Omnigraffle 3 App Reviews

I’m a big fan of Omni and have all their products on both platforms, but this version of ‘graffle is buggy as heck. Crashes frequently and the last caused me to lose a bunch of work, which is inexcusable in this era of autosave etc. Also put in a darn bezier tool so I don’t have to use a stencil to do one of the central functions of this type of product.

I’m running the latest iOS 11.1 on an iPad Pro 9.7 creating a simple process flow diagram, and OmniGraffle has crashed on me at least 20 times. Restarting iPad did not improve the instability issues. It’s a nice, highly polished app, but I’m hoping they can improve stability. It’s just too aggravating at this point to try to use it with the constant crashing.

Omni Group’s software has always been a bit quirky in its UI design choices. But poor UI design is far from the biggest issue in this app. Constant crashes attempting to open files created on the desktop app, undo/redo losing track of itself, and unintuitive touch controls make this app, for me, a no go.

Omnigroup has done an amazing job of bringing Mac desktop power to the iPad. Works amazingly well with the Apple Pencil too.

The current version running on the last generation iPad Pro on the latest iOS has video update delays. It is very frustrating when trying to type test in boxes and copying and moving boxes. The screen does not refresh with the updated text until I click again on it. The moved boxes tend to resize before move and the undo does not appear to work since the screen is not refreshing properly. Please look into this. Your products are great.

Deleted and will never use again!!!!

Compared to Mac version, this is crap. I love the Mac version but on iOS version, something as simple as copy and paste doesn’t work — very disappointing!

I paid $100 for OmniGraffle 2 Pro and now I no longer have access to it. Awesome.

Wow, That is great!

Why no pen/bezier tool? For $100 there’s no excuse not to add this. There are $10 apps available with this functionality. Why have a free form tool and Bézier curve editing functionality but then not include a pen tool. I know I know some people say Omnigraffle isn’t a drawing tool. That being said, the thing holding me back from purchasing this tool is the lack of a pen tool. Please make me give you my money by adding a pen tool.

Spent $79 for this app, that’s a lot for an iPad app. Now they’ve “updated” and I’m back to a free version that won’t let me do anything. Have tried to get the upgrade price, it fails. Have tried to restore purchases, it fails. Basically, if you want to pay for this app, decide if it’d be more fun to burn that money in your back yard, or give it to the OmniGroup. It’s basically the same thing, but you don’t get to watch it actually burn if you give it to them. Note: this review comes from someone that’s been an OmniGroup customer for 15ish years. I’ve advocated for them, bought countless licenses for my business and have been a loyal customer...until today.

Seems like a very robust version of OmniGraffle, but it closes my document constantly. Should have waited before upgrading to Pro.

There is a major bug that causes the canvas to shift partially offscreen when you zoom out. And if you drag an object while the canvas is slightly off screen, the canvas moves even further off screen, and sometimes disappears all together. I’ve reported this to Omni Group A YEAR AGO. They acknowledged the bug as “a known issue” and “hopefully will get a fix soon.” It’s been a YEAR. And no fix. The app is unusable this way.

July 27, 2018, I just have to say two thumbs for using inclusive design in the App Store video previews. Captions, Audio Descriptions, and the use of Touch Accommodations made the video inclusive. Super Awesome!

I don’t understand, I have a 10.5” iPad Pro, why is this so laggy? I’m dragging the stencils around that I downloaded for AWS and it looks like nothing happened. 10 seconds later something moves. It’s not just the stencils, it’s the lines I’m drawing too. This iPad is hardly a slouch performance wise. I don’t see the point to purchasing this unless I’m doing something wrong?

I purchased OmniGraffle for the iPad when it first came out. I used it off and on. Version 3 comes out as an update. It is not an update. It replaces the full version you paid for with a trial version. Pay more money or give up. Other companies make a new app when they want to charge again (I have GoodNotes 4 and 5 on my iPad at the same time), but OmniGroup just causes the one you paid for to be removed and replaced by a non-functional trial. I have used Omni products for years. I bought OmniGraffle for the iPad when it first game out. Removing a customer’s ability to use a previously purchased app is simply unacceptable. I sure am glad they can’t do the same thing on a Mac (at least I hope they can’t). It’s a pity, I used to respect this company.

Looks good but not ready for me. I hope this app is top of their list to fix so it’s usable as a serious creation tool. I downloaded the UML General stencil set. Dragged out a class with properties and methods and immediately the shape collapsed on itself. Managed to enter a couple properties anyway but they are overlapping the class name. I can’t even enter methods as that box doesn’t look selectable. This sort of thing should Just Work. The file selector is harder to use than I’ve seen in other apps, particularly Apple’s. While it does handle live updates from cloud-based documents, it resets your zoom and scroll position. The desktop app is very spiffy and based on that I took the plunge for the pro iPad app. I know Omni is a good company so I expect top flight products. I’ll keep my eye on the updates and revise this review.

I’ve been using all of the Omni products, both Mac and IOS since the beginning. Ofocus, OOutiner and Ograffle have been my go-to and most recommended apps. I absolutely hate version 3 of OmniGraffle. It’s non-intuitive and unusable. Half my time now is spent trying to figure out where something is or how to do something that was super simple in the past. It’s a fail.

Fifty something bucks was a lot to spend on an iPad app in the first place. That they kill off the old versions and make you have to buy upgrades is a non-starter I get that omnigroup is one of the few independent OS X/ iOS software houses left, and that they have to make enough money to stay in business. But they have got to figure out a different way to monetize their mobile apps. Maybe try a subscription model guys, because nobody expects to have to pay for app upgrades on iOS, at any price point. And certainly not at 50-100 bucks. You might sell more licenses at 10 bucks a year.

I really like on the software. It is expensive, but it’s good. On the gravel is amazing and definitely worth the cost. Or use it for teaching and find it immensely helpful. But I would love to see simpler and less Italy sinking solutions. Getting things working and running consistently is a pain. iCloud would be awesome. Thankfully, this doesn’t affect user experience in the long term because Once it’s set up it works well.

So let me get this right, I can’t even open a file from my overpriced desktop copy of OmniGraffle that is saved on Dropbox? So how is this useful exactly?

The UI updates are very good and intuitive (especially if you are familiar with previous versions). But this latest version has huge problems with the gestures I’ve used from earlier versions. For example I use “Duplicate” very often. I touch and hold the object and then two-finger tap where I want the duplicate to be. Instead of duplicating the object, the original object displays it is selected. The older versions would have selected the original object as soon as it was touched. If I two-finger tap a second time the object will be duplicated. This is very awkward. Another problem is that if I tap and hold an object and then two-finger tap (which selects the first object) and then remove my finger from the original object and tap-off to unselect the first object a selection circle is displayed randomly on the screen. If I tap-off again then a selection bubble is displayed. It takes 3 tap-offs to fully clear the selection. I use an iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil and this issue displays regardless of the proximity of the Apple Pencil. I use this tool professionally and this is costing me time. Please fix the gesture issues and I will bump this back up to 5 stars because the new UI is great.

I've been using the Mac version for far longer than a decade, and the iPad version since it came out. I have created thousands of diagrams, some with literally hundreds of objects. I find this version nearly unusable. Sad.

Expansive marketing but very little functionality. If you want to do anything more than basic rectangles and circles, find something else. I can create better diagram on KeyNote!

I've been using OmniGraffle for the mac for a while to make diagrams for my lectures. While I've enjoyed that product, I have wanted something that let me produce high quality diagrams but drawn with a pencil. Since getting an iPad Pro I have tried many many different vector graphic programs. Many of them our nice but wouldn't suit my needs in one way or another. Finally, my search is done with OmniGraffle 3. After using the trial for 2 hours, I went ahead and bough the pro version. This is professional-grade software and I am happy to finally have it.

I am a big omnigroup fan...have been using OmniFocus and OmniGraffle on MacOS and iOS for years. I use the Mac OmniGraffle app for mockups, wireframes, graphics, algorithm mapping, etc and love it. I have used past versions of OmniGraffle for iOS and they have been good...somewhat hamstrung by my 9.7” and 10.5” screen sizes. I upgraded to the 2018 12.9” pro hoping to be able us OmniGraffle but the experience so far has been horrific. Latency and unresponsive in a small file that I have tried working on from OmniPresence and local iPad storage. I have restarted the app and device as well as in/reinstalled. Painful so far. I will look forward to updating my review with a few more starts soon, I hope. EDIT: It seems that the app chokes when multiple elements within a canvas are copy/pasted. Performance improves greatly when the file is closed and reopened...until the next copy/paste.