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Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite

Overview

What is Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite?

The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite empowers teams to ideate, plan, design, build, and launch game-changing solutions from a shared infinite canvas.

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Lucidchart Use

7 out of 10
April 11, 2024
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Video Reviews

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User Review: Lucidchart Saves Time and Takes Flow-Charting From Page to Screen for Game Maker
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User Reviews: Lucidchart Quickly Creates Diagrams & Flow Charts in the Digital Space
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User Review: Lucidchart Allows Business Users to Be Creative & Limitless in Diagram Creations
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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud

Individual

$7.95

Cloud
per month, per user

Team

$9.00

Cloud
per month, 3 user minimum

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://lucid.app/pricing/lucidchart#/p…

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $1 per month
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Product Details

What is Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite?

The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite empowers teams to ideate, plan, design, build, and launch game-changing solutions from a shared infinite canvas.

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Features

  • Supported: Data import
  • Supported: Data linking
  • Supported: Templates
  • Supported: Real-time updates
  • Supported: Automation
  • Supported: Sharing
  • Supported: Presentation mode
  • Supported: Mobile application
  • Supported: Access management
  • Supported: Account mapping
  • Supported: Integrations
  • Supported: Custom shapes
  • Supported: Layers
  • Supported: Conditional formatting
  • Supported: Shape libraries
  • Supported: Customizable templates
  • Supported: Smart lines
  • Supported: Swim lanes
  • Supported: Actions
  • Supported: Chat, comments, and notes

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Screenshots

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

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Videos

Lucid Software for Hybrid Teams
Lucidchart: Intelligent Diagramming
Lucidchart: Seeing and Building the Future
Lucidchart & Lucidspark Together
Lucid Software Overview

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Competitors

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesDutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite empowers teams to ideate, plan, design, build, and launch game-changing solutions from a shared infinite canvas.

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite starts at $1.

SmartDraw, Microsoft Visio, and Gliffy are common alternatives for Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our goal is to conduct level 1, 2 & 3 process maps for our organization. This has been identified as a huge gap as we try to navigate system updates. Having a detailed process map that visually shows how information is flowing through multiple systems and processes has allowed us to efficiently get the right levels of engagement from our leaders and demonstrate the sheer volume of interdependencies for our employees as they think through their processes.
  • Clean and easy to navigate on a desktop
  • Symbols and shapes are simple & easy to edit
  • Group work features allows free thinking as well as focused collaboration
  • The software is intuitive for new people while remaining powerful for more experienced folks
  • As always with these kinds of software's, there is opportunity to allow for connections to other software's like excel or Smartsheet
  • I would like to see some sort of earmarking for certain symbols to allow for pulling something like (in our case) all 'communications sent' from multiple boards into one view
  • I think video/ written tutorials to help guide a user to a useful template along with how to use/facilitate a session with it would be helpful.
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is particularly good at approaching a ambiguous body of work with a large group of people. This is especially true when the person building the template and facilitating the meeting has a comprehensive understanding of the big picture. It is less great at managing any 'next steps' coming out of those collaborative meetings. This can create some friction as the person that should be building this is not necessarily the person that should be managing the take aways from the session. In general I like to use it to figure out 'what to do' and then use other, more focused, softwares to figure out how and when we are going to do it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for collaboration across multiple teams.

I use it to visualize workflows with business teams. Having a common visual representation helps everyone stay on the same page.

I also use the board to elicit feedback during online brainstorming sessions on those same workflows.

With developers, it helps to have them also witness the workflow defined and refined. We then collaborate on solution design together to ensure that the solution matches the business requirements.
  • Organizing content with frames
  • creating quick workflows
  • brainstorming as a team
  • More meeting management such as music during voting session
  • Simpler copy/paste from external clipboards
  • Ability to download entire boards as a flat file for backup and portability
Good for brainstorming, Visio-like diagrams, organizing workstreams and content.

Not so good for ad hoc design or working directly on mock-ups. Even PowerPoint does a better job if one wants to "hack" a quick visualization for a user interface.

Also the lack of ability to export as a flat file gives less portability as such.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite allows us to easily create detailed visuals that help express the requirements for projects. We use it mostly for creating flow charts and other process visuals that demonstrate the steps. Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite allows us to easily create these and send them for internal review and access to the clients.
  • Flow chart creation
  • Easily collaborating across teams
  • More templates for varied use cases
I have been very pleased with Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. It allows us to easily get aligned across teams and effectively communicate and work together on the same project. It helps us to stay aligned in real-time and collaborate effectively. I have used Lucid products for over 5 years and have always been pleased.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Process mapping mainly. I use the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite to create process diagrams, use case diagrams, and other visual aids to explain how processes work at my organization.
  • Process mapping
  • Use case diagrams
  • Other visual aids, e.g. showing data flow
  • I would like a button to align all the boxes (vertical/horizontal alignment does NOT work)
  • Make suggestions so that lines do not have to cross (I avoid crossing lines wherever possible, it looks cleaner)
  • Auto-create a key/legend containing all elements in the diagram in a tidy little box at the bottom
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is easily the best for process mapping. I have tried Visio, Miro, and others, but Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is hands down the best for this. I know there is a collaboration area like Miro, but my whole organization uses Miro so I have not tried it yet, this is on my to-do list.
April 11, 2024

Lucidchart Use

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by the Process Improvement team and the Project management team to build different types of charts, including process charts, to increase the comprehension of complex procedures, and in the improvement of current processes.
  • Building charts from scratch
  • The choice of templates
  • The ease of transfer from Lucidchart to a number of types of files (PDF, PENG, etc.)
  • The format of the text is not very user-friendly
  • The colors available for the boxes (format)
  • Being able to open a chart and work on it directly from Teams (which I cannot do now)
It took time to get used to Lucidchart. I used it for process mapping.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Lucidspark for our calendars and product information. I am very happy with the ease of use and features available. I have been able to utilize Lucidspark in multiple projects and created everything I needed.
  • Ease of use.
  • Breadth of tools.
  • Selecting multiple objects could be easier.
  • Unable to find moving multiple objects to Layers functionality.
I have used Lucidspark to create calendars with products included. I found it to be very helpful.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I built solutions designing and architecting to build artefacts and share it with customers or internal interests. We do implementations to customers to track how the tool is being used in their tech stack or how the data is flowing we build flow diagrams or architecture diagrams to have it documented
  • Solutioning the custom solutions where we want to get clear understanding of how the tech stacks are being used
  • Process flow diagrams
  • Structure based designs and architecture
  • Branded logos like AWS S3, SFTP etc.
  • The AI generation is too basic. May be needs training with detailed data
  • The chart when shared is sharing all the tabs. Can we limit to 1 tab
If you want to build a robust architecture diagram solo or with a team in collaboration this is hands down the best tool. But for high level flow diagrams I think other diagramming tools are easy to launch and work with. We can still use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for them but not exclusively this
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for many things within our organization, one of the most important uses being for making road-maps, wireframes, or even parent blocks for our website that is always going through changes. Helps to give a visual view for what we will eventually create, what our audience will be seeing, and more importantly lets us test if it works well or not. Also is vey helpful to share with co-workers.
  • Road maps, visual or not
  • Wireframes, for figuring out layouts to various things
  • Helping to keep ideas on one single page for viewing
  • There has been an issue with images in which it won't show properly
  • Custom layouts
Very helpful for various tasks needed within a professional workplace. Can definitely see this being helpful for teachers with lesson plans, designers with any layouts they need to figure out, management with any charts they need to create, and a whole lot more too. We currently use it in a non-profit organization setting for various tasks, some being wireframes, visual examples, types of graphs and many more things too.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
1) Workflow design collaboration for both internal and external team;
2) Share and collect ideas, comments and advices
3) seek endoresment and approval for progressive results and record milestone suucesses
4) One-stop collaboration platform can integrate with Zoom and Teams

Conclusively, it is a very helpful tools for project design and management
  • Mind Map
  • Roadmap
  • ERD
  • hand drawn diagram conversion
  • hand drawn notes conversion
  • Voice to text conversion
  • Workflow action, reminder and approval alertness
best for collaboration in our online meeting - efficient in making comments and modification over the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite platform

Not good for AI conversion
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for describing process, performing process optimization and building environments for performing collaborative workshops online. We work with multinational teams, and being able to work online with a nice frame is key for our success. Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite has became the gold standard for all our activities because we have made the connection of the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite and our ALM tool to get all our items in a kanban format inside our lucids.
  • workshops
  • process description
  • project planning
  • knowledge sharing
  • Easier text customitzation
  • Combination of Lucids
  • Smarter use of tables
For all the scenarios related with online team activities I would suggest to use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite instead of any other tool. In my personal option it is the best one for this purpose.

It is also optimal for process description, thanks to all the pre-definitions that can be added and the automation of the legends.
Camila Da Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been using the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for nearly 5 years, and I absolutely love it! This tool has enabled my team to ideate, plan, design, build, and launch projects with ease and efficiency.unch game-changing solutions. Additionally, is very user friendly, ease to use and there are bunch of diagrams that you can use.
  • Export diagrams functions
  • Visual collaboration
  • Share files between teams easy
  • maybe have an option to use IA
  • could have more templates available
  • Improve whiteboard
We utilized the tool during our team brainstorming session, and also our product managers use as roadmap, design and prototyping to ilustre the product cycle flow. Also, our team use to design architecture design to put how-to solution overview. at last our team utilize as education purposes for collaborative learning activities.
Christopher Woods | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite to help communicate complex compliance processes. The clean visuals of Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite helps to capture the crucial compliance processes that we must follow in a way that everybody can understand, no matter how far removed they are from the creation of such processes.

I would highly recommend Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for anybody involved in drafting process and procedure documents
  • Information visualisation of written instructions
  • Simplifying complex multi-step processes
  • Enhances text based process documents
  • Option for bigger UI elements
  • Easy to use dark mode and high contrast mode
  • MS suite plugin
It is suited to where somebody needs to simplify written processes into easy to digest visual maps.

It is not suited for helping people who have zero understanding of a process to carry out the process. It should be used in tandem with good, clear, traditional written instructions. It complements traditional documents in my use case.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Lucidspark is currently being used in one department at this time. It addresses the problem of brainstorming in real-time within a remote setting. It also eliminates having to take the extra step to digitize what would have been on post-it notes. The data is saved from the exercise and can be applied to drive results straight away.
  • User friendly.
  • Tutorials.
  • Wide variety of tools.
  • Case studies.
  • Certification programs.
  • More demos on usage.
It is great for brainstorming but less appropriate for process mapping.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. I use it for flowcharts, orgcharts, electrical schematics, and one-line drawings.
  • Integration with confluence, notion, slack
  • Simplicity of use
  • Covers most use-cases out of the box
  • Search feature could be better
  • More icons
  • Give option to do something like instant alpha
  • Give option to make an image transparent
It's great for documenting mind maps, org charts, block diagrams. I particularly love it to document one line drawings. I think it's less suited for mechanical CAD where you need more capability. It is less suited for drawings that are dense and where you need multiple arrows out of one block - Lucid Visual Collaboration Suitedoesn't seem to handle that well.
April 02, 2024

Love this product!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love using Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite! As a Business Analyst, I am always scoping out projects and collaborating with multiple teams that are remote. This Suite helps us put all our thoughts into one place and create a synced place that our projects live!
  • Housing brain storming sessions
  • Clear project guidelines
  • User stories and workflows
  • More templates for different types of workflows
This Suite helps us put all our thoughts into one place when brainstorming project scopes.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Lucid to draft workflows, manage operational task, and set up approval logic within the organization.
  • Visualizing workflows
  • simplifies the creation of workflow logic
  • org charts
  • Automated graphics
Lucid is an excellent tool for inner office collaboration, with multi touch approval processes
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Lucidchart has been a game-changer for our fully remote team. Since we're all spread out, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Lucidchart has become our go-to for our virtual workspace, providing solid support and making collaboration a breeze. Working remotely, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Lucidchart has allowed us to brainstorm ideas, plan projects, and have discussions. Its real-time collaboration features have been super helpful, making sure everyone is on the same page, no matter where they are. Plus, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Lucidchart's visuals make complicated stuff easier to understand.
  • Database import
  • Charting simplified
  • As complex as needed
  • To be honest, is hard to say ibe are of improvement. Maybe website load times could be improved?
It has been our go-to tool for everything related to databases. There's no other tool we use for this matter.

The less appropriate scenario would be the Org Chart of our company, where another tool is used.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Lucid Chart/Spark for website mapping with my clients. I enjoy being able to collaborate with them so easily and having a visual website map that is easy to edit is key when working with many different website clients with differing technical abilities. The user friendliness is invaluable, and there are not too many alternatives out there.
  • website mapping
  • brainstorming
  • organizational charts
  • Advanced/AI features
  • interactivity
  • additional templates
Highly recommend this for website mapping and/or process mapping. Collaboration tools are great for these use cases and Lucid has a well thought out interface that makes it easy to use with other companies.
Jedrek Jovellanos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite LucidChart was able to help us build a flowchart that ensures the fluidity of the process. It enables colleagues to visually learn and adapt to the rhythm of the process, hence, reducing any potential errors. It dramatically reduces the problem of audit issues, regulatory issues, and problem hearsays. Most importantly, it can help cross-skilling of other members that would want to learn a certain process and Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Lucidchart made it happened.
  • Ease of Use
  • Variety of tools
  • Collaborative function
  • Hotkeys
  • User customization
  • System suggestions
  • Full-on AI integration
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Lucidchart is extremely useful when you want to do a process documentation to its fullest. It creates the canvass of how you want a process to look like or even how the existing one could be improved. If you want to map, how to contact a client effectively, you can outline the steps, add some sticky notes, and have decision boxes to make sure that every doubt is covered.
John Epok Pascual | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Some ideas are better explained through flowcharts, and in our case, we regularly create and revise processes detrimental to the overall operations of our business. Gone are the days when these are being discussed and shown to stakeholders through lengthy word documents and with Lucidchart it cut our discussion times in half.
  • Flowcharts
  • Collaboration
  • User-friendly UI / UX
  • Flowcharts pasted to powerpoints and Google Slides can be improved further - a bit low quality imo (either distorted etc)
  • Looking to have a smart AI functionality where it can guide user on potential breaks on process flows and suggest alternatives.
We have deployed chatbots across our markets and within these markets we have speficic POCs. With the collaborative features of Lucid Chart, teams can go together on 1 platform and instantaneously mind-map flows for chatbots.

Another example is through Lucidchart our T&Q was able to effectively conduct process trainings. Agents are able to effectively appreciate learning through visuals and not through lengthy documents.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite provides a comprehensive tool for us to tackle all of our internal and external interactions with a visual display that helps to chart toward a common goal. Internal discussions, with the use of Lucid, provides a collaborative dimension toward the discussion that a powerpoint or pen & paper just don't do any justice toward. Working with our external constituents in Lucid, provides a visual display that goes beyond corporate meetings, and maps the intention of a solution for their business use case(s) we are working collaboratively to solve for. It is really a game changer in the industry and type of work we provide.
  • Collaboration
  • Visual Display
  • Diagramming
  • Continuing to be innovative
  • Continuing to hear from the customers
  • Continuing to provide resources to learn more about the tool
It is hard to think of ways in which Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite would not be best suited to provide an effective tool for any organization to find success in its use. Whether it is a visual display to map an organizational structure, a collaboration to find an answer of how to improve workflow, or even to display the upcoming budget needs, working in Lucid can seamlessly provide that!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite for modeling complex ideas and looking at the impacts of changes made on another software that we are building for clients. We use this for two parts, onboarding new people onto projects and providing training for clients after the project to show the dataflow within their models.
  • Collaborating with the team
  • Ease of use, the team is able to make changes and get up to speed quickly
  • Document security and sharing are both very smooth
  • Nothing specific, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite does everything well for our purposes.
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite has been very smooth for explaining how our other processes work and breaking down the logical flow of complex ideas when we work with our clients. Other programs can work smooth as well but Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite seems to be the best blend of usability and collaboration to help us in our day to day.
November 01, 2023

Hooray for Lucidchart

Joseph Terry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started using Lucidchart & Lucidsuite as a replacement for Microsoft Visio, but it does so much more than what we could do in Visio. We now use it to manage Agile ceremonies, connecting to data in our Jira support application and it is used for real-time and asynchronous collaboration for our teams. Every day we find new uses and it seems like Lucid is constantly releasing new features and functionality to help work together.
  • Easily creating flowcharts and process maps
  • Importing data from Jira
  • Facilitating brainstorming and agile ceremonies
  • The ability to synchronize with SharePoint or Microsoft Teams lists
  • It can take users a bit to get used to the zoom and scroll interface but I wouldn't change it.
Lucid provides an easy to use and understand interface with a lot of templates to get you started with strong visual collaboration quickly. They provide excellent support and resources to help with adoption amongst users and they are constantly providing new and innovative features that wow users. At times it is difficult to keep up with all the functionality available to us through these tools.
September 20, 2023

Visualization made easy!

Heather Stivason | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Lucidchart is an online diagramming software. It helps us present workflows and diagrams to stakeholders within our company. It is super easy to use, has collaborative features for remote or global teams, and offers plenty of templates for us to choose from to make it easy to dive right in.
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Adequate shapes and templates
  • Integrates well with other apps and services
  • Real-Time Collaboration
  • Pricing - No options for a one-time purchase like Microsoft's Visio
We've used Lucidchart in a variety of ways over the years. We've used it for a simple mind map for brainstorming sessions, various organizational charts and primarily use it for new workflow scenarios for our software. It is an exceptional diagramming software that is effective at helping us showcase our ideas. It helps others visualize what we are thinking or discussing and the templates give us a jump ahead so we can get our diagrams moving right away.
Sourabh Nandi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Lucidchart is an indispensable tool in our organization, and I primarily use it to prepare workflow and organizational charts. This powerful software has greatly streamlined our business processes and addressed several key challenges.First and foremost, Lucidchart has proven invaluable in creating clear and visually appealing workflow diagrams. It allows me to map out complex processes step-by-step, facilitating better communication within our team. This has significantly enhanced our project management capabilities, reducing errors and improving efficiency.Additionally, Lucidchart has revolutionized the way we handle organizational charts. Creating and updating our org structure has never been easier. The intuitive drag-and-drop interface, along with its extensive template library, makes it a breeze to design and maintain our org charts, which is crucial for keeping everyone in the company informed about our hierarchy and reporting structure. In conclusion, Lucidchart is an indispensable tool that has simplified our workflow and org chart creation processes. It has addressed critical business problems related to communication, project management, and organizational transparency, making it an essential asset for our organization's success.
  • Workflow Diagrams
  • Org Charts
  • Data Visualization
  • Collaboration
  • Mobile Experience
  • Offline Access
  • Better Integration with Third-Party Tools
Lucidchart is exceptionally well-suited for a variety of scenarios:1) Workflow Mapping: Lucidchart excels in creating visual representations of complex workflows. Whether you're designing a business process, software development cycle, or project management flow, Lucidchart provides an intuitive platform to map out intricate steps and decision points.2) Organizational Chart Creation: Lucidchart is an ideal choice for building and maintaining organizational charts. It simplifies the process of defining reporting structures and hierarchies, ensuring that teams remain informed about the organization's composition.However, there are scenarios where Lucidchart may be less appropriate:1) Heavy Data Visualization: If you require highly specialized data visualization with intricate charts and graphs, a dedicated data visualization tool like Tableau or Power BI might be more suitable. 2) Offline Work: Lucidchart primarily operates in the cloud. If you often need to work offline without access to the internet, other diagramming software with robust offline capabilities might be a better choice.
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