yFiles Basic contains essential classes and data types for graph analysis tasks. It provides efficient implementations of advanced data types like graph or priority queue. It furthermore makes a wide variety of graph and network algorithms available which form an indispensable toolkit for any network analysis tasks.

yFiles Viewer builds upon yFiles Basic. It provides a powerful graph viewer component and other Swing-based GUI elements. The viewer component is showcased in the yEd graph editor application. Other notable features of yFiles Viewer are its support for diverse graph formats (e.g. GML, YGF, JPG, GIF, etc.), and its printing capabilities.

yFiles Layout builds upon yFiles Basic. It provides a perfect suite of graph layout algorithms which offer unequaled opportunities. A multitude of layout styles like hierarchical, orthogonal, or circular are provided as easy-to-integrate components which can be configured programmatically to suit most layout demands. Additionally, yFiles provides edge routing algorithms that make it possible to route edges into existing diagrams easily.