OmniGraffle Reviews

It was easy to use from the first time I used it. There were plenty of options to create amazing diagrams.

I couldn’t find anything negative about my experience with the app.

I use OmniGraffle Pro on my Mac desktop for engineering design documentation. The tool is generally easy to use after learning a few key combinations for editing. It is easy to center and line up objects using the very smart alignment tools. The default shapes are nice and clean and objects with curves render smoothly. There is a lot of functionality that might not be immediately obvious until you start using the tool.

I have difficulty manipulating the connection lines. The key combinations to edit a line position are not immediately obvious and I had to use outside resources to figure it out.

Users often commend OmniGraffle for its user-friendly interface. The intuitive design makes it easy for both beginners and experienced users to create professional-looking diagrams and visual designs.

While many users praise the intuitive interface, there is still a learning curve, especially for individuals who are new to diagramming or graphic design software. Some users might find it takes time to become proficient in using all the features effectively.

Using Omnigraffle for my projects makes me work faster.I like the ease at which I am able to tweak my wireframes ,flows and maps on this program.I am provided with loads of templates to aid the quality of my work and draw inspiration from.
It is cross platform and this fits well with the nature of my job,which almost forbids me being behind my desk regularly .With Omnigraffle ,I stay in control of my projects even while on the move and I am able to quickly make amendment to my wireframes ,if there is a need to.

It is obviously far from the most intuitive diagramming tool I have used and takes far too much time to learn for new users.

Essentially if you want to create a diagram, you can make it in OmniGraffle. It has stencils for brainstorming, UML, AWS diagrams, site mapping, almost any kind of diagram and that is amazing. You could easily just have one piece of software.

It can do too much. It can do brainstorming, UML diagrams, app mockups, vector drawing... and it's not the best tool at many of those things. You just have to know what you can do quickly.

Very powerful tool for UML and other diagram conventions. Ability to map out system interactions and present in a clear format. Export to image format or save as a graffle file for future editing and collaboration.

Feature-rich interface can appear daunting for beginners and this creates a steep, but short, learning curve.

I have been an omnigraffle user for around 7 years now. I have used it to layout tiles for tiling floors and backsplashes, laying out designs for audio visual systems for signal flow and also have use it for designing patterns used to cut out stage design pieces on a CNC router. Line routing is very helpful for making signal flow diagrams. An extensive stencil library covering a variety of industries is a huge benefit making this software useful for many different purposes. Multiple export options of your document is also a huge plus.

It has a little bit of a learning curve in the beginning but if you have any previous experience with other design software it is not too difficult to learn Omnigraffle.

It has the features of Visio (supposedly)

It is a very hard transition from Visio, it does not work the same way.

Easy to draw quick diagrams on the Mac - flowcharts too.

Little hard to figure this out and learn exactly how the system worked - reminds me of Photoshop in that way.

Professional graphics with many import / export options. Outstanding for making flow charts, org charts and architectural diagrams for IT. Also a great tool for designing laser cut templates for on-line services as the object oriented approach is dimensionally correct and the wide format options improves chances you will meet the services' file format requirements.

Some of the features take a while to master. This is not a tool that you will pick up quickly or that you would use to create a drawing for a simple business presentation.

I like pretty much everything about this software. It is easy to create flows and drawings for my projects. There are numerous stencils available online for download which improve my productivity.

I wish I could export directly to native Visio format instead of Visio XML for sharing files with clients.

Oh my so many things you can do with this layers check, a good library of stencils, check solid community of users check many more checks to count

The only thing I would say on the downside of things is there are so many ways to use this product and finding the more advanced features will take a lot of mastery of use of the product.

Draw on a fixed size canvas, what you see is what you get on the print -- very helpful for IEEE/ACM papers
Magnets and grid that connect and align objects
So many features and shortcut keys that I am still discovering, but all features are to maximize productivity

Learning curve is steep.
Documentation is still very long. Should have a shorter getting started documents that introduce all key concepts of OmniGraffle

This software's amazing. Very user-friendly and most importantly is that it maintains the UX Designer focus on the wireframe. Other software is very heavily on the design that sometimes you might end up losing focus.

Better curation for the stencils that are included in the Omnigraffle website. There are quite some that are useless.

The UI is familiar to those familiar with Sketch and other Design-based software. The Ui is clean and gives you a lot to work with. Nice for laying out flows and for VERY simple wireframes.

Feels somewhere inbetween a vector-based design tool and a flowchart/layout tool. It does both good, but neither great. Also, it's not as collaborative as other tools out there. The rage right now is real-time collaboration. Omnigraffle requires you to attach and share files.

OmniGraffle is very easy to use. It allows a user to create lucid charts that capture the essence of the logic of a process. I particularly like the fact that arcs drawn from one object to another are drawn such that they virtually pass through the center of an object so that arrowheads don't pile up on each other. One of the best features of OmniGraffle is that it allows a user to create layers that can be turned off and on to reveal successive layers when talking through the build-up of a process map.

OmniGraffle is packed with so many features that it can be difficult sometimes to figure out how to use those features in a chart as the supporting documentation is a little thin.

The design capabilities of OmniGraffle Pro are excellent. Multiple layers for objects, plenty of formatting options for text and graphic objects, and easy to use and create templates, are all hallmarks of this application. It's pretty easy to build a library of art that can be re-used, and it's relatively simple to share that library across multiple users. There are also a number of already-made libraries of graphic items that can be downloaded and used. I use this tool regularly for flow charting and process mapping for professional use, as well as some design work for personal use.

It would be nice to see some connectivity features added, perhaps something like a "web part" that could return a graph from Google Charts or data from another API.

The ease of use of this app due to the intuitiveness is the best feature. It's very easy to convert your thoughts to a presentable form/diagram easily.

Actually nothing. May be there are a lot of features that I do not use currently. But havent found anythign that I dislike yet.

The quick drag and drop shapes make creating site maps, user flows, content maps, user flows, etc.
The familiarity of the shapes, line tools, arrows, etc. can make quick work of projects that would take much longer in a program such as Illustrator.

If more sharing with team features and collaborative notes were added, it would definitely add even more to the app. It's great for building site maps quickly!

OmniGraffle Pro is a diagram making software that enables you to create different types of diagrams, graphs or model. Possibilities for diagram making are endless. There are many graph needed for our company's clients' websites, which I made through OmniGraffle Pro. The layouts are almost limitless with lots of different graphs, diagrams, and models which are highly modifiable depending on my own measurements.

The unavailability in different operating system is a downside especially that my workplace desktop operated on windows.

I use this tool to create stunning diagrams. I love the customization and options to create lots of various versions of diagrams. Tool also offer options to create wireframes. The app contains some kind of store for elements where you can download them and expand your playground.

The app is like OmniPlan a bit difficult. It will be better to provide some intro to get things to know better. I also experience some small problems with dragging.

It is quite easy to work with predefined objects. Whether you want to make a website wireframe or a mobile app UI, you can quickly set the elements and reuse them. I’ve used it even to build my office setup, once I built the objects representing the furniture I could make multiple proposals in no time, and see if everything fit.

It’s not very easy to make stencils from scratch, but not impossible.