Visio Online Plan 2 If you have a subscription to Visio Online Plan 2 you won't see an option to install it unless you have an assigned license.If you're the Office 365 admin responsible for assigning licenses, see Assign licenses to users.

• Pros Powerful. Huge library of templates and objects.

Wide array of export formats. • Cons Expensive. Not available on Mac, Linux, or as a web app. Confusing purchasing process.

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Limited collaboration capabilities. Clunky and cluttered. • Bottom Line Microsoft Visio is a powerful diagram creation and editing tool, but it's challenging enough to set up that it's best suited for bigger businesses with the IT resources to handle the process.

It used to be a burden to draw flowcharts, organizational charts, floorplans, networking diagrams, and other visuals commonly used in business. Visio was one of the earliest pieces of software to simplify how it was done by providing premade shapes and objects, rather than virtual pens and protractors. Visio, which has been owned by Microsoft since 2000, is still one of the most important available.

It's powerful and chock-full of options, but it's best for bigger businesses with some IT support, as the purchasing and set-up process is confusing. Purchasing and Setup Getting Visio is tricky for a few reasons. Part of the problem is that you can't just go to a website and buy Visio. You first have to make sure you have or sign up for the right kind of Microsoft account, either a business account (when you sign up, you get an email address that ends in 'onmicrosoft.com') or an account with an subscription.

Then, depending on what kind of account you have and which version of Office you have installed, you have to find out which version of Visio you can install. Once you log into your Microsoft account, the website at least checks your eligibility and prompts you toward the right options, but getting to that point takes some doing. Another hindrance is that Visio is only available as locally installed software on Windows.

You can't use it on a Mac or Linux machine, and there is no browser-based version. Despite its name, Visio Online is not a fully functioning web app. More on that in a bit. In an era when so much business software is solely web-based, and you can get to it from any machine with an internet connection, this might be frustrating enough to turn you away from the start. All the other diagramming apps I've tested—,, Gliffy, Lucidchart, and SmartDraw—offer web apps. Assuming you get this far, there are three up-to-date versions of Visio: Visio Standard 2016, Visio Pro 2016, and Visio for Office 365 (which is the version I've reviewed here).

Two older versions, Visio 2010 and Visio 2013, are still kicking around and may be the right version for some people, depending on their system requirements and Microsoft account. See for more information on Visio 2010 and 2013. Visio Pro for Office 365 (the version I tested) and Visio Pro 2016 are nearly identical, except that with Pro for Office, you're buying a subscription that includes updates to the product as they're made available. The Pro for Office version also has a few more templates and shapes, particularly those pertaining to education. Visio Standard, however, is different in that it does not include any support for collaboration and it has far fewer templates and shapes.

Pricing and Comparisons Visio Pro for Office 365 is sold on a subscription basis. It costs $15.50 per month or $13 per month with an annual commitment, which works out to $156 for the year. Visio Standard 2016 costs $299.99, and Visio Pro 2016 costs $589.99. Both of those latter two prices are one-time fees. Is also an Editors' Choice, and its price is closer to Visio's.

The online version, called SmartDraw Cloud, costs $179.40 annually. SmartDraw also has a desktop app for Windows, and it's available in three tiers: $297 for Standard, $397 for Business, and $2,995 (starting price) for Enterprise. There are also other diagramming tools that cost even less. Draw.io is totally free, and it offers a pretty good service. Two other apps, and Creately, have a very low prices. Gliffy offers a few tiers of service, but its least expensive one costs $14.85 every three months, which is equivalent to about $3.99 per month or $59 per year. Creately costs nearly the same.