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Mindjet MindManager vs Visio comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Mindjet MindManager
Ranking in Mind Mapping Software
5th
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Visio
Ranking in Mind Mapping Software
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
106
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Mind Mapping Software category, the mindshare of Mindjet MindManager is 8.2%, down from 9.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visio is 31.1%, down from 32.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

MS
An Easy to use tool for brainstorming and planning, compatible with Microsoft Project
This solution works well enough. One can always dream up certain things that may or may not be worth implementing in a piece of software because some other people might have some other better priorities that make more sense. But I would say for what I need it to do, I'm okay. My advice to others is to get it, and use it! It's very good and useful. I am pretty sure that the functionality it has today has more modern methodologies than what I use, but for me, it has been very useful and I have kept using it all of this time. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Tugrul TASCI - PeerSpot reviewer
We have seen return on investment in the form of time savings but should have more design tools
I am generally using Visio to create some diagrams Visio should implement more complex tools or graphics to facilitate processing and use flexible templates. It should allow users to easily drag and drop some previously created diagrams. The tools supplied or provided are very basic, and there…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature is being able to export to Microsoft Project."
"The most valuable feature is the set of diagramming tools."
"The interface of the solution is very good. It's easy to navigate."
"Visio is stable."
"I find the control flow and settings features valuable."
"It's a very flexible solution."
"It has a lot of great features."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The fact that it's on-premises allows you to get fantastic speed. It's got a faster response rate, it doesn't lag, and it doesn't have any latency when you're working on it."
 

Cons

"Since I have been using such an old version, most of the improvements have already been made, but I would suggest moving forward with the times and creating a cloud-based solution for universal access."
"I would like to see Visio become some kind of enterprise architecture, which it is not."
"Visio should implement more complex tools or graphics to facilitate processing and use flexible templates."
"The product's installation phase can be a difficult process if you don't have the deployment script with you since it is very important to know what you are doing when you are dealing with the setup process."
"Something that needs to improve, is the interface interaction with other tools."
"Transferring data was one of the issues that I expected Visio to have resolved. I use the older version."
"I would like to see traceability. It doesn't have it. You cannot find one object amongst several sheets of Visio diagrams."
"If you look at ARIS, for example, or Signavio, the flowchart combines all the details and with the click of a button I can create a process manager. That would be something that Visio could add. It would cut my workload in half."
"Sometimes, there is a little bit of a learning curve with it, especially while doing complex network diagrams and getting the lines to snap the way you want them and not overlap or be confusing. It would be great if there was a built-in tutorial. It is not that you can't YouTube, but it would be nice if they gave you some free training. I've been using it forever, but every now and then, I got to do something complicated with it and I wonder how do I do that again. Maybe they do have such information, and I don't know. I have not done research on it because a bunch of people work for me, and some of them are better at it than I am, so I just ask them to do this for me."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price was very good in the beginning, then the price increased from USD $99.00 to USD $249.00, then I stopped upgrading because what I needed was already there."
"The price is reasonable for individual use but for an organization, the costs is high."
"The pricing of Visio is much better. It has a free version of the cheapest functionality which is enough for us."
"It has a lower price point than the competition."
"I give the cost of Visio a five out of ten."
"The price of Visio is reasonable."
"The pricing is reasonable and I would rate it 6 out of 10."
"I believe Visio to be priced pretty reasonably."
"We pay annually for the Visio license and it is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
20%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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How easy is it to migrate process flow charts (modeled using tools like Visio) into Bizagi?
I have been using Bizagi with a major project for a state government agency for about four years now. It is pretty straightforward to load in files that are BPMN 2.0 compliant. The option to load V...
What do you like most about Visio?
The diagrams Visio creates are quite impressive in the sense that we can cooperate with more colleagues in one task and see the flow of the process.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visio?
One of the main problems with Visio is its licensing options and associated issues, which lead to discussions about the price with a Microsoft representative. If asked to rate the price, I would gi...
 

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Also Known As

Mindjet
Microsoft Visio
 

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Sample Customers

Education Development Center Inc., Ekso Bionics, SensorLink, Dow Chemical Company, Consolidated Edison Company, Genencor
Thomas College, Hamburg Port Authority, Portigon AG, Conseil G_n_ral du d_partement des Hautes-Alpes, AAA Auto a. s., Commonwealth Financial Network, ICA, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company
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