# Balsamiq Reviews **Vendor:** Balsamiq **Category:** [Wireframing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/wireframing) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 500 ## About Balsamiq Balsamiq is the wireframing tool that helps lean product teams turn early ideas into clear, actionable direction—fast. And you don't need to be a designer to use it. Tens of thousands of product managers, founders, and engineers worldwide rely on Balsamiq to share concepts quickly, reduce rework, and build better products. Watch this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CibKG2nZzOw We're a bootstrapped, fully remote team, working across the US and Europe to serve tens of thousands of users in dozens of countries. Since 2008, we've been helping teams get unstuck, move faster, and make better products together. Please consider that we don’t reply to G2Crowd requests for contact. Here’s how and where you can find us: https://balsamiq.com/support/#send-us-a-message-and-well-get-back-to-you ## Balsamiq Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **ease of use** in Balsamiq, noting its intuitive interface and efficient drag-and-drop features. (9 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy drag-and-drop functionality** of Balsamiq, enabling quick and intuitive wireframing without a learning curve. (5 reviews) - Users love the **variety of shapes** offered by Balsamiq, enabling effortless and efficient wireframe creation. (5 reviews) - Users find Balsamiq's **easy creation** process fantastic for quickly building effective wireframes with minimal learning curve. (4 reviews) - Users love the **clean and intuitive user interface** of Balsamiq, making wireframing quick and seamless. (4 reviews) - Users value the **excellent user interface** of Balsamiq, appreciating its seamless learning curve and efficient wireframing capabilities. (3 reviews) - Simple (3 reviews) - Users find the **ease of learning** with Balsamiq to be rapid and seamless, enhancing adoption rates effectively. (2 reviews) - Intuitive (2 reviews) - Templates (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note Balsamiq's **limited capabilities** hinder high-fidelity designs, affecting its utility for more intricate projects. (3 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve challenging** , especially for first-time use, making onboarding difficult without tutorials. (2 reviews) - Users note the **limited free access** of Balsamiq, affecting features and offline usability compared to competitors. (2 reviews) - Users find the **initial complexity** of Balsamiq challenging, especially for first-time users due to its outdated design. (1 reviews) - Users find the lack of **free hand drawing tools** limits creativity and usability in Balsamiq. (1 reviews) - Users find the **export functionality lacking** , hindering integration and efficiency for the developer community. (1 reviews) - Lack of Guidance (1 reviews) - Limited Customization (1 reviews) - Limited Functionality (1 reviews) - Limited Templates (1 reviews) ## Balsamiq Reviews ### 1. So many options in one place **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** The thing that I like best about Balsamiq is the pre made templates that you can reuse it not only saves me time but helps me work efficiently to iterate faster **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Sometimes not being too familiar with the product can be overwhelming. There's a lot of options and maybe if I changed my settings I could "dumb it down" so it's easier for my view **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problems im solving are mainly work related for user experience design and research. Rapid wire framing, iterating, research, process flows and things of that nature ### 2. The Easiest Tool for Wire framing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like how it is very easy to drag and drop controls onto the screen. Also, all you need to do is save your mock-up as PDF and the client can easily click through to see how the app flow will work. Balsamiq saves a lot of time in terms of requirements gathering as the client can see and approve the sketch of the app without us having to design the apps UI in an IDE. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Some of the controls and components are a bit rigid in terms of what you can do with them when designing. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Balsamiq has allowed us to pitch our ideas faster by enabling us to do quick clickable sketches of our idea. In addition, it makes requirements gathering easier for complex requirements as the client can visually approve the concept and know what they are to expect from the app design. ### 3. Great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh K. | UI Designer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** It's simple and easy to use, super helpful **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I don't see any least helpful points about balsamiq **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Great **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's super helpful for me to create rough sketches before doing a detailed prototype ### 4. Great for creating webpage wireframe **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like it's features that allow creating digital sketches for concept generation this improves visual communication and idea aharing across team members and stakeholdey **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** It maybe expensive for a commercial license. It would be great to add more web based collaboration features and customizable and measurable design elements for different needs **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is great for idea generation on webpage and marketing needs that projects into different clients. Improved communication and mockup development for our project webpages is also beneficial ### 5. Amazing Wireframe Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq is a very easy-to-use tool to help you create stunning wireframes for your next app or web app. We use it daily and we are thrilled with how easy it is and how fast we can create our mockups. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Not much, everything is so good! Maybe add more plugins **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Get the Balsamiq cloud which you can access from any browser. You can add as many users as you want to increase collaboration. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** We develop quick wireframes for our web application. We can easily share the wireframes and the image link updates itself. We improved the delivery of our features and team interaction. ### 6. Easy program to start wireframing, lacks some refinement of other tools **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Easy to get started building wireframes or mockups, setup is easy **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** While great for traditional wireframes, when you want to produce more pixel perfect work, it doesn't seem to have as many tools **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting visual representation on software development objectives our quickly ### 7. Easy for beginners to start creating Mockups **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barani D. | Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Have an Idea? Drag and drop the relevant elements and your mockup is ready **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq team needs to work on the many such drag and drop elements to make it very easy for amateur mockup creators **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create mockups and wireframes using the software ### 8. Great, simple to use program for Mock-up & Wireframe Creation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert M. | Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Easy to use, simple graphic set to avoid introducing bias regarding how things "look." **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I wish there were an effective way to export the mock-ups to a format that developers and others could easily leverage. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** fantastic tool for quick wireframing. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's very fast to quickly start the program and develop a conceptual User Interface to share with product/project stakeholders. ### 9. Quick Wireframing Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like that the style is very rustic, almost like actual drawn-out assets. It's quite easy to use with some presets and assets that you can use to make your wireframes looking more filled in. The aspect I like most is being able to easily annotate the screens. I've used this tool since my college days and into my professional work. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** It's easy to use but it also doesn't have a lot of the functions that other heavy-duty design tools have. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick prototyping or wireframing. ### 10. Great way to digitally sketch your wireframes! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I love the ease of this software. It makes putting together wireframes so simple & being able to download a file to send to team or client allows for great collaboration. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I dislike the ability to customize some additional features that are specific or unique to the design layout. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have found software that makes my pencil & paper sketches to become easily digitized. Sharing, collaboration & speed are the benefits that stand out the most to me using Balsamiq. ### 11. Build prototypes super fast **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ariel C. | Product Manger, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Easy to use tool that will allow you to build a prototype in minutes to share with your team or with customers. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I would love to have access to more default elements to build modern interfaces. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build prototypes fast to validate ideas with customers and internally with teams ### 12. Balsamiq is a great tool for UI/UX needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Inna R. | Sr. Business Analyst, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Great software to have quick mock-ups/designs. Very easy to work with, very intuitive and powerful. Easy to install/setup. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Not easy to share with the individuals who don't have Balsamiq (we used to copy the screens in such situations). **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Balsamiq is a great tool to design the web pages and the application flow for a brand new application, that could be easily converted to wireframes, with low time and effort spent. ### 13. Great, easy to use sketch tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** ease of objects ready for creating mockups -great for beginners **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Sometimes it would be nice to have a bit of higher quality - but not a deal breaker! **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** early state mockups for app/software design ### 14. Great for basic wireframing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Will E. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Great for quickly throwing together a design idea in a wireframe to share with teammates and for quick user flow feedback. When using the tool, I often make a mockup and then export as a PDF to print out and test paper prototypes with users for feedback. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** A tad rigid in some of the functionality which sometimes makes me choose to use another tool that allows me to mainly sketch the idea out. Additional customization would help a lot for improving the product. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Great for basic wireframing but you'll likely move to another piece of software in the later phases quickly. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating wireframes to quickly iterate on user flows and experiences. ### 15. Good wireframing tool to create mockups very quickly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simisara J. | Senior Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Easy to use. Gives a feel of using pen and paper. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** It can include more predefined shapes and templates that can be choosed. Export feature doesnot include preview kind feel making hotspot feature not much usable **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Good tool for project managers and coordinators to provide quick demo during meetings **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick and easy brainstorming ideas, can create basic wireframes to be handed to graphics team ### 16. my Balsamiq Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent F. J. | PLM System Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like how quickly you can build up a wireframe, both static and clickable, and have a number of button, text, and CTA elements available to you **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I feel like it's sometimes difficult to find the design element you're looking for **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows me to quickly create a design artifact, in both Mobile and Web formats. Quick way capture an idea and thought into a more presentable format ### 17. Easy to use tool for quick wireframes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** - ease of use - quick export option - share option on cloud **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Nothing I dislike about this cool tool, I wish they can add more elements based on new material design. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** When we are in ideation phase, we use Balsamiq to come up quick wireframes and share them with internal stakeholders and even with customers. Since it is easy to use and easy to edit, we can always iterate our designs and revise it on the go. ### 18. Create beautiful wireframe prototypes in minutes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramesh P. | Fullstack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq mockups lets me create beautiful wireframe prototypes in minutes, it supports a wide range of prototypes from web prototyping to mobile UI prototyping and desktop software prototyping. To use Balsamiq mockups one does not need to be a user experience ninja, one can simply know to use a basic word processor and the same skills can be translated into Balsamiq mockups wire framing. Drag and drop mockup creation is the area in which Balsamiq excels the most. I am not a design expert by any means, but Balsamiq lets me create , export and share beautiful interface prototypes before e spend any time in coding these apps. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq mockups does not have much flaws, it is robustly built, but the number one complaint for me is the lack of Linux or tablet apps to do these mockups. These days more and more designers are ditching their desktops and laptops for the convenience of their tablets, the developers of Balsamiq mockups need to be mindful of this and release tablet apps that are compatible with the apple pencil and other styluses. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Draw.io is a good free alternative to Balsamiq if budget is a constraint, but Draw.io is not as feature rich. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Balsamiq let me create rapid wireframe prototypes and share it with my colleagues before we start building the actual interface ### 19. The fastest way to create paper prototypes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amar S. | Marketing / Product head, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** If you're someone like me that is worse than a kindergartener at drawing, creating UI mock-ups and prototypes can be a huge pain. Even if you're a seasoned pro at sketching UI mockups, it takes time to create and it takes even more time to edit your paper prototype's features. Balsamiq enables users of all skill levels to create a wire frame prototype in seconds. Users can export the prototypes to PNGs or PDF. If users want to do physical prototype testing, the mockups can be printed easily. I like the wide array of native components that are available inside of Balsamiq to create not only web UI prototypes but also Mobile interfaces. Your search for the best wire-framing mockup tool ends with Balsamiq **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** The ability to export the components to SVG would be a welcome addition to the already phenomenal tool. Apart from this there is not much to complain about Basamiq as it the industry leader when it come to wire-framing tools. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Gravit designer is another free tool that can do basic wire framing. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rapid prototyping and mockup creation. Wire framing while designing web and mobile user interfaces are the two major problems we solve with balsamiq ### 20. Balsamiq for Mockups **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Symbols, which I can re-use again and again for the common elements **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Cannot type in the value for the scroll bars from the UI Library. The only way is to adjust the slider accordingly. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Easy, Simple and Fun! **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Balsamiq helps me to create a nice, clean and logical mockups for my client presentation ### 21. If you're looking for a decent wire-framing tool, Balsamiq is here to help you **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ganesh B. | Fullstack Developer - Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Wireframing is a rapid prototyping technique and is crucial in designing interfaces for human computer interaction. Balsamiq is used by UX designers and it is the go to standard for designing web interfaces and mobile interfaces. It is very expensive to design full fidelity prototypes but Balsamiq makes it super cheap and convenient to create wireframes. It enables even newbie users to generate stunning prototypes. Before using Balsamiq I was sketching prototypes on paper, but these prototypes were not easily editable, I had to erase many pars and redraw them. But with Balsamiq editing these prototypes was a breeze, I could incorporate changes suggested by my teammates easily. They offer both desktop and cloud apps that can get your prototype up in minutes. Balsamiq comes with a good set of inbuilt icons. It also lets users import their own assets. It is easy to export these prototypes to PDF and PNG. Adding components to Balsamiq is as simple as a drag and drop. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq isn't as feature rich for high fidelity prototyping, in scenarios like that I use Sketch, It would be awesome if they let me invite another user to the desktop app to collaborate with me. The licensing fee could be made a bit less expensive. Also the app consumes a lot RAM so it might be slow in older machines. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** If you're looking for something with more fidelity options, try Sketch. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick and effective prototyping is made possible by Balsamiq. I stopped sketching on paper and started wire-framing. ### 22. It comes with plenty of templates **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adriana L. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** There are different templates available for different purposes, which makes easy to start **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I would like to be able to change more details related with the design **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** It is useful to create a quick version of a Software Idea, and it is also possible to work both online or locally (they have both version available) **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Balsamiq to create a mock-up of a software project ### 23. It is easy to use thanks and has a great interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan T. | Organization Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** We can place the components in the desired place to verify if customers can feel the importance of the element applied on the page we are creating. We can easily put ourselves in the user's place and think from their perspective to verify if we are working on a usable interface. In addition, the link between the pages and mosaics helps us see how the transition between each page looks, I usually use RAW prototypes scribbling in my notes after starting to use the Balsamiq tool and everything worked as expected. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Multiple display screens the canvas size could be improved since it could be a problem if the user wanted to draw multiple screens, not dynamic enough, the program only exports to certain file formats what is inefficient for many users, in the same way if the user wants to create something customized from scratch the built-in forms can be a bit restrictive. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** I have used it since then for many projects that involve interface design and user experience. It is the most intuitive tool, extremely simple but at the same time very complete, it hardly takes time to understand how to use it is as simple as dragging and dropping items from a large menu to your canvas and starting to organize them the way you want them to look its interface It has many elements to build your design and you can program them to simulate user interactions. It makes it very easy to build your models and it is also extremely fun to use, we recommend it to anyone. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** This great tool helped us for desktop and mobile applications with very good results, customers generally love its friendly appearance, since the project can be exported as an interactive PDF if you programmed any interaction, you can show your customers a simulation of UX and they love. Anyone can schedule these interactions using the software does not need prior experience, it is just about connecting slides in a similar way to scheduling a PowerPoint presentation. ### 24. Balsamiq helps wit initial wireframes design **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunny A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq is a good tool to create quick wireframes. these wireframes are created as prototypes for our client projects. Balsamiq has good elements to create the wireframes. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Nothing to dislike about Balsamiq. Most elements are available and is used in flowcharts by our team. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Balsamiq is good for drawing architectures and flow. It can be helpful to various people who draw things online. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Balsamiq is used to manage wireframe designs by our team. We create wireframes for projects and to discuss ideas with our customers. ### 25. I love it. It’s the simplest wireframes software and still the best. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James R. | UX Designer and Front End Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** It’s so easy and so good. The wireframes are perfect without requiring a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** They started charging for updates. The license used to be ‘forever’ **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Just go for it. The cloud version is pretty cool too. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** None. I like it. ### 26. Best UX Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ikbal M. | Senior Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** The ability to turn real life artefacts into something that looks more cartoon like really helps the end user to visualise and able to articulate their requirements more clearly and succinctly **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** The desktop version that I have is limited with the latest icons that are available however the cloud version is much more up-to-date with the latest and most recent iCons available **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Try to get the cloud version of this particular tool as it is the most up-to-date and relevant and more cost-effective with the latest updates continually refreshed **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** To be able to better articulate business requirements with the use of graphical visualisation, The ability to wireframe models during an agile sprint ### 27. Good for Wire-frame & Prototype **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Virendra S. | Digital Marketing Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** One of the best is UI & icons for Wireframe, Huge number of icon will available You can easily export into PNG & PDF Eay to use (You can use by Drag & Drop Simplicity) you can work offline You can share wireframe easily **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I do not think so is there any dislike except Pricing, Pricing is more According to me Limited sharing Options limited canvas SIZE Some time client-facing challenges in presentation **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** If you want to create wireframe or Sketch for the website then its best choice & and it is good for mobile app prototype **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** MAking Sketch of Websites for developers, they can understand easly what is flow of system or how many Pages will be in system & Interlink to each Other. 2. After Requirement gathering easy to create wireframe & I used to send a client for better understanding of the system 3. For Review of the system on wireframe 4. Easy to change if any feature going to place wrong ### 28. Simple and fast wireframes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rochele A. | Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** We use Balsamiq to make wireframes beginning in the design process. We draw simply the mockups and later we use the images with another tool to get the application workflow completed. This is much more useful than trying to describe requirements in words to the developers. The analyst team uses Balsamiq regularly to wireframe use cases for business review and approval of concepts. Balsamiq is simply a quick way of drawing out your idea. There is very good support from the vendor. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** We can not share files via the web. Text input function can be a bit tricky. Limited User Interface elements. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Balsamiq for quick approval of concepts. And this also useful than trying to describe requirements in words to the developers. ### 29. Thanks for helping me create Prototypes, Sketches and Wireframes can only be achieved with Balsamiq **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna C. | Manager General , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I really like balsamiq since it helped me to improve the designed screens that store in files of extension bmml, a language of the application, based on xml, that can be interpreted to obtain the design information created, this helps us later to be able to create the project as similar as possible to our sketch on paper. While we do it in pencil, we make changes, we cross out, we have better ideas and these sketches become the prototype. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** To be honest, it does not have anything to displease me, since it serves to create flowcharts, uml and others it is very versatile, it also facilitates me to draw an idea quickly, so that I can move on to a more detailed prototype. If you need a simple tool for models and fast structures, Balsamiq is a too simple option for employees to develop excellent projects. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** This product can be recommended for its simplicity of the tool to save, open and convert them in different document formats, it is also an application used, among other things, for the design of prototypes of screens, also has a process called Wireframing which is the creation of the structure of an interface. All this can be done since it appeared in our company Balsamiq. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to design and build new web pages, but with Balsamiq everything has been faster and more efficient since it helps us focus on the important details in the early stages of new product designs and allows you to drag and drop buttons, form fields and text on the screen with comments so that our clients can clearly understand what we are offering. ### 30. Balsamiq is a useful tool to layout the structure of our website **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric Y. | Internal assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like this tool because it is very easy to use and it has also allowed us to design our model of structure is Balsamiq. Thanks to the same we can establish what will be the configuration of our website, even has a free version of Try web demo and one of payment, very useful and that can save us a lot of time and efforts. Balsamiq has no comparison because in my company we have tested other products and can get complicated quickly, while this tool keeps everything simple and powerful when using it **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** What I may come to dislike of this great tool is that it has spreadsheets can be a little slow, but so with this advantage there is nothing more that I do not like about Balsamiq. It's also fast, cheap, and almost anyone can use this with minimal software education. My team must be agile and iterate over ideas, prototypes and design flows quickly **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** My company can recommend this product as he has given us an idea to gather quickly for comments. In the same way this software makes wiring and prototyping very fast and easy, which has allowed us to finish an idea for a landing page or an application quite quickly **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product has many benefits, besides being a very light and flexible tool that allows you to do simple drills. Balsamiq has a lot of excellent widgets that you can use to make Mocks and the best thing is that all these functions are not so difficult to find, because in recent months we have mastered this software very well achieving great results and improving sales of my business ### 31. I use balsamiq to create mockups for the projects that I plan to implement in future **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** giorgi g. | Giorgi Gogoladze, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I mostly like its easy to use design. everyone can use it without difficulties **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I dislike that it has a few forms and tools to create mockups , in general its enough to create what you want, but would be better if would be much more forms. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** I recommend everyone to use balsamiq for creating mockups, because its very easy to use, you can create quick prototypes and that's the biggest opportunity to know others idea about your plan before you implement it **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can create prototype of my project, show them to others and understand their opinion about it. It Helps to know others idea about my plan which is very essential for me . ### 32. Pretty great for low fidelity mockup **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean L. | Consultant SEM - Analytique, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Learning curve = 5 min Really that simple. But that means not too much features, but in this case, it's a good thing. Option for online version or desktop version. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Software is based on Adobe air, so doesn't feel 100% made for Windows/mac, but it's still pretty much ok. Online version is pretty great but you pay on a monthly basis. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Not recommended for pixel perfect mockup, more for fast mockup. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast and quick mockup, so I saved a lot of time but the idea is not too focus on detail. ### 33. Great for quick interactive mockups **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meredith C. | Senior Technology Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** The ability to create an interactive mockup with multiple screens and pages to understand the user experience **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** The look and feel is very "drawn" which is great to communicate ideas but not professional once moving forward through to the design process with developers **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicating website needs and interactions in an MVP ### 34. Nice Entry MockUp Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin G. | Business Analyst & Project Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like the easiness and quickness creating a new mockup at work. Before I got Balsamiq I spent days creating the static mockups due to the lack of UI/UX that free software has. Also, I like how you can link mockups like if you were in a real webpage, it gives you a broader idea on how your end product could look and also, to fix things before making it, which reduces our development time. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I would really, really like more options, more icons, templates for mobiles and web pages, for example, it would be nice that it was already a template for login, another for standard maintenance and so on. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Easy of use, nice price, multiple deployments are the keys for me, I haven't needed their support which I believe it is something good because the product is well designed for its purposes. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in a software company, I'm in charge of creating the business requirements, so, it is really important for me that all the developers get my ideas, which at the end, are the ideas of our customers and sometimes they didn't get what I was trying to let them know, it could probably my fault, for not making myself clear enough. But since we started to use Balsamiq, the development times have been improved, since they are now more focused on what the customer expects viewing the mockups that I have created. ### 35. Mockups creation made simple. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** What I really like about Balsamic is that I can easy create prototypes of my application and also build proposal for my client before going to the design phase. It is very useful for me having a detail user experience and flow before going to working in the designs. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I would like to have more elements with a more modern interface or experience, also I would like to have a free lite version of the application with pay features that a can add and pay as I go. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** If you are thinking of using Balsamic for your projects you are in the right direction. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm solving the problem of not having a detail of the general flow of my application, with Balsamic I can create a prototype and show it to my colleges and clients. ### 36. I use balsamiq mockups for creating design of my projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mariam a. | mariam asatiani, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like the UI and UX of the tool. It's very easy to use. you can quickly find everything you want **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** The one thing that I don't like is that balsamiq has a little variety of forms. I t would be perfect If some new forms are added **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** I recommend everyone to use balsamiq, because its very easy to use tool and convenient for creating designs of future projects **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can create project plan in advance it is created. I create mockups which helps me to share my ideas with others and they can better imagine my ideas ### 37. A simple app to make low fidelity mockups quickly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juliet B. | Financial Planner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Sometimes you want to create mockups which are at a fidelity between hand sketching app screens and creating them in Sketch/Figma/XD/etc. Balsamiq has a great suite of icons and shapes built in and make creating low fidelity screens quickly very easy. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** The app does not support pinch to zoom on Mac. This can make it jarring when you try to zoom in to see finer details more clearly. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Balsamiq is one of the most lightweight tools you can use for low fidelity mockups. There is an initial upfront cost, but brings you great returns, especially for freelancers who need to create quick proof of concepts for clients. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do web design as a hobby and Balsamiq is a great tool to use as a proof of concept for clients. It helps me create screens that look "designed" and professional without me having to spend so much time creating high fidelity mockups. ### 38. Good for wireframing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** It is a decent software to use for mockups without spending too much time actually developing the prototype. It can used to demo to end users for feedback and user acceptance testing. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** They ran on a license basis, not their fault but in the organization that i had it, we didn't have enough licenses and it wasn't justifyable having more so we had to rotate computers. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** It is not bad considering the pricing is $50 per license. The time saved instead of developing the prototype will save you the money there. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is great for doing demos to clients (end users) it is good enough to create the feel of what the end product will look like without investing a lot of time ### 39. My go to wireframe tool for 1st iteration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** In the old days we used fat marker pens. Now we use Balsamiq. Balsamiq isnt about the final desgn - (leave that to PShop) but the very early stage of the design process when communicating and gaining consensus is critical. Its super rapid in this regard for layout and primary elements. I've been in meetings and used it "live" with great results. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** File management and project organisation could be better. Its quite easy to generate concepts but they seem to get a bit lost in file managment. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Early stages of web design. Determining project Scope. Benefits is reaching consensus on vision before commitment to final design. ### 40. Best mockup creation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit S. | Business Analyst, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Its as easy as sketching through pen and paper. Infact its better as it gives you pre-sketched pieces which you can easily drang and drop to create mockups **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** It will be helpful if you add more icons options. some time I have to import icons from web and that takes a lot of my time **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Its the best wireframing and mocku designing tool. just go for it. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requirement documentation is easy with balsamiq mockups mockup designing is so much better and understandable wireframing can be done easily by using the tool Replace sketches easy to share mocks by Exporting to Pdf file easy to use designs by exporting designs in png format Present view to present the wireframe designs ### 41. Good prototype designing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mansi G. | Ms., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Below are the features that I liked the most: 1. Amendments and rapid changes can be done easily. 2. The feature of drag-and-drop allows quick designs. 3. Share your ideas with colleagues and clients. 4. Export wireframes into PDF and images. 5. Component Inspector features are very good. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Below are the features that I disliked: 1. Doesn't have interactive prototyping. 2. Can't make annotations on the interface. 3. No support system for collecting feedback from team or client. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Looking for a user-friendly platform for designing prototypes. 2. I can make modifications very quickly by drag and drop features. 3. Input the desired assets from the search bar. 4. Change the component properties from Inspector. ### 42. The best tool for wireframing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tomi O. | Frontend Engineer., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** The ease of use is what I like most about Balsamiq and I think there are just an handful of wireframing programs that can compete with Balsamiq in the area of " ease of use". I like the ability to export my wireframes created on Balsamiq into pdf or other image formats such as png, thus making it easier to share with non-Balsamiq users. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I wish I am able to change the scope of my projects by being able to zoom in and zoom out on my screen. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Balsamiq exclusively to create my wireframes for mobile and web based software applications. ### 43. Excellent for wire framing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** The ability to mock up sketches which are real like but have the cartoon feel **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Not a very big range of sketches on desktop version **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Cloud version is better And more current **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Eliciting user requirements has been difficult and sometimes with real lookalike diagrams has helped the UX process and detailed more feasible requirements, excellent supporting info for developers and UX designers ### 44. Easy wireframing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Veronica M. | Digital Marketing Specialist & Web Analyst, Marketing and Advertising, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Intuitive wire framing tool. Good for building quick sketches for your graphic designer. I also use it to draw flowcharts. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Pdf generator is hard to find. It should be more accesible since we use it very often **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s as easy as drawing on paper. But here you can share your files, print them, send them, etc. You can also add existing images in your computer to your sketch. Like logos. ### 45. Balsamiq Mockups is great for quick blueprinting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan B. | Lead Designer / Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq Mockups bridges the gaps between developers and designers by allowing all the "fancy" stuff to be put aside and see what is really needed from a design aspect as-well as from a developer standpoint, while at the same time allowing the client to know exactly what is going on and how the flow of the entire website or app will be. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** At times Balsamiq can seem to be a bit limiting in what type of elements you can add, but you have to also remember that that's the entire point of a blueprint/wireframe, keeping it simple. Would love to see more updates pushed to the downloadable Balsamiq Mockups that includes some nice sharing and publishing features built within the app directly. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Would highly recommend using Balsamiq Mockups for companies that have multiple projects on-going at one time and need to be able to get wireframes up and complete quickly for client approval. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Balsamiq Mockups allows us to increase our workflow and productivity to get our clients the wireframes and mockups that allow them to see the vision of their website or app. All while allowing a easy and efficient way for our developers and designers to work along side each other with little-to-no overstepping or confusion. ### 46. Very good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq is very good software tool used to create new mockups or design which can be used to represent to the other users in the real format.It helps me for creating new designs other than new softwares.It makes my work easier to represent any work. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I like all the functions of the balsamiq but there is some issues occur like we does not get proper synchronization of the mockups created and also not get proper tools or techniques to use.The icons not found on the software. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Balsamiq is very good software tool used to create new mockups or design which can be used to represent to the other users.I will suggest the other users to work on balsamiq for creating new mockups or designs. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** Balsamiq is very good software tool used to create new mockups or design which can be used to represent to the other users.I will suggest the other users to work on balsamiq for creating new mockups or designs. ### 47. Fantastic for Translating What it in Your Head into a Consumable Format **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 🚀 Michelle B. | Director of Growth Marketing at Lingo, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I am able to take the ideas in my head and translate them into a consumable format for my design team. I am far from able to create a website, but I have a vision on how I want my pages to look and interact with the user. I feel that Balsamiq gives me the ability to easily make my ideas come to life. I am particularly a fan of the ability to upload images specific to our brand as well as link between pages. Its also helpful that I can clone one page and make adjustments to the other. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I work on a smaller laptop screen and when you are trying to build a wireframe, you need all the vertical and horizontal space possible. While you can close out the far left and right content bars, it is still not often enough. It would be nice to close out or reduce the upper navigation so see more visible space. Otherwise, you pretty much need to adopt a device with a larger screen (or connect a larger screen) to get a better view of the bigger picture. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** Balsamiq is very helpful when you have multiple contributors working on one wireframe or project. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** The business problem I am solving is documenting a layout in my head, or changes to an existing design, to both our copy and design vendor and our web designer. The benefit I have realized is this is a massive step up from screengrabbing an existing layout and modifying the content with a combo of shape blocks in Powerpoint while making it 'look' like what I have in my head. It's also a more professional way of designing a website. ### 48. I use balsamiq mockups to create the prototype of my projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George B. | George Bakuradze, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** I like mostly its easy design. You can do everything you want in a simple manner. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** Would be better if it will have much more forms to use. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** I suggest everyone to use balsamiq for creating mockups in a easy and convenient way. It's very comfortable to create the prototypes of your project so easily **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can create mockups before I implement project and it helps me to share my ideas with others and get their feedback ### 49. Extremely user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sid S. | Venture Capital Analyst - Intern, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2019 ### 50. Balsamiq ideal for wireframes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Virginie L. | autonome, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Balsamiq?** Balsamiq is the simplest and most intuitive tool I know for designing complex web layouts without losing focus on aesthetics. The "hand-drawn" look achieved in the wireframes facilitates understanding during meetings, and people who are not designers will interact more with the wireframes than if the projects were actually designed. Balsamiq is intuitive enough to become proficient with its control panel in just a few minutes, even if you have never used it before. In case you have trouble learning, there is a lot of information and tutorials on the Internet to learn how to use it. **What do you dislike about Balsamiq?** I would like to see more templates, icons, and other elements for other use cases. Other than that, I don't have much negative to say about what I don't like about this program, except that there aren't some options to create other schemes/sketches of elements. This program focuses a lot on iOS, Android, and smartphone applications. **Recommendations to others considering Balsamiq:** It allows us to see a sketch in freehand of what the state and design of our website could be before implementing it definitively. **What problems is Balsamiq solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits of this software, like any other wireframe design software, are to get an idea of how it would look and to test the computer-user interactions as well as the user experience before it is definitively implemented. 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