OmniGraffle Pro - 5.2.1

I just hope some day soon these guys do word processing and spreadsheet applications. Ten stars (out of five). Cheers, GT

It's sad that so many people consider Omnigraffle Pro expensive - personally I still consider it excellent value (take a look at Visio's pricing for comparison) - and there's always the standard version of the product, which is significantly cheaper. Certainly when I originally upgraded to the 'Pro' version when it first appeared, my immediate feeling was that it was ridiculously cheap by comparison with Visio, SmartDraw and similar applications.

Personally, upgrading to v5 was a no-brainer, as Omnigraffle Pro is one of my most used apps, and has been for years (I've been using it pretty much since the beginning).

I use it almost daily for a massive range of work projects: network diagrams, flow charts, organisational charts, planning of web sites, signs for our noticeboard (it's quick than using InDesign for small internal projects), I even used it to produce a very complex map recently.

It's one of those software tools that I really don't know how anyone can manage without - and is, for me, one of the real Mac 'Killer applications'

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Omnigraffle gets my vote for being the best-designed application on the platform.

This is an unbelievable ripoff from a greedy company. Not only will I not purchase this, I am replacing my other Omni applications.

Very short sighted pricing from a company with, apparently, short term goals.

I love OmniGroup software, and like others whole-heartedly upgraded Pro v3 to Pro v4; but, I cannot justify retaining the Pro version for $74.95 additional. I'd willingly upgrade for $49.95 (or less, of course), however. And, I'm not comfortable with "downgrading" to the standard version because my Visio file relations were OK in Pro v4 and I'm afraid of the capability downgrade for upgrade price of Standard v5 at ~$32.

Why not reconsider the upgrade price to keep your loyal Mac OS X users coming back in years to come? Drop it to $49.95 now, perhaps offer a time-limited downgrade in the Pro to Pro upgrade price?

Thanks for your feedback on our pricing!

We try to price our products very competitively, and we believe that if you look at the alternatives in the same space (such as Visio and ConceptDraw) you'll find that our product is priced very reasonably. (And most of our customers strongly prefer it to those alternatives!)

I hope that you’ll take a second look at all the new features in OmniGraffle 5—it’s a very substantial upgrade. But you don’t have to take my word for it, we offer a two-week free trial (with full access to all features).

-Ethan Schoonover / The Omni Group