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# SmartDraw

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> 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;1. Easy to Get Expert Results&#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;2. Import and Scale Existing Imagery&#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;3. Industry Standard Content&#10;Get thousands of industry-standard symbols to build anything from commercial floor plans, warehouse layouts to accident reconstructions and fire pre-plans.&#10;4. Create Custom Symbol Libraries&#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;5. Data-Enabled Shapes and Drawings&#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;6.  A Solution for All Your Diagramming Needs&#10;Support your entire organization with flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, project charts, technical engineering diagrams, IT diagrams, and more.&#10;7. Simple Administration&#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;8. Enterprise Support&#10;As an enterprise customer, you will have your own dedicated support rep for onboarding, training, and more.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.2/5** by 152 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 152 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.2/5 | 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**: USD 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 and 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

- [Floor Plan Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4778/floor-plan-software/software)

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4. [Revit](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/422899/revit) — 4.6/5 (482 reviews)
5. [ArcSite](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/426793/arc-site) — 4.7/5 (160 reviews)

## Reviews

### "SmartDraw a powerful tool for diagramming, drawing, layout and more." — 4.0/5

> **Gerson** | *8 February 2018* | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: SmartDraw is a very complete plication for all types of diagrams that you need, has great virtues with respect to Visio that can be considered the number one in the market or at least used, when you need to diagram a project from the basic algorithm to the more complex gantt diagrams , this tool is very useful, it makes you much easier in work (in my experience much easier to use than Visio) the connection between diagrams is simpler, since finishing a diagram makes it much easier to do the following, has a wide range of options and templates that help you in the creation process, contributing to the development of diagrams for systems that you are going to develop, a very useful tool for projects where you need to correctly capture what you want to develop, use it, try it for yourself.
> 
> **Cons**: Its main against is the price, the full version is very expensive although it allows you to enjoy the desktop version and its cost is very high, I think you should download it to compete more in the market.&#13;&#10;The speed of the online version sometimes fluctuates negatively, it is a mistake that must be corrected.
> 
> It is perfect for drawing projects, has a wide range of templates that make it easier for you to work and all the types of diagrams you need (at least it is for my IT area), it has a desktop and online version that allows you to work in any place, it is very useful.

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### "HomeServ Of Louisville Contractor" — 5.0/5

> **Christopher** | *20 April 2026* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Very user friendly, great price point, you can create so many different things. It works great for a contractor like me. From designing blueprints to outdoor landscapes
> 
> **Cons**: So far it is great. I wish I would’ve known about it sooner.  I would like to see more options for templates on blank estimate pages.
> 
> It is a game changer for all of us here at HomeServ of Louisville. I wish that would have learned about it sooner.

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### "Poor value" — 1.0/5

> **Neil** | *5 January 2026* | Investment Management | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Good libraries - ie range of projects with templates one can use. I like the ability to show or hide measurements.
> 
> **Cons**: Very clunky drawing and measurement tools; completely ridiculous pricing for light users now they have switched from product licences to online subscriptions
> 
> Extremely frustrating: it has the feel of a very old software system that has been inadequately updated.

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### "Great for middle school students\!" — 4.0/5

> **Gina** | *1 April 2026* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The ease of use for middle school students. I give them a brief introduction and show them where to find certain tools, but that's about it.  Some likely don't even need that much. The desktop looks like other programs they use which makes it really easy for them.
> 
> **Cons**: I would like it to have a 3D option when working with floorplans.  I would like to have that progression for my students.  I would also like to have a feature that allows me to crop around the images.  Being able to have multiple students work on the same floorpan at the same time would be helpful.
> 
> Again, I appreciate how easy it is for students to use.  Tech support has always been prompt.  I do prefer to talk to someone versus sending emails.

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### "A grandma figuring it out." — 5.0/5

> **Sandy** | *13 April 2026* | Dairy | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I appreciate the ease of this "Smart Draw" program. It is a learning curve, for this grandma, but picking it up rather easily.
> 
> **Cons**: A lot of the times I couldn't find the exact furniture I wanted to place in the space. But,  still a learning curve.
> 
> My project (a building) is coming along nicely.   I love having the visual to see what will fit. The thing I'm working on now is trying to read the size of the furniture I placed in there,  to make sure it all fits.

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