About Canva

Canva is an easy to use graphic design and video editing tool that allows you to design and publish anything using an intuitive drag-and-drop editor. Canva's users can choose from thousands of design layouts for any project, including presentations, social media videos, posters, flyers, invitations and more. Supplement these templates with your own assets, or use Canva's included library of free stock imagery, videos, animations, music and fonts.

Canva Pro, Canva Enterprise, Canva for Education, and Canva for Not-For-Profit users also get access to an additional set of features to make creation easier, including background remover, magic resize to instantly change your designs to fit where you're planning to publish, and additional premium images, videos, animations, music and fonts. They can also set their team up for greater success, with defined brand fonts, colours and logos, unlimited folders and storage, version history, and content calendar.


Key benefits of Canva

Easily create a variety of professional-grade marketing materials, including videos, presentations, social media graphics and more, for organizations of any size, within any industry.

Expert or hobbyist, anyone can use Canva's drag-and-drop editor to create high quality web graphics and videos, as well as print media.

Canva provides thousands of customizable layouts for a wide selection of documents including videos, presentations, newsletters, reports, calendars, infographics, menus, brochures and more.

Canva allows organizations to save their brand’s colors and upload custom logos and fonts, as well as share photo folders and designs with teams.

Users are able to publish or print directly through Canva, whether it's sending a video directly to their YouTube channel, or having a carefully crafted photo album delivered straight to a relative.


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Jane
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  • Industry: Publishing
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Simply the best

Reviewed on 25/11/2019

At my company, we create social media graphics, promotional graphics, and ads all the time, for...

At my company, we create social media graphics, promotional graphics, and ads all the time, for ourselves and for our clients, and Canva makes it incredibly easy and fun. They're constantly adding new features to keep it all fresh, and their customer support is excellent. The "Pro" package provides everything we need to create professional, high-quality graphics we're proud to share with our clients and the world. Using Canva is more play than work!

Pros

Canva is incredibly easy to use, even if you've never worked with any kind of design software. It provides everything you need to design high-quality graphics of all kinds, whether you know anything about design or not. Their "Design School" videos and articles are useful for people new to design, but also for sparking ideas and jumpstarting creativity for experienced users. I use it myself, my company uses it, and I recommend it to all my self-publishing clients.

Cons

I have only two minor quibbles, and the way Canva goes, they'll probably have them fixed by the time this review comes out: I wish Canva kept a temporary list of the fonts tested in a particular design (even if they weren't chosen), and I wish the stickers were searchable, or appeared in search results. In both cases, I end spending a LOT of time scrolling.

Reasons for Switching to Canva

While I'm sure the other products I tried are great, their interfaces are complex. Since I'm a very small business, I just don't have time to learn something complicated while also doing the business of the business AND running and promoting the business itself. Canva's interface is simple, friendly, and intuitive, so you can jump in and begin creating in minutes.
Anil
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  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Simple and Efficient

Reviewed on 28/7/2023

Overall, our thumbnails are made promptly within minutes. It has helped us to save time.

Overall, our thumbnails are made promptly within minutes. It has helped us to save time.

Pros

The most important feature have been the readymade templates. We publish daily content in YouTube and all our thumbnails are made in Canva. The interface is straightforward and easy to deploy.

Cons

One negative about Canva is there are limitations in photo editing so we have to integrate another software with it to make the final touch.

Stephen
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Canva is Great for Social Media

Reviewed on 31/5/2019

It's not bad for someone with no design experience as long as they are willing to pay more for...

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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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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I really like using canva because it's a very easy and practical app for everyday life

Reviewed on 7/6/2023

Excellent app for graphic design, creation of projects of different types and ideas. Easy,...

Excellent app for graphic design, creation of projects of different types and ideas. Easy, practical and quick to use.

Pros

I really like using canva because of the ease of using its resources to edit the available templates and even create a new project from scratch.

Cons

I would like there to be more images and graphic elements because, as much as I use the free version, in the paid version, the multitude of images and elements is much larger and attractive, although I understand that there is a cost for this.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Illustrator

Reasons for Switching to Canva

I chose and still choose canva for the ease, practicality and resources available to create a graphic project.
Jeffrey
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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Canva is a MUST!

Reviewed on 12/9/2023

We have really enjoyed using Canva and have referred so many people to your website. Recently, we...

We have really enjoyed using Canva and have referred so many people to your website. Recently, we discovered you have Non-Profit options which we are going to look into. Thank you for all you do!

Pros

We have used Canva for over 3 years and have been able to create so much incredible content because of the variety of images, photos, backgrounds, and videos. It's a MUST for anyone who creates content for themselves or others.We really like that you already have the Social Media templates set up for us so we don't have to know the image dimensions when creating our content. Plus giving us an option for Custom Size is a bonus. Thank you!

Cons

We have like the YouTube Thumbnail templates. Having more of a variety of images would be so helpful. Many of the ones you offer seem very similar in style.

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Canva FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Canva.

Canva offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$12.99/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Canva Free | Canva for Education | Canva for Not-for-Profit: free forever Canva Pro: from $12.99 USD per month for the first user, then $6.99 per month for each additional user Canva Enterprise: from $30 USD per month

Canva has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Canva supports the following languages:

Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Canva supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Canva integrates with the following applications:

Activity Messenger, Box, Brandfolder, Bynder, Dropbox Business, Emojicom, Google Drive, Google Maps, Heyzine, HubSpot CRM, LinkedIn for Business, Microsoft PowerPoint, Moovly, OneDrive, PageProof, PandaDoc, PowToon, Publer, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, Slack, Twitter/X, simplebooklet

Canva offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat

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