Visio or SmartDraw like apps not available for Mac. But there are some good alternatives to Microsoft Visio available for Mac OS X.
MS Visio is a quite popular diagramming software available for Windows. It is an incredibly powerful tool to help create industry standard floor plans, engineering designs, flowcharts, and so on. Best Alternatives to Visio for Mac OmniGraffle Pro. OmniGraffle Pro is a professional diagramming application made by The Omni group and available only on Mac OS X and the iPad. It is a very powerful and user friendly alternative to Microsoft Visio for Mac and in some areas, it offers even more features than Microsoft Visio itself. Ardoq is a little-known, Norwegian Microsoft Visio alternative that packs a punch. Made for architects, developers, process owners, project managers, and business owners, this “living documentation” software aims to translate complex information into beautiful charts. Visio Alternative, Visio for Windows No Comment Fannie Microsoft Visio is definitely a powerful program for creating diagrams. However, due to the high price for single users, people tend to look for some best Visio alternatives for engineering diagram.
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Microsoft released Visio for Windows only. Its not available for Mac. But you can run Visio in Mac using Parallel Desktop software or BootCamp Windows. In this guide we look at Visio and solidWorks alternatives.
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9 of the Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Visio By Robert Zak – Posted on May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018 in Software Tools Microsoft Visio is a powerful piece of software, allowing IT professionals, business people, engineers, and others working in highly technical fields to map out and display complex information in the form of flowcharts. Omnigraffle is good, probably at east as good if not better than Visio! There are a huge number of templates at graffletopia, too. If you are looking for more vector drawing rather than diagrams.
Now no Apple Mac version of Visio available. But you can use some serious and professional alternatives to Visio on Mac. Ex : Lucidchart, ConceptDraw Pro and Omnigraffle.
Lucidchart for Mac (Online Visio reader & Editor)- Free version for single user, 14 day trial, Monthly plans.
Lucidchart is a browser based Visio editor and reader. So you can use this app in any operating systems like Mac, Windows or Linux. Its also offer free Google Chrome plugin for Lucidchart. So you can even work Lucidchart without internet connection.
Advantages:-
- Its integrated with Microsoft Office 2013 (JIRA and Confluence plugins) and Google Drive.
- Also check free LucidChart iOS mobile app which allow you to edit diagrams.
- Free version (for Single user) only offer 60 objects per document and 25MB storage. its also allow you to import Visio VSD and VDX file.
Disadvantages:-
- You need paid version to export Visio format. Its not support .vst, .vtx templates.
Sketch for Mac ($99.99)
If you want to use vector graphics editing with good measure like Visio, then Sketch is best on for you.
Advantages:-
- Sketch app is lightweight compared to ConceptDraw, Lucidchart and OmniGraffle. Its tools and workspace is like illustrator and Visio.
- It have both vector graphic and Raster graphic tools.
Desktop based CAD environment software. Its available in 2 versions. Only purchase Pro version if you need to export to Visio format. It have lot of templates for engineering, landscaping, science, management etc.
Advantages
- You can use ConceptDraw in both Windows PC and Mac with one license.
- You can edit and export ConceptDraw file to MS Project, MS Word and Evernote.
Disadvantages
- ConceptDraw is quite hard to learn and its really expensive.
OmniGraffle Pro (Mac Version – $99 & iPad version $49.99)
one of the best Visio alternatives for Mac. It open all Visio formats like .vsd, .vss, .vst files. Pro version allow you to import and export Visio files.
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Appstore download is same for Omigraffle standard and Pro version. You need to unlock when you purchase a pro license via OmniGraffle Menu -> In-app purchase.
Advantages :-
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- Its really easier than to use ConceptDraw.
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