Chrome was the only browser would let me load Flash. There are all kinds of problems with Flash which I'll talk about more some other time, but in my case, it basically prevented me from using Gliffy in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. Gliffy is a flash app, LucidChart is HTML5 Gliffy was built in Flash, which means it won't work unless you have the Adobe Flash plugin installed on your computer. However, even with Gliffy's weak attempts at collaboration, it beats emailing a Visio file back and forth. There are also cool features like chat to help make collaboration a piece of cake. When one user makes a change to a document, that change is automatically pushed to everyone else. Multiple users can log in and access a document at the same time, but changes aren't merged together, so what's the point? As I said in my earlier post about LucidChart, they handle collaboration seamlessly. Gliffy's collaboration is half-baked Remember earlier when I said that web apps are good for collaboration? Well, that's only half true with Gliffy. Here are the main things that are holding back Gliffy: But when you look a little deeper, there are a few very important differences that make LucidChart the obvious winner. So at first glance, it's hard to decide between the two products. Gliffy definitely has some UI advantages (more intuitive menus, better layout controls) and LucidCharts has some advantages (easier to draw lines, better labeling options, simpler pricing).
Neither are amazingly polished from a user interface standpoint (there are minor annoyances scattered throughout both products), but they both work very well, and they make things very easy. It also helps that Gliffy is much much cheaper than Visio without sacrificing any of the features that I care about.Ĭomparing Gliffy to LucidChart is a little bit more difficult. Online applications have better support for collaboration and they're easier to share and present. Flowchart and diagramming applications need to be online. So basically, I don't recommend Gliffy over LucidChart, but it's a great backup option if you don't like LucidChart for some reason.Ĭomparing it to Visio is a no brainer for me. In my opinion, Gliffy is definitely a better product than Microsoft Visio, but it's definitely not as good as LucidChart. Today I'm going to review another online flowchart tool called Gliffy.īefore getting into any details, here's my overall opinion of Gliffy: Gliffy is a very solid product, and it's priced fairly for what you get. Ī while back I talked about LucidChart, a web-based tool for creating flowcharts online. Click here to read our updated Lucidchart review.
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