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What do you like best about Gliffy?

It's very intuitive to use, click and drag to get components into place, connectors that stay connected as you adjust your workflow, and I don't have to construct my own swim lanes! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

A few small improvements could be made, such as the ability to select multiple objects and color code them. Other than that, I can't think of much, it's quite robust! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gliffy:

If you have the need to create workflows and show in-line process steps in your confluence documentation, you can boost your productivity with Gliffy. Great tool, simple to use, wow your clients! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating visual workflows allows me to document steps and paths within a business process. This clarifies what a client may tell me, and sometimes we can easily see where a problem or dead-end presents an opportunity for immediate process improvement. If you can document a process, that allows you to create key performance indicators (KPI's). And if you can measure a process, you can improve it. It's tools like this that are at the very heart of process improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gliffy Overview

What is Gliffy?

Gliffy's diagramming applications make it easy to communicate and collaborate at the speed of your ideas. Whether you're using Gliffy in Confluence and Jira or jumping into our standalone diagramming tool, Gliffy Online, you'll find an intuitive way to draw diagrams. Drag and drop your way to professional-looking flowcharts, UML diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, and more in just a few clicks. Plus, you can now build your diagrams using code with Mermaid js. Use a template to make a mind map or concept map while brainstorming. Embed an easy-to-update org chart in the tools your team already uses. Visualize your cloud architecture or IT networks and add them to your team's documentation and use Gliffy's data linking feature to add real life data directly into your diagrams. Whatever you're planning, project managing, or dreaming up, Gliffy can help you bring it to life. Diagram with your team in real time directly in Confluence Cloud for easier, more efficient working sessions. Gliffy is the most popular diagramming app in the Atlassian Ecosystem, with over 18 million users diagramming in Confluence alone. Gliffy is trusted by teams of all sizes — making it a leading enterprise diagramming solution. You can see if Gliffy is the right fit for your team by starting a trial via the Atlassian Marketplace or signing up for a two-week free trial of Gliffy Online on gliffy.com.

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Easily create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more on-line!

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Gliffy blends easy, drag-and-drop diagramming with powerful features like revision history, linking, and live diagram embedding to create a diagramming app tailor-made for technical teams. Users can create basic wireframes and flowcharts with no learning curve, but also jump into Gliffy to create technical diagrams like UML or cloud architecture diagrams. Gliffy makes it seamless to collaborate on everything from simple ideas to complex documentation with one easy-to-use tool.


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5.0 out of 5
"Excellent diagramming software"
Ease of use, clear, concise and economical.
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Aastha K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"Process developer"
Gliffy helps me incorporate ideas to diagrams and images for better documentation and shareable document. Its easy to implement and itegrate with o...
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It's a very good tool to design my ideas and share it with my team members
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Gliffy Demo - Build Diagrams with Mermaid JS
Mermaid diagrams provide a quicker way to document systems and code without having to drag, drop, or connect a single shape manually — making it faster to create the documentation that connects your team and supports your future development efforts.
Gliffy Demo - UML and Software Engineering Diagrams
Capturing the structure of your software is an important way to keep developers and engineers aligned. Use Gliffy to make clear documentation that supports your internal development work or shows customers the ins and outs of how your application works for their organization.
Gliffy Demo - Flowcharts & Swimlane Diagrams
Whether you're mapping out a simple process or using formal notation like BPMN, Gliffy makes it easy to capture the step-by-step work and procedures that keep your business running smoothly.
Gliffy Demo - Entity-Relationship and Database Diagramming
Describing the structure of your organization's data is critical to unlocking the ability to use machine learning or artificial intelligence. On a more basic level, it can help teams of all types within your organization understand what data is collected and how it's structured so that they can i...
Gliffy Demo - Network Diagramming
A big part of IT management is being able to advocate for the right technology to support your organization. That can include a lot of conversations with non-technical leaders and stakeholders. By creating a network diagram, it's easier to communicate technical ideas to any audience. This type of...
Gliffy Demo - Cloud Architecture Diagrams
With pre-loaded shapes and support for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, capturing the cloud services that support your business is easy. Make an AWS diagram, Azure architecture diagram, or GCP architecture diagram in just a few clicks.
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Matthew L.
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What do you like best about Gliffy?

Gliffy allows me to readily communicate ideas and concepts to various stakeholders and offers numerous types of diagram options.

The tool also makes it easy to locate the shapes/icons needed to effectively get an idea/concept across without having to go overboard with text.

Also have found the Gliffy Office Hours meetings to be an effective way to learn about new features and how others are utilizing the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

It can be difficult at times to select specific elements of a diagram when you have elements overlapped; this draw back can be especially frustrating when creating rough UX mockups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

* Need to create various flow diagrams for defining how new products/features will behave to ensure that Business and Development Teams have the same understanding

* Allows for quick creation of UX wireframe to define what various pages in an application will look like in order to flesh out Acceptance Criteria and to uncover requirements as it is easier to talk to a picture than to just talk about something in the abstract. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Samie Kaufman of Gliffy

Hi Matthew! Thanks so much for taking the time to review us. I'm really glad you're finding our Office Hours sessions to be helpful, and I appreciate your feedback on selecting items within a diagram. This is something I'll continue to discuss with our team, and something I can tell you we're currently exploring for ways to improve your experience. :)

Michelle A.
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What do you like best about Gliffy?

The best idea is the one which everyone in the team can easily understand and Gliffy has been helping us achieve this. It makes it easy for us to represent our ideas and plans using flowcharts andother diagrams that are easy to interpret for everyone. Gliffy allows us to collaborate when working on our diagrams and this makes it so easy for us to connect our individual ideas into coming up with one complete project plan in form of a flowcharts. With Gliffy, it has so easy for us to organize our work using the flowcharts which allows us to perform our work step by step without missing anything. Gliffy is easy to use and has a very simple and user-friendly interface and this gives everyone in the team an easy time accessing the diagrams we have build.

When Gliffy was first introduced and we were learning how to operate with it, we found the diagrams and flowcharts design templates very useful as they acted as guides to show us how to develop our own diagrams. The templates are numerous and we could get almost any typr of diagram we needed. Gliffy has a great collection of diagramming shapes and charts and this allows us to always rely on it whenever we need to build any type of diagram for our ideas, plans and projects despite their complexity. Our experience with Gliffy has been made even better by the professional support services we get from the support team and other support materials available in the knowledge base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

Nothing at all to be honest. Gliffy has been so good to us and has been delivering to our fulfilment. There has been no technical issues while using Gliffy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We found the best way to represent our ideas and plans using Gliffy. With it, se are always able to easily come up with flowcharts and diagrams that clearly translate our ideas into actionable steps that are easy to explain, demonstrate and use to execute the ideas. Gliffy has been allowing us to have visuals onto our work plan and these gives us a focus point since we are always aware of what to do after what. It allows us to organize our project work by creating easy to follow steps. This way we get to execute our tasks systematically until the entire project work has been finished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gliffy?

Having better workflow plans is always the key to better work implementation but it does not always come that easy. Thankfully, Gliffy introduced us to workflow visualization by using diagrams and flowcharts and our work has never been this easy. It was so easy to learn how to use Gliffy since it provided us with alot of templates to guide us how to build diagrams that matches our specific needs. Gliffy itself is a very easy to use platform and even though it has robust features and tools, everything is well organized making it so easy to access and use. It has alot of shapes and flowcharts which allows us to design any kind of visualization diagram that we need.

Gliffy helps us to break down our projects into smaller task steps. By visualizing these steps, it gets easy for us to get our work done step by step and to follow up on these steps to ensure we get our all our work activities done. Gliffy is so secure and allows us to keep all our diagrams secure. It allows us to translate any idea into an easy to achieve plan by creating a visualization diagram that clearly demonstrate the idea and how it can be implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

We have never had any challenges using Gliffy. It is easy to use and it allows us to build our diagrams efficiently without any issues. There is no dislikes for Gliffy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Gliffy to build diagrams that allows us to visualize our workflows. Gliffy provides us with very easy to use diagramming workspace and tools that makes it easy for us to collaborate and team up when building diagrams. This way, we are always able to come up with very accurate diagrams that excellently describe our workflows. With Gliffy, it is easy for us to break down large project work into smaller steps using the flowcharts and visualize each step. With the Gliffy diagrams it gets easy for us to follow up on our work to ensure that we get our all the work done in the right time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gliffy?

Gliffy is easy to learn and easy to use. It comes with a significant number of templates, diagramming elements, and examples to build off. Gliffy offers convenient collaboration tools, some simple automations, and is very flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

There's not much to dislike. My one complaint is that it is difficult to rearrange elements on a complex diagram if that diagram needs to be changed in key places. This is the same complaint I have about Visio and other similar tools, but with a little planning and elbow grease it's not much of an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

At our organization, we use Gliffy across various departments to create timelines, flowcharts, decision trees, and other diagrams that support and define our work. We used to use it for process mapping but we have moved on to a more robust (and significantly more expensive) tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ritesh S.
RS
Software Engineer
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What do you like best about Gliffy?

The best goto tool for LLD/HLD diagram. It gives option of many different smaller component to draw any type of complex components of the diagram . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

Pricing can be improved. And it should give option to add the diagram in multipe cloud platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in collaborative whiteboarding complex ideas and clearly picture the flow diagram of complex flows into simpler diagram. It helps to improve the brainstroming sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aastha K.
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What do you like best about Gliffy?

Gliffy helps me incorporate ideas to diagrams and images for better documentation and shareable document. Its easy to implement and itegrate with other tools. I use it quite often in my documentations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

Gliffy is nice to use. But with that other tools are also required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me depict images and diagrams properly in documentations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gliffy?

Ease of use, clear, concise and economical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

Sometimes it takes a long time to save however this is not all the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing an easy-to-use diagramming program that lets me quickly create and update our organisational charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek G.
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What do you like best about Gliffy?

It's a very good tool to design my ideas and share it with my team members Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

Tool can be more easy and user friendly. Otherwise things are fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

As part of internal team at my company I have to present ideas why I am considering it. Gliffy provides me a medium to showcase all that with the help of flow diagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ELMI M.
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What do you like best about Gliffy?

If you're in search of an online diagramming tool that seamlessly marries functionality with user-friendliness, look no further than Gliffy. This remarkable program has earned its reputation as a go-to solution for creating diagrams of all kinds, and for good reason. Gliffy excels in every aspect, from its intuitive interface to its extensive library of shapes and templates, making it a wonderful choice for professionals and creatives alike.

One of the standout features of Gliffy is its ease of use. Whether you're a seasoned diagram creator or a beginner taking your first steps in the world of visual communication, Gliffy's clean and straightforward interface welcomes you with open arms. The drag-and-drop functionality is so intuitive that creating intricate diagrams becomes a breeze. It doesn't take long to realize that this tool is designed with user convenience in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

One drawback of Gliffy is that its free version has limited features and capabilities, which might be restrictive for users who require advanced functionality or need to create a wide variety of complex diagrams. Upgrading to the paid version is necessary to unlock the full potential of the tool, which can be a downside for budget-conscious individuals or small teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

What truly sets Gliffy apart is its versatility. With an expansive library of shapes, icons, and templates at your disposal, it covers a wide spectrum of needs. Whether you're crafting flowcharts, mind maps, organizational charts, or technical diagrams, you'll find everything you need to bring your ideas to life. The customization options are equally impressive, allowing you to tailor your diagrams to your exact specifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Samie Kaufman of Gliffy

Thanks for your glowing review, Elmi!

Trinadh V.
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What do you like best about Gliffy?

Gliffy is often appreciated for its intuitive interface, ease of use, and versatility in creating diagrams and visual representations. Users often commend its vast library of shapes and templates, which make it convenient for various diagramming needs, from flowcharts to network diagrams. Additionally, its integration capabilities with other platforms and collaborative features are also highly valued by users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gliffy?

limitations in Gliffy's free version, such as restricted access to advanced features and a relatively small library of shapes compared to other diagramming tools. Additionally, some users have reported occasional performance issues or difficulties in collaboration features, though these experiences may vary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gliffy solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplified Communication

Enhanced Collaboration

Increased Productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.