# Microsoft Visio Viewer — user reviews > 51 indexed App Store user reviews of Microsoft Visio Viewer by Microsoft Corporation, rated 4.63/5 from 3,098 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/microsoft-visio-viewer/id1139787983/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/microsoft-visio-viewer/id1139787983.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,550 · 4★ 260 · 3★ 107 · 2★ 39 · 1★ 142 ## What do users think of Microsoft Visio Viewer? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Zoom level up to 20,000% - 👍 Great for viewing Visio files **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes when opening files - 🐛 Unable to open .vsd or .vsdx files - 🐛 Doesn't show full page - 🐛 Incompatible with Arabic and Persian fonts - 🚫 No editing or creation capabilities - 🚫 Requires full Visio version to do anything **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when opening files - Unable to open .vsd or .vsdx files - Doesn't show full page - Incompatible with Arabic and Persian fonts **Most requested features** - Add ability to create and edit Visio diagrams - Provide markup/annotation tools - Develop a full-featured Visio app for iOS and macOS - Improve compatibility with older Visio file formats ## Newest reviews (13 of 51) ### 3/5 — The app does not work by itself *2020-10-09, version 1.18* It requires you to have the full Visio version to do anything. Quite useless. ### 1/5 — Visio vs anything MS-Office *2020-05-27, version 1.17* 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 the app first. The year is 2020 and it still has no client for the macOS. And the app still manages to be a garbage most of the time. Unbelievable. ### 1/5 — Can’t open any Visio files fix it *2020-05-05, version 1.17* Please fix this issue is useless ### 1/5 — Useless *2020-05-04, version 1.17* Cannot create documents? Why would I use this? ### 3/5 — Good but help *2020-04-21, version 1.17* I think the app is pretty good but it’s a little complicated. I still can’t figure out how to access the picture diagram it shows on the app description ### 4/5 — Great app! But...... *2020-04-20, version 1.17* I love this app 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! ### 4/5 — Nice!, but.... *2020-04-14, version 1.17* If you look at a dimensioned drawing it converts the units from imperial to metric regardless of your global settings on your iPad. ### 1/5 — Visio does not open *2020-02-11, version 1.17* I can’t open Visio as the review dialog box keeps asking for me to leave a review. The review is of course negative as the process of asking for the review does not let me use the application ### 1/5 — Open in.... no Visio viewer available anymore *2019-12-04, version 1.17* Visio viewer disappeared from open in... menu option on iPhone, i looked for it everywhere. ### 1/5 — Only View *2019-11-22, version 1.17* 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. ### 2/5 — Time to develop a proper Visio app for iOS *2019-11-08, version 1.17* Sure, the title of the app 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. ### 2/5 — Not opening files *2019-10-17, version 1.16* 2002 version files not opening??? ### 3/5 — Microsoft needs to address the Visio User Community at large *2019-09-30, version 1.16* 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 this app more than 3 stars. It deserves no more with its overly crippled functionality. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Mobile app is worthless *2023-08-03* Program is wonderful but the mobile app is worthless. Can not create, edit, or mark up. Unfortunately I have to use adobe to mark up and collaborate with other on the team. ### 1/5 — No editing ability *2022-10-25, version 1.21* It’s useless with no way to edit Visio sketches. In 2021 it’s a little silly. ### 1/5 — Won’t load any of my Visio files *2022-02-06, version 1.20* Won’t load any of my Visio files created on my desktop under the same Microsoft account. This app is worthless to me ### 1/5 — Unsupported File Types *2021-08-03, version 1.20* Won't open .vsd or .vsdx files, says they are unsupported files types. ### 1/5 — Always crash *2021-07-20, version 1.20* Wasting time using this. l wasn't able to open. Keep crashing! ### 1/5 — Doesn’t show the full page! *2021-06-11, version 1.20* 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. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2020-12-22, version 1.18* It constantly crashing on me, cannot open any files ### 1/5 — I don’t understand why we still don’t have viseo *2020-11-12, version 1.18* 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. ### 1/5 — Useless by itself *2020-06-26, version 1.18* Pretty useless since you can’t create drawings. Oh well! Not much different than the desktop app. Even though that one can create drawings. ### 1/5 — Crashes when opening files *2020-06-18, version 1.17* Dialog spins like its going to open then it just crashes. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Not perfect but not entirely bad either! *2022-06-30, version 1.21* It needs scaling but it does allow for rudimentary CAD work. Kind of a poorman’s AutoCAD. ### 5/5 — Let us create using Vizio! *2021-07-29, version 1.20* Long time fan of Vizio but it’s time for an upgrade viewer to creator ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2020-08-17, version 1.18* Great!!! ### 5/5 — Zoom Level 20,000% *2019-02-01, version 1.14* Love that I can zoom in at the microscopic level. Lol. My favorite part. Thanks for the great app! ### 5/5 — Review *2018-11-07, version 1.14* Very good ### 5/5 — Please Microsoft *2018-05-30, version 1.13* Please let us create documents using Visio. It would be great just include with 365 personal, business and wherever else. ### 4/5 — Arabic and Persin Fonts *2021-10-13, version 1.20* The app does not show arabic and persian fonts correctly. ### 4/5 — Visio on IOS platform *2021-08-03, version 1.20* Great addition, finally able to view vsd files on the iPad and phone. ### 4/5 — Good app but make it universal so it works for the Mac *2020-09-22, version 1.18* 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. ### 4/5 — Awaiting the editable Version *2020-05-13, version 1.17* 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. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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