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What is Balsamiq?

Balsamiq Wireframes is a rapid wireframing software that combines the comfort and simplicity of paper sketching with the power of a digital tool, so your work is easier to share, modify, and get honest feedback on. Mockups look like sketches, so stakeholders won't get distracted by little details, and can focus on what's important instead. Balsamiq really shines during the early stages of designing a new interface. Our little tool is zenware, meaning that it will help you get "in the zone", and stay there. Our aim is for you to forget our software is there at all. Balsamiq offers the same speed and rough feel as sketching with pencil, with the advantage of the digital medium: drag & drop to resize and rearrange elements, make changes without starting over, and your work is clear enough that you'll make sense of them later. Please consider that we don’t reply to G2Crowd requests for contact. Here’s how and where you can find us: https://balsamiq.com/company/#contact

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Life's too short for bad software! With Balsamiq Wireframes, anyone can design great


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Balsamiq
Year Founded
2008
HQ Location
Sacramento, CA
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Teja T.
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Teja T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great Wireframing Tool for Business Analysts"
Balsamiq has an excellent user interface that makes it one of the tremendous wireframing tools in the market. The user learning is so fast and seam...
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Muhammed A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Most entry level wireframing tool"
I like its UI, it's actually very user-friendly and easy to use. even for a person who is writing first time, then also they can easily understand...
Apoorv Y.
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Apoorv Y.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best-in class tool for wireframing."
The ease of use makes this one of the finest tool for wireframing. I liked the number of features and variety of options to create wireframes with ...
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Teja T.
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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

Balsamiq has an excellent user interface that makes it one of the tremendous wireframing tools in the market. The user learning is so fast and seamless, which will positively impact the organisation adoption rate. Quicker and quality wireframes in a lesser timeframe indirectly accelerate the feedback time and development cycle. Offline functionality is always a plus for users to work in offline mode. Reusable components and collaboration across teams/users are always helpful for organizations to review and work together in accomplishing user experience needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

The Cloud version of the product is a bit slower and needs performance improvements. The export functionality into various file formats needs to be implemented to benefit the overall developer community.

Shoudl add more search capabilities to search design elements to the overall functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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This tool is best for rapid prototyping and collaboration. Project Managers, Business Analysts, and the product team have great benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Balsamiq regularly to design low to medium-fidelity wireframes based on the gathered requirements. Validate the wireframes with the Product team to create high-fidelity prototypes for developers to work on front-end development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apoorv Y.
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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

The ease of use makes this one of the finest tool for wireframing. I liked the number of features and variety of options to create wireframes with ease of implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

This product lacks the use of free hand creation of lines and paths which can make it even more useful. Also it should have an open library search via web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

Balsamiq has been really helpful while creating the wireframes and screens of the idea which would allow the ux designer to have a clear picture of what needs to be designed and shown to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

I like its UI, it's actually very user-friendly and easy to use. even for a person who is writing first time, then also they can easily understand. and all kind of icons will be by default available.

Additionally, we can import images and logos very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

As per my understanding it totally great, but I have one suggestion the Balsamiq group can also provide a painting option and prototying then it will be a next-level product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can easily prepare application wireframes and also it are easily editable. suppose I want to create a wireframe within a short time, that time balsamiq helped me a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

It's well designed. Very intuitive - I figured it out quiet quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

Sometimes I had to look around the icon menus for a while before i could find stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helped me design smarter and communicate with developers better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

It's pretty easy to start using. Creating the page hierarchy, drag-and-drop components into the view, And defining layouts is excellent for simple wireframes.

Also, Pricing is fair! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

UI always looked a bit less refined and professional to clients than other tools like axure, etc.

It feels like it's harder to customize the default features and components. it might not be the best tool for a service provider, wanting to present a wireframe with branding orientation.

Last thing that might affect offline users. unlike other apps, balsamiq was web only... it was Okay by me, but might cause some issues when experiencing network issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

When conversing on system/web/app design, I needed to create wireframes for clients. This was the first tool I received from the company I worked in, and it was fun transforming these ideas into blueprints. Clients could see the exact direction we were going towards with the UX/UI and dev. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

Quick wireframe creation is the best function of Balsamiq. Predefined presets are very much useful for a design requirement. It gives the user an idea of how the screen will look and behave in terms of user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

Sometimes we don't find a specific design we have in mind for some inputs, especially the latest design of the input. For example, dropdown which shows in the wireframe is very basic and not able to find any alternate for the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I want to convey the design to UI expert, I will use the balsamiq so that UI expert will know my expecations. Also changing the wireframes in balsamiq is very easy, drag and drop, which is helping in accomodating the changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

Balsamiq is ideal for anyone who needs to quickly create wireframes for apps without spending too much time learning complex software.

It has a large library of pre-built UI components, making it easy to quickly drag and drop elements into wireframes. It's easy to create projects and link frames together. It can export to stand-alone images or a PDF with clickable hyperlinks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

It's purposely low fidelity that helps deliver fast conceptual mockups, but occasionally it would be nice to be able to move those wireframes into a higher fidelity rendition.

They've recently announced the Desktop edition will be getting less and less development focus which I understand given usage stats, but I do prefer it for offline work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's easy to get bogged down in the look and feel of a final design so lofi wireframes are purposely "sketchy" in order to focus on app concepts and usability. Balsamiq fits that need very nicely allowing attention to be given to the conceptual design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joseph G.
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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

I loved using balsamiq to design prototypes and use it for building app and website designs. I used to for personal and work use and it help me create baseline screens for apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

I was not too fond of the learning curve of balsamiq. It took me some time to learn the ins and outs of the product and how to use it from end to end. If I could have had tutorials for the product, that would have helped me onboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

Balsamiq allowed me to design website and app screens for my work to create a baseline idea of what I wanted to build. Since I was a product manager, this allowed me to showcase ideas without including product design up front. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

One of the standout features of Balsamiq is its simplicity. The interface is clean and intuitive. The drag-and-drop functionality allows for quick and effortless placement of elements, and the pre-built components library offers a wide range of UI elements to choose from, saving a lot of time and manual effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

Balsamiq's simplicity and focus on low-fidelity wireframes may limit its usefulness for projects requiring high-fidelity visual representation. Other tools do a better job at more intricate designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Drag and drop designs

2. Pre configured components

3. Easy UI to develop quick mockups and wireframes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aadhya C.
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What do you like best about Balsamiq?

I am a great fan of Balsamiq. I have been using it since my college days and it's simple to use with endless options for several iterations. As a product manager, it makes my job incredibly easy and makes my wireframes looks classy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Balsamiq?

When I first started out with my onboarding there were no proper instructions given to use the product however I see that they have changed their onboarding process much more customer friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a student in the field of product management, I was always required to do wireframes and prototyping and this app was a time saver. It is easy to use and you will end up getting neat, clean, and classy wireframes and prototypes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.