FlowMapp Reviews

Pros

One of its unique features is the logical relation between information architecture items and user flow design section. So we can use IA items to design user flows and it avoids a mess in hierarchy.

Cons

It will be great if it support RTL languages in design.

Alternatives Considered

FigJam

Reasons for Choosing FlowMapp

FlowMapp is dedicated and optimized for UX design.

Switched From

Miro

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

FlowMapp is dedicated and optimized for UX design.

Pros

It integrates sitemap, user flows, wireframes and a bit of content planning in one tool.

Cons

You have to get used to not right clcik the mouse :-)

Alternatives Considered

Miro, Whimsical, MockFlow, Octopus.do and Figma

Reasons for Choosing FlowMapp

More tools in one. Not only wireframes but also sitemap and user flows

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

Price, more tools in one, and a very nice UI overall.

Pros

I like how easy it is to create a nicely spaced site map for a web project and add contextual info to each element/page. It's nice to see an attempt at boosting sitemaps creation by adding a way to handle content, but I'm not too sure they nailed it just yet.

Cons

I think the UI is very cluttered and it makes it hard to absorb the info the sitemap is trying to convey. I also think the pricing is a bit excessive

Pros

I love that Flowmapp combines everything I need for my website onboarding and discovery process in one app. I can build super quick sitemaps, estimate my projects, request client content, and build wireframes all within a simple easy-to-use platform!

Cons

The AI integration is not as robust as other apps I looked at but I’m hoping this area will continue to improve.

Pros

As far as I know, this is the best tool for site mapping. We can have an information architecture source of truth and work together as a team with content, merchandising UX and UI.

Cons

It could have different nav sessions (primary nav bar, secondary, and subpages for the independent pages and footer pages)

Pros

You can create visual sitemaps super easy

Cons

There are some options that still to develope

Alternatives Considered

Miro and MindMeister

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

Easy to use, the capacity to make sitemaps easy and the Black Friday offer

Pros

The FlowMapp platform is fantastic! Being able to add our team and clients with different levels of access has saved us SO much time in gathering content and images not to mention creating an easy-to-use working sitemap, customer journey maps, user flows, and personas (all with premade templates, or from scratch!) We can't say enough awesome things about these guys!👏😃

Cons

Needs an undo button to erase mistakes. Nothing else!

Alternatives Considered

Mockplus and Lucidchart

Reasons for Choosing FlowMapp

Cost and ease of use.

Switched From

Figma

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

Cost and ease of use along with all the extras they've added!

Pros

FLowMapp is clearly created by product developers, designers and project managers. What I like most is the beautiful user interface. Creating projects is super easy and each project can have the master sitemap, funnels, user journeys and personas grouped by project. I also like the labeling system which allows me to quickly see the status of each paid... is it in progress, done or pending etc.

Cons

I'd love for FlowMapp to integrate with Nifty PM. This would be a lights game changer. However, even without the integration, I am thrilled to be a FlowMapp user!

Pros

Laying out a proposed content reorganization to busy team leaders was tricky and Flowmapp helped them visualize the proposed change and comment on gaps

Cons

It took a little explanation to help users comment on the flows, but after a tiny learning curve it was fine.

Pros

Is really easy to use, and organize my projects

Cons

I really like everything, maybe the IA can be more speed

Pros

We love how FlowMapp makes it easy for our clients to simply understand the architecture of their site. The robust wireframe capability has really improved with the latest release. Easy for us and easy for clients!

Cons

We've been a customer since earlier releases. They've addressed any concerns we've had.

Pros

This is so much more than a flowchart or mind map when it comes to planning websites or apps. Adding blocks to the chart which can then become wireframes is probably my favourite feature. I use Figma for design but haven't yet tried the export connection. If this works well, I can conceivably go from an idea to code in a fraction of the time it currently takes me.

Cons

It would be nice if the connectors between pages were a little less clunky. I would like to be able to smoothly add multiple links between pages via the blocks rather than just the page.

Pros

User testing and client account onboarding were fantastic. All involved in the project found the platform easy to use and navigate.

Cons

None! no changes needed that I could find.

Alternatives Considered

Canva

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

It is especially designed for the process I had in mind.

Pros

It does what it's supposed to do! Great for siloing sites and mapping out user experiences.

Cons

It's quite pricey. But worth it in the end.

Pros

The comprehensive feature set has completely drawn me to FlowMapp away from other tools. I like that I can draw both User Flows and visualize our website Sitemaps in one tool, and allow me to share just one link to get feedback from clients.

Cons

The drawing tools could be simplified to make it faster to draw user flows, such as one-click creation of new boxes and connections.

Alternatives Considered

Miro and Octopus.do

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

the value proposition and the comprehensive featureset of the tool

Pros

Flexibility, fast, easy to use, planning perfect companion

Cons

Could improve on features and include project management with Gantt Chart

Pros

The sitemapping tool is incredible. Not only are you able to create traditional sitemaps (which you can view either visually or in a tree structure), but you can also designate sections and content within each page of that map. This means that you can create really robust outlines for the entire contents of a website that make it really easy to collaborate between strategists, designers, developers, and stakeholders in the website design process.

Each page can also have a "cover" that gives a general concept of what the page layout might look like (for example, to provide an at-a-glance distinction between a landing page, a blog index page, a single article page, and a contact page). They have a default cover set, or you can create and upload your own.

The persona development tool is one that I've only just begun playing with, but it already seems pretty powerful and helpful in developing user experiences and flows.

The thing that has me most excited, though, is the way all the various pieces of FlowMapp integrate with one another. The sitemap you create flows into the user flow, which uses the personas and allows you to create seamless customer journeys. Rumor has it that they're working on a wireframing tool as a part of the FlowMapp toolkit, and I can't wait to see how that integrates with the rest of their products.

Cons

The sitemapping tool was really easy for me to just pick up and begin using, but the persona tool would benefit from having a tutorial/walkthrough prompt. It's a really robust offering, but the nuances have taken me a while to figure out.

Pros

I love how this is built precisely for marketing and web design companies. I love the site map tool, the customer journey tool, and the way you can plan out the sections for a website. This is the perfect tool for web design agencies to get organized, keep their processes synced up, share across team members and stay organized.

Cons

Nothing - we have legitmately loved using this from the get-go. WHen we started back in 2019, i was able to use it quickly, it solved problems fast, and i've only had one little customer support request that had to do with transferring between another use and they did it right away.

Pros

It was quite easy for us to adopt using Flowmapp for our use. The availability of customer journey maps, personas, user flows and sitemaps combined with collaboration really allows us to get a good comprehensive view of our customer and translate it into product requirements and website enhancements.

Cons

Currently unable to connect projects together. Sometimes we have projects that are complimentary or dependent on each other. Being able to link sitemaps of different projects together would be great. Also, sometimes we might have a few sitemaps that are part of one project (eg. think master site + 1+ microsites) that are linked together. Currently the projects within Flowmapp only allow 1 sitemap per project.
Finally, for the Team plan there are only 5 users. It doesn't look like you can add an extra user, if needed without having to move to a larger plan.

Alternatives Considered

Smaply and UXPressia

Reasons for Choosing FlowMapp

Flowmapp looks like I can pretty much do everything as I was able to in UXpressia. It has a flexible template structure and a variety of options/cards including icons, ability to add images, emoticon graph to highlight user sentiment journey etc. We can also attach multiple personas to each journey and the persona templates are extensive and completely customizable with different blocks, text, quotes, scales and graphs.

Switched From

UXPressia

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

Flowmapp seems to have very similar, if not more, features compared to a couple of other tools we looked at before. But they were priced higher than even UXPressia. I feel because of the additional features like SiteMaps and user flow diagrams, and the price point FlowMapp is definitely a great option for us.

Pros

I started reviewing webpages for a customer for recommending edits. Once the process got into the second and third round, it became such a time-consuming effort to keep track of what edits were still outstanding. I found FlowMapp on Google, mocked-it up and showed to my customer...including a User Flow to manage the pass-off of the pages. What a relief to have a pictorial of the site...and if my name is not on the "Label", I am not needed that day. Customer loves it, subscribed and took ownership of the subscription. We love that after an update has been made to FlowMapp as to the status of edits on a page, that a notice can be sent with detail to our inbox...a "one tool" solution.

Cons

Our website has an enormous number of "Learning Pages"...therefore the same level on the hierarchy. In order to see them all, we need to shrink the page to 40%. It would be much better if you had a choice to list these vertically. I know there is a vertical view in the "Text" view, but I'd like this option in the graphic view as well. Also, each time you enter FlowMapp, it would be good if your previous scale and location were saved. (Each time I enter I need to scale down and scroll over.)

Pros

The sheer ease of use is hard to find a match with elsewhere. It's not only fun and easy to organize stuff, it's also easy to read, find and collaborate on - and we only expect even more from 2.0 that is around the corner.

Excellent product with few and minor shortcomings.

Cons

There are some usability quirks that makes the whole experience come up shy of a full score.
Some being for example that its impossible to have multiple sitemaps in a project, or being able to copy and paste user flows while maintaining connections (the connection are lost on paste).
It could use some of the typical quality of life features you see everywhere else - but I also assume much of those things will happen with 2.0 around the corner.

I'd also love to see more ambitious native integrations with apps like Figma, Slack and ClickUp/Jira.

Pros

Pretty simple and intuitive UI, very easy to start building a sitemap or a user flow. Lots of new features — CJMs and User Personas were a welcome addition, if not always necessary — it's good to have these tools available in a single service. Collaboration and being able to invite people into a project is definitely a plus. The support team seems friendly enough : )

Cons

At this point, the pricing is a bit higher than I'd expect. I wouldn't mind a standalone app, but the web app seems to work well enough. The UI itself could be improved, but that's about it in terms of cons.

Alternatives Considered

draw.io and Miro

Reasons for Switching to FlowMapp

Other drawing tools are more generic and primally designed for drawing/making generic flow-charts or mind maps, etc. FlowMapp is definitely focused on UI and UX scenarios. The thing is tailored for product or UI designers or UX analysts, which is why I prefer it to other tools.

Pros

From the banner itself, it feels like it will have good graphics and will be fun to use. The option to add small graphics to lines or elements makes it so much more appealing and communicable.

Cons

The arrows or connections can't be changed on an element, if you used right side connection, it will remain that way which makes it difficult to freely move the elements about.
Maybe some more arrow styles based on standards could be added? Like double sided arrow ends to show the flow going both ways etc.
Also, maybe I didn't understand it, but I would like to have different pages to be accessible from the main flow map? There might be some mini flows that fit in the big pic. If I am making a flow and have a connecting sub flow that I want to modify while I am working on the big one...so maybe I click on the connector and I get a new pop up screen/ page or whatever where I can design the subflow and then I can get out of that screen to get back to my main. Then when I print the main, it will show the circle connector there but while printing, all the subflows will also print systematically as part of it. I won't have to hunt things down or select separately (though even that is a good feature to have). It will be connected as opposed to being a separate flow itself like you get by duplicating etc...you can't link them right now can you?

Pros

I like how easy it is to use - anyone on the team can jump in.

Cons

Text editing can sometimes be tricky - but overall it's great.

Pros

I've tested a lot of different UX tools and FlowMapp is surely one of the most complete ones. It has an intuitive interface that's very easy to navigate. It includes user flows, personas, and easy to use templates for user interviews.

Cons

The only negative aspect I've noted to date is that there should be more flexibility for page localization in the sitemaps section.