Wireframing has always been a crucial step of project development as it allows rapid prototype development and helps in pinpointing the exact potential problem in early phases of a process. This eventually provides significant reduction in time and money spent. The structures developed from wireframe are ideal entities to communicate ideas, reduce scope issues and enable upfront usability, and up-to some level helps in functional testing also. There are numbers of tools available over internet therefore we have tried listing top 5 freely available wireframing tools here in order to help you in your software development projects.

Mocking Bird: It’s a web based software developed on Cappuccino framework that allows user to create, link, preview and share wireframe. This application comes with top notch UI with most clean and user friendly drag and drop options along with the ability to generate interactive inner page linking. Smart text and element resizing features are also available in this tool. It is web based which means you are now able to just send the URL of your mock up to you client or colleague or anyone else and you just need web browser to create and review your mock ups any time.

Lovely charts: An online application for creating diagrams for flowcharts, sitemaps or wireframes. The bulls eye feature in the applications offers it the ability to make assumptions based on the type of diagram you are working on and streamlines the process automatically. The history management feature lets you keep the last 20 states of your drawing in order to select and go back to that particular design whenever required.

Cacoo: Cacoo is few steps ahead of mocking bird. This is also an online application with better and effective UI of drag and drops. It offers a number of stencils to thus helping you to identify the best suited process for the current requirement. The amazing thing about Cacoo is that a single mock-up can be constructed by multiple users simultaneously which make this application highly useful for office drawings as well.

Gliffy: Again a diamond in web based applications, this tool takes the chart and diagram development process to the next level with additional ability to generate org charts, floor plans, business processes and network diagrams that too with technical drawing and website wireframes. A tool library and its drag and drop function allow you to create a structure in just a few seconds. Options do not stop here as a shape library provides every imaginable shape to use on your mock-up. However, custom attention is still recommended for best results. Further, you can also import your shapes, images and logos.

Lumzy: It’s a mock up development tool for website wireframes or application front ends. Now, why it is better than others? Well the answer is - you can now include actions and emulation to your wireframe by using Lumzy. Lumzy is the only application so far which provides real time image editing . You just need to add any picture and start playing with its hue, contrast and saturation etc.

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