SmartDraw

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Diagram tool to draw any type of chart or diagram

About SmartDraw

SmartDraw offers a full suite of diagrams, templates, tools and symbols to design anything. Use SmartDraw to make flowcharts, residential and commercial floor plans, organizational charts, CAD and engineering diagrams, electrical designs, landscape designs, network diagrams, app and site mockups, wireframes, and more. SmartDraw automates much of the drawing process, users can add, move, and delete shapes, and the app is smart enough to realign and fix drawings as they are being worked on. Businesses can create a custom org chart using a pre-built template, or by drawing it from scratch, and utilize tools such as intelligent formatting, Visio file import, powerful automation, visual simbols, simple commands, and other intuitive tools.

With easy file sharing and integrations with Confluence, Jira, MS Office, GSuite Apps, Trello, Box and more, SmartDraw facilitates file storage, sharing, and collaboration. SmartDraw allows users to import, edit and export Visio files (VSD & VSDX), as well as import, edit and save Visio stencils. SmartDraw is available online and offline, allowing businesses to make diagrams whenever and wherever needed.


Key benefits of SmartDraw

  • SmartDraw includes more diagrams, templates, tools and symbols than the competition, so you never need to start with a blank page.

  • SmartDraw allows for online and offline access, with the ability to access and use SmartDraw from any internet connected device.

  • SmartDraw includes a full Visio® import and export. You can import, edit and export Visio® files (VSD & VSDX) as well as import, modify and save Visio® stencils.

  • SmartDraw offers integrations allowing for easy file storage, sharing and collaboration, including: Confluence, Jira, MS Office, GSuite Apps, Box, Trello and more.

  • SmartDraw's automated features allow you to import files and have diagrams automatically created for you. You can also add, move and delete shapes with a simple button or mouse press, and have them automatically connected and formatted properly.

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    Reviews

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    4.1 /5
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    3.7/5
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    4.1/5
    Ease of Use
    3.9/5
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    John M.
    John M.
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    • Industry: Computer Software
    • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    A great alternative to MS Visio and other "flowchart apps"

    Reviewed on 2017-10-10

    Pros

    I have used this product with several customers migrating from the old ISO9000:2008 to the process approach in the new ISO9000:2015.

    Cons

    Awkward use of cloud storage versus desktop storage. File folders are not obvious in the new version.

    Christopher
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    • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
    • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    A great software for creating charts

    Reviewed on 2023-01-07

    A great 1 year plus experience using smartdraw for designs and all. Still have some certain...

    A great 1 year plus experience using smartdraw for designs and all. Still have some certain features to try out and I will definitely do that from now on

    Pros

    First of all, I love the software layout and its design. I usually use smartdraw to create flowcharts, simple electric circuit diagrams.Well designed Inbuilt templates are available for users and tools to help the user design templates from scratch

    Cons

    Although there are some features that I haven't tried yet, the rest are working just fine for me

    Diana
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    • Industry: Furniture
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

    Unstable and Quirky - Danger - Lost Work Zone

    Reviewed on 2018-08-21

    The only benefit I have received is when I quickly print what I am working on, so that this...

    The only benefit I have received is when I quickly print what I am working on, so that this horribly unstable and unpredictable program will not just lose it and delete even saved work from its memory. When you want to make certain measurements, you will never be able to do so, because it only allows "anchored" points to be measured - not the item or space you wish to measure. It is impossible to scale down their furniture selections/templates because they have it set to scale down the width, when all you want to change is the length. It has been a disappointing waste of time and money.

    Pros

    I has little to say for Pros: because it is just as easy to draw boxes without having this program. I learned every feature and applied all of the program's features. It is likely that you could get a beginning design to give to someone, as a simple floor plan, if that is what you need. But be sure to print it to preserve your work after each little change.

    Cons

    Customer service is practically nil and there is no "help" or troubleshooting. If you try to contact them for support, you have to wait and see if they will send you an email the next day - and they usually won't. If you get the email, it does not remotely address the trouble or offer to talk you through it if their "solution" or instruction is not on point. Really disappointing. There is no auto save unless you are working in the Cloud for this program. Further, it constantly just stops and closes itself - and dumps all of your work during that session, even if you have been saving! So, then the hours of work are permanently lost - no kidding, EVEN if you pushed save. If you use it, you must remember to save, save, save - after each little line or inclusion and then print. Then close the program before its instability causes it to just close itself as to the design you are working on. If you don't close it down, you will lose all of your work. Then - get this - when you reopen a file after it has decided to shut down, it says that there is a recovered work file and asks if you want to open it and recover it. If you say "yes" the program shuts down again, over and over and over. It is so unstable that it can't hold up to the tasks it claims to be performing with its features, such as layers, measurements, inserting photos, etc.

    Nicky
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    • Industry: Design
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Basic floor plans but easy to use

    Reviewed on 2019-04-25

    I've used other floor planners and this one is definitely the easiest to use at a great price.

    I've used other floor planners and this one is definitely the easiest to use at a great price.

    Pros

    It's very easy to draw up a basic house floor plan.

    Cons

    Limited symbol options specific to interior design. If you use too many JPEG images within the file the system struggles to convert to PDF. (which isn't the case with my other design software). Often glitches when opening files and/or is very slow to open existing documents.

    Response from SmartDraw

    Hi Nicky,

    Thank you for the positive review and for the feedback. I'll pass the review along to our development team, so we can take a look at the PDF export and file opening issues you mentioned. If you reply back to me, or contact our support using the below info, we can further investigate and help. If there is any other way we can be of assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

    International: +1 858 225 3300
    US: 800-768-3729
    email: [email protected]

    -Chris

    Gulshan
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    • Industry: Computer Software
    • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Powerful tool for designing software

    Reviewed on 2019-03-25

    Over-all experience as per my requirements is good and doing my work done easily and fast.

    Over-all experience as per my requirements is good and doing my work done easily and fast.

    Pros

    Very easy to draw flowcharts.
    Easily import and export visio. Available at cheap price and can easily replace visio i believe which is much costlier. One can use its rich library of colours.
    Templates help alot to quickly built mocks.

    Cons

    When I used i didn't find multiple user facility.

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    SmartDraw offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$9.95/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Not Available

    SmartDraw has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    SmartDraw supports the following languages:

    Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian

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    SmartDraw integrates with the following applications:

    Box, Confluence, Dropbox Business, Google Drive, Google Workspace, Jira, Microsoft 365, Microsoft PowerPoint, OneDrive, Trello, WordPress

    SmartDraw offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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