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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Painter

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/APainter is a digital art and painting application, from Corel Corporation.N/A

    Maglr

    Score9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Maglr is a cloud-based content creation platform that helps brands and organisations to create and publish visual interactive stories, without having to write a single line of code. Used for corporate communication (e.g. annual reports, digital magazines), content marketing (e.g. infographics, campaign pages) and sales enablement (e.g. brochures & presentations). Maglr has developed two content editors: a user friendly drag-and-drop

    $220

    Block editor incl. template library

    Pricing
    PainterMaglr
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Maglr Business
    $220.00
    Block editor incl. template library
    Maglr Pro
    $380.00
    Block & Pro editor incl. templates + extra features
    Maglr Enterprise
    $1000.00
    Pro + add-on modules i.e. Presenter & Proposal
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PainterMaglr
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$220 including one user
    Additional Details—With Maglr you pay monthly or opt for an annual license and get an extra month for free. No complicated contracts, a monthly license can be canceled any time. A 14-day free trial is available.
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    Features
    PainterMaglr
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Corel Painter and Maglr
    Feature
    Corel Painter
    -
    Ratings
    Maglr
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Ideation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Corel Painter and Maglr
    Feature
    Corel Painter
    -
    Ratings
    Maglr
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Content hub00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Corel Painter and Maglr
    Feature
    Corel Painter
    -
    Ratings
    Maglr
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Content performance analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    PainterMaglr
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PainterMaglr
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Corel Corporation
    Corel Painter does have a lot of great brushes, and they do emulate real art supplies very well. Especially the thick paint is well done. But unfortunately there are so many functional and UX bugs that overall it is just horrible to work with. When contacting customer support about it, they really seem clueless about the seriousness of the situation, and clueless about what proper UX is in general. They have tried to make it work a bit like Photoshop, which is a good move but then some things are absolutely not intuitive at all and they are definitely missing the mark horribly with so many issues. I would highly recommend using Photoshop instead, though you'll have to download them separately; it also offers a lot of great brushes nowadays and works much much smoother without all those aggravating bugs of Painter. The price of Corel Painter is just not at all worth all these horrible bugs.
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    Maglr
    Maglr is suited for: 1. Thought Leadership - Blog Posts ∙Point of View Papers. ∙White Papers. ∙Articles for the
    Media. ∙Interviews with
    Business Leaders. ∙Diversity and
    Inclusion Stories. 2. Documentation Services - Product Documentation
    and Release Notes ∙User Guides ∙Configuration and
    Installation Guide


    Quick Start Guides. 3. Event-Based Collateral ∙Speeches - Emcee Scripts ∙Interview/Moderator
    Q&A. ∙Standees ∙Posters/Banners ∙Danglers ∙Flyers/Giveaways ∙Logos


    Creative Themes 4. Interactive Assets - Videos (Motion
    Graphics) ∙Interactive Web Pages ∙Podcasts ∙GIFs ∙Webcasts and Webinars 5. Short Content - Social Media Posts ∙Creatives: Images, GIFs, Short Videos ∙Company Profiles or Leaders’ Bios
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Corel Corporation
    • Watercolor Compatible
    • Multiple variety of Brushes and shapes
    • Captured Dab Library
    Incentivized
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    Maglr
    • Creation of Content Strategy.
    • Creating Editorial Calendar.
    • Creating Content Structure.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Corel Corporation
    • Way too many functional bugs, makes it hard to work with
    • Bad UX and usability, too much unintuitive behavior, makes it particularly hard to work with
    • Overall looks and behaves as if it was coded in the '90s, it really needs a complete UX overhaul
    • Did I mention the many bugs yet? Yeah? I'll mention it again because it's bad
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    Maglr
    • Creation of Marketing collateral.
    • Sales ennoblement pitches.
    • Pricing flexibility.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Corel Corporation
    If it wasn't quite clear yet, I'll state it again: the usability of Corel Painter is, simply put, horrid. And I am not talking about rendering, lagging, etc., it is not even all that bad there. I am talking about the weird issues like being unable to move a brush into a custom brush palette when you work on a second screen, like being unable to move the software onto the second screen in the first place unless you separate all the palettes and the windows (and if nobody tells you upfront there is no way of knowing because the manual doesn't state this at all), and then having to drag all your separate windows and palettes over one by one every time your computer wakes up again, and they won't really want to move to the other screen but only through a tiny corner of your screen, and the fact that you have to scroll through lists and lists of fonts but can't search and when you apply this font, add another piece of text the font jumps back to the default font of all the text already applied even when you haven't selected any of the text. Just to name a very small few.
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    Maglr
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Corel Corporation
    It was really hard to get them to understand what I was having problems with. It was hard to get the message through that Painter has an unacceptable amount of functional and UX bugs. When I finally talked to someone who was easier to communicate with, he was very stoic about the situation, like they didn't really care about the awful amount of bugs.
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    Maglr
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Corel Corporation
    Corel Painter has support to multiple OS and across all the devices. Coloring and multi layer imaging works very well. The new enhanced brush settings and the redesigned brush libraries.
    Incentivized
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    Maglr
    Maglr helped us by creating the content hub. 1. Getting dedicated content
    idealization, creation, and distribution engine that not only executes content
    strategies but also creates them and amplifies your brand voice. Powered by a
    team of content marketing experts, this is a one-stop for all your content
    needs. 2. Greater reach and stronger digital footprint with improved
    brand awareness.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Corel Corporation
    • Customer support could be improved in my opinion.
    • Multiple bugs while working with layered designing.
    Incentivized
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    Maglr
    • Optimizing social media channels.
    • Deploying content marketing workflows.
    • Identifying the right distribution channels and platforms.
    Incentivized
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    Maglr Screenshots

    Screenshot of Maglr Block editorScreenshot of Publications on every deviceScreenshot of Offline desktop app for presentationsScreenshot of Maglr drag-and-drop Block editorScreenshot of Maglr Pro editorScreenshot of Maglr dashboard and Google Analytics integration