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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cacoo

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/ACacoo is a user-friendly online diagramming tool that allows users to create a variety of diagrams such as wireframes, flowcharts, UML diagrams, network diagrams, mindmaps, sitemaps, database diagrams, and more. Cacoo includes an extensive collection of templates and shapes, collaboration features such as simultaneous editing, version tracking, and commenting. Cacoo is simple, cloud-based software users can access from anywhere with an internet connection.

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    Creately

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Creately is a visual collaboration platform that supports genograms, flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, and UML diagrams. Featuring template-based AI diagram generation, Creately boasts speed and accuracy in visual planning.

    $8

    per month (single user)

    OmniGraffle

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AOmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.N/A
    Pricing
    CacooCreatelyOmniGraffle
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0.00
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    $4.95
    user
    Team
    $6.00
    user
    Creately Personal
    $8
    per month
    Creately Team
    $8
    per month per user
    Creately Team
    $60
    per year per user
    Creately Personal
    $60
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    Creately Business
    $149
    per month Unlimited Users
    Creately Business
    $1,068
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    Pricing Offerings
    CacooCreatelyOmniGraffle
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounted prices for non profits, educational institutes, and charities.—
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    CacooCreatelyOmniGraffle
    Considered Multiple Products
    Nulab, Inc.
    Chose Cacoo
    Cacoo is web-based and OS independent. OmniGraffle is a local install and mac only. Microsoft Visio is a desktop app also and Windows only. Two strikes for me, as I use between 2-4 different computers daily where I expect my applications to be always up-to-date and files …
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    User Testimonials
    CacooCreatelyOmniGraffle
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Nulab, Inc.
    Particularly helpful to an organization that has Windows people who are staunch Visio users and Mac people who are die-hard OmniGraffle or Sketch users.
    Incentivized
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    Creately
    Creately sells itself as software specializing in a wide variety of areas, which is true in some cases. Visualizing and creating marketing processes, research, user flows, and general flowcharts is an extremely powerful tool. However, in other areas, such as Human Resources, UI/UX prototyping, and Wireframe design, it leaves a little to be desired compared to the competition.
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    The Omni Group
    Omnigraffle is great for documentation, mapping, flowcharting, and other technical diagramming scenarios. It's simple enough to bang out a quick illustration and powerful enough to build complex blueprints for complicated technical systems. If you need cross-platform compatibility, though, you're probably better off looking elsewhere. If you want complex integration with data sources (ala Visio's SQL Server integration for shape metadata), OmniGraffle also falls short — but those scenarios are few and far between in my experience.
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    Pros
    Nulab, Inc.
    • Creative resource for various visual support items
    • The free version is robust and nice to staff who have not used it before to get to know the product
    • Support has been helpful when needed
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    Creately
    • I like that it supports remote work and that it makes real-time collaboration easy.
    • AI-powered diagramming works well and has been very helpful in explaining complex ideas.
    • It supports data driven workflows.
    • It makes project management easy.
    • It effortlessly boosts team productivity thanks to easy alignment with strategies.
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    The Omni Group
    • OmniGraffle is fairly simple to use, but the one thing I think it does best is working with curved lines, particularly if you are using some of the available arc templates. Drop an arc onto your page, then tell it the dimensions it needs to be, and viola! Done. Manipulating the arcs is as simple as clicking and dragging offset points.
    • OmniGraffle has also done an excellent job in stirring up the creative minds of many people who create templates and tools to work with OmniGraffle (not that Microsoft hasn't done so either), and managed to get the bulk of those into well organized repositories.
    • What it all boils down to for me is: it just works. One doesn't need to have a computer science degree to work with it either. It is as simple or complex as you want it to be.
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    Cons
    Nulab, Inc.
    • UI navigation
    • Connector flexibility
    • Improved table object
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    Creately
    • The transition Creately made this year to their new non-Flash platform seems to almost function like a beta release in some instances.
    • Customer support sometimes takes a while to return and the responses are not always the best or most helpful. Follow up isn't great, either.
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    The Omni Group
    • I'd love to be able to keep more than one of the different tool tabs open at a time.
    • The stencils are amazing. Would be great if a whole lot more of the free ones came standard as opposed to having to download them from Graffletopia or other sites.
    • Built in tutorials would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Nulab, Inc.
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    Creately
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    The Omni Group
    Best product for my needs on the market
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    Usability
    Nulab, Inc.
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    Creately
    Creately is one of its Kind. The software has a straightforward interface and very supportive customer services providers. It is very well suited in diagramming and collaboration.
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    The Omni Group
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    Nulab, Inc.
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    Creately
    It definitely could be better, but it may also depend on the type of license you are subscribing to.
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    The Omni Group
    OmniGraffle is an excellent application for chart and diagrams development. Been using it for a while now and it's a multiple platform application.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Nulab, Inc.
    Cacoo is web-based and OS independent. OmniGraffle is a local install and mac only. Microsoft Visio is a desktop app also and Windows only. Two strikes for me, as I use between 2-4 different computers daily where I expect my applications to be always up-to-date and files synchronized.
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    Creately
    Creately's folder system is a novel feature that beats its competitors. It helps keep everything organized. In addition, there are many more customization possibilities, especially in the shapes and in the library of templates and drawings. It has an intelligent drawing capability superior to all the competition, allowing more customization and detail.
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    The Omni Group
    While these other tools are great for what they are, OmniGraffle’s solid focus on and support for diagramming makes it our tool of choice for communicating workflows and concept relationships, creating documentation, and creating other diagrams. Its libraries allow us to create designs quickly, and its ease of use enables us to use the tool widely across the company without much time or effort spent on onboarding.
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    Return on Investment
    Nulab, Inc.
    • Easier to diagram and create workflows without having to engage a designer's assistance. That means staff at lower billable hourly rates, reducing overall admin or billable hours cost.
    • Less time involved in creating support documents for less robust product options. Again, reducing overall admin or billable hours cost.
    • Most of our staff use the free version so no added cost until they are familiar and really embrace it = a reduction in upfront cost.
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    Creately
    • Helped the team work collaboratively by sharing on the ideas on Canvas
    • Boosted the client engagement whenever this tool is used
    • Made the work easier by providing the predesigned templates
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    The Omni Group
    • Omnigraffle isn't an expensive software tool, so there isn't really any negative from the perspective of raw cost. Thinking in terms of time spent using it on a project - what you create in omnigraffle will inevitably lead to a dead end. It's useful only as documentation. There are other tools like Sketch that integrate into prototyping software and can create useable visual assets for applications in addition to being able to create wireframes.
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