Creately vs. Wondershare EdrawMax

Creately is a commonly used tool to create infographic elements for your workflows. It is effortless to use and has excellent and underrated features such as rules & database creation. While using Creately, one can not create hierarchical structures such as folders inside folders and so on for organizing diagrams.

Incentivized

As part of the suite of tools from Wondershare, EdrawMax provides a large set of tools found in more expensive proprietary tools, integration with Mind Mapping which is a core workstream for my style, The usability of the interface, and options to utilize templated from other toolsets, import-export to other tool types. The tool is a good cost to function ratio.

• The flexibility of use when it comes to design.
• Option for collaboration with users who do not have paid accounts.

Incentivized

• Flow charting
• Depict a complex process so its easily understood
• Its structure and organization are very similar to how mainstream apps work.
• Its huge and expandable feature set blows away all other apps
• I want the right tools because my time is precious. This is the right choice by far.

• The fonts are limited
• Navigating in the canvas can be hard especially if you're working on a big one

Incentivized

• While saving the output as an image, it may be easy to export to word format files as vector.
• Due to my profession, power electronics can be a library richness.

It is super easy to use because it works like the mainstream apps. Almost everything's familiar and easy to access

It definitely could be better, but it may also depend on the type of license you are subscribing to.

Incentivized

Needed to contact the support team as I had lost license details. Their response was fast, professional and what's more, very helpful. All the needed data was sent to me and I was able to reinstall Wondershare EdrawMax again.

Creately's folder system is a novel feature that beats its competitors. It helps keep everything organized. In addition, there are many more customization possibilities, especially in the shapes and in the library of templates and drawings. It has an intelligent drawing capability superior to all the competition, allowing more customization and detail.

Incentivized

Too many apps to list. 50 years of computing as a C-level exec. I am not a specialist at this. I am a generalist. Having an app that makes a generalist look like a specialist is really a cool. I can't image what a true specialist/graphic artist/engineer/designer could do. My, oh my.

• Helped the team work collaboratively by sharing on the ideas on Canvas
• Boosted the client engagement whenever this tool is used
• Made the work easier by providing the predesigned templates

Incentivized

• Intellectual leverage
• Develops a large-scale trust (good graphics is always appreciated even if its complex to read)
• Impactful visualization (hard to enumerate)