Lucidchart Reviews

Lucidchart is well suited for creating sitemaps, even with the UX flaws of the text editor provided for making a map. Autoconnection of shapes and flowing according to several flow types are excellent time savers. I probably use Lucidchart mainly for drawing complex workflows requiring multiple decision points and pathways. Lucidchart makes it very easy to create these kinds of charts once you create a shape template that best suits your needs. I find Lucidchart less suited for creating documents for print. Resizing shapes doesn't change text size within and things can get ugly fast. Lucidchart doesn't work well with shapes containing lots of text—like more than a few words. You have to manually break lines in your text to make it flow in a shape and stay readable. There isn't a way to set interior margins on a shape, so your text runs into and sometimes over the shape lines.

Great tool to create/display processes/workflows, share documents, outline flow, and share marketing emails.

Appropriate for laying out complex flowcharts (processes/campaigns/projects). Unnecessary for simple, linear flows.

If you're a light or heavy Visio user, give Lucidchart a try and see what you think. I use it for business analysis and project management. Perfect for getting stakeholders up to speed and capturing complex processes.

If you need to diagram something but don't want to invest time and money into Adobe Illustrator or Auto CAD, Lucidchart is the best app of its kind. If you use a Macintosh, this is definitely your best option. Team members who are tech-savvy and confident can quickly get up to speed with Lucidchart. It is a fast way to share diagrams and integrate with sharing platforms like Google and Slack. Lucidcharts doesn't replace CAD programs that do data modeling for manufacturing or construction.

Lucidchart is ideal for teams and individuals who collaborate on diagrams and charts, specifically those to do with workflows and product mapping. Product development, sales, and marketing teams can all benefit from the use of Lucidchart. Administration staff would also benefit from Lucidchart, and it can be used for basic charting and organizational diagrams as well.

Anytime you need some sort of chart or visualization, I would recommend using LucidChart. It is great to use for account mapping, although it is not something that has been fully baked into our sales process just yet. If you can get buy-in from your management team, and have it included as part of your sales training from the start, this will ensure that it will get used a lot more efficiently.

LucidChart is well suited in an environment where network flowcharts and diagrams are used in a shared environment.

The platform is great for onboarding and getting out all realistic avenues a marketing campaign might play out. It is a great visualizer tool that can help draw paths between tasks to make the end objective more clear for the team. The only scenario that this might be less appropriate is if the subject matter is too technical to grasp at a macro level.

Great for users who want to create complex flow charts, organizational charts, workflow charts, value webs, and other diagrams. I've been able to more clearly illustrate complex website functions, large organizational systems, reporting chains with several "what if" cases, and more. If you need to make many diagrams and that these have more than 60 objects it is convenient to subscribe at least to the basic plan since the price is relatively low. It allows me to make diagrams of many types, mainly diagrams of entity relationship and diagrams without need of facilities or complicated records, since you can enter with your Google account or with social networks like Facebook & Instagram; also allows me to share the work with my students and organize work teams for the diagrams of the software development methodologies that we use. Great solution to provide to users what they can use without having an expert create all the diagrams and flowcharts. It's a great DIY tool for users.

Really great for building technical charts quickly. However, it is niche for people who really do this regularly (engineers, PMs).

If you are in a business analyst position or regularly need to document and present ideas for new projects or map out business process flows, then Lucidchart is a great option. I have been using it for years and have only gotten more and more comfortable and really rely on Lucidchart to create the materials I need to effectively do my job.

Great for simple sketching and publishing for clear communication to our team or to the board. The boxes, lines, clip art library, and photo inputs make for very nice presentations.

It's not powerful enough for actual construction blueprints, or serious graphic design. You'll want a stronger piece of software for those situations.

Lucidchart is great for building out customer or internal work flows and documenting customer or internal organization charts. Additionally, it is a great tool for building mock ups for potential looks and feels of web UI. I think there are better tools out there for mobile wireframes. Lucidchart lacks an interactive design.

Designing architecture and logic diagrams
Brainstorming and mindmaps
UI wireframing

If you want to get your firm organized and document processes, workflow, org charts, or map out an idea, this software is great. It can be used whether it's on a company-wide scale, for personal, or educational use. There is a free version but it is limited in terms of functionality so depending on what you need it for you may have to upgrade. I recommend the paid version for a large company. If you're an individual I recommend the free version if it suits your needs.

If you are representing a workflow of your customers or of a process, Lucidchart works really well. However, for an enterprise with an Ofice 365 license, its competitor products can be handy without going for Lucidchart.

Lucidchart is a good app for mind mapping exercises and diagrams. It is very useful for people who need to create a very well structured work process or workflow with every single step identified, allowing for an easy understanding of the process. Programmers and data scientists, for example, would find it very handy.

As a content strategist and UX specialist, I use LucidChart weekly to illustrate what I'm picturing in my head. My husband has used it to diagram the circuitry in motorcycle rebuilds. And it's super flexible for people with little to no design skills - you can literally take screengrabs, import them, and manipulate or mask them to represent what you're trying to convey. It's really easy to learn on the fly, and even easier to teach to new employees.

I use LucidChart pretty much anytime I need to diagram anything! It's very well suited to mapping out workflows, and easy to export & share in other tools (Slack, google docs, etc.). We use it for mapping out decision trees, process diagrams, system diagrams, etc. and it's pretty easy to make the diagrams look clean and easy to understand. It's really designed for process flows, with built-in arrow styles, process shapes, etc. and easy to drag and drop to create a complete diagram. They've improved the interface a couple of times since I first started using it and it's now very flexible and not buggy.

Lucidchart is a great Visio replacement if you're able to use cloud based software. Due to this, Lucidchart can be a bit cumbersome in the field. At a desk, I can see no reason not to use it!