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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 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 my organization because it allows everyone to have access to the files that our design team produces."
"File sharing is easy."
"Figma, in addition to being light, has very good performance and hardly has bugs."
"Having everything hosted on the web is one of the best features."
"It is challenging to identify downsides of Figma because for web design, it is the best tool available."
"The ease of creating some of the maps and diagrams is most valuable. Lucidchart is just simpler and works more intuitively than other solutions that I have used in the past, such as Microsoft Visio. I am not in a creative role, but I know how to use Adobe Illustrator and other solutions like that. If I need to map out something that I've never mapped out before, and it is going to need a totally custom graphic, eight times out of 10, I'm going to go to Lucidchart rather than trying to build it in Illustrator. Its intuition and flexibility are really big features for me."
"The benefits since implementing Lucidchart are mostly because taking a visual approach to any of these things is far superior to trying to type it out or write it out or explain it to anyone."
"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."
"I love the fact that you can just integrate a drawing into Google Slides. I build a lot of visuals in Lucidchart, and then, rather than sharing them directly from Lucidchart, I just build Google Slides decks for senior management, and I link the Lucidchart on the cloud version to a slide image. That makes it easy. This way, I can build in one tool and show in another."
"The best feature Lucidchart offers is the ability to collaborate in real-time."
"I will definitely recommend this solution to others."
"Lucidchart's capabilities for visualizing and understanding those flows and processes are absolutely excellent."
"Ever since I have discovered Lucidchart, I've been kind of an evangelist for it because I've been doing a lot of work in it, and I really enjoy working in it."
 

Cons

"Figma is costly, especially when sharing with others as you have to upgrade your plan."
"The solution might not be affordable for teams of five or more people, making it somewhat expensive for small businesses."
"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."
"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."
"One negative aspect about our main use case or how we used Figma in that project is that the notifications were a little bit difficult to follow."
"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."
"In terms of improvement, there can be more templates. There are good templates but there could still be more."
"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."
"If it could be a little more visual, in terms of being able to make it stand out a little bit more, then that would be helpful."
"The main improvement I would like to see is for them to improve the help section on the flow charts or on the formatting."
"Lucidchart subset their older components or something like that had happened. I don't entirely know the totality of it, but we were forced to upgrade to a different integration with Lucid than what we had. I've had a lot of frustrations with that because I've lost a lot of diagrams. I can't get them back and I'm getting pop-ups that are showing me that our data will be loading and I can't run four or five years of my engineering diagrams"
"It would be nice to be able to import not just contacts from Salesforce but also leads."
"When I download a flowchart as a PDF file, it breaks it up. I would like to see the continuous display of flow charts, even if they are larger than one page."
"One area for improvement is the fact that I had to create two sheets. I had to create a process flow diagram, and I had to create a timeline. I wasn't able to do that in one sheet. If they could add that kind of feature, where you could input a timeline and different types of templates into one worksheet, that would be really useful. I had to include two and then cut and paste, and that was an extra step for me."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Sigma's pricing is reasonable and accessible for both small and large firms."
"The licensing is pretty cost-effective but I haven't considered it on an enterprise level."
"The pricing is very reasonable, and they have a free trial available that you can play with."
"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."
"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 have only used the trial version and have not yet paid for it, or explored the pricing options."
"I pay $95 a year for it. It seems like a reasonable price."
"At €167 per user per year, the pricing is slightly higher than Visio, but it's worth it."
"The pricing is very competitive. It is more cost-effective than some competing products, such as Visio."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Insurance 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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