What Is Canva?

Design isn't just for designers. It's for anyone with ideas to share. Canva is the online platform that makes designing anything easy, for every individual and team. With thousands of professionally made templates to get you started, you can create, customize, and share your designs in a few clicks. From stickers to professional brochures, stunning videos to workplace presentations, it's never been easier to achieve your design goals.

Who Uses Canva?

Designed for anyone who needs to create. Canva has solutions for individuals, small businesses, enterprise, not-for-profit organizations, teachers and students.

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Reviews of Canva

Average score

Overall
4.7
Ease of Use
4.7
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.5
Value for Money
4.6

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Rachel
Rachel
Sales in United Arab Emirates
Verified LinkedIn User
Events Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Give Life to your Brand Presentation

5.0 last month New

Comments: Canva offers a user friendly or easy to use designing tools. It can be shared on different file formats as well.

Pros:

The vastness of Template designs; the sizes that fits the various social media channels, such as fitting for instagram, facebook, youtube and many more.I loved the smoothness of dragging the elements

Cons:

All are okay. May be, the cost of the Premium is little expensive for me. But in general, its perfect.

Dhairya
Founder & CEO in India
Marketing & Advertising, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best Editing Software for Agencies, Small Business Owners

5.0 last month New

Comments: One of the best software purchases i have done in a while, so much so that I have made other agency friends and freelancers who typically work on photoshop/coral draw start using this and they are hooked as well.

Pros:

Ease of use is the primary thing you will see in pretty much all the features available on Canva.While the list of Pros is huge, here are the points we decided to go ahead for a paid version after using free for a while and why I feel its a no brainer - 1. Easy team integration2. Plathora of templates.3. Templates for pretty much every design need you may have - I have made our pitch decks using templates from Canva, not knowing what to add, it was of great help, YT banner, client creatives, logos, banners, print ads, and whole lot of things, all within mins.4. Create your own templates.5. Unlimited storage is a great add on a lot of people miss.6. Almost never crashes.7. Free courses to help you get started even on design fundamentals to make you a good designer.8. Adding brand guidelines for multiple brands.9. Scheduling content on social media apps.

Cons:

The video editing features which are available as of now are at a very nascent stage, however, given the fact that they don't have it as a primary objective it still does a decent job, if they solve this then this would become a no brainer for any business owner to have in their arsenal.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Post-graduate student in Canada
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Lost hours of work, don't know and can't fix the problem.

1.0 2 months ago

Comments: Comparable to the similar products such as Google Slide and Ms. Power point (which I owned for several years).

Pros:

- Intuitive interface;- Lots of templates available;- good for collaborative projects;

Cons:

- expensive; no special package offered for university students;- very restricted for free users;- Do no same properly, thus a highly unreliable product.

Cushi
Cushi
Owner/Coach in Bermuda
Verified LinkedIn User
E-Learning, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

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4.0 3 months ago

Comments: Although I prefer a more robust design software, I very much ejoy canva and make great use of it, especially for more basic projects.

Pros:

What makes Canva great is that it reduces the graphic design learning curve significantly. Someone with no design experience can create beautiful art or an effective design just by selecting a template, changing the images, text, etc. Because design is so important in the social media age, it gives Canva a broad appeal. Solopreneurs with small budgets can use Canva instead of hiring a graphic designer or purchasing expensive software like the Adobe suite. Artists can create beautiful pieces and prepare them for sale on a variety of online market places. Beginner desingers can start design businesses without having to invest tos of thousands of dollars and years into a University design education.

Cons:

As a professional designer who has been working in design for over 20 years, the software has certain limitations that prevent complete expression of ones ideas. There are almost no artistic/design circumstances that Adobe Photoshop cannot handle, whereas with Canva, there are quite a few..

Balarka
Database administartion in India
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

One of the best design web tools in internet

5.0 last month New

Comments: Canva is the best web tool I used ever till now. It saved me lots of time, energy, and money. Canvas is a very user-friendly and easy-to-use tool.

Pros:

It is a very easy-to-use tool with everything described as picture-perfect. For a person who is not good at design canvas is the best tool for making a design. One of the best tools canvas I like is branding, content creation, and post templates.

Cons:

Some features like a pen, and an eraser is missing here in editing. So if it is given then we will have less dependent on other tools for these features. I think some more file formats will be needed and a converter like pdf to jpg etc if it has then it will be great. Pro Pricing is high for beginners who come from low-income nations.