SmartDrawReviews of smartdraw.com

Spent about 3 hours drawing a floor plan, clicked to download made me sign up. Then put up a paywall asking for $100 for a yearly subscription and no way to get back to the floor plan I'd just spent 3 hours on.

Avoid. Misleads you into advertising as free but any usable exports require you to sign up for an annual subscription. Not monthly; annual. Having to fork out over 100 quid for what is a very basic flowchart maker is appalling.

Garbage. It appears to be a free software and you can use all the features up until you need to print or save your work. When you search free wiring tool and the first one that shows up is this paid trash, is pretty frustrating. Especially when you spent two hours making the diagram.

Same problem everyone is having. They don't tell you its a free trial and then, because I thought it was worth it and was locked out of all the work I had done, I was going to sign up. Its was 6.86$ per month had to pay annually, went to pay and you can only sign up for 3 accounts minimum and its 18$ for tax. over $267. Horrible company, stay away.

Avoid this at all cost, at least if you want to try it out. My project was locked behind the paywall after 2 hours of drawing and unable to be accessed without paying.

Terrible experience for a mediocre product. one of the worse examples of corporate greed I've seen in recent. the fact that the they don't properly tell you you are entering a free trial and that I can't even export my flowchart without opening my wallet is such a scummy way of getting people to pay for your service. now I'e wasted quite a bit of time and now they're one bad review richer. If I could rate them half a star, I would.

I Used this in 2021 to design a deck area (one off project). The functonality was actually good and I got dagrams done well, but beware of the PRICING practices... Just tried to reactivate my licence in 2025 to sketch a cabinet project and it is asking me to pay over $100 to renew a licence that will expire in 2022 ?? 12 months after last time i used it... NO other options.. what a Joke.. smartdraw has just perminantly lost a good customer.. I'm happy to pay reasonable money for good product, but not this crazy extortion subscription pricing.. bye bye Smartdraw.

smartdraw are one up from scammers you can spend hours on a plan on the so called trial try and save it print it or even copy and it says trial expired they only offer an annual option but promote it as monthly log out try and change your email to get a trial that you never got first time and you find your plan has been deleted they really are scum I will never advise anyone to use Smartdraw even AI says its shady