Overall Satisfaction with Canva
I'm the person in charge of the Instagram account of the organisation. So, I had to find a tool that helps me design the banners and graphic publications exclusively for Instagram as we already had a tool for Facebook graphic pieces. I wanted to reach the Instagram audience - younger and more visual-oriented. I needed a versatile tool that can be used both mobile and desktop and that generates nice and simple graphic pieces without taking too much time. I found that the free version of Canva was everything that I needed.
- It's a light app. I love that because my phone, as I work generating content for social media, is full of photos and apps for editing.
- Both the desktop and the mobile version have a lot of templates, like, really a lot, that most of the time are adequate for your goals.
- The templates are very nice, flexible, and aesthetic. You can change the colors, the photos, the font... everything!
- It doesn't take much time to produce a pretty graphic piece.
- I think it takes time to understand how to use the tool. It could be more intuitive.
- Sometimes, at least in the mobile version, some templates get ruined or at least messy because you deleted a picture or moved one. It takes time to get to know how to edit them properly.
- It's not so obvious which templates are free and which ones are paid. They should be grouped differently.
- We gained a lot of new followers.
- Members of the organisation were very pleased about that success and about the new way of communicating implemented by using Canva.
- Followers stopped asking for information that was already posted, as we put it in the images.
I used Snapseed. Snapseed is an editing tool that allows you to make some graphic pieces with text, but it doesn't have the same functionalities that Canva has. I prefer Canva as it's more complete and more orientated to my goals when producing media.