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Canva

85
Value score / 100 Worth paying? Depends It depends

Canva is a highly-rated design tool that offers significant value for both free and paid users, making professional design accessible to a wide audience despite some recent complaints about glitches and AI integration.

Free + in-app purchases seen up to $200 4.9★ lifetime (3,445,091) since 2014

Canva is a popular and user-friendly design app, praised for its extensive templates and ease of use for various projects, from school assignments to business branding R1R16R21R39. While the free version is considered productive and amazing, the paid 'Pro' version unlocks more features like background removal and is highly recommended by some users R8R15R46R53. However, recent reviews highlight issues with glitches, login problems, and unwanted AI integration, which detract from the overall experience for some users R18R19R22.

Free vs paid

The free version of Canva is considered amazing and productive, offering a wide array of templates, fonts, and graphics for creating various designs like posters, presentations, and social media posts R1R8R53. Users can create invitations, school projects, monthly calendars, and collages without paying R46R87. The paid 'Pro' version, which costs around $11 a month according to one review, offers additional features such as background removal and resizing designs, which some users feel should be free R28R58. For students, if their school is signed up with Canva, they can access all Premium Features for free R16.

Value complaints

  • The app is overpriced, especially considering that many templates require payment, and the auto-renew feature makes cancellation difficult.R18R28
  • Common features like resizing designs and removing image backgrounds should be available to all users, not just Pro subscribers.R58
  • The premium subscription is not considered worth the wage by some users, who feel it doesn't offer enough value.R79

Where it delivers

  • Canva makes designing easy and fun for everyone, providing tons of templates, fonts, and graphics for various projects.R1R39R75
  • The app allows users to create professional-quality work even without prior design experience.R3R21R53
  • Both the premium and free versions are considered amazing and useful, with the free version being very productive.R8R53R87
  • It is a user-friendly tool, making design a no-brainer and simplifying the design process for business and personal use.R5R6R14R92
  • Students can benefit greatly from Canva, especially if their school provides free access to Premium Features.R11R16R64
Worth paying if

You are a business owner or professional creator who needs advanced features like background removal and efficient content production, as it can significantly simplify and speed up your design process R14R21R46R58. You are a student whose school is signed up with Canva, as you can get all Premium Features for free R16. You frequently create a variety of designs for personal or professional use and find the free version's limitations restrictive R46.

Skip / stay free if

You primarily need to crop images into specific shapes, as some users found this basic function difficult or impossible to locate R7. You are strongly against AI integration in design tools, as recent updates have included AI features that some users find annoying and unnecessary R22. You experience frequent glitches, lagging, or crashing, especially with video editing or larger projects, as these issues can make the app frustrating to use R18R19. You are looking for an app that supports multiple languages for autocorrection, as it primarily supports English and can autocorrect other languages .

Evidence note: The reviews are heavily skewed towards positive feedback, with a high lifetime rating. However, recent negative reviews highlight specific issues like glitches, AI integration, and login problems, which are important to consider despite the overall positive sentiment.

Frequently asked

Is Canva good for beginners?
Yes, Canva is highly praised for its user-friendly interface and intuitive design tools, making it easy for beginners and those without design experience to create professional-looking content R1R3R5R6.
What are the main benefits of Canva?
Canva's main benefits include a vast library of templates, fonts, and graphics, ease of use with drag-and-drop functionality, and the ability to create high-quality designs for various purposes like social media, presentations, and business branding R1R16R21R39.
Are there any issues with Canva?
Yes, some users report issues such as glitches, downloads being out of order, difficulty with video editing, login problems, and unwanted AI integration R7R18R19R22.
Is Canva Pro worth the cost?
The worth of Canva Pro depends on individual needs; while some users find it amazing and a must-have for business and personal projects, others feel it's overpriced and that essential features like background removal should be free R8R18R28R46.
Does Canva offer free features?
Yes, Canva offers a productive free version with many templates and tools, allowing users to create various designs, and students can access all Premium Features for free if their school is signed up R8R15R16R53.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R18] 1/5 · CA Overpriced and glitchy: Overpriced and doesn't do what is says it will do. Hate the auto renew - makes it hard to cancel.
  2. [R28] 1/5 · CA Don’t waste your time…..: Canva is the most annoying app to exist. Try designing birthday invitations, you can’t. Canva is asking $11 a month for an app that does the bare minimum not only does it do the bare minimum practically EVERY template unless you would like an ugly one you must be paying for it!? so do your self a favour don’t waste your time with this nonsense app.
  3. [R58] 4/5 · CA Excellent experience: A very pleasant interface that I've made some great designs on. Perfect to learn principles of graphic design on. Although I have a pro subscription, I wish common features like resizing a design and removing the background of an image were available to all users.
  4. [R79] 1/5 · CA Absolutely infuriating: Thee needeth more functions. Doth thee not know how to make an app easy to useth. Tis absolutely daunting. Premium is not worth mine own wage. I have seen better days.
  5. [R1] 5/5 · CA Canva is the BEST: Canva is an amazing tool that makes designing easy and fun for everyone. The platform has tons of templates, fonts, and graphics, so you can create posters, presentations, and social media posts in just minutes. Everything is simple to use, even if you’ve never designed anything before. I especially like how you can drag and drop elements and customize them however you want. It
  6. [R39] 5/5 · CA The Ultimate Design Tool for Everyon: Canva has completely transformed the way people create and share visual content, making professional design accessible to everyone, whether you're a business owner, marketer, student, or artist. Its intuitive interface, vast library of templates, and powerful features make it one of the best design platforms available today. User-Friendly and Accessible One
  7. [R75] 5/5 · CA Qu'est-ce que pense: Canva est une application de design très pratique, surtout pour créer rapidement des visuels professionnels sans être expert en graphisme. L’interface est simple, intuitive, et les modèles (templates) permettent de produire des affiches, publications pour réseaux sociaux, présentations, flyers, cartes, logos, etc., en quelques minutes. Ses points forts : grande bibliothèque d
  8. [R3] 5/5 · CA Fantastique: Je ne suis pas professionnelle, mais CANVA me fait réaliser du travail de qualité professionnelle. Merci
  9. [R21] 5/5 · CA Love Canva: Canva makes it easy to create graphics for my small business. I have no design training but I'm always happy with my creations thanks to Canva.
  10. [R53] 5/5 · CA This app is 🔥: Needed to create flyers for my business and it was my first time using the app. It felt like I have always used it. Very easy to use and familiarize yourself. Very professional as well. Even the free version is very productive. I hardly stop to leave a comment but this app is so well made that I had to take my time to give my opinion.
  11. [R8] 5/5 · CA Love: I love Canva the premium is amazing but the free version is amazing as well I love designing stuff and this is a great app for it
  12. [R87] 5/5 · CA 5 Stars: Thoroughly enjoying the Canva app. It is user friendly and there are plenty of options to fulfil your creative sides desires. They provide you with anything from templates, to editing photos, to avatar creation and more. I highly recommend this app and my experience using it so far has been positive. It is also nice that they allow for website creation among other things for free without
  13. [R5] 5/5 · CA Invitations: It’s such a useful tool and user friendly app.
  14. [R6] 5/5 · CA User friendly: I love this program, it makes design for any platform a no brainer.
  15. [R14] 5/5 · CA Better than photoshop: Has mad designing for my business and producing content 10x easier! There is not a steep learning curve like other program
  16. [R92] 5/5 · CA Primary Web Designer/ Co-Owner Two Toques: This platform has simplified my design process with intuitive, logical, options and it just keeps getting better. I use it daily to create and design unique eye catching styles and images for our clients.
  17. [R11] 5/5 · CA In love!: My school uses this app for are projects so now I use it for projects and fun creative stuff it is very helpful and useful except you should add a new photo edit that you take a upload picture and you can turn in AI so a AI picture a
  18. [R16] 5/5 · CA 👍: Canva is perfect for students to use, easy to use, and very good for designing and making anything from presentations to posters to infographics. Better yet-for students, if your school is signed up with Canva, you get all the Premium Features for free! So yeah-definitely recommend for students or any designer.
  19. [R64] 5/5 · CA Canva: This really helped for my school projects and volunteer posters
  20. [R7] 1/5 · CA Garbage: I downloaded this app because online it said you could crop an image into a circle. I can’t find away after trying for to long. Garbage app.
  21. [R19] 3/5 · CA Love BUT pls fix downloading settings: Love Canva with my whole heart, been using it for almost 5+ years now but can you please fix the glitch (mobile phone glitch) where when you go to download all your photos as a PNG and they all download out of order 😑😑 having to download every page individually so it stays in the order I was is so tedious and frustrating
  22. [R22] 1/5 · CA used to be good: I used to really like the templates and functionality of this app, but all of the AI integration is unnecessary and often downright annoying. I don’t want any part of it. It’s just too bad, I used Canva for all kinds of personal projects in the past.
  23. [R46] 5/5 · CA Canva Pro is a must!: I loved Canva even before getting pro, their templates are really cute! but having pro changed my life i do everything on canva like invitations, school projects, monthly calendars, collages, etc.
  24. [R15] 5/5 · CA This app is so much better. You need to try it. It’s awesome!❤️❤️❤️: BG remover is free and now doesn’t need AI tools and Magic media too. Now I can make many things and maybe even make adds for things. Thank you for responding to my first review Canva. This app is the best

Synthesized from 100 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store