Comments on: The best Visio alternative for Mac is OmniGraffle

By: Anne Kerman

Anne Kerman — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:08:25 +0000

I use that tool as well and I think it’s very good visio alternative. For ERD, UML, ORM, FlowCharts conceptdraw pro is excelent. I like the appearance of the diagrams Conceptdraw produces and this is an important consideration for me.

By: yuls

yuls — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:26:36 +0000

Omnigraffle does not support diagrams with swimlanes and therefore it is not a viable alternative to Visio.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:36:21 +0000

For serious & professional grafx – ConceptDraw is the best one.

By: Vasanth

Vasanth — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:03:22 +0000

Yeah, Lucid is perfect for simple needs.

By: siposon

siposon — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:22:06 +0000

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By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:59:35 +0000

Lucid charts (http://www.lucidchart.com) can be used on the iPad as well. It rocks!

By: Fijai

Fijai — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:31:49 +0000

Omnigraffle is available for iPad as well.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:57:16 +0000

Are any of these apps compatible with the ipad?? I need a visio type app i can use on my ipad.

By: Donovan Rittenbach

Donovan Rittenbach — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:00:26 +0000

I totally disagree. ConceptDraw Pro by Odessa is a superior diagramming that actually keeps connections between points when you are dragging around symbols for example. It has extensive shape libraries, connector types and more. It also opens Visio XML files.

IMHO

By: John M

John M — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:26:26 +0000

I too use a Mac. Since some of my colleagues use PCs, we ultimately decided to use an online application, specifically LucidChart. Since it’s online, we don’t have to worry about all the Mac-PC interface issues.

http://www.lucidchart.com

By: pierre

pierre — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:56:23 +0000

Yes, it opens .vsd files, as well as .vst and .vss files.

By: Roseann

Roseann — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:46:39 +0000

Does OmniGraffle open .vsd files?

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:28:35 +0000

OmniGraffle works well – you can export to Visio, but be careful to remove shadows, as Visio interprets these as black boxes and it doesn’t look good on a PC.

By: Jack Frost

Jack Frost — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:03:41 +0000

Visio also works just fine through Crossover Pro.

By: JamieH

JamieH — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:19:39 +0000

Personally, I use Mind meister. Browser based and free.