OmniGraffle

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OmniGraffle
Score 9.4 out of 10
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OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.N/A
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OmniGraffle
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Chose OmniGraffle
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 …
Chose OmniGraffle
Because we're primarily a Mac shop, Visio was a non-starter. (It's monstrously complex compared to OmniGraffle, which works against the quick-and-dirty just-enough-documentation ideal common on agile teams.) We've used draw.io on internal projects and when coordinating with …
Chose OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle has a standard and "Pro" version just like Microsoft Visio does.
OmniGraffle works exclusively on Macs, while Visio can run on both Windows and OS X.
I probably would be using Visio today if I did not have a Mac background. Even in my past job where I supported …
Chose OmniGraffle
Stands ahead of the competition; native compatibility and robustness of solution make it the tool of choice. OmniGraffle's price and level of functionality surpass the alternatives.
Chose OmniGraffle
To sum up:

  • use Omnigraffle for diagraming or for quick wireframe drafting
Chose OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle is a solid Mac based Visio with much added functionality specific to wireframe designs. The libraries, although somewhat out of date, allow rapid designs with low fidelity, exactly what you want in wire frames. We use Sketch increasingly to handle the layout of the …
Chose OmniGraffle
It is definitely much more adapted to my needs than PowerPoint, and there are actually not so many tools in that category. As I haven't tried other software like Lucid Chart or Sketch, which appeared recently, I can't really make a comparison. I must say that Omnigraffle fits …
Chose OmniGraffle
My instructor at General Assembly taught us how to us OmniGraffle, so I've been familiar with it.
Chose OmniGraffle
I like that OmniGraffle lets me see my assets and it feels a little more drag and drop.
Chose OmniGraffle
It has much more functionality with flexibility and automated creation of end-to-end from one object to another. It saved a lot of time of creating objects, rather it gave me more opportunities to focus on contents. Another good thing is, like I said in previous answers, there …
Chose OmniGraffle
Axure RP is almost unnecessarily complicated in some areas and the UI can be drastically improved. FlairBuilder is great overall but lack of or slow support is what hurts it. OmniGraffle is one of my top 2 choices currently and InvisionApp is the other.
Chose OmniGraffle
Easier to wireframe with omnigrafffle
Chose OmniGraffle
Omnigraffle handles flows and diagrams better than other tools I've listed above. However, Axure is far superior for creating wireframes and turning them into interactive prototypes (basically "coding" using if/then logic statements). Sketch is much better for detailed design …
Chose OmniGraffle
In comparison to Sketch, OmniGraffle is much better with connectors and placeholders. The placeholders were key for me as I use them often while building wireframes. It's so easy to access and drop in. I'm still trying to figure out how to download and sync stencils for Sketch …
Chose OmniGraffle
I have not tried any alternatives.
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User Ratings
OmniGraffle
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
OmniGraffle
Likelihood to Recommend
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
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
The Omni Group
  • There could be more scaffolding to support new users in getting to know how to best use all of the many features and tools it provides.
  • There could be more support for printing. Many of our process flows extend beyond just one page, and OmniGraffle is rather finicky about printing multipage documents.
  • We could use this tool more effectively if there was the ability to have real-time team collaboration. Document handoffs can be a point of missed communication, so it’d be great if we could ever have the option of working together in the same place at the same time.
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Likelihood to Renew
The Omni Group
Best product for my needs on the market
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Support Rating
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
The Omni Group
To sum up:
  • use Omnigraffle for diagraming or for quick wireframe drafting
  • use Sketch for more in-depth wireframing that you can then flesh out into a high fidelity mock-up, export assets for production, and integrate with prototyping tools like Proto.io and UXPin.
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Return on Investment
The Omni Group
  • Instrumental in smoothly transitioning a 3rd party development team from designs to requirements.
  • Across cultures, US, Chinese, and Icelandic, OmniGraffle allowed our teams to speak the same language.
  • The depth of the software make some elements that are useful less accessible than they should be.
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