Lucidchart vs Mindjet MindManager comparison

"In general, the usability is great. You have a ton of customization options with different colors, different borders, different thicknesses of lines, different types of arrows, et cetera. There's so much variety. You can really make a chart with all sorts of color-coding, and color charts in different colors, link them together, for example, or use different types of arrows for different types of links between the chart elements. That variety, while not a specific feature, is really useful. If you want to make a chart, you can basically do anything."

"Lucidchart helped us to realize efficiencies in the projects we use it for. I can show people pictures, and I can change things in a meeting and then email it by the end of the meeting. Because most places we go, especially now with everybody in-home office, I'm going to have great internet access, and that just makes it easier to be able to change things quickly while we're in a meeting and go, "Oh, you changed this. Oh, okay.", and then send it to them as a proof and send it as a PDF or send them a link. That works great. That saves time and accelerates a sale."

"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."

"With the clean format and the straightforward boxes and arrows and everything like that, it makes it so you don't have to dig and you don't have to spend personal time flipping through pages, because everything is right there and super easy to read and super understandable."

"We are using Lucidchart a lot for documenting things, such as processes, systems, new teams, etc., and its ability to document processes is great, with major pluses being the sheer number of templates and the flexibility in the types of things that you can document, which lets us structure content in whatever format we want and simply modify templates for our purposes instead of creating them from scratch."

"In general, this product has improved our organization because it makes accessing up-to-date processes and planning a lot easier."

"It's a very strong diagramming tool."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is being able to export to Microsoft Project."

"My advice to others is to get it, and use it! It's very good and useful."

"The metadata map provides operational navigation to complete business processes."

"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."

"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."

"When you want to add text to a connector arrow, I have not figured out how to position the text vertically."

"One of the issues has been that, as far as I understand, even to view it, the other person needs a Lucidchart account unless you send them a PDF."

"I would like to have access to more colorful and more vibrant icons."

"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."

"There were some things I wish were a little bit more user-friendly. For instance, when you're putting all the stuff onto a document or PDF, there's a set limit of width and height. It would have been very nice in certain situations to be able to drag people on the far edges and move them back up so that everything fits nicely onto the page."

"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."

"The SQL based database connectivity and data access for analysis and reporting, both need some attention."

"Since I have been using such an old version, most of the improvements have already been made, but I would suggest moving forward with the times and creating a cloud-based solution for universal access."

"I don't know what the pricing is at now, but at the time the price hike upset me to the point that I stopped upgrading."

"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 and licensing are good."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The pricing is very reasonable, and they have a free trial available that you can play with."

"The pricing is very competitive. It is more cost-effective than some competing products, such as Visio."

"I have a subscription as an individual user for one year, and it is not expensive."

"The price was very good in the beginning, then the price increased from USD $99.00 to USD $249.00, then I stopped upgrading because what I needed was already there."