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OmniGraffle

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What is OmniGraffle?

OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.

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What is OmniGraffle?

OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.

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Generating a site map in one minute with OmniGraffle - Demo

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OmniGraffle 6 Mind Map Demo

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Reviews and Ratings

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OmniGraffle is a versatile tool that users heavily rely on for a wide range of tasks. One key use case for the product is wireframing, roughing out, and documenting content models and site maps. This is particularly useful for the strategy team, as they can easily create workflow diagrams and produce detailed annotations that are difficult to convey via a prototype. Additionally, OmniGraffle addresses low visibility issues in web projects by allowing users to create flowcharts, behavioral flows, and site map trees.

The software serves as an excellent replacement for Visio, offering better visuals and flexibility in wireframing and design activities. Users utilize OmniGraffle to create process flow diagrams, business flow charts, and other diagrams required by their company or department. Moreover, it is used beyond traditional design purposes, with users leveraging the tool to structure texts such as lyrics, poetry, or novels to find the best flow and logic in their thematic elements.

OmniGraffle's flexible and large format medium makes it ideal for mapping out ideas and concepts that require content organization, such as messaging frameworks. Furthermore, it is a popular choice for technical documentation purposes where technical diagrams need to be created. The software also facilitates collaboration across teams by enabling the creation of workflow diagrams that can be easily shared with non-design stakeholders.

For website projects, OmniGraffle helps users chart out website and user flows through flow charts and information architecture. It plays a significant role during the discovery phase of understanding user needs and customer journey by visualizing user flows, basic journey maps, brainstorming sessions, and visual note-taking. Furthermore, designers rely on OmniGraffle to build wireframe sketches that are shared with clients during the initial project phase.

Overall, OmniGraffle offers a comprehensive set of features that cater to various industries and use cases. Its ability to address different visualization needs makes it a valuable tool for wireframing, diagramming, and content organization.

Users recommend the following:

  1. Test the software using the trial period before purchasing to determine if it meets your needs and if it is easy to use.

  2. Consider alternative tools for drag and drop features and pre-made high-fi widgets. Also, explore more powerful options for flowcharts and business logic charts.

  3. Seek answers on blogs and YouTube videos in addition to relying solely on the provided documentation and tutorials. Study the smaller hot keys and tricks in Omnigraffle for better productivity. Try other tools like Adobe Illustrator or Balsamiq Mockups depending on the type of work you do. Additionally, consider Keynote, InVision, or Foundation/HTML for a more efficient workflow.

Overall, users appreciate Omnigraffle's value for money and its capabilities in wireframing, data modeling, and building flow diagrams. However, they encourage potential users to thoroughly evaluate their specific needs before investing in any tool.

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February 20, 2020

Perfect Diagram and Chart Development Application

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Rene Sabillon
IT Manager
American Textiles & Apparel (Apparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use the Mac version of OmniGraffle, and we can create different kinds of diagrams in a matter of minutes. Everything is as easy as dragging and dropping controls and connecting them with arrows or lines, OmniGraffle will do the rest.
June 22, 2019

OmniGraffle: A Robust Diagramming Solution for Many User Types

Verified User
Professional in Research & Development
Education Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
OmniGraffle is great for teams that seek a diagramming tool to create wireframes, process workflows, family trees, software class maps, and pretty much any type of diagram (I have even used it to map out my novel!). The learning curve is low and is a great tool for designers who want to collaborate with non-designer colleagues. However, it’s a less robust tool for design-specific teams who seek a solid wireframe solution. OmniGraffle is great for low-fidelity wireframes, but it would make more sense to use a different tool that enables users to create both lo-fi and hi-fi wireframes in the same tool. It would be even better if that tool could allow designers to create prototypes as well! But if diagramming is your main focus, then OmniGraffle is a solid, robust solution.
March 14, 2019

OmniGraffle — The sweet spot for diagramming and visual tech communications

Jeff Eaton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeff Eaton
Senior Digital Strategist
Lullabot (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
February 07, 2019

THE diagramming software tool for OS X

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As I said earlier in this review, OmniGraffle does an excellent job with arcs if they are created in OmniGraffle. The same is not true if the drawing I'm working on was imported from Visio. In that case, I need to just start all over with the arc lines, and that is not often a reasonable option.
November 15, 2018

Easy way to outline concepts you need to communicate to others

John Rougeux | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Rougeux
VP Marketing, North America
Skyfii (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
OmniFocus is great for when you want to map out an idea or process and then share it with others. I makes it very easy to link content together and create clean looking hierarchies. However, if you're looking for a tool that will let you collaborate on design, look elsewhere.
February 01, 2018

OmniGraffle is simply the best choice for modelling on the Mac

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Ash Sharma
Director
ERP Solution Advisors Ltd (Management Consulting, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're used to using Visio and similar tools on the PC then OmiGraffle for the Mac is a seamless transfer.
Has the same level of capability as any other modelling tool on the market but is more cost effective and has the added bonus of also being functional on iOS devices.
September 14, 2017

Omnigraffle is a good, if limited, tool

Matt Railey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matt Railey
Director of User Experience and Technology
TrueParallel, Inc. (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it is best suited if you're looking for a Mac native alternative to MS Visio. It does static diagrams and workflows well. It is also a good tool to quickly draw out a basic wireframe to use a quick first draft to convey an idea. However, I've moved on to using tools like Sketch, UXPin, and Proto.io for creating interactive prototypes and wireframes that can then be fleshed out into full high fidelity mock-ups within the same software.
September 13, 2017

Is there still a place for OmniGraffle in your design flow?

Kirk Brote | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kirk Brote
Director of Product Experience
WuXi NextCODE (Biotechnology, 201-500 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have an extremely deep UI with many layers and subtlety OmniGraffle is excellent for being able to detail all of the nuance and details. In cases where you have many instances of a single object with minor differences OmniGraffle affords the ability to easily identify the different individual instances and what the differences are.
March 20, 2017

Omnigraffle, a good tool for writers and songwriters

Fred ALPI | TrustRadius Reviewer
Fred ALPI
Chanteur, guitariste, producteur
Indépendant (Music, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Omnigraffle is a good tool for organizing ideas and thoughts, and visualize them easily and quickly. It is not a complete tool for the creation of texts, so you need to use other tools in addition to it. An interaction with writing tools could be an interesting feature.
March 21, 2016

OmniGraffle - Great for flowcharts, and information architecture

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It has never been my go-to tool for prototyping or wire-framing. I find other tools do that better. I use it almost exclusively for work where I need to map flows, information, charts etc. For wireframing it feels like too many clicks etc. I'd rather use sketch for scenarios like that.
March 18, 2016

For diagramming any abstract ideas or complex interactions, Omnigraffle is way to go.

Verified User
Employee in Research & Development
Design Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
OminiGraffle is well suited for the planning phase (diagramming, wireframing) of product development or sharing ideas or brainstorming different flows or customer journey. It's easy to create a technical flow chart to show complex interactions with an easier and clear way for the better understanding of audiences.

However, it's less appropriate to create high-fidelity mock up screens to share final designs and ideas in design phase.
March 11, 2016

Omnigraffle for Flows and basic wireframing

Jeffrey Young | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeffrey Young
UX Technical Lead / Senior UX Consultant
CGI (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If my colleague is planning to create work flows and / or diagrams, then I will definitely recommend Omnigraffle. It excels for those use cases. If they only need make a simple wireframe, I can recommend Omnigraffle as a decent dual tasker to supplement flow charts. However, if the need is to create more detailed wireframes or prototypes, there are other tools better suited in my opinion.
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