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Lucidchart pros and cons

Vendor: Lucid Software

4.3 out of 5

65 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Lucidchart Pros review quotes

Senior Software Engineer at Nestlé

Feb 20, 2026

I have observed several advantages overall while using Lucidchart, as it has improved time to decision by at least fifteen percent, created more visibility over the process and decision-making across our business, and enabled collaboration across the team to improve by at least thirteen percent.

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Faizuddin Shaik

Principal Application Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 4, 2025

In terms of return on investment with Lucidchart, I would say I have saved time.

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Michael Verruto

Managing Director, Project Design+Development at a government with 10,001+ employees

Aug 20, 2025

The benefits since implementing Lucidchart are mostly because taking a visual approach to any of these things is far superior to trying to type it out or write it out or explain it to anyone.

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Solutions Architect at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jan 5, 2026

Lucidchart has positively impacted my organization by making it very easy for us to create diagrams of any type, and we use it extensively.

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DevOps Manager at Flash.co

Dec 15, 2025

Lucidchart has positively impacted our organization by enabling us to identify process bottlenecks and architecture issues earlier, which improves our project outcomes and reduces network load.

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Cloud Engineer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 24, 2026

We saved our team time by 20-30% and made our work considerably easier.

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Operation Management Intern at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

Apr 13, 2026

Lucidchart is a reliable and effective tool for visualizing ideas and improving workflow clarity, and it stands out for its ease of use, drag-and-drop features, a large collection of templates, and strong collaboration features, making it suitable for both individual and team-based work.

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PJ

Engineer-4 at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Sep 5, 2025

The architecture and brainstorming features worked exceptionally well for me; no one in the organization had used it for brainstorming, and my implementation really helped with the visuals and capturing people's opinions and divergent thought processes.

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reviewer2784909

Manager, Production Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 5, 2025

The best feature Lucidchart offers is the ability to collaborate in real-time.

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Manager, Production Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 8, 2025

Lucidchart has positively impacted our organization by improving our collaboration across the company.

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Lucidchart Cons review quotes

Senior Software Engineer at Nestlé

Feb 20, 2026

One way Lucidchart can be improved is that finding a document that has been shared with me without having the link is tricky, or the amount of diagrams can become overwhelming and bury the document I actually need.

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Faizuddin Shaik

Principal Application Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Dec 4, 2025

My advice to others looking into using Lucidchart is to explore all the options available and not fixate on drawing flowcharts using Lucidchart.

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Michael Verruto

Managing Director, Project Design+Development at a government with 10,001+ employees

Aug 20, 2025

The system is a bit clumsy when it comes to stylizing to match corporate imaging styles.

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Solutions Architect at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jan 5, 2026

I choose seven because of those things I mentioned where adjusting different things and drawing the lines is basically not very intuitive at all.

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DevOps Manager at Flash.co

Dec 15, 2025

The primary area that could be improved is the learning curve.

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Cloud Engineer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Apr 24, 2026

Lucidchart can be improved as it has some limited free plans with certain features unavailable in the free tier.

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Operation Management Intern at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

Apr 13, 2026

Additionally, it could improve offline accessibility or performance under low internet conditions, as I remember working on a workflow diagram in a car where I lost my network connection, and the entire diagram I had been working on disappeared.

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PJ

Engineer-4 at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Sep 5, 2025

Though I really appreciate Lucidchart, I feel it is not as intuitive as it could be.

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reviewer2784909

Manager, Production Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 5, 2025

Adding dark mode would be a great improvement for Lucidchart.

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reviewer2784909

Manager, Production Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Dec 8, 2025

I wish Lucidchart would add dark mode to improve the user experience.

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