Canva: Design, Photo & Video

Honestly Canva is one of the most spectacular web design platforms I have ever had the pleasure of working with. I’ve NEVER experienced all these “crashes” that everyone is talking about and honestly they sound like unwarranted complaints. The fact that people are rating their reviews five stars just to get your attention and then state that Canva is a one star app should show you how deceitful some of these “reviewers” are..... Anyway, unlimited assets with a pro subscription, background remover, gif creator, SVG capabilities so you can upload your own icons and change colors, folders to organize your projects and so much more. I manage two business accounts and I can’t even begin to tell you how amazing Canva has been over the past two years with both accounts. I use one frequently for my proposals and cover letters, legal documents, etc and the other account for social media graphics and portfolio projects. Never had problems with download or upload speeds and I have uploaded countless amounts of assets over time. You can even organize your assets into folders that you can access while editing. Never had projects magically erase themselves from my designs If you do not have a graphic design background and need graphics in a pinch- this is the app for you. If you are your own marketing team- this is the app for you. If you love using inspiration/templates for graphic projects- this app is for you.

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I’m a long time Canva user and absolutely loved this app. I use it all the time for all my blog graphics. However, Canva recently updated the software for iPad and now I hate it. What was once an easy to use app, is now cumbersome, has less functionality, less ease of use, less user friendly, less everything except the amount of time it takes to create a new graphic. It has got to be about 200% slower. It works very similarly to the iPhone app - which I hate. If I can’t use the old interface, I’m gonna be forced to switch apps. Please don’t make me switch. Don’t make the iPad app function as poorly as the iPhone app. I need speed, ease of use and lots of functionality that works well on my iPad. Not my iPhone, but my iPad. I also can’t edit any of my saved files in Canva as I receive a compatibility error message. PLEASE FIX THIS!! PLEASE AT LEAST GIVE US THE OPTION OF USING THE OLDER VERSION. I HATE THE UPDATED IPAD VERSION. SERIOUSLY. HATE IT! I CAN’T EVEN USE IT, BECAUSE IT JUST SITS THERE FOREVER SPINNING, TRYING TO LOAD AND CAN’T. PLEASE, PLEASE GIVE US BACK THE OLD VERSION. PLEASE. How about if you do away with the iPhone version and just use the old iPad app? That’s a great idea! Or make the iPhone a limited functionality (which, it essentially is). Please give me back the Canva I loved! I am extremely busy, carry my iPad with me everywhere I go and use Canva all the time. Please do something about this! We hear you and we'd love to make things better for you, Lenny Pam. Our team is still in the works to improve the functionality of our app. The goal is to give everyone the best design experience, that is why you can be assured that we're continuously working on improving our services both on mobile and web, as we move forward. We truly appreciate your patience and understanding. ^QS

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Upgrading to the Pro version was definitely a great decision on my part, and for the most part I’m enjoying the App. I do find myself having to import elements from outside sources very frequently however. I’d really like to see Canva up their game in the quality and quantity, and the variety of elements offered. My biggest issue with Canva is a major one! The App constantly crashes on me while I’m working on a project. Everything else on my update iPad works perfectly fine, it’s only the Canva App that has these issue. My only solution is to do a complete shutdown of my tablet and reboot it. I even lost the progress on my work in one project, as it failed to save my work, before it crashed. Obviously I had no idea, or I would’ve saved it myself!!! Considering I’m paying money for this App, I do expect a higher standard. This issue happens frequently. I somehow would have a very hard time believing that I’m the only one with this same issue, which would mean that they haven’t taken the time to fix it? If this continues, I will have no choice but to find another App that offers me the roughly services at around the same price, but that works properly! Hi Puzzledn'Perplexed, thanks for the feedback. We're sorry to hear that you experienced crashing issues with your app. This isn't what we want you to experience. Please force close the app and then restart it. You may also close apps that are not being used at the moment to free some space in your device storage. Also, we recently released a version of the app with better functionality. We recommend that you have it updated to get its full features. If error persists, send us a report at canva.me/ios. Kind regards. - Cynch

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I like the app. Its very useful. I realize that its probably a marketing strategy, but it would be nice if there was a way to filter out the graphics, photos, and etc. that are exclusive to canva pro users only or come with watermarks. That way I wouldn't have to waste time looking through every single option that isn't avalible to a free account. Otherwise, its a great app.

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Im a beginner in video editing and creating content for social media and Canva has been very simple to use and my content always looks great! I’m very impressed with how many things are available, sometimes you don’t even know what to pick (mind you I have the pro account). However, the only con I see is that Canva is very glitchy. For example, if I’m editing a video, the video will buffer and sometimes won’t run smoothly if I’ve been working on the video for awhile. I also have the app on my phone and it’s difficult to complete projects if im toggling between apps on my mac book and phone not sure if Canva is intended for this kind of use but if I’m working from home on the app on my Mac and then I want to complete the project on my phone (vice-versa) the video will not open properly and I cannot continue editing because the video won’t play/run as it should. Sometimes I need to reload the app and then it still doesn’t work properly. There’s been a few times that I’ve had to delete whatever I’m working on and restart a new and complete right then and there because I know if I’m come back to it will be hard to complete. Another note that sometimes it’s difficult to upload media on the app (Mac book) iPhone seems to work pretty well. Overall, I highly recommend Canva. I hope that someone from Canva team reads this review and and provides some assistance or on the next update fixes these glitches. Hi there, we are delighted to have you as part of the Canva family. Thank you for sharing your kind words with us. It means the world to our entire team. This is not the experience we want you to have. We understand that you're having troubles synchronizing your saved designs between your phone and your computer. When you create a design on the web and the saved changes do not appear when you access the same design on the Canva iOS app, just tap the cloud icon on the thumbnail for the app to sync on the web. Also we have released an updated version of the app with better functionality . Give it a go and let us know how it goes through at canva.me/ios. Many thanks for your patience. - Cynch

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Let’s start with the good. It’s 2018 and nobody makes a (sort of) desktop publishing app for iOS except Canva. So kudos for taking this project on. That said, the app is so painstakingly frustrating, I’m kind of amazed I still use it. It crashes all the time, weird changes are made when I go to save (wasting precious time), and lots of other very quirky things. Example. When working with text, in order to exit edit text mode, one has to click done. That alone takes forever, but after hitting done no matter what page I’m on in a document, the app leaps forward to the last page. Another example. Try renaming a file. It crashes every single time. Try renaming it again. This time it works. Every single time. The list goes on and on, and things load oh so slowly. So long story short. This app isn’t ready for the field. It’s hardly even beta worthy. But we all still use it. Why? Because there’s nothing else out there for iOS. The moral of the story is that we need other developers to begin working on publishing apps so that we not only have a choice, but so that Canva has some competition. The developers respond quickly, roll out updates, and make promises, but bottom line is the app still remains broken. Honestly, it’s such a chore to use. There is nothing enjoyable about the app and all I hear out there is that when we go to work on a project.... we just pray we can make it through. Upward and onward. Hi there! We appreciate that you let us know what you think of the app. We will forward this to the Product team for future consideration. We are continuously working to make the app better and improve your design experience so if you have feature requests or suggestions, please feel free to let us know. ^JC

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I love canva to create my own wallpapers, create simple animations, and design sophisticated school projects. I created an invitation for a birthday party on canva also and it came out so well. I have two problems with this app. There aren’t as many options for images to add if you don’t have canva pro. The pro images and free images are mixed together so you have to scroll down to find one that you like that isn’t something you have to pay for. They have a section for only pro images, but you have to scroll forever to find a good free image. They tend to put the bad free images at the top so I’ll be more likely to buy pro I guess? It’s annoying though. Understandable however, as they are trying to make money. I just wish there was an option to only search for free images. It might make the app less money but it would save me time and effort. Another big thing is video editing. I got this app for video editing, and don’t. It’s trash for video editing. It’s super pixelated and there’s lag. Soemtimes it does weird things like not matching up audio and video and I’ll have to restart the app for it to act normally. It’s so annoying having to constantly restart the app. It crashes all the time too. Canva just can’t handle big attachments like that. I know other reviewers were complaining about the lagging and crashing problem as well, and it needs to be fixed overall in canva, but especially in the video editing section. Hello there, thanks for reaching out to us. We're sorry for the inconveniences you are encountering with the app while editing your video plus it crashes and lagging. We would like to help you resolve this, kindly update the app and if the errors persist, send us a complete detail of the issues encountered through canva.me/ios. Many thanks for your patience. - Jane

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I really enjoy Canva Pro. It has become my go to design app. I've designed over 200 items on it, but the app whether on tablet or mobile is a bit glitchy sometimes. The app can close for no reason, doesn't allow you to select how many pages you want to export, can take too long to open a project and requires some time to figure out where everything is. The tool itself is great, but the mobile app needs some work.

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Let me say this is the best photo editing app for social media I have found thus far. I have tried many and they don't have the tools that Canva has to make your pics look professional. However the app crashes and takes forever to load. Some of the features don't work half the time. The other moot point is that alot of the great features are only in pro mode so you would have to pay the premium to use them. It would be worth it if the app wasn't made in 1923. Please fix!

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The app is a bit clunky, and adding text is way more difficult than it should be. I couldn't even search my clipboard to paste text.

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It's a nice photo layer maker, but as far as actual editing goes, especially for video. This is not it. Even when I tried the pro version, there was no actual editing tools. I can't cut or clip, I can't fix audio, I can't adjust reel or feed. This is just a clip art organizer. Not an actual editor. Shame, I had hopes for this one.

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