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In small, medium and enterprise businesses, it is important to make collaborations with the team and turn each wonderful ideas into reality. Whether it is for virtual whiteboard, diagrams or cloud visualization, Lucid is a tool that can help collaboration easy and efficient as possible and saves you time and move on for the most important part of the business. Let’s take a look of what Lucid has to offer.

What is Lucid?

Lucid Suite is an entirely web-based visual collaboration tool that help businesses share ideas with their team and business partners through a set of visual tools. Since Lucid is a web-based tool, teams can work and share in real-time. Lucid has three tools such as Lucidchart for an easy to use and intelligent diagram, Lucidspark virtual whiteboard where teams can share their ideas, and Lucidscale to visualize and optimize cloud architecture.

Lucid was founded by Ben Dilts and Karl Sun with its initial release date on December 2008. Over the years, Lucid has raised funding from many different companies and added additional products such as Lucidspark and Lucidscale. Lucid is being used by big companies such as General Electric, NBC, Amazon, and Google.

Features and Benefits of Lucid

As mentioned above, there are three tools from Lucid that seamlessly work together. Let’s check the features of each Lucid tool.

Lucidspark

Has a streamlined and intuitive user interface and a huge number of templates to choose from. You can easily design your project and visualize your ideas to your team such as roadmaps, mind maps, and workflows. It has real-time instant and synchronized editing for seamless collaboration across all team members. It also has integration with other tools such as Zoom, Slack, and much more. It is a fun and easy way to brainstorm with the team.

Lucidchart

Has hundreds of templates and samples. Flowcharts, UML, Wireframing/iOS mockups, Org Charts, BPMN, Mind Maps, and Network Diagrams. It is easy to use with its drag-and-drop functionality and plentiful of shapes to choose from. Integrations at no additional cost with Microsoft Visio, JPG, PNG, PDF, JIRA, Confluence, and Google Drive. Collaborate with the team in real-time with unlimited numbers of collaborators, group chats, and comments and the ability to embed diagrams to websites. Lucidchart has security features such as SSL with AES-256-bit encryption and hourly backups in multiple data centers and admin control.

Lucidscale

It is an intelligent cloud visualization tool that auto-generates cloud diagrams making it easier and less time-consuming than the old process of doing cloud visualization. It helps with building, designing, optimizing, and deploying cloud architecture for all types of businesses. Like the other tools, it also supports real-time collaboration across the entire team making everyone updated with the business process. Lucidscale was also designed to work flawlessly with Lucidchart and Lucidspark.

User Experience with Lucid

With a user-friendly interface and a plethora of templates, shapes, sizes, and colors, you don’t have to be an expert to use Lucid Suite. It is simple and easy to use even for new users. Plenty of integrations from multiple tools that are commonly used, it is easy to collaborate with your team and comes with an auto-save/backup feature.

Pricing Structure

There are different pricing for each within the Lucid Suite. Lucidchart and Lucidspark can be bundled together for a discount. Each plan and bundle have a free limited trial. Lucid offers a free plan for Lucidchart and Lucidspark with no credit card required. The free plan comes with basic functions and has limitations. Lucidscale does not offer a free plan but still has a free limited trial.

Lucidchart/Lucidspark Individual – $7.95 single user

Lucidchart/Lucidspark Team – $9 for each user

Lucidchart/Lucidspark Enterprise – Need to contact Lucid Sales Team

Lucidchart & Lucidspark Bundle Individual – $11.93 single user

Lucidchart & Lucidspark Bundle Team – $13.50 for each user

Lucidchart & Lucidspark Bundle Enterprise – Need to contact Lucid Sales Team

Review Summary

Feature:

Lucid has plenty of features to choose from and it is easy to use. You don’t need to be a good presenter to collaborate with your team. Lucid has plenty of choices and features that are easy to use.

Ease of Use:

Using Lucid is easy. Uncomplicated user interface that is easy to navigate. Drag and drop, streamlined tools that save you time. It has several templates, shapes, and colors to choose from.

Customer Service:

Lucid has its help center that can guide you if ever you’re still not familiar with the tools. They have a support team that you can contact through their website be it billing, account management, and product inquiries.

Value for Money:

It is great that they have a free trial so you can try them first and see how easy it is to use Lucid tools. When it comes to paying, they have flexible plans and have included bundle pricing that can save you some money and increase your collaborative productivity. They have a reasonable price for each plan that you can choose from depending on what type or scale of business you have.

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