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Venngage

Score9.9 out of 10

19 Reviews and Ratings

What is Venngage?

Venngage is an infographics creation platform. Users can create inforgraphics for their marketing team from scratch or from a template.

Categories & Use Cases

Very user friendly for beginners

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have various tasks that need reminders and I'm a visual type of person. It helped me visualize and organize things I needed to do by creating infographics, timelines, etc. I also created a calendar to help remind me of our tax filing dues. It was great, I had a lot of options to decorate my infographics. The ones I created also helped my team with the dues. I also created a personal invoice and to do list. Thanks!

Pros

  • Very user friendly and self explanatory, even without experience I knew where to go and what to click.
  • They also have a feature that helps with accessibility. I found this great cause this is not that common with editing tools.
  • They have customer support 24 hours a day during weekdays and they assisted me right away whenever I had any clarifications.

Cons

  • They have an AI generator, but it can only generate the design once. Any modifications should be manually done. It would be great if the AI could make specific changes instead of having it regenerate everything.
  • You can't use it on a mobile phone or tablet, it would be helpful if I could use it on my tablet for work done outside my office.
  • It would be great if I could delete multiple designs at once. Currently, I can only delete them one by one.

Return on Investment

  • Since it helped me organize my tasks, it gave me my time back to focus on other stuff instead of having to figure out what I still needed to do. Time is money! More time = more money.
  • It also saved time for my colleagues as they also used it for the same purpose (we are an accounting team btw.)

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Canva and Adobe PhotoShop

Other Software Used

Canva, Adobe PhotoShop

A basic tool for getting started!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Venngage for ceating infographics and reports for clients - basically data visualizations. It supports selecting from a template or color scheme, then add text, change fonts, and add widgets, charts, and icons (among many other features). It's easy to use and has a clean interface that makes it simple to find what you need.

Pros

  • -Creating infographics for your blog posts
  • -Creating reports for your business
  • -Making presentations for clients

Cons

  • Pushy sales practices. limited feature on the basic plans.
  • limit of images I can upload.
  • branding elements - cannot customize.

Most Important Features

  • Easy onboarding and coordination
  • sharing with clients
  • pricing and freemium options

Return on Investment

  • We used this basic platform for some our lower paying clients v/s using a more expensive tool.
  • We eventually had to take another platform to supplement Venngage, impacting our overall marketing investment.
  • Positively helped employee onboarding in terms of time commitment

Alternatives Considered

Whatagraph and Agency Analytics

Venngage makes it really easy to create dynamic infographics with no experience!!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Venngage to inform our departments, employee, and customers of revised processes. It's a great way to create an informational or instructional one-page document that is easy to digest and understand. With the ever-changing process in corporate services, it really helps us to be able to get everyone informed quickly.

Pros

  • Inforgraphics
  • Presentations
  • Instructional guides

Cons

  • Downloads to Powerpoint.

Most Important Features

  • Branding
  • Available graphic w/ no additional charges.
  • Download options.
  • Sharing/collaboration.

Return on Investment

  • None

Alternatives Considered

Canva, Infogram and Adobe Spark

Other Software Used

Camtasia, Calendly

Venngage - good for your buck

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Venngage to create our monthly marketing reports, yearly marketing tool kit, and monthly webinars and communications campaigns. The product, Venngage system, helps us address and complete a full project under one file instead of having separate portions done separately. We use the system all the time, almost every day.

Pros

  • Access to pictures and upload of own materials.
  • Create multiple projects at the same time.
  • Organizing designs by project and campaign.

Cons

  • Create videos for social media.
  • Create Gifs.
  • Newsletter templates that are not HTML but copy/paste code.

Most Important Features

  • Venngage templates for flyers.
  • Campaigns in one single file.
  • Ability to create brand and utilize it on already established templates.

Return on Investment

  • with the flyers we are able to grow our workshop attendees.
  • our campaigns give us a head up on competitors.

Alternatives Considered

Canva, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe PhotoShop and Microsoft Publisher

Other Software Used

Canva, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign

BE CAREFUL - A trial can set you back $19

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

There were several colorful templates organized by topic—a good product for attention-grabbing cover pages and graphics.

Pros

  • Attention-grabbing graphics
  • Bright colors
  • Interesting ways to display basic information

Cons

  • On closer inspection, many templates were the same.
  • I also found it a little difficult to edit for my purposes, which included being able to show more detailed analysis, for example, placing excel data in the file.
  • If you want to download in an editable manner, such as into Powerpoint, which is currently offered in beta production, you had to upgrade beyond the $19 charge to a more costly business plan.
  • There were constant email bots asking me to upgrade. I then went to cancel the subscription and the refund has been refused, after three emails explaining my situation.
  • I understand Venngage wishes to grow its business, but refusing refunds is not the way to do it. They should be trying to develop fans, not frustrated business people exploring this new product. I believe the Customer Service personnel should be empowered to do the right thing. If this poor customer service had not happened, I would have tapped this product from time to time for catch graphics. Now instead, I am steering clear and using products such as Canva

Most Important Features

  • Catchy graphics

Return on Investment

  • It was frustrating to be required to purchase a full month, not be able to download into PowerPoint and edit, and not be given a refund.

Alternatives Considered

Canva

Other Software Used

Canva, Adobe Illustrator CC