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Canva

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Overview

What is Canva?

Canva is a popular, simple online graphic design tool. Users can import images, use templates to design banners and logos, or pay to use Canva's premium stock images/paid templates (elements starting at $1).

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Best graphic design platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 14, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I use Canva for any graphic design needs related to my marketing communication campaigns in channels like email, push notification, and in-app message. Canva is very user-frie...
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Verified user
Employee
Canva10 years of experience

Canva for the WIN!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Canva for social media content creation. Canva is easy to use in the creation of social media graphics custom-designed for the content that we share on our social media...
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Verified user
Strategist
Canva7 years of experience

Beginner to PRO in Designing

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 17, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
in our organization as a graphic designer we use Canva it help us in designing social media post, presentations, banners without the help of design experts. Canva makes design...
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Megha Burman
Employee - Social Media
Graphic Designer
CoinCRED
Canva2 years of experience

I can't imagine doing my job without Canva's easy interface and powerful feature set

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 20, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I am a customer marketing manager for a B2B SaaS business. While we have an in-house graphics team, it's great to be able to work with their assets in a tool that doesn't requ...
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Maureen Rice
Manager - Marketing
Customer Marketing Manager
ChurnZero
Canva2 years of experience

A simple platform to create beautiful designs for non-professional graphic artists

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 26, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Canva makes it easy to create beautiful, eye-catching yet simple graphics. It easy to convert graphics into a different size format with all the most common size format alread...
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Dr Olivier Becherel - Leadership and Executive Coaching
Director - Professional Services
Mentor & Coach
Mastery To Success Pty Ltd
Canva2 years of experience
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Pricing

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Pro

$12.95

Cloud
per month

Enterprise

$30.00

Cloud
Per Month Per User

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.canva.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Canva & Flourish Demo

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How to Use Canva in 2022 Beginner Friendly Guide + Live Demo

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Designing Blog Elements in Canva | The Journey

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Canva Demo - How Canva Works

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CANVA DEMO PARTY

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Full Demo of Kittl - Design Like A Pro...Thousands of Examples FREE No Graphic Experience Needed.

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Product Details

What is Canva?

Canva is a popular, simple online graphic design tool. Users can import images, use templates to design banners and logos, or pay to use Canva's premium stock images/paid templates (elements starting at $1).

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Canva Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Canva makes social easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 07, 2021
Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Canva
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used Canva to create social Media graphics. Our social media graphics tended to be repetitive in nature, but Canva helped us keep them fresh and interesting. It was only used by our marketing department. It was very helpful to be used when our more experienced graphic designer’s were busy.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Current on trends
  • Easy to adapt
Cons
  • Needs better organization
  • Needs better search functions
  • Needs an easy way to zoom in and out
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for a computer savvy person with good taste but no professional graphic design skills. It is less appropriate for a graphic designer needing a powerful tool.

Easily creating graphics for all social media

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 13, 2018
Md
Marcelo de Vasconcellos
Senior Visual Designer
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) — Fiocruz (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Canva
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Canva is an easy and quick way to create graphics for most social media platforms. At my organization, we constantly had journalists asking graphic designers for small images to go along with posts on social media. Canva allows them to make such images themselves. In my other role as a lecturer at a local university, I teach young musicians the first steps on building an online presence and for them, Canva is invaluable, since it allows people without graphic design training to create compelling images. Even for professional designers using Canva for quick creations it can be easier than opening and editing an image in Photoshop.
Pros
  • Easy to understand
  • Quick to get results
  • The templates and styles are visually pleasing
Cons
  • The search function could be improved, perhaps taking inspiration from Google Image filters.
  • It would be interesting to see some kind of Photoshop import/export function.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is particularly well suited to people active in social media, but who lack design training. Actually, anyone who constantly has to create simple images (including slides and report covers, for example) quickly can benefit from Canva.

However, Canva is not the best option if you need to make adjustments in the photos. It is not a tool for merging images or creating complex visual effects. This kind of work will require a full graphics package like Photoshop or Illustrator.

Canva for Marketing

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 03, 2018
Verified User
Professional in Social Media
Publishing Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Canva
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I'm using Canva on a weekly basis to easily create strong graphic images and promotional material. I'm a book author with a following on social media, which is where I primarily use this material. Canva makes it easy to create images such as Twitter of Facebook headers, or graphic images I can use on apps such as Instagram. It's often used as a way to get information out, instead of relying on text alone.
Pros
  • Helps to easily create graphic images
  • Is able to be used widely across different social media.
  • Allows you to incorporate stock or personalized images
Cons
  • Some of the image integration can be difficult, and can mess up color schemes
  • The search function is weak
  • I'd like to see it more cleanly separated in different social media forms. Making it searchable to find templates for each one
Likelihood to Recommend
Canva is a great program for people like me, who often have information they need to share via social media. Rather than spending many hours on programs such as photoshop, Canva provides ready-made templates that I'm able to personalize. This save so much time. If you're a great artist and want something completely personalized, it might not be the best program. But to save time and create material quickly, there's no beating it.

Helps You Design Like A Pro!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 23, 2018
AS
Ankur Sharma
Content Marketer
Wingify (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Canva
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Canva basically is a completely DIY designing tool for people with beginner to intermediate level of designing skill. At my current organization, and all the ones I've worked previously at, Canva is mostly used by the Marketing department, in functions such as marketing design to solve a number of low-level design requirements.

In my personal experience with Canva, I have been able to design end-to-end Marketing Collaterals, even though I did not have a design background. The product equipped me with the requisite know-how of how to learn better every day. All in all, Canva is a phenomenal tool for novices to learn and execute basic to slightly in-depth designs.
Pros
  • Vast repository of templates, images, icons and other design related elements available free of cost which makes Canva a pretty comprehensive tool. During any part of your work, you won't have to switch to other alternatives to get additional stuff.
  • Option to collaborate on a design with your team on the fly is quite robust and works like a charm. You can simply share the file you're working on with your teammates and they can even work on it from their mobile devices. Now, how cool is that?
  • The academy that they've built to support the product adoption is phenomenal. Anyone and I mean it when I use the word, anyone, can go about learning how to design with Canva in under 3 hours.
Cons
  • Some of the in-app purchases are priced extortionately for some reason, couldn't really ever understand why. If this could be paid attention to by the team, that'd be really great,
  • There are quite a few bugs which pop out of the blue at ungodly scenarios. Although rare, it is something you don't expect from a world-class product like Canva.
Likelihood to Recommend
When you are to create a design on time sensitive deadlines, it's a breeze. You will love how easy to use it is.

When you want to create a design which should look like it's been designed by a full-time designer, it quite isn't. Horses for courses.

I hope you get the gist.

Canva...Not-Your-Basic-Design-Software

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 19, 2023
Verified User
Employee in Marketing
Design Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Canva
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am the main user of Canva in my department, however, I oversee other people that use Canva as well. Canva is only used within the marketing division. Canva allows me to quickly and easily create social media graphics, basic video clips, posters, flyers, and so much more - all without having to open PhotoShop, InDesign, or Illustrator. It also allows me to quickly and easily share designs with others and collaborate on projects.
Pros
  • Collaboration - it's easy to share your design with your team members
  • Design library - Canva has a ton of great stock photos, icons, videos, fonts, and patterns all pre-loaded and ready for you to use. Their search function works well to find these materials.
  • Templates - The sky is the limit when it comes to creativity and what you're able to build within Canva, but you don't have to be a graphic designer to use the software. You can easily create slideshows, presentations, flyers, etc - with their templates.
  • Brand kit - upload your logos, colors, fonts, etc so all of your designs are on brand.
  • Sharing and downloading - you can post directly to your social media accounts from Canva or download your materials in a variety of file types
Cons
  • The search function for photos needs to be expanded. It would be great to click the "view more like this" button and have it filtered to photos that look exactly like that one. Currently, it'll only take you to more photos by that same photographer, which is the most helpful.
  • Being able to resize elements like shapes would be great. Sometimes I need a specific sized rectangle and it's really hard to find one that's already built.
  • Sometimes things don't completely line up, even if I use the "align" tools.
  • Additional text editing options - adding superscript, additional bullet points, etc
Likelihood to Recommend
I'll always recommend Canva to basically anyone that needs design software, but doesn't have the time, skillset, or budget for actual design software like the Adobe Suite. The most basic account is free and provides so many options for building content. I can't think of another free software that gives you so much room to grow, build, and design. Canva is appropriate for teams of all sizes. As a graphic designer, I thought I'd prefer to continue creating our social media content in PhotoShop, but Canva is much easier and quicker. Plus, I can copy and resize content so everything is guaranteed to fit the social platform that I'm designing for. In PhotoShop, I'd need to know that information off the top of my head.
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