies with the developers.
- Charta can be downloaded and used free of charge only for personal purposes.
- To use Charta commercially one should contact Charta Software and ask for special permission.
- The software is provided "as is". Therefore, the developers of Charta cannot be held responsible for any damage that might be caused by using Charta.
- The developers of Charta reserve the right to change the license agreement in the future.
Download
Charta can be downloaded here.
Installation
Installation of Charta is simple. Just unzip the downloaded file to the folder you want. Charta can be started by double clicking Charta.exe. For extra information about the installation and use of the demo also in the .zip file view the following sub article:
Please note that Charta will automatically create a database file called charta.data when Charta is started for the first time. To keep the all files belonging to Charta together, it will be handy to put Charta in its own empty folder.
If charta.data is already present and Charta cannot start properly, the newer version of Charta probably is not compatible with the older version. You will first have to remove all data files manually. After that, Charta should start fine but unfortunately there is a risk that your data will be lost, because at the moment Charta is not guaranteed to be backwards compatible because of its beta status. To prevent this use the export as XML function to export the .data file to a XML file. This XML file can then be imported in the new version.
Current status
Charta is still very much in development and this is noticeable when you are working with it. But, some people with modest needs might already find the current version useful. Also, people who just want to know more about Charta and try things out themselves are encouraged to download Charta.