8th of April
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View all reviews| Total integrations | 2 |
| Dropbox |
| GitHub |
| Google Drive |
| HipChat |
| JIRA Software |
| PagerDuty |
| Salesforce Sales Cloud |
| Slack |
| Zapier |
| Zendesk |
| Bitium |
| Opsgenie |
| Box |
| Mailchimp |
| NetSuite |
| Trello |
| Office 365 |
| ServiceNow |
$5.00/month
4th of April
Yes
View all reviews| Total integrations | 12 |
| Dropbox |
| GitHub |
| Google Drive |
| HipChat |
| JIRA Software |
| PagerDuty |
| Salesforce Sales Cloud |
| Slack |
| Zapier |
| Zendesk |
| Bitium |
| Opsgenie |
| Box |
| Mailchimp |
| NetSuite |
| Trello |
| Office 365 |
| ServiceNow |
$5.95/month
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| Dropbox |
| GitHub |
| Google Drive |
| HipChat |
| JIRA Software |
| PagerDuty |
| Salesforce Sales Cloud |
| Slack |
| Zapier |
| Zendesk |
| Bitium |
| Opsgenie |
| Box |
| Mailchimp |
| NetSuite |
| Trello |
| Office 365 |
| ServiceNow |
No information available
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| Dropbox |
| GitHub |
| Google Drive |
| HipChat |
| JIRA Software |
| PagerDuty |
| Salesforce Sales Cloud |
| Slack |
| Zapier |
| Zendesk |
| Bitium |
| Opsgenie |
| Box |
| Mailchimp |
| NetSuite |
| Trello |
| Office 365 |
| ServiceNow |
No information available
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| Diagramming Software for Super Fast Interactive Visuals | Diagram tool to draw any type of chart or diagram |
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| Starting from 5/mo | Starting from 5.95/mo |
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| 4.3 | 3.9 |
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| 4.3 | 4.0 |
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97% | 84% |
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Quickly create professional quality diagrams.
Pros
You can create complex flowchart across most Operating Systems either from the desktop application or through the web browser.
Cons
Finicky when trying to be very precise where you want even with snap-to grids can be a problem. Also can be a resource hog on both the desktop and browser version.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Create Organizational charts, for the most part, with ease.
Pros
I love that I can set up an organizational chart fairly easily and make it as large as I'd like to.
Cons
Wish there were more printing options for a large chart. Though it's fairly user friendly, it also has some challenges. I wish it was a little easier.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Quickly created working flow charts and diagrams for presentations
Pros
Streamlined usability Intuitive tool makes producing various diagrams and flowcharts much more Efficient
Cons
Importing tools are limited often requiring creation of docs from scratch
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
The ability to create powerful, moving charts and mind maps.
Pros
My absolute favorite thing about SmartDraw is the simple drag and drop to build out anything from mind maps to flowcharts and more. An especially good investment for anyone needing to make their ideas clear and points understood in a powerful way.
Cons
The design of the dashboard could be better. It is a bit boring for all that it does. The layout would be better if I had the whole screen and the options to drag and drop were at the top.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Free Trial
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I have easily used this software, I have created plans and diagrams for my work without problems.
Pros
It is a much easier to use design software than others, has excellent templates with shapes and symbols to make flowcharts, bar charts and graphs, and allows you to make custom templates, is excellent software for making plans without the need for an architect.
Cons
The software is a bit heavy and installation is slow. I think it's very expensive.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
We help to create diagrams and the color of the sea, the technicians and the professional results.
Cons
You can prove the fault for seven days, from then on its use requires an individual license. there are things to improve
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
As an HR professional, I wanted a tool to create organizational charts that made good looking charts and was easy to use.
If you are trying to do small professional projects, or simply create a blueprint of you home, SmartDraw's ease of use and robust set of options make it the smart choice over competitors.
Pros
Where this software really shines for our business is its ease of use for submittal drawings when bidding and creating contracts for jobs.
Cons
It can be a bit finicky in trying to get it to do exactly what you want it to do. Its ease of use sometimes means that you are fighting those very elements that make it easy to make it do what you want it to do. Snap to grids and the like, while toggle-able, provide an annoyance when they should "just work".
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
We were originally looking to use this software for creating an org chart and have found many other reasons to use it.
Cons
Connecting the lines can be a bit frustrating at times but it could just be the lack of experience with it. Seems like it should be more than capable of doing a quick job of any project.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Now we use it infrequently when we need to create a simple visual.
Pros
This product ships with a lot of prebuilt content, templates that can let you create quick and easy diagrams, visuals, etc for presentations.
Cons
Project plans look create, but when you need to update 1 date good luck. ugh.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I tried Smartdraw for the first time in 2016 and I was impressed by the ease of use ; I understood the major workings around this program in a matter of days.I have used Smart draw for Gantt style charting , simple drawings ,including floor drawings when I moved to my new home a while back. Smartdraw provides users with a variety of modules ,making it a program which can be leveraged by different professionals in different career fields.
Cons
I have also found out that when creating Gantt charts with this program , I am limited in the number of coloumns I am allowed to use.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
This is a better way to create flowcharts than slowly trucking through a PowerPoint or Word document, and the end product is much more put together
Cons
It is more difficult to navigate, but once you get the hang of it it's kind of fun to start designing
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Pros
This allows you to create flowcharts, other diagrams, calendars, flowcharts, family trees, architectural plans, maps and other types of graphics to make presentations.
Cons
Having a computer with enough processing capacity and memory so that it does not become slow to work in this application because it requires a lot of resources.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
The diagramming is excellent for getting the information to others, helps to understand and document ideas, with this software the experience is unique, we have presented ideas of work, organization in diagrams and diagrams that have allowed us to understand, visualize the flow of information circulating in our area and the importance of each step we take from beginning to end
Pros
Create your diagrams and document the processes step by step of your workflow, ideal for planning strategies, powerful and easy to use, contains many templates to choose from to make your visual presentations.
Cons
The price can be a problem, since it is really expensive
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Can create your mind maps and complex flowchart of any kind with ease.
Cons
So i didn't find anything and i will strongly recommend this for pm and business analyst activities.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Rohit,
Thank you for taking the time to write a review, I'm happy to hear SmartDraw worked well for you. If you need anything, please do not hesitate to reach out.
US: 800-768-3729
International: +1 858 225 3300
email: support@smartdraw.com
-Chris
Pros
I'm not the most artistic person, but with SmartDraw it allows me to create charts and drawings that look very professional.
Cons
Can be slow to install and resource hungry if you are trying to use this on an older machine it might frustrate you.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Pros
SmartDraw gives us the ability to create custom workflow charts for various processes in our business.
Cons
I have problems making changes or additions to charts at times when I started with free trial. Had to buy individual license before i was able to finish learning to use.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Pros
With SmartDraw, I can create visual documents in an easy way, in addition to streamline the work, smartDraw has templates that come with a library of shapes and symbols, which I can use with just drag them to the worksheet.
Cons
-Consume abundant resources, and its installation is so slow that it becomes tedious waiting until fully charged.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Overall, it does everything you need it to do and it is easy to use.
Pros
I like the ability to create everything from mindmaps to flowcharts.
Cons
It does seem to slow down my laptop when I'm using it. I don't know if this is the software itself or if this is a result of older technology but it does consume a lot of resources.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
You can create all kinds of graphics that you can then use in your presentations by exporting to PowerPoint.
Cons
It consumes abundant resources, its installation is very slow and it is very complex so you need to know it to be able to use.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Pros
You can create all kinds of graphics that you can then use in your presentations by exporting to PowerPoint.
Cons
It can be tested without limit for a while, and then its use requires an individual license, although the cost is relatively low.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
communication support and good way to share knowledge with others
Pros
I use SmartDraw to create: process maps, easy mindmaps, data flows and creative mix of ideas.
Cons
I'd like to see more options in mindmapping area, to be able to manage task information in advanced way.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
What I love about SmartDraw is the Mind Mapping feature, which allows me to create tasks in a visually friendly way that mimics brainstorming.
Pros
Well organized and very easy to move data to other Microsoft Office applications (including Microsoft Project) or Adobe .pdf. There are also some great graphics and geographic maps in the library for use with presentations, flyers, floorplans, etc.
Cons
In the Gantt chart, there is a limited number of columns that can be used.
Pros
If you do not find a template that you like, you can create a customized template that suits your project, Photos, and images.
Cons
It consumes abundant resources if your machine is slow it can become tedious to work, besides its installation is slow
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
