Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite vs. Innosabi Idea by Questel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Score 8.5 out of 10
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The Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite empowers teams to ideate, plan, design, build, and launch game-changing solutions from a shared infinite canvas.
$0
Innosabi Idea by Questel
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Innosabi Idea by Questel is an idea management software (ideation platform) that allows users to leverage the combined knowledge, expertise, and creativity of entire organization throughout the innovation process. It combines design thinking, idea challenges, collaborative ideation, crowdfunding, and other innovation methods into one single toolkit backed by analytics. · Features intelligent analysis mechanisms in the selection and prioritization of ideas. · …N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Individual
$9
per month per user
Team
$10
per month per user (3 user minimum)
Enterprise
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per year
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
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Community Pulse
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Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
More secure compared to Miro and more flexible / creative compared to Microsoft Visio. Overall, prefer Miro to all of them!
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Draw.io is probably the closest but not as slick an experience and less collaborative tools (as of when I last used them).

Miro/Canva/Figma/Powerpoint can all mimic the functionality but are not explicitly designed for flow charting so you're fighting the UI as they want to do …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
While all of the other platforms we have evaluated and some we even use, Lucid has it's own unique solution and aesthetic that we find to work well for us for many of our different deliverables. There is no "One-App-Does-All" solution out there, however, when it comes to …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Based on my personal experience, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is head and shoulders above any other competitor. Canva is good, but not intuitive at all. Miro is good as well, but not nearly as appealing and still lacks some of the logical functions that LucidSpark has. I’ve …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is the best in class for documenting anything technical. It has all the templates you would need to represent anything from AWS, Microsoft as well as workflows for business processes. Other tools might cover just one of each of these things, but …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Is similar & cheaper.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
No experience with similar projects
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
I've used Visio for block diagramming before, but using Lucid is like having google suite and microsoft 365 in one. We get to make all of our block diagrams as easily as visio, but we get the collaboration and sharing functionality that comes with google suite. It stacks up …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
I usually use excalidraw for more ad hoc realtime visualizations, but I usually use Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite charts when I need to work on a visualization to present in a document / presentation
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite has a more professional feel, an easier way of organizing and a simpler look. Miro, while very similar, has more aggressive color schemes and a more toy like UI that does not inspire as much confidence in our stakeholders.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
I did not select Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. That decision was taken by others in the organization. Given a choice, I am not sure I would have selected Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite. Miro was already established and, with a local client, was a better user experience in …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Much better, it doesn't get the steps in lines even a tenth as much as Visio, can use custom shapes as actual shapes rather than images, and aligns much easier. Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is easily the best and I have tried about 4-5 programs over the last 5 years.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Microsoft Visio
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Miro had an advantage with the unlimited canvas until Lucidchart recently added that feature. Lucidchart seems to be better designed for creating drawings, incredibly technical or software architectural diagrams. Miro appears to be more designed for non-technical folks as a …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Draw.io is a free tool which has very limited functionality. Some of the advanced features like AI based generation and templates are not available in other applications. Also, I’ve used bot framework for different purposes. If customer wants to collaborate and they don’t have …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite was simply better, it had all the functionalities of Miro but with the increased performance.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is very professional in comparison to other products and has a lot more to offer.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucid is easier and more intuitive.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
We use Miro within our organization as well. Miro is used more for PI planning, while Lucid is focused on process and flows.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
I have used Miro, but we use them for different things. There's not much I can compare as we use them only for what each one of them is strong, but if I had to compare, Miro doesn't have the power to deal with database diagrams like Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Lucidchart …
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Figma is a little more robust but can turn new users off by looking too complicated.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
I haven't used any other tool
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
I like Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite more than both of those for the ease of use and collaboration. Miro is similar with collaboration but didn't find as easy to use and Visio is similar to use but a bit harder to collaborate with.
Chose Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Lucidchart is well beyond Microsoft Visio and is constantly improving. Visio is pretty much stagnant and hasn't been improved for several years, Lucid is constantly adding new functionality like AI powered functions and tools. We have no reason to pay for Visio licenses when …
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User Ratings
Lucid Visual Collaboration SuiteInnosabi Idea by Questel
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
8.9
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Support Rating
7.3
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User Testimonials
Lucid Visual Collaboration SuiteInnosabi Idea by Questel
Likelihood to Recommend
It is hard to think of ways in which Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite would not be best suited to provide an effective tool for any organization to find success in its use. Whether it is a visual display to map an organizational structure, a collaboration to find an answer of how to improve workflow, or even to display the upcoming budget needs, working in Lucid can seamlessly provide that!
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Pros
  • Serverless. You don't need to install another program to create diagrams, you just open a new tab and there you are, ready to go.
  • Collaboration. You don't need to update your colleague diagram by creating a new file and creating a new file version, you both are in the same diagram and you and all the team are free to update it at any time, at the same time, you are seeing the same thing. That is really helpful and time-saving.
  • Shapes. It has any shape that you can think of and Lucidchart is always updating them, I can create an Azure solution architecture, an AWS one, an old on-premise solution. Or just put standard shapes to describe a business process. Providing so many specific shapes help the diagram to express specific information, and for specific teams, that's less text and more visual information, you don't need to put a text below a standard database shape (this is an Azure SQL database), you just put the azure shape and done. That....is beautifully helpful.
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Cons
  • Bandwidth - when working with complex workflows spanning multiple shapes and layers, the page tends to slow down and sometimes crash.
  • Zooming in & out - when a workflow is spread out over multiple pages, the view can become small even with a large screen.
  • Pricing - newly introduced monthly/annual pricing schemes are not as good as previous quarterly payment models.
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Usability
The interface is easy to use and understand and most features feel very familiar from the start. There are so many features and functions that users may not know it can be done without some instruction. Lucid's champion network is a great, fun resource to learn more about the product.
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Support Rating
I would rate the overall support for Lucidchart as a 9. The support provided is generally robust and responsive. Their help center, tutorials, and webinars offer extensive resources for users. The ticket-based support system is effective, providing timely resolutions to most issues. Moreover, they actively gather user feedback, demonstrating a commitment to continuous improvement
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Alternatives Considered
Based on my personal experience, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is head and shoulders above any other competitor. Canva is good, but not intuitive at all. Miro is good as well, but not nearly as appealing and still lacks some of the logical functions that LucidSpark has. I’ve also used Apple FreeForm quite a bit, which is a free software with Apple. Once again you can accomplish the same things in any of these software, but Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite is so much better to the point that it is 3-4 times faster to use Lucid than Free Form or Canva.
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Return on Investment
  • Though I can't necessarily provide hard numbers, I can confidently say that Lucidchart has saved countless hours for myself and my teams as we don't need to try to develop some type of complex diagram using markup or any kind of code.
  • I have previously been able to build a complete ERD using Lucidchart in a past position, which the company never had before. It ended up being used by countless teams in the company and ultimately in a large-scale data stack migration effort.
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ScreenShots

Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of how Lucid helps teams to clarify complexity, align their insights.Screenshot of where information can be imported, exported, and shared whenever and wherever it is needed.Screenshot of how Lucidchart offers secure intelligent diagramming that is built for teams.

Innosabi Idea by Questel Screenshots

Screenshot of Innovation Challenges: Start campaigns on current challenges in your company in order to integrate your employees’ ideas in a targeted and proactive manner. Use open discussions to stimulate collaboration between your employees. Commenting, liking and voting features improve the development of ideas and help you to make informed decisions.Screenshot of Internal Crowdfunding: Expand your innovation campaigns with virtual crowdfunding and accelerate the financing and implementation of promising ideas. Equip your employees with virtual budgets and let them participate directly in decision-making. Idea generation, prioritization and implementation interlink seamlessly.Screenshot of Solution Scouting: Enable your employees to actively search for solutions and submit their own innovation challenges. Prevent the time-consuming development of solutions to problems that have already been solved elsewhere in the company by making them accessible. Establish an intelligent database for future challenges, and identify people with valuable specialist knowledge.Screenshot of Idea Evaluation: Create a digital and smart idea evaluation process that motivates and values your employees’ suggestions for improvement. Implement transparent and gamified processes to improve the quality and quantity of the submitted suggestions. Scale the number of participants and ideas while simultaneously streamlining the evaluation and screening process.