SmartDraw offers a full suite of diagrams, templates, tools and symbols to design anything. Use SmartDraw to make flowcharts, residential & commercial floor plans, organizational charts, CAD & engineering diagrams, electrical designs, landscape designs, network diagrams, app & 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 you go.
With easy file sharing and integrations with Confluence, Jira, MS Office, GSuite Apps, Trello, Box and more, SmartDraw is the best option for file storage, sharing and collaboration. SmartDraw allows you to import, edit and export Visio files (VSD & VSDX), as well as import, edit and save Visio stencils. SmartDraw is available online and off, allowing you to make diagrams whenever and wherever needed. SmartDraw offers free, US-based phone and email support, so help is always there if you need it.
Try SmartDraw today and see how SmartDraw can make your diagramming, and work day, much easier.
Pros
SmartDraw is a very complete plication for all types of diagrams that you need, has great virtues with respect to Visio that can be considered the number one in the market or at least used, when you need to diagram a project from the basic algorithm to the more complex gantt diagrams , this tool is very useful, it makes you much easier in work (in my experience much easier to use than Visio) the connection between diagrams is simpler, since finishing a diagram makes it much easier to do the following, has a wide range of options and templates that help you in the creation process, contributing to the development of diagrams for systems that you are going to develop, a very useful tool for projects where you need to correctly capture what you want to develop, use it, try it for yourself.
Cons
Its main against is the price, the full version is very expensive although it allows you to enjoy the desktop version and its cost is very high, I think you should download it to compete more in the market.
The speed of the online version sometimes fluctuates negatively, it is a mistake that must be corrected.
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.
If you are trying to do small professional projects, or simply create a blueprint of you home, SmartDraw's ease of use and robust set of options make it the smart choice over competitors.
Pros
Where this software really shines for our business is its ease of use for submittal drawings when bidding and creating contracts for jobs. It allows us to empower our salesmen to create their own submittals without the expense or training needed for some of the more "professional" suites. This means for smaller projects we do not need to tie up our senior estimators, leaving their time free and better spent with CAD. What this means is that for job cost, we are able to use lower wage employees to perform simpler tasks and not eat into the margins of a job from utilizing higher paid engineers.
Cons
It can be a bit finicky in trying to get it to do exactly what you want it to do. Its ease of use sometimes means that you are fighting those very elements that make it easy to make it do what you want it to do. Snap to grids and the like, while toggle-able, provide an annoyance when they should "just work".
Pros
Can create your mind maps and complex flowchart of any kind with ease.
Using it on office desktop and well integrated with Microsoft office suit. Also compatible with google docs which is very helpful
Cons
So i didn't find anything and i will strongly recommend this for pm and business analyst activities.
Hi Rohit,
Thank you for taking the time to write a review, I'm happy to hear SmartDraw worked well for you. If you need anything, please do not hesitate to reach out.
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-Chris
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.
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
Single User: $9.95 per month, billed annually
Multiple Users (for 5+ users): $5.95 per month, billed annually
Below are some frequently asked questions for SmartDraw.
SmartDraw offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $6.00/month
Pricing model: One Time License, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Single User: $9.95 per month, billed annually
Multiple Users (for 5+ users): $5.95 per month, billed annually
SmartDraw offers the following features:
SmartDraw has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
SmartDraw supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
SmartDraw has the following pricing plans:
One Time License, Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices SmartDraw supports
SmartDraw integrates with the following applications:
Atlassian Confluence, Box, Dropbox, G Suite, Google Drive, JIRA Software, Office 365, Trello, Trello, Wordpress
SmartDraw offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
It is perfect for drawing projects, has a wide range of templates that make it easier for you to work and all the types of diagrams you need (at least it is for my IT area), it has a desktop and online version that allows you to work in any place, it is very useful.