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Figma vs Lucidchart comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Figma
Ranking in Visual Collaboration Platforms
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Lucidchart
Ranking in Visual Collaboration Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Mind Mapping Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Visual Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Figma is 34.9%, down from 40.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucidchart is 6.5%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Visual Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Figma34.9%
Lucidchart6.5%
Other58.6%
Visual Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Elizaveta Besedina - PeerSpot reviewer
Designer | Product design team at Monterosa
Has supported my work in digital design with powerful components, AI features, and seamless plugin integration
Areas in Figma where I see room for improvement include variables; it would be very useful if we could record gradients in variables. Also, it is quite a common issue when we need to change the fonts in bulk, and there is not a native option on how to do that. We either go manually or we use a select by font feature, but it is not as consistent and is still pretty manual because we have to go font by font. If I have a headline font that is 14 pixels and then a body font which is smaller, then there are two separate lines, and I need to manually click on each of them to change the font. I would appreciate something that I can just use, and sometimes the files are not attached to a font variable, so it is not easy to change it. It would really benefit if I could just make it in one or two clicks, such as changing all the fonts in this file to this.
AlexMartin1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Nestlé
Visual collaboration has improved remote workflows and supports faster shared decisions
The best features Lucidchart offers are that it diagrams processes very well. It allows for project management to help with client timelines. It is also easy to use and create diagrams, especially mermaid diagrams. Collaborating is easy. Out of all those features, collaboration stands out to me the most because it is easy to share with team members to do joint design work. Lucidchart has positively impacted my organization by improving productivity and collaboration. In terms of specifics, collaboration helps us come to conclusions. I notice better throughput as it is easy to use. Improved productivity allows us to express ourselves more quickly.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The platform is scalable for small—to medium-sized enterprises."
"The way you can create templates is probably most helpful because it gives us a way to very quickly play around and test ideas and different types of layouts."
"I would recommend Figma to other users because I definitely think it is the industry standard."
"At the end of the day, I feel that I do not really have to leave the tool to do all this creative work, because I can get from the idea to a working prototype on Figma without thinking about any other tool."
"Figma has positively impacted our organization because we just live in Figma and certain teams just live in Figma all the time, which has really allowed us to make sure that our designs are consistent and that there is a standard way of producing those designs and consuming those designs."
"Figma has positively impacted my organization because it allows everyone to have access to the files that our design team produces."
"Having everything hosted on the web is one of the best features."
"Figma is very user-friendly compared to Adobe XD, and the overall design community was moving towards Figma."
"What I like about Lucidchart is its flexibility of how you put things together along with its intuitive sense."
"Its capabilities for visualizing and understanding these types of workflows are really good."
"Documenting things such as processes, systems, and new teams has been my primary use case. Lucidchart is really, really valuable for its ability to create a process chart from start to end. The web app makes it easy because everything is similar to other tools like Visio but Lucidchart feels a little bit more intuitive. It has been easy to use the web app. I definitely have learned a lot about how to bring in my own graphics or images in place of some of the shapes and I'm able to create and use the arrows within the processes, so it definitely has been useful for me."
"Lucidchart's capabilities for visualizing and understanding those flows and processes are absolutely excellent."
"Lucidchart's capabilities for understanding workflows is high. I use a couple of different programs, like MindManager, and what I like about using Lucidchart is that it is all web-based. So, I can quickly go into a web browser, drag and drop a bunch of files, pictures, or notes, draw some flow lines, and rapidly be able to create a visual representation of what I am trying to do. As a product manager, I can quickly organize thoughts that way and show people what we are working on."
"The flow chart is most valuable. It is a very user-friendly and simple-to-use product. Quite quickly, I was able to understand how to use it and just get on with my process flow."
"It's a very strong diagramming tool."
"Ease of use is especially critical because if I am conducting brainstorming sessions with my team, I have to be able to quickly put things on the monitor so that I don't lose their attention and focus. Ease of use is definitely helpful when I do that... The fact that I don't get lost within the software and am able to quickly generate visuals onscreen, so that it doesn't break the momentum, is a huge win."
 

Cons

"Figma is costly, especially when sharing with others as you have to upgrade your plan."
"Sometimes the prototype view menu gets in the way of navigation, especially if the prototype has a menu at the top, and most of the time it does."
"The disadvantages of Figma compared to Adobe are the capabilities when searching for plugins; we often need to rely on external ones, and it takes time to read documentation because the prototyping protocol is not very clear."
"I would rate the stability at about six; quite a few bugs occur."
"Typing a prompt to express what I have in mind is quite complicated."
"The product could be improved by addressing performance issues such as slowness, particularly with heavy or high-resolution images."
"In the free version, because we are designers, we don't always have access to the paid version. While the pricing is totally fine for paid workspaces, the free version needs better security locks so other users cannot duplicate content."
"Figma can be improved because it is a closed ecosystem."
"Another thing that somewhat irritated me is the fact that there is a paste function in the menu, but when you right-click and select paste, it tells you that you can't use paste."
"Overall, I would rate this product somewhere in the middle. Not bad, but not good."
"One of the major drawbacks is that we have to extract the work in Lucidchart as an image when we want to create a presentation."
"It would be nice to have more features that help me visually present information. Since I use it as a canvas, my use case for it is probably very specific. I use it as a way to present information to people visually on a large mind map. So, it would be nice to be able to have more graphical things to clean it up, like a header, banners, or something to help draw attention to certain areas. I would also like more infographic-like features, because I am kind of limited to float chart shapes. This makes the solution a little cumbersome."
"The flowcharting feature would be improved if it had some kind of prediction capability that helped to create the diagrams, such as the ability to automatically join components with my database."
"I would really like to be able to set default appearance settings for new documents because I have a set of appearance settings that I always use. I end up setting that manually every time. There may be a way to do that, and maybe I am not able to find it. This is my only major point of feedback for improvement. There are other little nitpicky things, such as being able to lock layers without them looking like a big red line around them would be nice, but every graphic design software does that, so I understand why they have that. All my concerns are nitpicks. They're not big."
"It would be helpful if there were different options available for organizing the folders, such as having a high-level display with pictures."
"I would like an on-premises version of the software that I can just download and use. I think that it's easier that way."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Sigma's pricing is reasonable and accessible for both small and large firms."
"We chose Lucid based on the price comparison between it and draw.io... Lucidchart was about 15 percent cheaper per user... I was surprised to learn that it came with a separate subscription model and was not included in my existing Lucidchart subscription."
"Its pricing is very affordable and reasonable for the features that it provides. I am using its basic plan, and for my usage, it is perfectly reasonable. It suits perfectly."
"I was using the free version of Lucidchart, which was very helpful."
"I had a quick glimpse of it. It was about 100 Canadian Dollars a year for just me. I don't know if there are any additional costs."
"I was using the paid version, but at $12 USD per month, I canceled the plan because it was a little bit too expensive for me."
"At €167 per user per year, the pricing is slightly higher than Visio, but it's worth it."
"The price of this product is a little bit high. It is probably 20% higher than what I expected to pay for such a solution."
"The price was low enough to make me think that it was fine, I'll go for it. I think it's $80 or so. It's not too expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
University
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Figma?
Figma is deployed in my organization as we pay for it at $20 a month for a few seats. I am just a designer, so you are asking the wrong person about this.
What needs improvement with Figma?
Figma can be improved because it is a closed ecosystem.
LucidChart vs LucidSpark for brainstorming sessions over Zoom
Hi @Krista Thompson ​ - Yes, LucidSpark is a much more nimble and, in some ways, user-friendly tool than LucidChart. LucidSpark is designed to do a better job managing multiple users participating ...
Do you recommend Lucidchart?
I definitely recommend Lucidchart. I feel it is one of the top visual collaboration platforms that’s available on the market. Out of all the solutions I have tried, it is by far the best for diagra...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lucidchart?
It is cloud-based, so no setup is required. Currently, we are using a free plan.
 

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