Flowchart.com Offers Online Drawing Tools

May 30th, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 3 CommentsTweet This

There’s a new entrant in the online drawing tools market: Flowchart.com. Though they make their pitch as a flowcharting tool, they’re really a general-purpose shapes-and-connectors application, along the lines of Visio or OmniGraffle. Their UI is largely JavaScript-based, but seems reasonably responsive. In addition to creating drawings from templates, objects, and clipart, they offer a fair number of ancillary features: sharing, saving to PDF or PNG, recording movies, a developer API, and a marketplace (not yet fully functional) to let people sell their templates and scripts. You can also collaborate and chat in real-time.

Flowchart.com is in invitation-only beta at the moment, but I got an invitation less than 24 hours after I requested one. There are some rough edges, but it’s already displaying good functionality and promise. They’re in the same arena as established competitor Gliffy, but the extra features make them worth keeping an eye on.

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Comments (3)

Hi Mike,

Thanks for posting about Flowchart.com.

A added point about Flowchart.com is you can embed a created flowchart on your site or a public wiki with appropriate permission of R/W or R only so you can collaborate with your site users on a particular process.

Jeff.

Jeff Bhavnanie — 10:15 AM on May 30, 2008 Reply
Thanks for sharing this. Online drawing tools can be a great value add!

Lyndon — 10:12 PM on June 12, 2009 Reply
Would you happen to have a extra invite for flowchart.com you can send me? Please email me rchen126 (at )yahoo.com

Thanks in advance!

Ryan Chen — 9:19 PM on June 17, 2009 Reply