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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
14
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
65
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

"Having everything hosted on the web is one of the best features."
"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."
"From a technical perspective, Figma has greater capabilities, and once you start to explore all these features and how to connect Figma with other tools such as Storybook and Zeplin for documentation, it's a tightly coupled system with many different functionalities available which make it excellent, and I will definitely recommend Figma over other designing tools for organizations because the support it provides is extensive and highly technically feasible, making your job considerably easier."
"I recommend Figma to other users because it enables team creation and provides multiple people access to the same project."
"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."
"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."
"I decided to switch to Figma because it is quick and seamless for my web design use cases."
"I will definitely recommend this solution to others."
"The interface is easy for a layperson to use and adapt to."
"Its real-time collaboration saves time; now, we can complete our discussions within 15 minutes rather than an hour or an hour and a half, and the ability for people to look at the diagram created in Lucidchart rather than reading through written documents has saved one to two hours daily."
"Using Lucidchart for documenting processes is great. The elements are ready to use and it is quick to do."
"The best features Lucidchart offers are that it is easy to use, the diagrams created are of good quality, and there are a lot of elements available."
"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 real-time collaboration among users, where we're working on the same version of the document or chart, sped up our project development process."
"In general, this product has improved our organization because it makes accessing up-to-date processes and planning a lot easier."
 

Cons

"One of the areas for improvement is the onboarding experience. When you first starting using Figma, it can be a little confusing. It would be useful to have some guidance and direction."
"One of the areas for improvement is the onboarding experience. When you first start using Figma, it can be a little confusing."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There is one aspect of Figma that needs improvement."
"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."
"Additionally, it could improve offline accessibility or performance under low internet conditions, as I remember working on a workflow diagram in a car where I lost my network connection, and the entire diagram I had been working on disappeared."
"Some of the things that were very frustrating for me were that I couldn't adjust the distance between each box."
"One way Lucidchart can be improved is that finding a document that has been shared with me without having the link is tricky, or the amount of diagrams can become overwhelming and bury the document I actually need."
"Anytime I need to print, I have to re-download/export."
"As far as I know, LucidChart can’t be automated with Visual Basic .Net like Visio."
"I would like to have more text boxes to write more comments so I can write a small note below a picture. I would like some flexibility."
"They could provide more documentation or tutorials of ERDs or DDD on the Lucidchart site. That could be better."
 

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."
"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."
"The pricing is very reasonable, and they have a free trial available that you can play with."
"Pricing-wise, it is pretty fair. I don't really know what group pricing looks like, but right now, I pay $10 a month for my Lucid subscription. One thing I would say is that I do worry about my bosses being okay with paying $10 a month for every single employee because we would have around 20 people. It makes me a little nervous about whether they are going to pay $200 a month for people to be able to use this software. At the same time, from where I'm sitting, it's totally worth it. We save a thousand dollars from using this software. It's still a no-brainer."
"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."
"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."
"At €167 per user per year, the pricing is slightly higher than Visio, but it's worth it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise28
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Figma?
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What needs improvement with Figma?
I have in mind that if there was a way Figma could build something that will enable designers to quickly move from an idea to having it generated on the canvas in a way that reflects exactly what I...
LucidChart vs LucidSpark for brainstorming sessions over Zoom
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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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