Introduction

Welcome to OmniGraffle
Everyone needs to communicate visually, because everyone has ideas that can't be expressed by words alone. OmniGraffle exists to help you represent your ideas visually, make sense of them, and present them to others as clearly as possible.
You can use OmniGraffle to understand and communicate complicated concepts and processes, from directions to brainstorming sessions to family trees to those horrible phone systems at your bank. OmniGraffle makes it easy for you to produce amazing documents that help get your point across, no matter how convoluted the subject matter.
Of course, you can also use OmniGraffle to create photo albums, yard sale flyers, CD covers, garden layouts, newsletters, and almost anything else you can think of. Draw pretty pictures, lay out text, connect shapes together, turn outlines into graphics, drag in images... the list goes on and on.
Read the manual
You can search these help files when you have a specific question about OmniGraffle, but for an introduction to the software and more general guidance you should read the manual. If you have a physical, boxed copy of OmniGraffle, a printed manual is included. Otherwise, you can download an electronic version from our web site.
Pro features
Features exclusive to OmniGraffle Professional appear in a box like this one. All of the other features are available in both the Standard and the Professional editions of OmniGraffle.