Canva
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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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Canva for Marketing
Reviewed on 10/10/2024
Overall I love it and think it's definitely worth the money. It was the first purchase I made when...
Overall I love it and think it's definitely worth the money. It was the first purchase I made when I started my business nearly 5 years ago. Other than the folder/search stuff, I have no complaints.
Pros
Easy to use and not complicated like InDesign or other design tools that are out there. It's easy to collaborate with other staff members on projects as well.
Cons
The folder hierarchy is terrible. It's so hard to sort things by folders and the search function isn't efficient. Oftentimes I'll have to dig a bit to find what I'm looking for.
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
User-Friendly App for Beginners with Professional Results
Reviewed on 2/10/2024
Pros
It's a great app, easy to use, and offers a variety of options for users to be creative with their designs. Suitable for beginners, but with professional level output.
Cons
There are still limitations in design options and animation features. The animation options in video editing needs some development.
- 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 31/05/2019
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.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Canva's blend of ease of use, adaptability, and teamwork capabilities makes it a priceless...
Reviewed on 26/08/2024
The workflow is further streamlined by Canva's integrations with various programs and platforms,...
The workflow is further streamlined by Canva's integrations with various programs and platforms, including as Dropbox, Google Drive, and social media sites, which facilitate the import and export of files as well as the sharing and immediate publication of designs. Time is saved and the possibility of mistakes is decreased by this integration, which lessens the need to transition between several platforms and tools.
Pros
The thing that I value most about Canva as the Director of Brand Management is that it's so simple to use and accessible, allowing anyone on our team to produce designs of a high caliber without needing too much graphic design knowledge. It's easy for anyone to create visually attractive content fast with Canva's user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, whether they're creating presentations, social media graphics, internal papers, or marketing collateral. We can maintain consistent branding across all our visual communications and greatly increase our team's productivity because to its user-friendliness.
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Canva's limited customization and sophisticated design skills in comparison to more professional graphic design software are my main concerns as the Director of Brand Management.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation Management
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The market disruptor of graphic design
Reviewed on 21/10/2024
My experience has been extremely positive. I love that I don’t have to collect or find useable...
My experience has been extremely positive. I love that I don’t have to collect or find useable pictures or elements, Canva provides it all.
Pros
The ease and simplicity to create stunning graphics on any device.
Cons
It’s internet based. If I have no connection I’m unable to use it.
Canva FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Canva.Q. What type of pricing plans does Canva offer?
Canva offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$15.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Canva offers a range of pricing plans tailored for different needs. The Free plan provides basic design tools, templates, and cloud storage. The Pro plan unlocks premium content, more design tools, and AI features, with additional benefits such as unlimited templates and Brand Kits. Teams subscription is designed for collaboration, offering features like centralized asset management, brand consistency, and real-time collaboration. For larger organizations, the Enterprise plan provides an all-in-one workplace solution with advanced security features, multiple team and brand management, custom apps and integrations, and dedicated customer support.
Q. Who are the typical users of Canva?
Canva has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Canva support?
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
Q. Does Canva support mobile devices?
Canva supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Canva integrate with?
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
Q. What level of support does Canva offer?
Canva offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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