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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Illustrator

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Illustrator CC is a vector-based graphic design software.

    $20.99

    per month

    Canva

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ACanva is a popular, simple online graphic design tool. Users can import images, use templates to design banners and logos, or pay to use Canva's premium stock images/paid templates (elements starting at $1).

    $12.95

    per month

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    Adobe IllustratorCanva
    Editions & Modules
    Yearly - Billed Monthly
    $20.99
    per month
    Monthly
    $31.49
    per month
    Yearly - Billed Upfront
    $239.88
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    Pro
    $12.95
    per month
    Enterprise
    $30.00
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    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    Adobe Illustrator gives you much more control over every aspect of the design process. Canva has several limitations like being unable to customize gradients or creating clipping masks. Inkscape only works in RGB space and has a less intuitive user interface. They benefit from …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    Adobe Canva can be used to produce flyers and other promotional items but it is not as robust in features like Adobe Illustrator. Also, Canva is an online tool. You can use Illustrator without an internet connection (once you have downloaded the software). Canva is a good …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    Canva is a stripped-down version and is great if you only have need to create the occasional social media post or basic signage. I like Canva, but if graphic creation and manipulation is part of your day-to-day, and you have ambition in this area, then Illustrator is more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    I use both Canva and Illustrator. Canva is great for 'quick and dirty' jobs like social media headers and quote graphics, but creating original illustrations is a nightmare in it. We use Illustrator when we have the time, because it's much more painless to create detailed and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    The integration with Creative Cloud Libraries and Adobe Fonts, combined with the powerful array of tools offered in Adobe Illustrator makes up for the high price compared with other tools that are often free. You even get an outstanding 3D renderer built in with excellent …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    Honestly, Adobe illustrator is the best in the market in terms of what the software is capable of doing. I've used other software in my career, and honestly, I just haven't found anything that has the tools and the capabilities like adobe illustrator. I honestly will pay extra …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    Adobe Illustrator is better for logo designs and high-quality graphics compared to anything else.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    Well, I like Adobe Illustrator because, together with Adobe Photoshop, it is one of the primary instruments in graphic design.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    Photoshop is much easier to learn and utilize, but Adobe Illustrator definitely has more features and customizations. For basic day-to-day designing, I'd choose Photoshop any day, just because of its ease of use and how simple it is to find tutorials and assistance online. For …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Illustrator
    A lot of people design in Photoshop if they don't have Illustrator. I suggest swinging for Illustrator if you will be doing more print and web graphic design than photo design. If you are looking to do more photo editing, Photoshop will be best. But you can still do A LOT with …
    Incentivized
    Canva
    Chose Canva
    Canva is intended for people with little to no design experience, where they can produce something quickly and efficiently that still is quality. As previously mentioned, for larger design projects and any website/blog based designs and images I suggest having a tenured …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    User-friendly interface: Canva has a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface that makes it easy to create designs, even for those without design experience.Templates and design elements: Canva offers a large library of templates and design elements, so users can create …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Adobe products, well compared to Canva has a wide and long learning curve. Adobe spark almost comes close to Canva but lacks these tiny features that Canva focuses on to make the product irresistible to use. Canva also does a great job organizing and recording the designs in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is faster and easy to use. There aren't complex menus like Adobe products and everything is generally intuitive. Menus are mostly open and visible or relatively small. Small changes to the program add to it's usability rather than detract. I also appreciate that Canva …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is easy to use; it is a SaaS, and you can use it anywhere in the world. It only takes a few minutes to learn how to use it, and it saves me time, energy, and money. Photoshop is complicated and you need to be tech-savvy. You also need to install it and take that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is a user-friendly platform that beginners can learn easily. Canva is a fast way to get designs done quickly. The Templates are very good. I found the others were hard to learn, limited in design abilities, or just too expensive. I love other software options but this is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Well, Canva is not as advanced as the Adobe products, but for what I need it to do, it is amazing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is easier to use and requires less experience. Canva is also so easy it makes it significantly faster to produce content than using any Adobe products. Canva allows you to use professional designs and can help even make the most novice designers produce …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is easier, faster, and less expensive than Adobe. It allows for people who are not graphic artists to create quality professional looking content fast. I have been able to save hundreds of dollars annually with a single Canva pro subscription vs. a full Adobe …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    The other programs listed above arent better or worse than Canva, they all bring different things to the mix. If you don't want to buy an Adobe license or learn how to use Photoshop or Illustrator than Canva would be right up your alley. Create social posts, fliers, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva takes the top used features in Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, and InDesign and combines them all into an easy to use web based software. What's not to love about that? Sure, you can't do insane photo editing in Canva, but it does have a nice selection of stock photos that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva’s free version has more than enough to effectively create beautiful graphics. The user interface is more user-friendly, in my opinion. and is able to provide more direction in the way of templates that meet every specific need I can think of in terms of digital and print …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is more intuitive and easier to use than Adobe PhotoShop or Illustrator. I'm not a designer, I work in Marketing so when I needed creatives made I had to outsource to our design team and try to fit my project on their calendar. I tried to learn other programs myself but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is FREE! That is why this makes Canva the best! You only upgrade for specific fonts and templates. Canva is seriously the most amazing tool out there and has no competition!
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    I have used Moovly in the past, which is an online video editor, I prefer Canva because I can create all types of content aside from videos.
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is a total designing package having industry-standard templates, images, videos, and elements for almost all sorts of design projects. Everything is pre-built and no prior experience is required to start working in Canva. A customer demands quality and timeliness when it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is easier to use, fast, takes up less space, and ultimately does not require a lot of thinking. While I still use the Adobe Creative Suite for impact brochures or annual reports for non-profits, I turn to Canva for social media posts. Even if I just need a square with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva would be an entry-level tool compared to photoshop. For those that don't have endless hours to learn photoshop, Canva cuts out all of the difficulty. It's a drag and drop editor as opposed to full creation tool where you have to know at least the basics to use photoshop. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    As I stated earlier, this program doesn't replace a real graphics/design program. Canva is a very simple and quick to use program for those who lack the training to use some of the heavier programs like Adobe Creative Suite. Canva allows the uninitiated the ability to create …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva can really save you a lot of time compared to Adobe Photoshop if used well. You can save images, find new images and icons all inside the platform. You can also use pre-made templates and you will never have storage space problems which I absolutely love! When I use Adobe …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Canva is a lot less expensive and doesn't require an expert to use. We chose Canva for its flexibility and ease of use, so that our team could make nice images without having to involve the full design team. We also liked that Canva was internet based, so if I had to switch …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    None at the moment, besides Photoshop, Illustrator, and Publisher.
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    While the Adobe Creative Cloud platform has a ridiculous amount of functionality that you won't find here, Canva is a lot easier to use and makes design simple for people who haven't been trained as professional designers. Also, Canva offers a variety of templates that help you …
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    Comparing Canva to Photoshop and Adobe Spark:
    1. Canva is easy to use: Unlike Photoshop Canva can be used by anyone even if they do not have any prior design experience
    2. Canva's mobile app: Photoshop has a mobile app, but it is heavy and not as easy to use as Canva's
    Incentivized
    Chose Canva
    I would pick Canva for the ease of use for small quick projects. I would use the other programs for creating more complex projects like wall wraps or posters, etc. Canva does not have the ability to scale for projects such as a wall wrap. The precision that is required for that …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe IllustratorCanva
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (107 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
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    Usability
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    5.0
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    6.9
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Adobe IllustratorCanva
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    Adobe Illustrator is used to help make drawings look good but not make them. It is easy to add color or texture but it is hard to actually make the drawings in it. I would recommend using other software to make the lines for plans and sections and using Adobe Illustrator to make it look good.
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    Canva
    They are suited to serve the non-profit space, offering premium features at no charge for up to 50 users. They provide tools for non-graphic designers that help to create appealing and attractive pieces. For those who are unsure about where to start with a project, Canva offers templates that can be edited to suit the current need.
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Vector graphics for scaling to large sizes
    • Filling an object with a texture
    • Easily adjusting and expanding an artboard to fit the size of the content (especially for infographics)
    • Compatibility with other Adobe CC programs, but also exporting for PPT graphics
    Incentivized
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    Canva
    • It helps you find the right design and helps you start with the right template
    • It helps in creating for all platforms, basically you need to create the design only once and Canva takes care of the rest by resizing the design for whichever platform you want to publish it to.
    • It also comes with a content planner which is extremely helpful for obvious reasons. It relieves you from the hassle of posting when the right time hits.
    • There's a Brand feature which is also extremely fascinating as it helps you store all your brand information (even color) at the same place.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • It's tough to master. If you haven't used Adobe products like Photoshop or Illustrator before, there is a lot to take in.
    • It would be great to have some better options to preview the final product if you're creating a multiple page document.
    • Better integration and pricing points with Adobe Stock for the useful stock images to complete your projects.
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    Canva
    • I have a hard time coming up with any improvements, perhaps increase the number of free elements to use in design.
    • Maybe, Canva should check if you start editing a previous document to see if you want to change the current design or create a new one as a clone of the current document (design).
    • I'm sorry, I really can't think of a 3rd. Overall, I really like working in Canva.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    While Adobe Illustrator CC is one of the only true design software out there, it really stands heads above the other products. It's clean UI and menu structure is easy to navigate.
    Incentivized
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    Canva
    The ease of use makes Canva a powerful tool for manipulating images, creating original content, and testing ideas without requiring the involvement of graphic design or more time-intensive image editing software such as Photoshop. While it doesn't have the full functionality of a mature software, such as Photoshop, The speed and simplicity of Canva makes it a necessity in a business of any size
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Adobe
    There's a bit of a learning curve to this software vs other similar tools that can take some time to learn and get familiar with but the amount of functionality that Adobe Illustrator CC offers is quite large compared to simpler tools.
    Incentivized
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    Canva
    It is super easy to use, but it could be limiting if you're on a small device. It is easier on a bigger device because you can resize graphics and text easier than with your fingers on a small device. I do think it's perfect and easy for non-designers who don't have any training. As long as you have a good eye for visuals, Canva is a wonderful substitute for graphics programs on-the-go.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Canva
    I have yet to encounter Canva being offline in at least 6 years of using it regularly. They also announce well in advance if there may be upgrades to the code and the hours during which there may be issues accessing the service.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Canva
    I haven't ever had issues with a slow-loading site and there haven't been any lag issues within the software. There have been maybe a handful of times over the past six years where I have tried to upload a large image and it will slow down as it loads the last megabyte, but I have yet to have the system time out or require any interference by me
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    I normally already know how to do whatever I'm trying out, but the documentation (as well as a simple Google search) makes any question quick to resolve. The Adobe boards themselves are a fantastic resource, especially for resolving questions between new programs and iterative releases.
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    Canva
    Overall, Canva is easy to use, easy to train others to use, allows for creativity with a professional look without enormous associated costs. The mobile apps works almost as easily, but at a minimum allows for easy review and downloading in a pinch. Really, anyone can learn to use Canva quickly and will immediately benefit from the results.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    It was very easy to purchase and download.
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    Canva
    Remember to download the mobile app onto your phone for easy image manipulation on the go. Adding company colors, logos, and typefaces to your company account is an easy process. When images are uploaded, these can also be shared between accounts within a company, as can canvases you've created for easy editing among teams.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    They complement each other, each with its own specific characteristics, but within a marketing sector, an experienced designer knows that the use of these tools in sets makes all the difference. It is possible to combine their uses and create really relevant materials that will bring a great return to the company and in the dissemination of arts with superior quality to the competitors
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    Canva
    Canva is faster and easy to use. There aren't complex menus like Adobe products and everything is generally intuitive. Menus are mostly open and visible or relatively small. Small changes to the program add to it's usability rather than detract. I also appreciate that Canva helps the user become more creative through use. By giving you editable examples through templates you can choose to re-design something ir create something from scratch w/ a similar concept or feel. Canva often gives me ideas that I can implement into my design or into the entire project even. I also like how Canva is intuitive in it's approach. The program gives you suggestions when it comes to graphics, etc. without getting in your way if you know what you already want
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    Scalability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Canva
    Very easy to add accounts and share content between them. Collaboration is also easy to manage and can be done on a project-by-project basis. The cloud-based software means it is incredibly fast to add a coworker and have them editing images within minutes. A live internet connection is required to access Canva so this is something to consider if expecting to use the software while on journeys without access to wifi etc
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Helps us quickly and easily create and manage numerous logos
    • Cloud libraries allow us to access commonly used colors, fonts, logos and other design elements quickly
    • We are able to provide high-quality, scalable college logos for print and digital which give us a more professional, credible look.
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    Canva
    • As far as ROI is concerned, Canva has proven itself time and time again as having a positive impact for business.
    • Just yesterday, I had to prepare an hour-long presentation on the fly; the great reviews of the presentation and the materials (all made in Canva) only served to advertise for Canva and it proves that Canva is a smart investment.
    • I don't think in the time that I have been a Canva pro user that I can say that my ROI has been negatively impacted. Highest recommendation. The software more the casually pays for itself time and time again.
    Incentivized
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