Who Uses Canva?
Web-based platform that enables small to large businesses to create customizable graphs, prints and presentation slides with professional layouts, templates, frames, voice icons and more.
What Is Canva?
Create presentations and social media graphics using graphic design tool with drag-and-drop functionality and professional layouts.
Canva Details
Canva
https://www.canva.com
Founded 2012
Canva pricing overview
Canva has a free version and offers a free trial. Canva paid version starts at US$12.95/month.
Starting Price
US$12.95/month
Pricing Details
The pro and enterprise version costs $9.95/mo and $30/mo, billed yearly
Free Version
Yes
Free Trial
Yes
Canva deployment and support
Support
- Online
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web
- Mobile - iOS Native
- Mobile - Android Native
Canva Features
Data Visualisation Tools
- Analytics/Reporting
- Content Management
- Custom Dashboards
- Filtered Views
- OLAP
- Relational Display
- Simulation Models
- Visual Discovery
Graphic Design Software
- Collaboration
- Data Visualisation
- Filtering
- Image Database
- Image Editor
- Templates
Org Chart Software
- Collaboration
- Data Import/Export
- Drag & Drop
- Employee Photos
- Interactive Elements
- Publishing/Sharing
- Templates
- Version Control
Presentation Software
- 3D Objects
- Animations & Transitions
- Audio Content
- Collaboration Tools
- Customisable Templates
- Media Library
- Offline Editing
- Offline Presenting
- Screen Sharing
- Search/Filter
- Video Content
Canva Alternatives
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Canva Reviews for UK Users
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Katherine K.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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- Reviewed on 18/02/2020
"Would You Recommend? Too Late, Already Have."
Comments: I make graphics for our companies and occasionally clients, in a whole variety of capacities. I have used Canva to create newsletter graphics, social media posts for Twitter, Facebook, Pintrest, Tumblr, Instagram, and Reddit, brochures for products or services, infographics for conferences, and more.
Pros: I have been using Canva since I began teaching myself to make graphics over two years ago. It has served me well in both simple projects (like graphics for social media) or full-on gif animations. They continually add new features and content and are always revamping the suggestions for "fresh" ideas. It's also super easy to share your project to other people or places, and you have quite a few download options for your files. And it is SUPER easy to use, the user interface is very intuitive and if you have questions their docs are great!
Cons: I have very few complaints, and the ones I have are pretty niche issues. Systematically I don't see issues at all! But sometimes it can be hard to format a picture correctly due to their "snapping" feature that snaps whatever element you're using to the nearest part of the picture the program "thinks" you want to use. For example, if you try and move a circle to a centimeter away from the middle of the graphic you're creating, it will automatically center itself and won't let you un-center it without an enormous amount of fuss. But this is minor and doesn't really happen often for me!
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- Reviewed on 18/02/2020
Rachel Y.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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- Reviewed on 15/10/2020
"Review for Canva"
Comments: Canva is an online design tool. Its biggest advantage is that it allows us to make simply and attractive resume, poster, cover of public account, business card, product logo and even flyers, and all of them are for free! I can design very good works just like a professional designer even without professional education, and I could earn extra money when I get freelancing design the job just using Canva
Pros: Canva allows you to make great images without being a graphic design expert. I have now used it many times to handle simple things, such as organizing cute Instagram pictures to more complex designs for our new marketing materials. If I sound enthusiastic, it is because of me.
Cons:
Event allocation is handled by canvas, but events of replaced content need to be handled by themselves.
Relying on expectations, high fidelity cannot be achieved, and performance decreases when canvas is long. And Canva only edit some details in the design, such as movement and auxiliary lines. Sometimes the platform loses the speed.
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- Reviewed on 15/10/2020
Stephen P.
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money3 /5
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- Reviewed on 31/05/2019
"Canva is Great for Social Media"
Comments: It's not bad for someone with no design experience as long as they are willing to pay more for printing. For the higher cost of printing you could pay a professional such as myself to design for you and print at a lower cost and higher quality. The application is bad for the overall marketing industry because it has lowered the quality standard and impact of advertisements being created by business owners who think they understand marketing, design and printing. I recently said to one of my clients who owns a high end auto detailing business and tried to create some marketing materials on his own, "I don't now how to properly wax and detail my vehicle. I would probably ruin the paint job somehow if I were to do it myself. That's why I hire a professional. I wouldn't expect you to be able to handle a design, print and marketing job either because that's not what you do." In short, stick to what you know and leave the rest to professionals. It will cost you less in the long run.
Pros: It's very easy to use and offers a ton of design content for free. You don't necessarily need to search outside of Canva for images but you can if you want. It's great for designing simple social banners or marketing materials quickly but there is a catch. They are trying to sell you printing services and their pricing is not competitive with quality printers.
Cons: I recommend Canva to clients who need to create social media marketing images. I have worked with clients who need me to print postcards, flyers or brochures that they designed on Canva and there are issues. Canva is trying to sell printing services. Their design templates are sized and setup for the printer companies they outsource to. If you design on Canva and download the files to send to a professional printer then those files are not setup correctly and require alterations to be printed. That's if there is room for alterations, but not all designs will allow for easy alteration so therefore the customer is forced to print on Canva at higher costs.
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- Reviewed on 31/05/2019
Miquéias B.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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- Reviewed on 11/08/2020
"The biggest and best online design software to bring your creations to life"
Comments: I use the software for almost all things that have some need for graphic creation, even if it is not necessarily related to my infoproduct projects, such as creating posts for instagram or facebook, a very useful service if user wants to send a personalized message to a loved one. In addition, I have used the platform to create a book cover, blog banner, menu, logo, business card, Facebook cover, resume, Facebook ad and much more.
Pros: I love using the Canva software, but what attracts me the most is that the platform is completely online and because of that, no program is needed. With it any user new to design can develop different digital pieces, such as advertisements, invitations, banners, infographics, presentations, business cards, social media posts, e-books and whatever your creativity wants. The entire process of using the site is completely intuitive, there is no need to have prior knowledge to start using it.
Cons: Even with all the incredible features that Canva offers, as a user I notice the need to improve the loading speed and fluidity of use on the platform, because sometimes the service is unstable, but nothing that can harm the use on the computer.
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- Reviewed on 11/08/2020
Sarah H.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 16/07/2020
"Canva - Design Features for Teams"
Comments: MUST HAVE FOR AGENCIES - The templates are beautiful and this tool has saved our team so much time and energy. Also, Canva keeps getting better and better over the years by adding new templates and features to the tool. Anyone that creates anything online needs to be using Canva.
Pros: Canva is THE BEST design tool not only for people like me (not a designer) but also for some of our junior art directors because the media templates are already sized and formatted correctly for each channel and our designers can quickly build out static or animated content without having to customize using Photoshop. I'm not a designer but Canva makes me feel really proud and accomplished that I can create some beautiful graphics without having to learn PS techniques.
Cons: I do wish that we could have a library of content and organize projects by client, especially when uploading photos. We upload so many photos that they sometimes get lost in the mix.
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- Reviewed on 16/07/2020
