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And the battle continues this week with Lovely Charts and Creately

Wireframe Madness: The FREE Wireframe App Tourney — Round 3
by Megan on 10 Jun 17

Are you ready for the third round of the Wireframe Madness? If you missed the first or second round check them out here: First Round & Second Round.

The last round was a blow out between Cacoo and Mockflow. Mockflow easily took the cake. This week things may get ugly between Creately and Lovely Charts. Check out the score below.

Wireframe Madness BracketWireframe Madness Bracket

Let’s do this.

Lovely Charts

Lovely ChartsLovely Charts

The Lovely Charts Rundown:

Free Templates: 1

Design: Interface 7/10

Tools/Components: 6/10

Sharing: Export as PNG or JPG

Pros:
  • Sitemap and Flowchart abilities along with Wireframes
  • Has built in grid feature
  • Arrange and Align feature
  • Color dropper tool
  • Built in Connection tool for user flow diagrams
Cons:
  • No page borders.
  • Some tools appear cartoony, some tools are irrelevant
  • Cannot share with a URL. Only exports to PNG or JPG.
  • Very limited on Wireframe tools
  • Limited to One free page.

Creately

CreatelyCreately

The Creately Rundown:

Free Templates: Unlimited

Design: Slightly cluttered interface 7/10

Tools/Components: 7/10

Sharing: Share through email, Export — JPG, PNG, PDF

Pros:
  • Has a contact toolbar that connects items easily
  • Very nice social media icon set
  • Multiple template sets to choose from
  • Collaborate with Two people in Free version
  • Unlimited free templates
  • Has page borders
Cons:
  • Have to load web tools, not automatically in the library
  • Cluttered interface
  • When testing I got an error and lost my recent work

Lovely Charts vs. Creately — Final Score.

This was a close race, but all-in-all Creately takes the gold. Lovely charts would have had more leverage if it offered more free templates — one template just doesn’t cut it, not even for sampling. Creately stepped up the game with it’s toolsets and templates, although that error message and losing work definitely gives me some cause for concern.

There we have it folks: another tight race ends, and another one bites the dust. We still have three more battles to go until the final face-off, so stay tuned!

About the Author

Megan is a Web Designer here at OnWired, a web design firm in Cary, North Carolina.

Megan has a Journalism Graphics degree from Ball State University and is always looking for ways to improve the user experience. She’s always up for a good laugh and has a slight obsession with chocolate.

Read Megan’s Bio.