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Apache OpenOffice
OpenOffice is excellent for quick use to accomplish the same tasks as competitors. It's useful for personal use as well as note-taking or presentations within the business setting.
Business Owner
Lucky Whisker LLCOnline Media, 1-10 employees
draw.io
draw.io will work well for you if you're looking to quickly put together a diagram or some other visual to help you and your team get on the same page. I use it particularly to build out, design, and share marketing and sales funnels with my team and clients. I have a visual brain, so being able to see things clearly laid out in front of me saves a ton of time and energy. It pulls ideas from the ether and solidifies them. I wouldn't use it if you're looking for a solution that works great on mobile when it comes to editing your diagrams. Also, if you're looking for lots of bells and whistles (i.e. adding beautiful custom graphics to a presentation) I wouldn't use this. It's much more my "in-the-trenches" get my ideas out into the real world FAST tool.
Manager
BMX Marketing, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Pros
- The program is free-ware. It can be quickly downloaded.
- Correcting typos and finding errors in text are easy with this program.
- OpenOffice documents can be saved in other formats such asthose from Microsoft and more basic ones.
- Its interface is fairly straightforward and relatively easy to use.
- For people used to Microsoft products, most of the basic functions are essentially the same.
Head Teacher
StudyRoom Educational CenterEducation Management, 11-50 employees
- draw.io makes it easy to edit whatever you're mapping out. Whether adding or removing a box, arrow, etc., draw.io automatically auto corrects your map and snaps things back into place. This keeps everything looking clean while you're working.
- draw.io syncs with Google Drive which is awesome for collaboration. When I used other, offline software, I would have to complete whatever I was working on in draw.io, save the file and then add it to my Dropbox or Google Drive. From there, the person I was showing it to would have to download it and was unable to make revisions. draw.io makes it simple to send easy-to-edit in real time drawings to anyone through Google Drive.
- draw.io is super simple to use. The interface is not confusing at all. All you have to do is point and click and the drawing builds itself out.
- It's easy to add text and layer things together.
- Copying and pasting whole sections of your drawing is easy and can save massive amounts of time. All you have to do is create a template once and then you can use it multiple times.
Manager
BMX Marketing, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Cons
- Though not often, the software can occasionally act glitchy: it can lag a little bit or crash altogether, though this is rare in my experience.
- The primary document format in OpenOffice is ODF, rather than DOC. I sometimes experience incompatibility when opening files from Microsoft DOC in OpenOffice, such as formatting errors.
- OpenOffice does not have a built-in grammar check tool. This can be remedied by downloading an extension, but I'd like to see it built-in.
Photographer
Liz Wade PhotographyPhotography, 1-10 employees
- It's not completely robust like Visio is. I'm limited in the type and quantity of shapes I can use. But hey, it's free. And it works great.
- Creating a swimlane process flow to show how different actors work together to complete a process was a little tough to figure out at first. But you can just look up quick "how to" instructions (hint - swimlanes are called containers, and you have to rotate them so they're horizontal rather than vertical - kind of a pain).
- Adding special shapes and other graphics can slow down the speed of the application. However, I just try to keep it simple. If you're looking for something more robust, you'll probably be a little disappointed with draw.io.
Senior Business Analyst
Southwest Gas CorporationUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Apache OpenOffice9.0
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It is pretty straight-forward as well as easy to learn. Its documents can be saved in various formats.
Head Teacher
StudyRoom Educational CenterEducation Management, 11-50 employees
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draw.io8.0
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We have not uses it that often. The product does not seem to encounter issues
Sr. IT Project Manager
CaptureRxHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
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Employee in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employeesI found draw.io right when I was getting tired of using Visio. It has lots of freedom and flexibility.
Research Assistant
University of ArkansasHigher Education, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
- In my personal use, Apache OpenOffice has been a very wise decision. It is completely free and a very stable product.
- Our use of the OpenOffice API to handle document conversion process in a programmatic fashion was very successful as well.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees- I am not a business guy. For myself, the positive things are:
- I can draw figures easily.
- I can put them in PowerPoint with good resolution for presentations.
- Export them in a PDF format to put in latex which gives me the best illustration and clarity of my drawing.
- It is handy to use and it takes me a very short time to draw my required figures compared to other tools.
Research Assistant
University of ArkansasHigher Education, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Apache OpenOffice
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
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General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No