Microsoft Visio on a Mac?

[James J]

Hi all, I'm trying to find a Microsoft Visio alternative on the Mac so I can switch my work laptop over to my MBP as I much prefer the OS and keyboard/touchpad arrangement for my working needs. Visio is the problem and I don't particularly want to go dual boot for one single program. Any alternatives or am I forced into dual boot?

Thanks,

 

[Feek]

I was in the same situation a few years ago and although I found an alternative, it was rubbish. My needs were fairly straightforward, all I wanted was to draw a network diagram and it about managed it.
It was so bad that I can’t even remember what it was called, sorry.

Rather than dual boot, you could try running Visio in a VM. VirtualBox is free so you have nothing to lose by giving it a try.

 

[thewanted]

People with Macs at my company use Lucidchart as an alternative to Visio. They all seem to like it, although I suspect that that's because they have no choice. Personally I think the diagrams look amateur'ish compared to Visio.

 

[shine]

I’m in the same boat, I use draw.io for creating network diagrams, has a nice app and all the templates you need. It’s free and feature rich.

Some of my colleagues just use PowerPoint.

 

[James J]

I need the ability to draw floor plans, network layouts and then a completely customisable flow approach for a more visual SOP replacement.

I've seen Lucidchart and smart draw for paid alternatives so far but not seen a great review on either sadly. Might have to go down the VM route but its not what I wanted to do either to be fair.

 

[shine]

https://draw.io can do all of the above and it’s free, give it a try:

 

[Throrik]

I do like Draw.IO it's a fairly good replacement, but sometimes you do just need to breakout the sheer immensity that is Visio. I use Parallels so that I don't have to Dual Boot, but you can also use VMWare Workstation as a VM platform maybe?

 

[GSXRMovistar]

Another vote for Parallels, not prefect but does the job especially in coherence mode. Have it installed purely for using Visio and MS Project.

 

[James J]

Yeah its looking like parallels might be the best option as the other options all seem to incur a monthly cost whilst I already own Visio, I simply want to use it on my Mac lol.

 

[Feek]

Try VirtualBox first before you pay for Parallels. It's free.

 

[arty]

OmniGraffle is a much better program than Visio, in my experience.