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Figma vs Lucidchart comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Figma
Ranking in Visual Collaboration Platforms
1st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
15
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 (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Visual Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Figma is 40.7%, up from 38.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucidchart is 4.7%, down from 14.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Visual Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Figma40.7%
Lucidchart4.7%
Other54.599999999999994%
Visual Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Ponnila Michael Rayappan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at University of Bristol
Has supported project lifecycles with design-first workflows and streamlined developer collaboration
The area of Figma I would prefer to see improved is the responsiveness of the developer tool. When you enable it, you can extract variations, but these variations are not responsive. If I design a page, and there's a way to choose a view, whether it is on mobile or tablet, which then automatically converts it to the responsive layout of the page I design, that would save considerable time. If I design for tablet view, and it automatically adjusts for mobile and different screen variations at the click of some drop-downs, that would be beneficial. Additionally, when we extract code, if it can provide variations for all different types in a responsive way using REM to adjust to different screen sizes and breakpoints, that would be extremely useful to have.
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

"Overall, Figma is a complete solution for product and UI design if you want to learn all its features for wireframing, making visual elements, using colors, and leveraging the many plugins it offers."
"I recommend Figma to other users because it enables team creation and provides multiple people access to the same project."
"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."
"Figma is very user-friendly compared to Adobe XD, and the overall design community was moving towards Figma."
"File sharing is easy."
"The platform is scalable for small—to medium-sized enterprises."
"It is challenging to identify downsides of Figma because for web design, it is the best tool available."
"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."
"Lucidchart has positively impacted my organization by making it very easy for us to create diagrams of any type, and we use it extensively."
"The team could not operate without it."
"It is a very effective tool for documenting processes and using it has improved our efficiency significantly."
"In general, this product has improved our organization because it makes accessing up-to-date processes and planning a lot easier."
"The templates are quite valuable, as is the fact that you can export to PDF, to a Visio document, or as a picture. These are valuable features for me because they give me the ability to make changes in any other product that I'm using. I'm not bound by one platform."
"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."
"I've been using Lucidchart for quite simple things, but it's definitely much easier making process maps using Lucidchart than it is using Google Docs for basically everything. It's much simpler in terms of how easy it is to use Lucidchart. The way that you can get the arrows on the flow charts, based on the process mapping, you can drag the arrows from one box to another and it automatically shows you where you can put it. It makes decisions for you in terms of if you have a decision diamond, then the line is automatically a yes or no. This just makes it so much easier."
"I have observed several advantages overall while using Lucidchart, as it has improved time to decision by at least fifteen percent, created more visibility over the process and decision-making across our business, and enabled collaboration across the team to improve by at least thirteen percent."
 

Cons

"Typing a prompt to express what I have in mind is quite complicated."
"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."
"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."
"I have noticed that in the middle of each year, some glitches occur with Figma. Around October or September, when configurations are happening and new features are being released, I experience glitches, crashes, and various issues."
"I would rate the stability at about six; quite a few bugs occur."
"The product could be improved by addressing performance issues such as slowness, particularly with heavy or high-resolution images."
"There are a few things Figma needs to improve upon, particularly regarding the types of images it can import."
"The solution might not be affordable for teams of five or more people, making it somewhat expensive for small businesses."
"It might already exist and I haven't used it, but in terms of improvement, I would like a hot-key system for some of the diagrams to auto-generate things a bit quicker to be able to produce charts a lot faster, or have more standard templates that you can just go to if you're trying to generate something quickly."
"It can have more colors or graphics. Currently, it is a little boring."
"This might already be a feature, but I remember sometimes when we're just all viewing, if you accidentally click, then there's an arrow that pops up, and you have to go back and delete it. A lot of times there are accidental arrows being drawn when really we're just trying to present to each other."
"Wireframing can be improved. For mock-ups and wireframing, only 10% of what is required is there. If they can develop this feature, it would be much better because it will then provide everything. Currently, we can design network diagrams, processes, etc., but we should also be able to do wireframing."
"One of the things that I find frustrating is that all of our Tableau information is on a server, so when I send that out people can't open it and use it. I then have to go back and do extra work to convert everything into an Excel format that everybody can use. It would be really important to me, if I send something out to somebody who doesn't have a Lucid account, that they can just click and see it, instead of having to log in and create an account."
"When you want to add text to a connector arrow, I have not figured out how to position the text vertically. It always wants the text to stay horizontal."
"In terms of improvement, they should make it very clear, whether it's a single A4 page or two A4 pages, it should be mapped out."
"If you're trying to expand a comments box that is sitting on top of the chart, it automatically defaults to assuming you're trying to connect it to the next step in the process, when all you're trying to do is make the box bigger."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Sigma's pricing is reasonable and accessible for both small and large firms."
"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 licensing is pretty cost-effective but I haven't considered it on an enterprise level."
"We signed up for the month-to-month and it charged us all at once for the whole year. I believe we signed up for the $7.99 one. I think that was the price."
"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."
"I pay $95 a year for it. It seems like a reasonable price."
"There is a nominal charge for the paid version of the product. They have a free version available and from what I could see, there was not much difference between it and the pro version."
"Pricing comes in at about $100 for a year's subscription, which is very reasonable if this is a tool that you will use more than once."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise29
 

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