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# SmartDraw

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> SmartDraw makes professional drawings and diagrams accessible to everyone. With leading floor-planning tools, data integrations, and an intuitive interface, SmartDraw delivers enterprise power without complexity.
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> Verdict: Rated **4.2/5** by 146 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of SmartDraw

SmartDraw makes professional drawings and diagrams accessible to everyone. Non-technical users can quickly create floor plans, while professionals get the precision and scale they require. With industry-leading floor planning tools, strong data integrations, and an intuitive interface for traditional diagramming, SmartDraw delivers enterprise-ready power without unnecessary complexity.&#10;&#10;SmartDraw makes it easy to create accurate scaled diagrams without requiring specialized CAD training. Create floor plans for both residential and commercial spaces, make accident reconstructions and crime scenes, build fire pre-plans and design landscapes easily. Your team doesn't need to be experts to get expert results.&#10;&#10;While SmartDraw makes creating floor plans easy, you can skip that step and import an existing floor plan as a PDF or start with a Google Maps image to serve as the foundation for a new drawing.&#10;Get thousands of industry-standard symbols to build anything from commercial floor plans, warehouse layouts to accident reconstructions and fire pre-plans.&#10;&#10;You can truly customize any floor plan using your own product catalog. Import symbols, apply scale, and add shape data. Plus, SmartDraw can count items automatically and generate visual manifests to support estimates and proposals.&#10;&#10;With SmartDraw, you can turn ordinary diagrams into data-driven plans by attaching structured information to every symbol. Teams can generate manifests and summaries on demand for estimating, purchasing, or documentation.&#10;&#10;Support your entire organization with flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, project charts, technical engineering diagrams, IT diagrams, and more.&#10;&#10;SmartDraw works hand in glove with your existing IT infrastructure without disruption to maximize what you've already invested in. You can provision users with SSO, save files to your own preferred storage solution, and enjoy enterprise-level security.&#10;&#10;As an enterprise customer, you will have your own dedicated support rep for onboarding, training, and more.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 146 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: SmartDraw
- **Location**: San Diego, US
- **Founded**: 1994

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$7.95
- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop)
- **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 209 more

## Features

- 2D Drawing
- 2D/3D Designing
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Annotations
- Appointment Scheduling
- Architectural Symbol Library
- Audit Trail
- Automatic Adjustments
- Automatic Formatting
- Bills of Material
- Brainstorming
- CAD Tools
- Change Management
- Charting
- Chat/Messaging
- Collaboration Tools
- Commenting/Notes
- Commercial

## Integrations (21 total)

- Amazon EC2
- Box
- Confluence
- Dropbox Business
- GitHub
- Google Docs
- Google Drive
- Google Sheets
- Google Workspace
- Jira
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint

... and 6 more integrations

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Knowledge Base
- Chat

## Category

- [Construction Project Management Software](https://www.getapp.co.nz/directory/28/construction-management/software)

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5. [ArcSite](https://www.getapp.co.nz/software/2054082/arcsite) — 4.7/5 (160 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Great for new users to computer aided designs." — 4.0/5

> **Oscar** | *28 June 2018* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I tried Smartdraw for the first time in  2016 and I was impressed by the ease of use ; I understood the major workings around this program in a matter of days.I have used Smart draw for Gantt style charting , simple drawings ,including floor drawings when I moved to my new home a while back.&#10;  Smartdraw provides users with a variety of modules ,making it a program which can be leveraged by different professionals in different career fields.
> 
> **Cons**: Smartdraw doesn't allow for remote collaboration like what I have come to expect from months of recently embracing Lucidchart. I have also found out that when creating Gantt charts with this program , I am limited in the number of coloumns I am allowed to use.

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### "Decent, but could be better. Not a Visio killer, but close." — 4.0/5

> **Mark** | *5 February 2025* | E-Learning | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Easy to use, great graphical design. Drag-n-drop design. Easy to access templates.
> 
> **Cons**: Cannot manipulate the design as much as I would like. It's a graphic program, but not as easy as you might expect. Cost.
> 
> Overall, I like it. I've used for technical diagrams, process flows, step-by-step workflows, etc.

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### "Great for Quick Diagrams and Simple Layouts" — 4.0/5

> **Cristina** | *13 March 2026* | Furniture | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The software produces scaled diagrams showing major architectural features (ie: walls, doors, columns) as well as furniture, and measurements
> 
> **Cons**: Limited advanced design tools, mostly 2D (weak 3D), not ideal for complex architecture or engineering work, fewer collaboration features than newer tools
> 
> Overall, my experience with SmartDraw has been pretty positive. It’s easy to pick up and great for quickly putting together diagrams or simple floor plan layouts without having to dive into more complex design software. I like how quickly you can get ideas down visually, especially when you just need something clear and presentable.

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### "Only provides yearly billing." — 3.0/5

> **Lizzy** | *20 January 2025* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Great shapes, very intuitive layout, easy to adjust the design.
> 
> **Cons**: Only have yearly pricing, yet they display the prices in cost per month.  This is misleading.
> 
> Unable to do anything with the stuff I made during the free trial. It does not actually feel like a free trial if you can't access the files you create.

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### "Best per unit cost I could find" — 4.0/5

> **Larry** | *10 March 2026* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Ease of learning how to use.  Using it for a quick weekend work task.  It did most of what I needed.
> 
> **Cons**: Applying text seemed rickety… Not sure I ever figured out the best way to do it.  Needed more pre-set shapes.
> 
> Haven’t used it much but It met my immediate needs of needing a drawing tool over the weekend.  I was grateful that it was available.

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