What's the best Wireframing tool?

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I'm looking for something similar to iPlotz or Mockup.

I've found the Pencil Project, but it requires xulrunner-1.9 (which seems to be incompatible with xulrunner-1.9.2) in order to run as a standalone application. It can be used as a firefox plugin... but it is a bit slower.

The error on my desktop (Ubuntu 10.04) is: Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.1 and 1.9.2.*

Does anyone know other software?

Edit: Open-source software is preferred, and it doesn't matter whether or not it's free.

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '17 at 13:16

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WireframeSketcher is a rapid wireframing tool for Eclipse-based IDEs like Aptana, Zend Studio and the like. It also comes as a standalone version for all major platforms including Ubuntu. Give it a try.

Sample WireframeSketcher mockup

edited Mar 12 '17 at 13:16

Zanna

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answered Dec 04 '10 at 04:10

Peter Severin

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score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 12 '17 at 13:16

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After some research, I found Dia, and it's exactly what I was looking for: simple, open and stable.

Maybe I explained my needs badly. More than just software to design layouts, I also needed something that provided the ability to build flowcharts. I tried ArgoUML, too. It looks great, just a bit complicated.

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Zanna

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answered Nov 05 '10 at 23:43

Strae

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 08 '12 at 10:20

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Try Balsamiq. It uses Adobe Air and runs properly on Ubuntu.

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Eliah Kagan

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answered Nov 05 '10 at 19:01

Kendor

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 05 '10 at 20:16

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Maybe it's not so sophisticated, but you could also try Gazpacho, an UI designer. It's in the repositories.

answered Nov 05 '10 at 20:16

radioboy

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 02 '14 at 12:49

I did a bit of digging and found this. According to it, after you install the latest version of Firefox and Pencil (Pencil's latest version does not come in deb by default, so get the rpm and install with alien -i <rpmname>), edit the application.ini from the Pencil folder in /usr/lib and change the max version mentioned to the version of Firefox you have (the main release version is sufficient, e.g., 16). Then edit usr/bin/evoluspencil, which is nothing but a script to invoke xulrunner. Change /usr/bin/xulrunner to /usr/bin/firefox. Now opening Pencil from the applications menu will work just fine, and Firefox needs not be open for it to run.

Hendy Irawan · Answer 6 · 2011-11-17T10:30:56.130

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As of Pencil 1.2 it runs on xulrunner 1.9.2 (I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit).

First install xulrunner 1.9.2 :

sudo apt-get install xulrunner-1.9.2-gnome-support

If you're still having problems or you're on 64-bit, run it like this:

xulrunner /opt/pencil/application.ini

edited Nov 17 '11 at 10:30

answered May 27 '11 at 00:58

Hendy Irawan

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What's the best Wireframing tool?

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