Compare LucidChart vs Animatron vs Vectr

About LucidChart

Lucidchart is an intuitive web-based diagramming tool that allows you to create diagrams quickly and easily. Collaborate in real time with your team and clients to seamlessly draw anything from mind maps to UML diagrams.

With hundreds of shapes to choose from, integration with Google Drive, a dedicated support team and enterprise level security, Lucidchart is a powerful tool to produce professional-looking diagrams at a fraction of the cost of alternatives like Microsoft Visio.

About Animatron

Animatron is an easy­-to­-use and powerful online animation maker that enables users to create stunning animations and videos right in the browser. It is cloud based: no installations and no plugins needed. It is built on the newest and safest HTML5 technology which allows for the universal playback, both on desktop computers and mobile devices.

Animatron is the product of choice for marketing professionals, designers, freelancers, marketing and design agencies, small business owners, educators who want to create pro looking videos, presentations and animations in-house.

The software is intuitive and easy to learn for both adults and kids. It features a free Marketplace with hundreds of pre-animated characters,props and backgrounds that allow creating animations with a simple drag-and-drop.

Animatron also offers impressive importing options: it’s possible to import fonts, images, video and audio in various formats to be used when creating a video or animation. Combining different medias (adding branding, annotations, animated characters on top of a video) is what makes Animatron stand out.

Another great feature is collaboration: Animatron allows two or more people to work simultaneously on one project in real time. Just like Google Docs is different from Microsoft Word, Animatron is different from any other animation software.

About Vectr

Vectr is a free collaborative vector graphics editor, for both web & desktop, that aims to help everyone create vector graphic designs easily and intuitively, using its simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a seasoned pro, or just getting your feet wet in design for the first time — you’ll be up and running in no time flat.

Vectr is #Powerful, Yet #Free and #Simple

The most active users of Vectr are currently not designers but software engineers, project managers, bloggers and social media specialists — those in need to deal with graphic editing in their everyday work and can’t afford to waste time/money for overcomplicated paid tools.

With this launch we are introducing a bunch of new features and updates:
- Rebuilt / revamped UI
- Better layer hiding / locking
- Improved pen tool
- New desktop logo
- Crushed ~100 bugs

Vectr is #Social

Designing is a social activity — people love sharing what they’ve created and want to receive immediate feedback. Vectr understands this, which is why Vectr users are able to post their projects directly to Facebook or Twitter with a unique URL that allows others to edit the copy of the project as their own, and why over the coming year we’ll be building social collaboration directly into the editor.

Vectr is not only completely free, but also one of the only editors available which are cross-platform — on the web or as a desktop download — on Mac, Windows, Chromebook, or Linux. Up to now, most of these platforms were stuck without alternatives to Adobe’s bloated/complicated products.

Vectr is #Ambitious

For the past year, Vectr’s been updated regularly every two weeks since our “accidental beta” last September. As you’ll see in Vectr’s Open Roadmap, we’ve got some big plans over the coming year, including:

Built-in Marketplace & Community — create, share, or sell designs assets with others on the platform.

Google-docs Style Collaboration — Vectr’s a real-time, collaborative graphics editor. It’s like Google-docs, except that it also supports some offline editing if you’re ever without a connection. We’ll ship this tech later this year, but it’s mostly built so we’d be happy to demo it if you’re interested!

Built-In Version Control — no more threads of email attachments with “designversion1”, “designversion2”. Just send someone a link to your Vectr document, and you can view every version of that design in one place.

Features

• Data Visualization
• Multi-User
• Pixel Graphics
• Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons
• Vector File Support

Features

• CAD Tools
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Multi-User
• Pixel Graphics
• Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons
• Vector File Support
• Video

Features

• CAD Tools
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Multi-User
• Pixel Graphics
• Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons
• Vector File Support
• Video

Summary

• Collaborate in real time: Changes sync right away to allow for seamless collaboration amongst internal teams and with external clients.

• Huge range of templates to choose from: Choose from hundreds of shapes and templates designed for flowcharts, organisation charts, mind maps, wireframing / iOS Mockups, UML etc.

• Easy to use: Simple drag and drop functionality with the ability to integrate with Google Drive and export to PDF, PNG, JPG and Microsoft Visio (.vdx).

Summary

• Real time collaboration and comments

• Free Marketplace with hundreds of pre-animated characters, props, and backgrounds

• Import your own images, audio, video, fonts

• Export in HTML5, SVG, GIF, PNG and video formats

• Voiceover, easing, Google fonts

• Create videos, animated presentations, whiteboard animation, explainer videos, product demos, HTML5 banners, social media ads, animated cartoons, GIFs & images

• Compatible with Adwords and DoubleClick

• Playback on mobile and desktop

Summary

• Free Vector Graphics Software

Pricing

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Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Marketing professionals, designers, freelancers, marketing and design agencies, small business owners & educators

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Yes

What is this service generally used for?

• Animatron is a perfect tool for creating videos, animation, presentations, whiteboard animation, explainer videos, product demos, HTML5 banners, social media ads, animated cartoons, GIFs & images

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes

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• Personal
• Freelance
• Startups
• SMEs
• Agencies
• Enterprises

• Web App

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• Personal
• Freelance
• Startups
• SMEs
• Agencies

• Web App
• Windows
• Macintosh