OmniGraffle vs. Pixate (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OmniGraffle
Score 9.4 out of 10
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OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.N/A
Pixate (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Pixate is an obsolete prototyping platform acquired by Google in 2015 and End-of-Life in October 2016.N/A
Pricing
OmniGrafflePixate (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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OmniGrafflePixate (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
OmniGrafflePixate (discontinued)
Top Pros
Top Cons
Best Alternatives
OmniGrafflePixate (discontinued)
Small Businesses
MindManager
MindManager
Score 8.9 out of 10
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cvent Event Diagramming
Cvent Event Diagramming
Score 9.3 out of 10
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Cvent Event Diagramming
Cvent Event Diagramming
Score 9.3 out of 10
OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
OmniGrafflePixate (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(17 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OmniGrafflePixate (discontinued)
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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Pixate is well suited for creating quick prototypes without too much knowledge in coding.
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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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  • You can create quick prototypes without having too much knowledge in coding.
  • It shows changes in real time, which is super helpful.
  • I can send prototypes with a link to my clients.
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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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  • I am missing some features that allow me to for example, to implement the camera of my phone, or the tilt of the phone.
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Likelihood to Renew
The Omni Group
Best product for my needs on the market
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Discontinued Products
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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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Discontinued Products
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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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Right now I am using sketch to create the assets and then I am importing them to pixate. Before that I simply used video editing software to create a video of the interface, but I was never able to create a working prototype.
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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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  • This program is one of the reasons I get recommended for other jobs.
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