draw.io vs. Wondershare EdrawMax

It's very easy to collaborate on the same file with team members and create simple concepts and flowcharts that you can use in the development process. It is also very handy for creating graphs and tables for presentations. Since this is a web application, we can use it anywhere, anytime and on any device; which provides great flexibility and accessibility. It also offers the functionality to save your work as you develop it, which is very helpful.

Incentivized

As part of the suite of tools from Wondershare, EdrawMax provides a large set of tools found in more expensive proprietary tools, integration with Mind Mapping which is a core workstream for my style, The usability of the interface, and options to utilize templated from other toolsets, import-export to other tool types. The tool is a good cost to function ratio.

• The drag and drop of visuals make it easy and fast to create diagrams and flowcharts.
• It is very convenient and simple to connect the visuals from one point to another from different sides of the visuals.
• It offers so many different visual, flowcharts and network diagrams. We can explore a whole lot of templates in draw.io as per our requirement.
• We can connect draw.io with Google Drive and save our work over there.

Incentivized

• Flow charting
• Depict a complex process so its easily understood
• Its structure and organization are very similar to how mainstream apps work.
• Its huge and expandable feature set blows away all other apps
• I want the right tools because my time is precious. This is the right choice by far.

• Some more icons which helps to create wireframes
• Templates like browser window or mobile screens or more screen size windows
• Visualize the flow or auto connect few blocks missing connections
• Create document with the flow diagram selected or with a prompt with context of diagram created

Incentivized

• While saving the output as an image, it may be easy to export to word format files as vector.
• Due to my profession, power electronics can be a library richness.

The UI is intuitive. It allows a new user to start diagramming almost instantly. Manipulating elements, linking them together, etc. are all easy to do. Draw.io nevertheless a broad variety of diagram templates to help get started and also of shapes to use in diagrams. Some situations can make it a bit tricky to use, such as when having multiple shapes on top of each other (e.g. shapes placed within swimlanes) but that's a minor issue.

Incentivized

It is super easy to use because it works like the mainstream apps. Almost everything's familiar and easy to access

The support for draw.io is pretty decent, considering it is a free website. I had a question one time when I was trying to do something, so I sent an email to their support email and got a response fairly quickly with an answer to my question. They also have some excellent support tools on their support website for helping you get more familiar with their program, and I found that very helpful.

Incentivized

Needed to contact the support team as I had lost license details. Their response was fast, professional and what's more, very helpful. All the needed data was sent to me and I was able to reinstall Wondershare EdrawMax again.

draw.io is actually free of cost, while Miro, Visio, and Whimsical are paid or come with paid premium versions. Miro does have excellent collaboration, while Visio and Whimsical are simply basic and normal. draw.io has very limited ways to collaborate. Templates are more organized in other tools, but in draw.io they're hard to discover. One advantage draw.io has over these tools is the offline access support as well as the feature-rich UI.

Incentivized

Too many apps to list. 50 years of computing as a C-level exec. I am not a specialist at this. I am a generalist. Having an app that makes a generalist look like a specialist is really a cool. I can't image what a true specialist/graphic artist/engineer/designer could do. My, oh my.

• Draw.io has given us a free place to create basic diagrams, and more options for upgrading in the future when we need more, so it saves a bit of money in that regard.
• Draw.io allows us to share diagrams with our clients without the burden of making them install new software, thus increasing client happiness and making it more likely we'll get return business.

Incentivized

• Intellectual leverage
• Develops a large-scale trust (good graphics is always appreciated even if its complex to read)
• Impactful visualization (hard to enumerate)