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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Figma

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AFigma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.

    $15

    per month per editor

    Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite empowers teams to ideate, plan, design, build, and launch game-changing solutions from a shared infinite canvas.

    $0

    per month

    Mural

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AMURAL (formerly Mural.ly) from Tactivos (DBA MURAL) in San Francisco is described by the vendor as a digital workspace and visual collaboration tool, designed for creative teams to make the process of design more efficient for distributed teams, working remotely.

    $12

    per month

    Pricing
    FigmaLucid Visual Collaboration SuiteMural
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $144
    per year
    Organization
    $540
    per year
    Starter
    Free
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    $0
    Individual
    $9
    per month per user
    Team
    $10
    per month per user (3 user minimum)
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    Starter
    $12
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    $20
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPlans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
    FigmaLucid Visual Collaboration SuiteMural
    Considered Multiple Products
    Figma
    Chose Figma
    I believe when it comes to prototyping and visualisation I would say Figma is way better than above mentioned tools. However, when it comes to workshops, brainstroming exercises and running sessions, I feel Miro might be better as compared to figjam and Mural. Figma is quite …
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    InVision was much better when it came to building and interacting with prototypes while Miro and Mural are much better visualization and collaboration tools. But from a pure design and development perspective Figma has been the best I have used and the one preferred by all …
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Figma is more powerful and is much better for app design, while also competing well with MURAL and Miro in terms of functioning as a whiteboard.
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Figma is by far the best prototyping tool out there. I am such a fan of this tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Way better than all of them. Ease of use, aesthetic, modern feel, ability to invite people in.
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    I prefer to use it comparing to Adobe XD. It surely is more intuitive and still develops itself providing new features (e.g. variables; however, I had to get used to the new interface). Now, if I had to compare it to Axure it'd depend on the project I'm working on. In case of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Honestly, Figma is so much better than its competitors, if you even want to call them that. You get accurate, high-fidelity work that you can quickly get into development for launch. The Figma community of plugins and templates is also AMAZING! There are so many passionate …
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Free Version of Figma is quite well to give rapid access to customers on reviews. Existing user base and therefore documentations, tutorials and communities.
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    I still use Miro for some workshops, as it is more user-friendly.
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Figma is better for mockups and prototyping
    I prefer the other apps for flow diagrams as they are more intuitive, and people in my organization do not all have access to Figma so i often have to use those (due to cost of licensing)
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Figma is better suited for designers to use to make amazing creations
    Incentivized
    Chose Figma
    Figma is generally better suited than other design tools for prototyping, designing and demoing apps. It is the only suitable tool for building apps. Other design tools/programs we use are more useful for presentations and infographics--but this is largely due to habit (we're …
    Incentivized
    Lucid Software
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    I think that many of these tools are great, I use Lucidchart because that's what our company uses. I think Lucidchart is better than draw.io. Canva and Figma are different use cases (for me) than Lucid Visual Collab. Figma I would go to for UI design, while Canva for me is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Figma is a little more robust but can turn new users off by looking too complicated.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    If it's solo work, I prefer Lucidchart over all its competitors. For larger group collaboration, Lucidspark or Miro is much much preferred than Lucidchart. Figma is ok for some basic use but can't handle complex stuffs. MURAL and Visio are just terrible products to use in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    There are nice features in Miro and Figma for designers but I honestly find working on their canvas to be disorienting and the documents/artifacts created are not useful to how I need to communicate things. draw.io as a tool seems similar to Lucidchart but the functionality is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Figma has a learning curve so only the designers use it and it's fine and good. There is a huge library of templates, plugins, and practically you can make anything and everything you want to. However, the other people like engineers in my team don't know how to use it and also …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    To be clear, I wasn't involved in buying process for any of these: Figma - seems like you can do pretty much everything that Lucid does in Figma. We also use Figma for wireframing. Not sure if you can use Lucidchart for wireframing. Google Slides - I didn't have Lucidchart at …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Lucid is the most intuitive for me to use, since I've used it from day 1 of its existence, but it has real limitations. Miro has better integrations and automations. I'm using Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite because 1) of its capacity planning capabilities, and 2) because of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    While all of the other platforms we have evaluated and some we even use, Lucid has it's own unique solution and aesthetic that we find to work well for us for many of our different deliverables. There is no "One-App-Does-All" solution out there, however, when it comes to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    I usually use excalidraw for more ad hoc realtime visualizations, but I usually use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite charts when I need to work on a visualization to present in a document / presentation
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is very professional in comparison to other products and has a lot more to offer.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    We started using LucidChart after switching from another visual collaboration tool. The import process worked surprisingly well - way better than anyone on our team was expecting. Lucidchart itself is simple to use, easy to collaborate with coworkers, has a ton of built-in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    I think the products are very similar when it comes to actually making flowcharts, but Lucidchart is significantly better when it comes to collaboration and sharing
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    I think that among other diagramming tools, Lucidchart is one of the most complete and advanced. For its expertise in diagrams, it offers a wide range of options when it comes to making any kind of diagram because, unlike its competitors that have multiple uses, they do not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    MURAL didn't have the same process mapping capabilities we were looking for and Lucidchart had way more templates for us to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Lucidchart when compared to the competition is way ahead of them. It has a good number of features available in the free version and the other thing is that there is none to a little learning curve required to understand the product. It is fairly easy to use when we compare it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Very easy and friendly to use with minimal efforts.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    From the product and design perspective, we don't need such complex tools to innovate the existing product. However, Lucidchart will help us to focus on cannibalization.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Lucidchart is a bit more structured, is gear a bit more towards diagramming, and has better templates to get you started quickly!
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Lucidchart comes [in] handy while not replacing all the apps that you currently use but as an extra tool that I used along with all these apps for communication and knowledge transfer.
    The point where Lucidchart brought so much efficiency to my workflows is just amazing and great.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    These products are better to do charts for frontend, Lucidchart is better to do graphics[.]
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    Lucidchart is simple and provide adequate number of options to select from.
    You need not be an expert to use [Lucidchart.].
    Incentivized
    Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
    We use Lucidchart primarily because it is easier to onboard new users to this program than it is to get them up-to-speed with other tools. It has also been the most cost-effective tool we have used so far.
    Incentivized
    Mural
    Chose Mural
    Mural has a User Interface that is easier to understand, which allows us to bring newcomers to brainstorm and design sessions without investing time in learning. Mural has more dinamic objects that impact on the presentation and visibility of the work, like having Post it notes …
    Incentivized
    Chose Mural
    I have had an experience of working with all the three above mentioned tools--Miro, InVision, and Lucidchart--and I can confidently say that MURAL (formerly Mural.ly) beats all these three tools when it comes to performing any kind of online collaboration activities, which …
    Incentivized
    Chose Mural
    Easier to use and more flexible.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Marvel
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    User Ratings
    FigmaLucid Visual Collaboration SuiteMural
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (209 ratings)
    9.0
    (1165 ratings)
    8.1
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    9.1
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    Usability
    7.9
    (41 ratings)
    8.7
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    Availability
    5.5
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    5.1
    (17 ratings)
    7.8
    (888 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    6.4
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    Configurability
    6.4
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
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    Ease of integration
    6.4
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    Product Scalability
    7.3
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    8.2
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    7.3
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    User Testimonials
    FigmaLucid Visual Collaboration SuiteMural
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Figma
    I would recommend if you need to start from scratch a product UI or any customer journey that you need to implement that requires designing and visualizing different steps to complete a process. I would recommend that any design/UI/UX team brainstorm and make proposals that they can compare and discuss in a visual way.
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    Lucid Software
    Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is effective for process documentation and knowledge sharing across teams. For us, we used it to map out individual roles and specific tasks within each role to create clear and visual workflows that others can follow at any time. A key scenario where it works well in our business for business continuity during absences another colleague can pick up the role by following the process on Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite with minimal disruption. The visual diagrams are easy to understand and a written document.
    Incentivized
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    Mural
    I've recommended MURAL to a lot of people in a lot of fields. This is a great tool for any group of people that might stand around a white board if they were in person. Even if they are in person, I still recommend it pretty often because, unlike a white board, MURAL is virtual, so it can go offline with you. I've recommended it to other Software Teams, individual software developers, engineering teams, Sales Managers, Office Staff, Manufacturing teams, and more.
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    Pros
    Figma
    • Figma allows us to create universal content. This means that if multiple designers want to re-use a piece of content, and if everyone's content should be dynamically updated from time to time, we can easily accomplish this by turning design elements into a universal instance. Then, if an update is needed, we can push the change out to all assets at once. It's very efficient and ensures we're all updating content accordingly.
    • Figma also allows us to set parameters for the company's brand guide and share them across various designers. This way, we can easily pull from approved brand fonts, colors, and more, which allows our assets to remain unified across multiple touchpoints.
    • Figma also allowed us to create and install our own plugin, which we use to export every slide we have in a frame at one time, versus the default export feature, which limits you to one slice at a time. This is particularly useful for us when we're working on email templates, since we tend to have a ton of slices in any given series.
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    Lucid Software
    • Large number of predefined charts, diagrams, flows
    • A great repository of various symbols and objects
    • The easiness of using and manipulating objects and shapes. There is a lot of auto-editing and adjusting which the software does for you which saves a lot of your time.
    • Easy way of duplicating shapes.
    • While working with the app everything feels organic and natural. You don't get the clunky/limited feeling which happens with some other similar apps.
    Incentivized
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    Mural
    • enables easy for all collaboration especially in the hybrid environment
    • makes brainstorming better as users can create digital sticky notes, draw diagrams, and add images to visually represent concepts and ideas
    • it helps to visualize data effectively - users can create charts, graphs, and diagrams to present data-driven insights to team members and stakeholders
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    Cons
    Figma
    • It will be great if Figma will consider having the Pages where interactions can be stitched together among the Pages and not just one page with so many Frames to create the stand-alone clickable prototype that can be used to simulate the intended UX
    • Bring back the Inspect Mode tab right on the right-side panel of the main workspace instead of hiding behind the Dev Mode.
    • Figma Slides feature could be improved quite a bit more in order to be easier to assemble slides into a presentation deck and having pre-built templates for slides can be useful too.
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    Lucid Software
    • The sign in page could use some help. When I first signed up, it was really difficult to login, unless I was logged into the perfect Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite software. It doesn’t seem to have a route to get people to the right place if you’re in the wrong place.
    • It’s nearly impossible to move content off of the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite if you’re looking to get your content into a different platform.
    • Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite requires frequent updates and refreshes of the pages (at least daily).
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    Mural
    • It'd be nice that the zoom regulation could be easier to manage
    • The advanced features are a little bit easy to adopt. Why not adding some agile trainings, or some other tools to facilitate their adoption
    • A faster and easier way to Integrate with ms office
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Figma
    Figma is a pretty cool tool in many areas. My team almost uses it on daily basis, such as, brainstorming on product/design topics, discussing prototypes created by designers. We even use it for retrospectives, which is super convenient and naturally keeps records of what the team discusses every month. Furthermore, I do see the potential of the product - currently we mainly use it for design topics, but it seems it is also a good fit for tech diagrams, which we probably will explore further in the future.
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    Lucid Software
    No answers on this topic
    Mural
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Figma
    There's a bit of a learning curve, but generally I think it's both more powerful and intuitive that other UX design tools. Most of what I need to do as a designer can be done in this platform, from basic wireframes to creating a design system, to creating pixel perfect designs, to prototyping to dev handoff.
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    Lucid Software
    The usability of Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is bar none and incomparable to any other tool used in the past. There is such a vast offering that covers all the needs of any user in industries far and wide. It is no doubt that this is a firm recommendation for anyone and everyone to utilize this tool for all their needs.
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    Mural
    Overall, MURAL is really easy to use, but there are a couple downsides. It's really easy to make areas of the board consistent because double clicking adds stickies that match those around the current one. It's really easy to connect the elements. And it's really easy to organize elements. Inconsistent controls, Panning, Line Connections, and latency are the only issues I had. My biggest issue is that the MURAL mouse buttons are very different from
    most similar software. This always causes me problems switching to a
    graphics software or 3D modelling software. Because MURAL uses the same button to pan and move elements, it's really easy to move things when panning around. The lines can also be a (sometimes huge) problem because thew will occasionally disappear or connect to things incorrectly. I think this is tied to latency issues which, in addition to causing phantom lines, can sometimes cause confusion to your team.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Figma
    The only regret I have is, its not available when there is no internet
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    Lucid Software
    No answers on this topic
    Mural
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Figma
    I think its great, As there are many other software or systems which can be integrated with it as plugins or API's
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    Lucid Software
    No answers on this topic
    Mural
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Figma
    I haven't used their support lately but in the past, they had a chat that I used often. They often responded in a few hours and were able to give a satisfactory solution. I would imagine it's less personal now but the community has expanded drastically so there are more resources out there to self serve with a bit of Google magic.
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    Lucid Software
    I reached out about being able to access Linear through their new acquisition partner, and they kept pointing me to the same article even though I told them it wasn't giving me the information I needed. I asked for a meeting with a CSM and they didn't reach out to help. I've also tried to contact some PM friends to give feedback, but no one seems to care
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    Mural
    Chat support tends to get back to you within a few hours and are always helpful.
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    In-Person Training
    Figma
    In-person training has its own benefits - 1. It helps in resolving queries then and there during the training. 2. I find classroom or in-person training more interactive. 3. Classroom or in-person training could be more practical in nature where participants can have an hands on experience with tools and clarify their doubts with the trainer.
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    Lucid Software
    No answers on this topic
    Mural
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Figma
    Online training has its own merits and demerits - 1. Sometimes we may face issues with connectivity or the training content 2. The way training is being delivered becomes very important because not everyone is comfortable taking online training and learning by themselves. 3. With the advancement of technology online training has become popular but there is a segment of people who still prefer class-room training over online one.
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    Lucid Software
    No answers on this topic
    Mural
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Figma
    Miro is more user-friendly than Figma, but is less robust in terms of web prototyping and graphic design. While Figma isn't made to be used as a design tool, our team has taken to using it as such because it's richer in functions and personalizations compared to Miro and Figma.
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    Lucid Software
    Lucidchart is well beyond Microsoft Visio and is constantly improving. Visio is pretty much stagnant and hasn't been improved for several years, Lucid is constantly adding new functionality like AI powered functions and tools. We have no reason to pay for Visio licenses when Lucid can provide so much more for less.
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    Mural
    Mural was easier to use and share compared with Whiteboard. Whiteboard's functionality is limited. It is also integrated into Teams in an odd way that makes it difficult for team members to refer to old whiteboards. Mural as a stand alone web app is better.
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    Scalability
    Figma
    I think this is great and as I mentioned at ADP we use Figma extensively whether by designers, researchers or content writers
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    Lucid Software
    No answers on this topic
    Mural
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Figma
    • Allows us to get funding for further phases of the project (which is uncountable)
    • Well, it lets us show off when needed due to well suited UI-oriented character
    • Easily approachable by anyone (browser use)
    • User friendly interface
    • More advanced cooperation requires some of the users to have a license
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    Lucid Software
    • Though I can't necessarily provide hard numbers, I can confidently say that Lucidchart has saved countless hours for myself and my teams as we don't need to try to develop some type of complex diagram using markup or any kind of code.
    • I have previously been able to build a complete ERD using Lucidchart in a past position, which the company never had before. It ended up being used by countless teams in the company and ultimately in a large-scale data stack migration effort.
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    Mural
    • Mural allows us to draft communications for clients that aim to increase the NPS of the organization
    • Mural allows us to keep up with the agile framework, which reduces Time to Market of our products and initiatives
    • Mural allows us to identify blockers in our day to day tasks, which reduces the Cicle Time of our Kanban cards
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of how Lucid helps teams to clarify complexity, align their insights.Screenshot of where information can be imported, exported, and shared whenever and wherever it is needed.Screenshot of how Lucidchart offers secure intelligent diagramming that is built for teams.

    Mural Screenshots

    Screenshot of the brainstorming templates that brings more minds to the table and helps turn good ideas into extraordinary work.Screenshot of energizers and icebreakers that help teams feel connected and open-minded so they can tackle big problems.Screenshot of strategic plan sharing, to improve people's sense of safety and expectation, leaving more brain space for creativity and innovation.Screenshot of retrospectives, which help teams get better and happier over time.