OmniGrafflePro Review « The BEST Apple Hardware and Software Reviews

Written By Editor December 3rd, 2009

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OmniGrafflePro is an advanced diagramming and design tool. OGP is a serious piece of kit, for any mac user from designer to architect.

Everyone will find this program useful in some form.

Built within the app are sections for:

• Drawing
• Brainstorming
• Organizational Charts
• Space Planning

Pre-defined templates

Drawing

OGP is provided with pre-installed maps, furniture and all kinds of fun stencils. However, there are free (and some paid) 3rd party stencils available.

This stencil by Koingi is available for free, and allows you to quickly begin developing wire frames with OGP.

Or even an iPhone UI kit: http://graffletopia.com/stencils/413

Brainstorming

Brainstorming / Navigation planning works great with OGP! The interface includes a slick, subtle animation effect when adding elements to charts.

Space Planning

A bizarre room design, but this diagram demonstrates the space planning feature, along with extensive furniture and appliance objects.

From the range of available stencils, I can see OGP is highly flexible but produces some impressive (and quick) results every time.

Verdict

This application is absolutely phenomenal! Highly recommended for anyone who ever needs to create Charts, Wireframes and Diagrams of any sort. The add-ons available are great, opening up the app to even UI designers. Creating diagrams is super quick. Everything about the app is perfect. My only slight concern is using it on a 13″ screen over the 44inch desktop set-up we have felt a little cramped. Nothing major. Most programs do….

To sum-up, if your after a highly professional, affordable and easy to use Diagram and Interface Editing power-house OmniGraffle Pro is for you! This app could have been completely bloated, like a 200foot blue whale been carted around by a Donkey. But the finished product is elegant and unbelievably easy to work with. Well done to the dev and interface teams!

The Pro license is avaialble for $199.99 here, The Standard version is available for $99 but lacks features such as Visio Export and presentation mode.

Enjoy Diagramming like a pro!

Features

Outline view
Diagram styles
Stencil styles
Bezier pen tool
Corner radii on lines and shapes
Three color gradient fills
Double strokes
Shadow casting on shapes
Vector Pict support
Dynamic text markup items
Automatic document backup
Smart guides
Automatic layout
Connector magnets
Connecting shapes
Bezier lines
Rich image support
Export to TIFF, JPEG, PNG, EPS, PDF, and HTML.
Link objects to web addresses, AppleScripts, or files
Common object stencils
Shape and style cloning
Built for Mac OS X
Innovative inspectors
Partially transparent ink
Import OmniOutliner, Project Builder, EOModel, Diagram!2, and DOT files
Multiple canvas documents
Link within canvases
Export as multipage HTML document with links between canvases
Visio® Binary & XML import
Visio® XML export
Subgraphs
Presentation mode
Workplace save and restore
Save drawing styles as favorites to be used over and over
ColorSync support
Mouseless editing
Multiple editing windows on one document
Manual guides
SVG export
Object notes & custom data
Boolean operations on shapes
Tables
Advanced text position settings
Improved PDF import
Ruler scale
Shared layers
Show Applescript UIDs on Objects