Mac Visio Alternatives...

Conanius · 6 Oct 2012 at 10:53

So,

I've got Mac Office 2011 Home on our Mac's, and I'm a bit of a Visio lover at work for doing diagrams.

I've seen I could just get Visio and install it through something like Parallels, but I don't have either of those applications, so thats a good £70 just to draw a few charts to input into my OU work... Maybe a bit excessive.

I've seen Omnigraffle, which looks good, but again, its similar cash.

What do you guys all use, and what sort of price are they. Free is good !

arty · 6 Oct 2012 at 15:23

Omnigraffle is the best I've found. Takes a while to get the hang of, but now I've spent the time it is very quick and infinitely better than the unusable abortion that is Visio.

slinxy · 6 Oct 2012 at 18:18

I saw this the other day; touch draw, looks interesting but I've not used it myself. Its a 10th of OmiGraffle Pro's price.

uniQ · 6 Oct 2012 at 18:41

What sort of diagrams do you create?

I use LucidChart (web) synced with Google Drive for UML. However OmniGraffle is excellent.

Conanius · 6 Oct 2012 at 19:32

slinxy said:
I saw this the other day; touch draw, looks interesting but I've not used it myself. Its a 10th of OmiGraffle Pro's price.

Wow, absolutely perfect. Nice one

slinxy · 8 Oct 2012 at 21:56

no problem mate, can you say how good it actually is as I don't use it myself.

I was very tempted to get it myself, but I don't use visio enough and I have it on a windows machine that I remote desktop to. I can still remember when visio was free on windows many moons ago, till microsoft brought them out and it seem now you have to pay for extra symbol sets. :rolleyes: