What is Creately?

Creately is the New Interface for Work!

Its infinite canvas, power of databases, along with real-time collaboration, enable teams to connect and centralize items from multiple apps, docs, and people in a single space to increase productivity. With advanced capabilities such as Database relations, Formulas, and smart rules Creately is actually a clever no-code platform that allows you to build and model any solution to your team’s challenges.

It facilitates synchronous and asynchronous collaboration through in-app video conferencing, live mouse tracking and synced change previews, and comment discussion threads. Creately supports over 70 diagram types spanning across all organizational functions from marketing and education to HR. Creately is trusted by over 5 million users and is used by leading organizations including Netflix, Amazon, NASA, Disney, and PayPal.

Product Features

Creately offers multiple features to simplify the online drawing and collaboration experience. It’s a cloud-based application, therefore all your files can be accessed from anywhere, from any device.

Connect data as custom properties of items that can take any shape or form given the context
A library of intelligent frames that includes a Kanban board, 2×2 grid, timeline, and X-Y chart along with cards to go on them
Creately is available in English and 16 other languages
70+ diagram types with standard shape libraries
Real-time collaboration for online brainstorming, meetings, workshops, planning, etc.
Contextual toolbars to reduce clutter and speed up diagramming and drawing
Auto alignment snapping and guidelines, and shape locking
Easy styling with color palettes based on themes
Export workspaces as PNG, JPEG, PDF, SVG and CSV
1000s of custom-built templates
View Only or Edit enabled links to share workspaces for reviews or edits
PDF Export with working links
Flexible infinite canvas with smooth zooming
Image import to customize workspaces. Compatible with PNG, JPEG, GIF, SVG, BMP, and ICO.
Built-in commenting to capture ideas, suggestions, and change requests from collaborators
Built-in Google image search to browse the internet for additional shapes, illustrations, images, and icons
Advanced folder structure to easily organize workspaces for better accessibility
Easy grouping with containers so that you can export them into multiple PDF pages or as multiple images
Hyperlink shapes, objects, and text on the canvas with a detailed link preview

Top Use Cases

Creately is used across multiple fields, from marketing to engineering. It also offers pre-made templates covering a wide range of use cases in these areas.

Marketing: Define your marketing goals, understand your customers, brainstorm strategies, and create inspired campaigns.

Brainstorming
Campaign planning
Meetings and workshops
Process alignment

Product: Set strategy, manage releases, define features, gather product insight, and review customer feedback to effectively lead your product through conceptualization to launch.

Product management
Design thinking
Sprint planning
IT project management

Engineering: Develop strong foundational systems to keep your business up and running.

Cloud infrastructure
Network planning
Security planning
DevOps

HR and Operations: Visualize, document and streamline HR and admin processes for greater organizational clarity.

Organize people and processes
Training and development
Employee wellbeing
Remote work

Strategy and Planning: Define your long-term goals, assess your current environment, and develop strategies and tactics to address any identified problems.

Decision-making
Resource allocation
Prioritize effort
Align shareholders and employees

Education: Deliver more interactive and engaging online classes and effectively manage the administrative resources, tasks, and communications.

Collaborative learning
Lesson planning
Instructional material
Meetings and discussions
Educational administration

Pricing

Creately has pricing plans for organizations, teams, and individuals.

Creately’s basic plan is free. You can create 3 private workspaces with a limit of 60 elements in total, and work with up to 3 collaborators.
The personal plan is only $6.95 per month, or $4 per month when you subscribe to annual billing, and includes unlimited private workspaces, export, and import options and you can add up to 5 collaborators.
The team plans start at $24 per month for 3 users, $14.34 per month when you subscribe to annual billing, and also include unlimited private workspaces, in-app video/audio calls, multiple export and import options along with the capacity to add unlimited collaborators.
The enterprise plan includes everything on the team plans, plus SSO, SCIM, Audit trails, and an account manager.

Visit our plans page to learn more

Integrations

Creately integrates with multiple platforms to help its users streamline their workflow effortlessly.

Creately plugin for Slack: Makes it easier to share your Creately workspaces with your team. Once you share a Creately link in your Slack channel, you can allow quick access to everyone in it while giving them a quick preview of the workspace itself.

Creately Plugin for Google Drive: Create and organize all your Creately workspaces and manage permission to them in Google Drive.
Creately for Confluence: Create more dynamic Confluence pages and blog posts by explaining your ideas, concepts, frameworks, etc. using Creately diagrams and visuals. Create them right from your Confluence page and keep them saved as attachments that get automatically updated as you make changes.
Creately for Google Docs: Embed your Creately workspaces as images on Google Docs to create more content-rich reports, articles, and wikis.

Customer Support

Creately offers customer support 24x7 to its users via multiple platforms to effectively manage user requests and enhance their experience.

Live chat requests
Email support requests received via Web Form
A knowledge base containing help articles is available to guide users find quick solutions to their issues by themselves
Support requests are also handled through Facebook Messenger and Twitter DM
In addition, Creately also maintains a Support Feedback Form where users can submit new ideas and feature requests

Customers/Social Proof

Creately has placed the #1 product of the day on Product Hunt on the 27th of January, 2020.
Creately was ranked among the top 5 software in G2’s List of Best ANZ Sellers for 2021 Customer feedback from Creately users
Press coverage of Creately

Social media accounts

Support Channels

You can learn more about the New Interface for Work here.