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Cacoo

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What is Cacoo?

Cacoo 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…

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Cacoo has been widely used for various purposes, including teaching, creating mental maps, and organization charts. Users have found Cacoo …
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Free

$0.00

On Premise

Plus

$4.95

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Team

$6.00

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Cacoo?

Cacoo 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.

Cacoo Features

Additional Features

  • Supported: Real-time, simultaneous editing

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Custom diagram templates & shapes
Managing your organization
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Cacoo Integrations

Cacoo Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Japanese
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Reviews and Ratings

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Cacoo has been widely used for various purposes, including teaching, creating mental maps, and organization charts. Users have found Cacoo to be a valuable tool for quickly creating diagrams and models, improving internal capacity through detailed flow charts and visual support. It fosters united teamwork within companies by facilitating the creation of diagrams and projects with ease. Cacoo is also praised for its capabilities in process mapping, flowcharting, wireframing, and mockup creation, simplifying the design and development of websites and software solutions. Users appreciate its ease of use, variety of tools and options, making it a valuable tool for creating illustrations and graphics for presentations and documents. The real-time collaborative feature of Cacoo is highly valued, making it effective for remote work and collaboration with teams. It aids in project organization, tracking progress plans better, and generating concepts rapidly. Cacoo is also known for its robust wireframing tool that is simple to use and fairly priced, making it a popular choice for building mockups. Business professionals rely on Cacoo to prepare workflow diagrams and mock-ups for their engineering teams, while computer analysts find it useful for drawing application screens and sharing projects with colleagues. With its ability to represent work architectures through flowcharts, customers have switched to Cacoo from more expensive alternatives like Visio, resulting in cost savings. Graphic designers appreciate the software's seamless idea and workflow sharing capabilities, making their job easier. Cacoo's affordability enables professionals to obtain feedback from clients, leading to increased efficiency. The software is also used for agile documentation development, allowing for quick sharing with clients and end-users to gather timely feedback. Its ability to visually represent complex workflows has made it a valuable training tool. Remote software team meetings are made more effective with the shared vision provided by Cacoo. Users find it helpful to showcase rough ideas to clients in a cleaner format than a sketch. The collaborative nature of Cacoo eliminates the need for physical whiteboards, enabling collaborative teamwork from remote locations. Overall, Cacoo has proven to be an indispensable tool with its wide range of applications across diverse industries and disciplines.

Easy to Use and Intuitive Interface: Users have consistently praised Cacoo for its user-friendly interface and ease of use. Many reviewers mentioned that the intuitive nature of the software allowed them to quickly create diagrams, flowcharts, wireframes, and more without any frustration. The simplicity of building diagrams from scratch, along with the availability of a wide range of templates, made it a pleasure to use for both beginners and those requiring more detailed work.

Wide Range of Templates: Several users highlighted the value of Cacoo's extensive collection of templates. These templates provided a starting point for various projects and made it easy to get started on visualizing ideas and concepts. Reviewers appreciated that they could easily customize these templates based on their individual needs, saving time and effort in creating professional-looking diagrams.

Great Collaboration Tools: Cacoo was commended by many users for its tools and functions that facilitated great teamwork and created a productive environment. The ability to share and collaborate seamlessly through web browser compatibility added to the appeal of this software. Users found it convenient to work together on diagrams, receive valuable opinions from peers or superiors, as well as visualize, edit, and comment in real-time.

Difficult User Interface: Users have found the user interface challenging to understand, particularly with certain tools and functions. Some users mentioned that they had to click multiple times to access certain toolbars and tooltips, which can be frustrating. They have also expressed difficulty in navigating due to the controls for zooming in and out.

Need for Improved Features: Users feel that there is a need for improvement in certain features such as selecting and moving elements within a group or selecting table cells. These tasks require significant effort, and users suggest adding more intuitive options.

Limitations of Free Version: Several users express disappointment with the limitations of the free version, including restrictions on the number of diagrams that can be created and the inability to save diagrams as high-resolution images. These limitations hinder the usability of the software, especially for academic purposes.

Users have made several recommendations for Cacoo based on their experiences. The most common recommendations include:

  1. Give Cacoo a try: Users suggest trying out Cacoo as they find it easy to use and believe it is likely to meet their needs. They appreciate its simplicity and intuitive interface, making it suitable for a wide variety of projects and collaborations. Some even encourage educators to consider Cacoo, as it has positively impacted learning and promoted creativity in classes.

  2. Use Cacoo for wireframing and diagrammatic work: Users recommend utilizing Cacoo for wireframing and diagramming purposes. They find it helpful in creating diagrams, web layouts, data flow, and architecture diagrams with ease. Freelancers, small business owners, and remote companies can benefit from using Cacoo as a tool for visually representing ideas, receiving feedback, creating models, and starting designs.

  3. Consider Cacoo as a complete work platform: Many reviewers suggest considering Cacoo as a comprehensive work platform. It offers a wide range of options for different purposes, making it valuable for both individuals and companies. Users appreciate the completeness of the tools provided by Cacoo, making it useful for various tasks such as sharing ideas with contractors and collaborators.

Overall, users advise giving Cacoo a try due to its user-friendly nature, versatility in wireframing and diagramming tasks, and its value as a complete work platform.

Reviews

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've used it to diagram the user journey and basic wireframing of an app-based project. Also used it to diagram out the back-end data-base as a first iteration to sort out our RDBMS or non-RDBMS implementation; and system architecture. We're only two people but both of us have contributed. Helps to solve problems of conceptualization.
  • Some specific software integration
  • Some unique UI features compared to other similar software
  • Clean presentation
  • Collaboration
  • UI navigation
  • Connector flexibility
  • Improved table object
Probably not best-in-class UX but it depends mostly on what integrations you need. The UX navigation does not feel as intuitive as some competitors but that might be a localization/experience preference from past software. Optimal for flow-charting type diagramming.
  • Collaboration
  • Clean presentation
  • Flexibility
  • Allowed us to diagram out our user needs, saving us many hours of collaboration
  • Allowed us to diagram out our system architecture, saving us many hours of rework
  • Sufficient to wireframe a UI as a guiding post to the design while prototyping. Lowers overhead of additional software adoption at early stages.
Mostly for collaborative features and a reasonable price point with our early prototyping. Lucidchart is probably best-in-class for a collaborative flowchart with a great UI but might lack some specific features that Cacoo brings. draw.io is sufficient but not as polisehd. Miro appears to be more suited for design over flowcharting. Visio is more robust but seems less suitable for collaboration.
Miles Baltrusaitis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Cacoo for Marketing process flow charts, mind mapping, and decision trees.
  • Flow charts with standard icons or custom visuals
  • Conceptual visualizations for presentations.
  • Drag and drop Gantt charts
  • Org charts
  • Wireframes for web development
  • Keyboard only functionality is just ok. There are some shortcuts but momentum can be killed if I have to constantly go back to a mouse
  • Import/export support for Visio
  • Import/export support for OmniGraffle and Sketch
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.
  • I was able to easily collaborate on flow charts with Windows and Mac users.
  • I was able to co-author flowcharts in real-time during a conference call.
  • I was able to send a share link to the interactive chart as well as to an image without having to copy/save it some other cloud storage system.
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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I know I use it in marketing but I don't believe we've settled on a standard as a company.
Ann M. Frank | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cacoo for mapping, diagrams, whiteboarding online, organizational charts and similar visual support options. Many of our creative team prefer it to other similar options in the market.
  • 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
  • The paid version is more than other products in the market for some needs.
  • Some on our team noticed that some of the templates and stencils disappeared in an upgrade last year ( but has not impacted me).
  • It's one of many in the market and our agency doesn't mandate the use of any one platform (including this).
It's a great alternative to taking photos of whiteboards to save for later reference, you can just create them here. It's also the best option I've found for creating workflows and organization charts, especially complex ones. If you have just a simple workflow or chart, it's probably too robust or complicated for those needs. Save it for the trickier or messier ones!
  • 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.
We have found the free version to be more user-friendly and easier to train on than others. The full version is preferred by many of our creative team and designers as they have familiarity. It has more options and looks "prettier' and more professional when shared with a client.
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