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Discussion on: What's the best software for creating flowcharts and other visuals to document application logic?

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Joseph Jude

If you are on Mac, you can use Omnigraffle. I have been using it for 5 years and I'm happy with it for all kinds of visual creations (from screenmocks, wireframes, flowcharts, process diagrams etc).

Recently I started using Sketchapp. Though it is for creating wireframes and like, you can still use it for process documentations.

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Ben Halpern

Omnigraffle looks great!

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Ian bradbury

Over the years I've tried many tools. On the Mac - definitely the best is OmniGraffle. On Windows - MS Vizio.

My preference is always 'Graffle.

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Walker Harrison

interesting, someone else also suggested omnigraffle to me and showed some mockups she'd done that looked pretty crisp. I'm partial to free software...but their pricing does seem reasonable

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dotHTM • Edited

I personally can't stand Omni Group's products, but they have made the best app for making a magnetically attachable arrow diagramming app with added vector drawing functionality.

I think Graffle's key power feature is being able to quickly select objects of similar shape, color, or style to then apply new or uniform styles.

But, I don't draw carts anymore with software, so I use Sketchapp for vector work.