Canva alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Canva 2/5 · US Money: Why do you have to pay for everything might as well use something else because this other app this app just lucky I even picked it and then I’m trying to work in these things keep coming up. Can you rate us? Can you rate us like stop. Let’s me work in peace
2. [R9] Canva 3/5 · US (:: I love it it’s just I hate the way you put patterns over the pictures and graphics to get people to get pro I don’t think that’s necessary
3. [R10] Canva 1/5 · US GREEDY THIEVES!: claimed a FREE 14 day trial, got charged full price immediately. at the end of the TRIAL, i was charged full price AGAIN. they refuse to refund because my subscription is through apple and not canva directly. I’ve been supporting this app for YEARS when it was $7/month back in 2020 and the downhill this app has taken is despicable honestly. i will NEVER support this app ever again
4. [R15] Canva 3/5 · US 3/5 Review: Love this app but only worth it if you have a pro account and that sucks.
5. [R4] Canva 1/5 · US Not intuitive! Very hard for beginners: Canva is very hard to use if you are not an expert! It’s not intuitive. It’s very difficult to navigate. I would not recommend unless you take their courses to understand how to be an expert at using the app.
6. [R12] Canva 3/5 · US Coach: Really great app but very hard to navigate when you are unfamiliar with the design aspect of Canva
7. [R30] Canva 3/5 · GB Works eventually: Laggy and not particularly intuitive, but once you figure it out its ok.
8. [R31] Canva 1/5 · US Try another app: Hard to use horrible
9. [R6] Canva 3/5 · US The app is not working: Update the apps for iOS version
10. [R7] Canva 1/5 · US UnSharable: All of a sudden Im unable to download the video I have created.
11. [R19] Canva 2/5 · US bs app: it won’t line my stuff up correctly. this app is bs
12. [R22] Canva 2/5 · US Typecraft Impossible: I cannot update the text content on typecraft at all on mobile. The submit edit does appear when I try to make edits.
13. [R33] Canva 3/5 · GB Great for some things, not for everything: Canva is great for short-form social media content but terrible for editing longer videos, it’s honestly the most frustrating video editing app I’ve ever used. It’s ridiculously slow, glitchy and lags constantly even when doing it on a laptop in google chrome. The clips either stop playing completely or stay stuck in the video in playback when they’re not
14. [R47] Canva 4/5 · US Almost perfect: My only qualm is their video editor. It’s terrible. i have to use VN editor instead. But overall it is a very good suite for content creation. I like enough to subscribe.
15. [R48] Canva 3/5 · GB Full of “stuff” but poor basics: Used the 7day trial. Loads and loads of designs/images/animation but the basics of creating and editing movies is poor.
16. [R13] Canva 2/5 · US Bruh.: I made a show in canva that relied on two features and they removed them. Like what are chances were is the funny,goofy, and creepy iconic AI voice and where the f is duration those were the only reasons I used canva often.
17. [R16] Canva 1/5 · US sigh: when I tried the ai it was just absolute terrible. It was like you guys didn’t even try it. Whoever sees this, use anything else. Like, ANYTHING else. I’m pretty sure anything else doesn’t have AI slop like this stupid app. I am usually not this angry, but now I damn am. The AI is questionable. After coding something, 4 messages later, it basically forgets what it codes and forgets your na
18. [R37] Canva 1/5 · GB Only thing more useless than their AI feature is their customer service: A total rip off with seriously tight usage limits and zero functionality. Possibly the worst AI model I have encountered.
19. [R40] Canva 1/5 · GB Absolute garbage: It’s like photoshop and illustrator but instead of having tools that you can learn about as a useful vocational skill you have to give commands to an AI that burns a crate of coal and depletes a town’s water supply to get it wrong every time
20. [R3] Canva 3/5 · US Good Collage tool, Needs Dark Mode: This is honestly a really great tool for assembling images text videos. Amazing for individual or collaborative work, can really help get a project started. I would use it way more if there was a way to make the white background an off-white, or gray color. As the bright light can be a bit much at night.
21. [R45] Canva 3/5 · GB Glitchy: Can’t handle large capacity of artworks and brush strokes. Also, art tools are very limited. Wish there was a brush and spray effect tools.
22. [R52] InShot 5/5 · US Calidad: Lo que me imagino , ella lo hace realidad , lo más chido poner videos sobre videos, letras cool todo está perfecto le doy 10 estrellas👌
23. [R57] InShot 5/5 · US Amazing: This app it amazing so easy to use and so convenient for YouTube videos and more!
24. [R61] InShot 5/5 · US I wish they had it sooner: Perfect for people who want to use a massive shortcut and save time
25. [R62] InShot 1/5 · US Why I will be uninstalling InShot. I liked it, but….: InShot has excellent editing features, but the ads have become unbearable. Many are extremely hard, sometimes impossible, to close. It interrupts workflow and makes the app frustrating to use. This is the number‑one complaint I hear from other users too. The app would be fantastic if the ad experience wasn’t so aggressive.
26. [R65] Google Gemini 2/5 · US Really bad: Gemini is not very good. It usually does a very poor job when I ask it to edit an image or help me with something. It often shows the same message saying that it cannot generate images, even when I didn’t ask for an image at all. Gemini also rarely helps me in a useful way. It usually gives very basic information, and when I ask for more details, it just repeats the same information w
27. [R67] Google Gemini 3/5 · US Unreliable: Frequently wouldn’t connect to server. Often it receives the prompts and states it’s working on if only to say a while later that it can’t connect to server! It’s unbelievably unreliable compared to ChatGPT or Claude
28. [R68] Google Gemini 1/5 · US That’s just AI for you: A personal assistant is not the same as a language learning model, it gets stuff wrong, it doesn’t actually take correction, and for a brain this expensive and extensive, you’d think it’d be more impressive.
29. [R70] Google Gemini 3/5 · US Too much access: Gemini requires access to almost everything on my phone. Not comfortable with that at all. Would have given more star otherwise.
30. [R79] PicCollage 1/5 · US Cheap: Used to be a great app but now you can’t even save a collage without having a subscription. I’ve used this app for years and sadly will be deleting to find something better :/
31. [R81] PicCollage 2/5 · US Deleted all my collages (TWICE): The good: Lots of free stickers, backgrounds, etc- but includes watermark. Pretty intuitive, can save, duplicate, and edit images. The bad: I use this app to make templates for posts that I edit and use again. TWICE the app has inexplicably deleted ALL my collages- not after an uninstall or update, no warning, just gone and not recoverable. Considering switching
32. [R82] PicCollage 5/5 · US ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: Honestly this is really good at making Collages. I have tried so many apps for picture editing, and this one is by far the best one. I would totally recommend it. But the only thing is, if you're making videos of pictures, this app is usually only for collages, (as you can see in the name.) So, I would recommend CapCut if you're making it with pictures.
33. [R84] PicCollage 5/5 · US Fun, easy to use and works well.: I’ve made some of these for friends and they’re frame worthy. Good ap.
34. [R93] Grok AI 1/5 · US NO…: I do not like the usage update I don’t appreciate the fact that it ressets me tho I’m on subscription and I paid lots of money I need Grok to remove Usage…that thing ain’t fair…at all
35. [R94] Grok AI 5/5 · US Me gustan hacer historias de terror: Muy buen ate hace caso genera las imágenes que quieras pero tienen que mejorar hacer imágenes de personajes
36. [R95] Grok AI 3/5 · US It’s improving: I’ve seen alot of growth and do think it’s at Opus level, but likely won’t keep up with Mythos technically. Elon does surprise us though, and Grok Build is providing acceleration.
37. [R96] Grok AI 1/5 · US They got greedier and stricter: This used to be the best image and video generator ever. The ui is the most user friendly thing. The censorship and the limitations got worse. I would’ve kept subscribing if they left the moderation alone. I understand having to censor real people but why censor cartoons? What a shame.
38. [R107] Picsart AI Photo Editor 1/5 · US Ruined with paid features. · translated
39. [R108] Picsart AI Photo Editor 5/5 · US Excellent, I highly recommend downloading the app. · translated
40. [R109] Picsart AI Photo Editor 3/5 · US It’s okay: It works good if you get it perfect but it is very expensive I payed for the $10 monthly and got to make 2 videos today and now I can’t make anymore until next month. My opinion, not worth it.
41. [R110] Picsart AI Photo Editor 1/5 · US Not as great as it was back then years ago.: Cannot even to a simple text message in the photo and save it without them trying to make me pay for the app? When did this app involve so much money over the smallest things.