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The popular graphic editor Canva has become unavailable to Russian users. Trends have prepared a selection of the most interesting and free analogues of the service
Canva is a free image editor that lets you quickly create social media posts, videos, posters and presentations, and other visuals. The service was founded in 2013. It allows you to use ready-made templates for document markup and has a built-in library of stock photos and fonts. On May 31, the service announced that it was leaving our country, and its website was no longer available to users in our country (1,4 million people). Trends publishes a selection of the best Canva alternatives.
1 Visme
It is a cloud-based visual content creation platform where all work is done in an online editor. Visme offers thousands of ready-made templates, images, icons, more than 50 charts and maps, audio and video clips, and you can add your own elements by simply dragging and dropping onto the desired slide.
The service allows you to create presentations, infographics, animations and banners. You can download the project in PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF and HTML5 formats. Visme is designed for teams: you can leave edits and comments in the project, share private or public links to files, and use analytics tools.
Once a project is completed, it can be published online, made private, embedded on a website, or downloaded for offline use.
The service is suitable for both beginners and professionals, as well as teams. Visme has a free version that offers a 100MB data storage and template library, but with limited access. Projects are published in JPG format only and will be public by default. Paid versions start at $15 per month.
2.Adobe Express
This is an Adobe online service that allows you to quickly create small projects.
Adobe Express is great for creating social media content because it offers the most common image sizes. You can also create simple responsive websites and short videos.
The service offers various styles of inscriptions, animation, you can add minimalistic icons and images from Adobe Stock, there is also a function to apply corporate identity. In this case, the user adds logos, fonts, and brand colors, and the service creates a simple collection of templates. Branded logos and fonts can be shared with the team in PDF format using Adobe Acrobat features.
Adobe Express is suitable for professionals who can work with a minimum set of tools. The service is included in the Creative Cloud package, but a subscription can also be purchased separately. The Individual Paid Plan costs $9,99 per month and is free to test for 30 days.
3. RelayThat
It’s a quick design tool for creating graphics for social media and advertising. It supports all social networks and offers various image export options. RelayThat offers custom fonts and their pairing, as well as promotional photo templates and the option to change the color scheme. The service has over 2 smart layouts and 3 million free photos.
To use RelayThat for free, all you need is an account. However, at this rate, there will be watermarks on the photos. The advanced plan costs $15 per month. It offers project sharing, headline generation, and SEO tools.
4. PicMonkey
It is a SaaS solution that does not require any software to be installed. It allows you to create branded images, presentations, as well as business cards for social networks in JPG, PNG or PDF formats.
The tool offers cloud storage from 1 GB, more than 9 thousand graphics and textures, 100 fonts and 1 thousand templates, as well as stock photos. In PicMonkey, you can edit each layer of an image separately. However, there is no option to batch process photos.
Some basic features of the service are available for free, but for advanced tools you will have to pay from $7,99 per month (with a 7-day trial period). In free mode, PicMonkey allows you to set frames for pictures, apply effects and filters to them, and create captions using various fonts. You can upload your own images from your computer, Dropbox and Flickr.
5. Design Wizard
This is a service for creating static graphics or short videos. It supports the most common social media formats, as well as document and presentation templates. The library of the service has more than 1 million images, thousands of videos, illustrations, graphics and much more.
In the graphics editor, you can work with “layers” of images, in the video editor – with “artboards” and the timeline. However, the Design Wizard does not include data visualization tools, icons, or illustrations.
The service is suitable for bloggers and users of social networks. Design Wizard has a free plan with limited features and ads. It allows you to upload your own fonts, photos, logos and create your own color palettes. The paid plan starts at $9,99 per month.
6. Stencil
It is a cloud-based online visual content graphic design tool that is browser-based and has extensions for Chrome and Firefox. It provides 5 million free stock photos, over 1,5 million background images, 1,3 templates, 5 fonts, and 140 image size settings. You can also create your own fonts.
Stencil allows marketers and bloggers to edit images for social media, create content marketing visuals, image ads, photos for email newsletters. Images can be provided with their own watermarks.
The free plan allows you to save up to 10 images per month. The paid plan starts at $9 per month. The service promises to return the money if the user decides to abandon the paid version in the first seven days of use.
7. Easy
This is a visual content editor for social networks with a large number of bright and spectacular templates. The service offers custom curly frames, icons, illustrations, patterns, and over 1 million stock images. It lets you create animated GIFs, add highlights, and use a color palette generator.
Easil offers the ability to edit and lock individual elements if the template is being created for a team. The editor is suitable for content creators for social networks and blogs, in particular for bloggers and entrepreneurs in the field of design and fashion, small businesses or startups. It is convenient to create pins for Pinterest. The service has a free plan. Paid pricing starts at $6,25 per month with a 30-day trial.
8. Pixelied
This is a free service, for which you need to register on the site. It offers over 1,3 pre-made image templates.
The editor has integrations with Unsplash and Pixabay, giving its users access to high-quality stock images, and integration with Iconfinder provides access to free icons.
The service also offers ready-made color schemes and a mockup generator (XNUMXD object models) for laptops, tablets and mobile devices. For group work, you can create workspaces for each brand or project, each with its own colors, designs, files, and settings.
Pixelied is suitable for creating content for social networks, e-commerce platforms and content marketing. It has a free version with limited features, and you can also pay $97 once and use the service without restrictions. In this case, the money can be returned within the first 30 days of use.
9. VistaCreate
This editor offers tools for creating visual content from social media posts to printed materials. VistaCreate has a library of animated illustrations, audio files, a branding option, over 60 design templates, over 1 million photos, videos, and vectors, and 10 GB of storage for files and projects.
Also in the editor there are templates for business. The project can be developed within a team of up to 10 people. However, the service does not offer features for data visualization. The editor is suitable for bloggers and small companies. VistaCreate has a free plan with limited features, and an advanced plan for teamwork costs $10 per month.
10 Desygner
This editor is similar to Canva. It offers tools to create invitations, banners, cards, posts, and business logos and prepare them for publishing and printing.
Desygner has an archive of free photos and templates with no restrictions on their use, as well as vector images, stickers, backgrounds, web banners and blog headers. The editor makes it easy to drag and drop photos and edit them. Desygner, unlike its competitors, also supports PSD and PPT formats and allows you to edit PDF files.
The service offers a free forever plan, as well as premium plans starting at $150 per month with full access to all features, Shutterstock support, and a 14-day free trial.
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