Microsoft Visio Viewer Reviews

30 Sep 2019

I have been an avid Visio user since before the time that Microsoft bought up the company that produced it. It is niw a great number of years later and Microsoft has failed to come out with full blown versions under OS X, iOS, and Office 365. This is long over due. Competitive products on OS X and iOS are just not as sophisticated and robust as Visio is and at best, are mediocre solutions.

I would like to see Microsoft offer an editable and drawing creatable Visio solution for OS X and iOS, not a Visio Viewer app with only show and tell capability. Time to pony up and make this a true collaborative app. Until then, i will not rate MicrosoftVisioViewer more than 3 stars. It deserves no more with its overly crippled functionality.

It is amazing how disconnected Visio is from absolutely anything else MS-Office related. An app that has little to no competition, with a pretty consistent user base that relies on such a crappy, unreliable tool. Crashes all the time on iOS, Windows and even in the official Microsoft Office Live hosted version of the web browser version. Manages to be incompatible in between the web and the desktop application (good luck opening a desktop created diagram on the web client). Is not able to open simple diagrams on iOS without crashing unless the user manually opens MicrosoftVisioViewer first. The year is 2020 and it still has no client for the macOS. And MicrosoftVisioViewer still manages to be a garbage most of the time. Unbelievable.

Don’t really want to echo previous reviews but I NEED to. Visio s by far the easiest program I have used to draw. Microsoft please!!! I have paid for multiple apps and haven’t gotten justice to date. If anyone is reading this and has recommendations I am all ears.

I love MicrosoftVisioViewer for the ability to easily view floor plans, org charts and flow charts for my company.....but.....it would be great if a simple “markup” feature was available so we could walk around with an iPad and make little notes about changes. Other than that, great app!

iPhone users look forward to creating visios on their devices. Ability to view them is a good step forward.

Long time fan of Vizio but it’s time for an upgrade viewer to creator

Works great to view Visio docs. It would be great to port it or create a universal app that allows it to also work on the Mac.

I think MicrosoftVisioViewer is pretty good but it’s a little complicated. I still can’t figure out how to access the picture diagram it shows on MicrosoftVisioViewer description

This review is not about viewer but for Visio in general. Grafio 3 is a great iPhone app to build a diagram, and I have used it professionally. Until the Visio team releases an app that can create/edit Visio documents, Grafio 3 is my go-to when I am on the go.

Had saved Visio files to my iPad, but it won’t open any of them. Files were only a few years old, so wouldn’t think the version of Visio I saved them with would be the problem. Nevertheless it doesn’t work and I didn’t see any FAQ’s to claim restrictions on use.

Great addition, finally able to view vsd files on the iPad and phone.

Love that I can zoom in at the microscopic level. Lol. My favorite part. Thanks for the great app!

Sure, the title of MicrosoftVisioViewer is accurate; it is a Visio viewer but that’s all it is. As such it doesn’t really warrant a stellar review IMO as by now MS should have been able to at least develop a Visio app for iOS that does some basic diagram creation functionality.

I have built a Visio floor plan and saved it to Microsoft OneDrive. I can view and edit it with my PC and Laptop computers. However, I can not view it with MicrosoftVisioViewer on my iPhone or iPad devices. Keeps claiming that the file has no content. Frustrating to say the least.

It requires you to have the full Visio version to do anything. Quite useless.

Without any ability to edit, create, etc, I don’t understand why this is offered. It’s better to export to a pdf file versus installing this worthless app. Now if they enable editing that will be a different story. Until then, don’t waste your time.

What good is a viewer in 2019? Other developers have provided more robust tools for iOS. No outsider of a corporate provision is going to spend their own money to chase an alternate platform (Windows) just for this ability. They’ll buy another app that does it right. Please catch up.

The first and only file I needed to view didn’t work. I couldn’t zoom out to see the full page, so this tool was basically useless for me.

Very good

It’s now been years, and the most intuitive app for iPad, Which should be available, isn't. I don’t need a viewer, I need a native app to do wireframe workflows. This is an epic fail.

What good is a viewer in 2019? Other developers have provided more robust tools for iOS. No outsider of a corporate provision is going to spend their own money to chase an alternate platform (Windows) just for this ability. They’ll buy another app that does it right. Please catch up.

Beyond useless if you can’t create even simple diagrams. Every single paid diagram tool in MicrosoftVisioViewer store has a free version with the ability to create limited diagrams. Visio is a PAID app but wont let you create anything ! Why does MicrosoftVisioViewer even exist?

Please add the ability to make small changes

Whenever I open a .vsdx file from a link or email I get the error message “This version of Office doesn’t support this file format”.
I don’t have any use for it.

Do not have the ability to modify symbols. This would be the ideal application if I could modify a flowchart away from home.

How about a full app, like excel or word???