• Creately

Creately

Overview

Creately has a rating of 2.14 stars from 7 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Creately ranks 19th among Productivity sites.

  • Service
    4
  • Value
    4
  • Shipping
    2
  • Returns
    4
  • Quality
    4

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Top Positive Review

“Cool new features!”

Timothy P.
7/30/20

Latest upgrade has some cool new features that is so useful to work with my remote team during a time like this. Built-in video conferencing to capture ideas, suggestions and change requests from team members is highly useful. Add to that the real-time mouse tracking helps to collaborate with others as if you were in the same room.

Top Critical Review

“Terrible Tool”

Sequim Bill-Jones McJunior B.
11/12/22

Im not sure what is wrong with these morons but this tool is extremely hard to use when you make a complex diagram... There are so many illogical design choices in this garbage. You try to elongate something and it also changes its position, even though you are just dragging the side of the shape. I have never seen that before! Every single feature in this garbage service is designed equally poorly. These clowns will also let you create something, then lock you out after you have been offline for some period of time, so your time and work is held hostage until you give them money. That's how they got me to sign up. I'm like halfway through making a sequence diagram... could have finished this already if this program wasn't made in an asylum for the feeble minded. Really disgusted by their predatory business practices, but the lack of quality on top of that is just too much. Find an alternative or you will regret it.

Reviews (7)

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1 review
0 helpful votes
August 17th, 2023

I signed up for the $5/month service for a school project using their Genogram template. Though it was a monthly subscription I had to pay the full year up front. It was not a very useful tool so I canceled the remaining 11 months and asked for a refund of $55. After several emails they lied and said it was an annual subscription and I could not receive a refund even though the screen shots clearly state it was $5/month. I have filed complaints with the US Attorney General though this company is located in Australia. The CEO of the parent company, Cinergix, according to Wikipedia is Chandika Jayasundara.

Tip for consumers:
These guys are crooks. I have notified the University of their scam and in turn notify the other students to beware of this company.

Products used:
Genogram-used a different genogram tool on another website which was much more inutitive.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
March 6th, 2018

Can't make figures and export them without an annoying logo on the bottom unless you pay for a subscription. They don't tell you this before making the figure so now I cannot use it. Terrible website, unprofessional, and a huge waste of my time.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
August 13th, 2019

I paid for the software and then I tried multiple times to download the software. The link sent to me in my email with my license did not work. So then I tried to download from the software I paid for from the website. Some links on the website didn't work. Finally, after on one of the pages I was able to download the software but is a much older version from 2017. It lack some of the features, and updates of the newest version advertised.

I have sent several emails. I received two responses, the last response stating they were going to help get me the right version, then nothing. No customer service and the software is not what I thought I was receiving.

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1 review
0 helpful votes
July 11th, 2015

I requested my refund due to terrible customer service. My ticket has been escalated about 2 weeks ago nothing so far?!..

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Thumbnail of user timothyp403
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 30th, 2020

Latest upgrade has some cool new features that is so useful to work with my remote team during a time like this. Built-in video conferencing to capture ideas, suggestions and change requests from team members is highly useful. Add to that the real-time mouse tracking helps to collaborate with others as if you were in the same room.

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Thumbnail of user daveg536
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 31st, 2020

I discovered Creately when I was looking for a specific template. It's a powerful tool to create all sort of diagrams but for me, the best features is their templates. There seems to be a template for every scenario. I moved my team to it after seeing the whiteboarding capabilities. And kudos to Shiraz, who helped us to recover one of our diagrams after a co-worker deleted some parts of it. Overall, I have no hesitation in recommending this awesome software.

Thumbnail of user cameronw192
1 review
0 helpful votes
November 12th, 2022
Verified purchase

Im not sure what is wrong with these morons but this tool is extremely hard to use when you make a complex diagram... There are so many illogical design choices in this garbage. You try to elongate something and it also changes its position, even though you are just dragging the side of the shape. I have never seen that before! Every single feature in this garbage service is designed equally poorly. These clowns will also let you create something, then lock you out after you have been offline for some period of time, so your time and work is held hostage until you give them money. That's how they got me to sign up. I'm like halfway through making a sequence diagram... could have finished this already if this program wasn't made in an asylum for the feeble minded. Really disgusted by their predatory business practices, but the lack of quality on top of that is just too much. Find an alternative or you will regret it.

Tip for consumers:
Please don't

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Diagram tool.

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Creately is a visual workspace for brainstorming, planning, executing, and analyzing around projects. Its infinite canvas, powerful diagramming and drawing capabilities, along real-time collaboration, enable teams to centralize documents, resources, tasks, and communication, creating a single source of truth for effective decision-making and increased productivity. Creately is trusted by industries listed here

* Engineering & Infrastructure
* Education & Educational Management
* Marketing & Advertising
* Operations & Human Resource Management
* Product & Project Management
* Strategy and Planning
* Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality Control

Creately offers multiple features to simplify the online drawing and collaboration experience. It’s a cloud-based application, therefore all your files can be accessed from anywhere, from any device.

* 70+ diagram types with standard shape libraries
* Real-time collaboration for online brainstorming, meetings, workshops, planning, etc.
* Contextual toolbars to reduce clutter and speed up diagramming
* Auto alignment snapping and guidelines, and shape locking
* Easy styling with colour palettes based on themes
* Export diagrams as PNG, JPEG, PDF, and SVG
* 1000s of custom-built templates
* Precise access control with multiple roles, for viewing, editing, commenting on workspaces or folders
* PDF Export with working links
* Flexible infinite canvas with smooth zooming
* Image import to customize diagrams. Compatible with PNG, JPEG, GIF, SVG, BMP, ICO, etc.
* Built-in commenting to capture ideas, suggestions and change requests from collaborators
* Built-in Google image search to browse the internet for needed graphics
* Advanced folder structure to easily organize workspaces for better accessibility
* Easy grouping with containers so that you can export them into multiple PDF pages or as multiple images
* Add links to text and shapes. Navigate inside the canvas, between documents or even other pages from links
* Integrates with multiple services to adapt Creately to your workflow

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