Visio for Mac - SmartDraw is the Best Visio® Alternative on a Mac (2024)

Easy to Use

With SmartDraw, you get tools smartly tailored to specific diagrams whether you're making a flowchart, organizational chart, floor plan, network diagram, or any of the myriad of business visuals SmartDraw provides templates for. You can quickly add symbols using your keyboard or mouse, then move and delete shapes with minimal manual adjustment. SmartDraw provides just the right amount of automation to help you build and edit your visuals.

Easy to Import Visio Files and Stencils

You won't have to recreate years of complicated diagrams or stencils by redrawing them. Import all your old Visio^® files (both VSD and VSDX) and stencils. You can continue to collaborate with co-workers who may still be using Visio^®. Once imported, you can edit, color, ungroup any file like it was created in SmartDraw. Export them back to Visio^® in just a click. See how to import Visio^® files on your Mac.

Easy to Work With Other Apps

SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add diagrams to:

• Microsoft Office^®
  • Word^®
  • PowerPoint^®
  • Excel^®
• Microsoft Teams^®
• Google Workspace^™
  • Google Docs
  • Google Sheets
• Atlassian^™ apps
  • Confluence
  • Jira

Easy to Save to Your Existing Storage Solution

SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your diagram directly to:

• SharePoint^®
• OneDrive^®
• Google Drive^™
• Egnyte^®
• DropBox^®
• Box^®

There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions,SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.

Easy to Share

Share your diagram with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link.

You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image formats like PNG or SVG.

Easy to Get Help

Have a question? Chat or email us. SmartDraw support is in-house and free!