OmniGraffle 3

I’ve been using Omnigraffle for Mac OS X for a long time, and at one point bought the pro version. Evidently that only lasted so long and I had to buy the basic version all over again, and still have to buy the pro version again. Now they want $60 for a basic IOS version. I’m going back to pencil and paper.

I spent good money on this app but with the recent update I’m left with nothing more than a 14 day trail! The most money I ever spent on a app and now it’s useless! Just another money grab for an already over priced app. So frustrating!

Why there is no outline mode to quickly create flowcharts via keyboard input is beyond insulting. It’s 2025 and this feels like expensive baby software.

I want to like OmniGraffle, I really do. It’s ambitious and attempts to tackle any number of advanced features of vector drawing and flow charts. It was one of the very first apps I bought for my first iPad even though it cost an eye popping $50 at the time. 10 or 15 years ago it was much more reliable than it is now. I used to use it for maps of complex networks at clients and at home. No simple block diagrams for me! I used the transparency, layering, photographic imports, drop shadows, and other effects quite liberally. No more. With dismay I’ve watched this app degenerate into an assorted collection of crashes, stutters and freezes; it prompts me to submit yet another unanswered "failure report" via mail nearly every time I launch it now. The final straw was when it lost a massively complex drawing just now. I had worked on it for many hours; suddenly when I just started app-for some reason it was only offering a much earlier version of the drawing. I find myself in need of continuously backing up what I’m working on by making extra copies of the document while using this app and I forgot to do it this time. At the end of the day, the frustration, mountains of wasted time, total lack of development or improvement, and apparent abandonedware nature of this app lead me to warn my fellow App Store denizens: stay away from OmniGraffle. And the rest of the developer’s rotten products while you’re at it

What kind of person would pay over $100 for an app that could be updated to uselessness tomorrow? Not knowing when the disabling updates will come makes buying a temporary app foolish. Apple shares the blame by allowing these types of app purchases. This is the worst type of never-own-ware. Pitiful.

I tried both Dropbox and iCloud Drive. Cannot work well in sync documents. Please fix this issue. Really bother me

Crashed twice when trying to open Visio file to explore how this app supports Visio, as it claims in its description. Removed.

Interface is mediocre. Implementation is sketch. They need to divide the options for what you want to do and single them out. Every time I go to move an object 9 times out of 10 it resizes the object. Stupid annoying. To the point I feel the need to write this review. Moving an object is a basic function that doesn’t need to be attached to scaling. Rest of the app is fine. Gonna ask for a refund and go back to open office. Fix your interface and I might come back. Right now I’m sitting at the airport and have made almost zero progress in doing my signal map. As a matter of fact I’m now wasting my time complaining about your app. Thanks for the inspiration.