Visme vs Canva (2026) — Which is Better?

Visme vs Canva — which is better? In this detailed comparison, I take a look at two tools that aim to make graphic design easy for non-designers, and help you pick the best one for your business.

I’ll begin my full comparison with a key question: what are Visme and Canva?

What are Visme and Canva?

Canva and Visme are web-based design tools that let you create impressive visual assets without needing a lot of graphic design experience.

Both solutions can be used to create social media graphics, infographics, charts, simple videos, presentations, slides, posters, YouTube thumbnails and other marketing material — and a wide range of templates and royalty-free images is provided to help make this process easy.

How do they work?

Both Canva and Visme differ from traditional graphic design software like Adobe Photoshop in that they are primarily designed to be used online in a web browser rather than as desktop applications.

That said, both solutions can be installed locally too. Canva exists as an app for both desktop and mobile devices (Mac, PC, Chromebook, iOS and Android apps are available for it); Visme is available in desktop versions for Mac and PC.

Canva and Visme give you three key things to help you create your design:

Regardless of whether you use Visme and Canva in a browser or in an app, the key thing to remember is that you’ll generally need an Internet connection to use them — most of the design elements available in both platforms are hosted on the web. (Canva does offer some limited offline functionality, however.)

User base size

Both platforms were founded in 2013, but since then Canva has become the more popular product of the two under discussion: it has over 265 million users worldwide, to Visme’s still impressive 38 million.

This discrepancy in user base size shouldn’t trouble you too much, however, as both tools are well-established in their market, and are extremely popular options for working on graphic design projects.

But which one is right for you?

Let’s find out, starting with a look at pricing.

Pricing

There are four main Visme plans available:

These prices are sharply reduced if you pay upfront for a year — if you subscribe on an annual basis, the relative costs for the ‘Starter’ and ‘Pro’ plans become $12.25 and $24.75 per month.

If you want a Visme account for your team, you can opt for the ‘Team of 3’ or ‘Team of 5’ versions of its ‘Pro’ plan. These cost $119 per month and $159 per month respectively (or $72 per month and $120 per month each if paying annually). If you require more than 5 seats on your team, you’ll need to contact Visme to negotiate a price for your requirements.

As for Canva, there are also four pricing plans available:

If you pay on an annual basis for a ‘Canva Pro’ or ‘Canva Business’ plan, you can avail of a 16% discount.

In terms of the main differences in features between these plans, the key things to watch out for are:

I’ll have more to say on all the above as I progress through the review. But if you’re looking for a snap judgment on pricing, it’s obvious that Canva is considerably cheaper, and its free plan is more functional too. For small businesses or ‘solopreneurs’ on a low budget, the Canva pricing plans will inevitably prove the more attractive.

Now, let’s take a look at Visme and Canva’s interfaces.

Interface / ease-of-use

When you log into either Visme or Canva you are presented with two main choices: the option to create a new design, or to open an existing one.

Once you’ve started working on a design, you’ll find that Visme and Canva have fairly similar interfaces: there’s a main menu on the left that gives you access to each tool’s key features, and your design work is carried out on the right-hand side of the screen using a drag and drop editor.

The main menus in both platforms provide you with a similar range of options. You can use them to apply a new template to your design, and add the following to it:

There is, however, a slightly different approach in both tools regarding how you go about adding elements to your design.

Canva places all its assets in one section — ‘Elements’. You click on that tab, and then search the section for the sort of assets you’d like to add.

These can include any type of media — graphics, photos, videos etc.

By contrast, Visme places a much greater emphasis on categorization in its main menu. As you can see from the screenshot below, graphics, photos and multimedia (video and audio) are split out into three separate sections, and you’ll need to go to the relevant one to locate assets for your design.

To be honest, both approaches work reasonably well and neither result in a steep learning curve — so which interface is ‘best’ is probably a matter of personal preference. If you’re somebody who likes categories, then Visme’s user interface may appeal more; if you like less-cluttered menus and using search bars to locate content, then you might prefer Canva’s.

One thing I personally don’t like about the Visme interface is that when you start working on a design, it often shows you an inspirational quote. This makes things feel a little bit sluggish. (I’m a bit cynical when it comes to inspirational quotes, too!).

And speaking of working on designs, let’s explore how both tools let you get started on doing that — with a look at their design templates.

Templates

Templates are the starting point for any design in Visme and Canva, and both tools offer a wide range of them to choose from.

However, with Canva, you get access to a lot more of them: 1.6+ million on its free plan, and 3.6+ million on its paid-for plans. These are produced by Canva’s design team as well as external designers belonging to Canva’s ‘Template Creators’ program.

Visme gives you just over 14,000 — all of which are created by Visme’s in-house design team.

Whether or not you need millions of templates is, of course, debatable — sometimes so much choice can be a bit paralyzing. But some users will appreciate the bigger quantity of templates that Canva brings to the table.

In terms of quality, it’s hard to fault either Canva or Visme in this department — both platforms’ offerings are extremely varied and strong, and you should be able to use either platform’s templates as a really professional starting point for a project.

One thing I’d say is that based on browsing both tools’ selections, the Visme templates struck me as being a little bit more ‘corporate’ in tone than the Canva ones — I felt that the Canva design aesthetic was at times a little more playful.

But with such a large number of templates on offer from both platforms, it’s hard to make a definitive statement on that, and you can definitely find both business-like and quirky templates in both platforms.

Stock photography

One of the main reasons to use a tool like Visme or Canva is to get access to a large library of royalty-free photos. In a lot of cases, the cost of one stock image from Getty or a similar stock photo company can exceed the monthly fee charged by either tool.

Both platforms give you a lot of choice on the photography front. On the Canva free plan, you get access to over 4.7 million royalty-free multimedia assets (images, graphics, videos and audio); this increases to a massive 141+ million on a paid-for plan.

(It’s not clear how many of these assets are photos as opposed to videos, however).

Visme’s free plan provides limited access to its photo library, which includes over 5 million images, as well as limited access to its video and audio library with more than 2 million assets. On its paid plans, you gain full access to the complete photo library and video/audio library, and other stock assets (animations, icons and so on).

You shouldn’t struggle to find premium images with either tool, but overall, Visme seems to offer more choice when it comes to photos.

And speaking of photos…

Photo editing

Once you’ve added a photo to Canva or Visme — either from their stock photo libraries, or by uploading one of your own — you can access a range of simple editing tools that let you customize your images.

Both Visme and Canva’s photo editors let you do the basics easily: adjust brightness, contrast, crop, flip, rotate etc. And they also give you access to a range of Instagram-style filters that you can apply to your images.

Once you’ve applied a style to an image, both tools make it easy to copy that and apply it to another picture, thanks to appropriately-named ‘copy style’ tools.

Image background removal is possible too, but only if you are on a premium plan.

There are a couple of image editing tasks that Visme arguably lets you perform more easily, however: color overlays, frame adding and replacing photos.

Let’s look at these.

Color overlays

Visme makes it easier than Canva to overlay colors on images — a simple ‘overlay’ tool lets you apply an overlay with an opacity of your choosing. But to do the same in Canva, you’ll need to add a shape on top of your photograph and adjust its color and opacity settings.

Frame adding

Another image-editing task that Visme makes slightly easier is adding frames, which you can use to crop your images into a variety of shapes quickly and easily.

That’s not to say, however, that you can’t do the same thing in Canva — it just involves a different process. You need to pick a frame separately from its elements section, then locate a picture, and then drag it into your frame. (And the number of frame designs on offer from Canva, it should be said, is a lot bigger).

Neither method is strictly ‘right or wrong,’ but as with applying a color overlay to an image, some people may appreciate the more ‘immediate’ approach offered by Visme here.

Replacing photos

If you want to change a photo you’re using in your design, Visme has a nifty feature that you won’t find in Canva: an AI-powered image suggestion tool.

You access this by selecting the photo you want to change, and clicking the ‘Replace’ command at the top of the Visme interface.

Visme’s ‘Suggested by AI’ tool then provides you with a range of alternative stock images to choose from based on the photo you are replacing and the context of that image on your design canvas.

While Canva does let you explore similar photos via a ‘See more like this’ option on most of its stock photos, not every photo in Canva’s library gives you this option, and it’s not as easy to access as Visme’s ‘Suggested by AI’ tool.

Storage space

In addition to giving you access to online images and videos, Visme and Canva both let you upload your own assets to their platforms.

However, Canva is considerably more generous when it comes to cloud storage. Even its free plan gives you 5GB of space for your photos, videos and audio files. This rises to 100GB on the Pro plan, 500GB on the Business plan, and a very substantial 1TB per user on the Enterprise plan.

The Visme storage limits aren’t great by comparison: you get just 500MB on its free plan, 1GB on its ‘Starter’ plan and 10GB on its ‘Pro’ plan. And on its ‘Enterprise’ plan, the limit is just 25GB, which pales in comparison to the equivalent 1TB per user limit from Canva.

Creating videos with Canva and Visme

In addition to letting you create ‘static’ designs, both Canva and Visme let you create and edit videos too. The process works in a similar way to designing ‘static’ content — you pick a template, tweak it, and add clips to your video as necessary.

Both tools make it easy to populate your video template and move clips around a timeline, and in recent updates the gap between them has narrowed.

Canva uses a fully horizontal timeline that will feel instantly familiar to anyone who has worked with conventional video-editing software such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or Adobe Premiere. Clips, audio, and effects are all arranged visually across a single timeline, making it very easy to see how your video fits together and to fine-tune timing.

Visme’s video editor used to rely heavily on a slide-style, vertical sequencing system, which I previously found quite clunky for video work.

However, this has now been significantly improved: Visme now offers a proper horizontal timeline and allows full playback of your video sequence directly in the editor, bringing it much closer to Canva’s approach and making it far more usable for video projects.

That said, despite these improvements, Canva’s video editor still feels more polished and responsive overall. It’s slightly faster to work in, more intuitive, and better suited to users who want to produce videos quickly without friction.

Canva also offers a few standout video features that Visme currently lacks or handles less elegantly — such as Beat Sync, which automatically cuts visuals to match the rhythm of your music, and Highlights, which helps you quickly identify and emphasize key moments in a video. Canva has also recently expanded its video toolset with background removal for video clips, allowing you to strip out backgrounds without leaving the editor.

So while Visme has clearly made meaningful progress with its video timeline and playback experience, Canva still edges ahead when it comes to ease of use, responsiveness, and overall video-editing features — making it the overall winner for video creation.

Web design

Both Canva and Visme now give you dedicated tools for creating websites without needing to write any code.

Canva’s website builder lets you create responsive sites using a straightforward drag-and-drop editor. And there’s a very large selection of starting points available: Canva currently provides over 3,000 website templates, covering portfolios, business sites, events, education, restaurants and many other use cases.

Canva Websites was originally geared mainly toward creating simple one-page sites, but the feature has become considerably more capable over time. You can now add navigation to your site, and Canva automatically optimizes your designs for display on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

Once you’ve created your site in Canva, you can:

However, Canva’s website builder remains considerably more basic than dedicated website creation platforms like Wix or Shopify. If you’re looking for sophisticated ecommerce functionality, extensive SEO controls or the sort of advanced site management features provided by a professional website builder, you’ll need to look elsewhere.

But for portfolios, event sites, landing pages and other relatively simple web projects, Canva’s website builder can work very well.

Until recently, Canva had a significant advantage over Visme when it came to web design, because Visme didn’t include an equivalent website-building feature. However, this changed in April 2026, when Visme launched a new no-code microsite builder.

Like Canva’s website builder, Visme’s microsite tool uses a drag-and-drop interface and doesn’t require any coding knowledge. It comes with 30+ dedicated microsite templates, covering use cases including sales and marketing pages, company information, blog content, newsletter signups and product showcases.

The Visme microsite builder also provides some useful web design features. It lets you add headers, footers and navigation menus; customize SEO settings and meta tags; control how your content appears on mobile devices; and add scrolling transitions and interactive elements to your pages.

Hosting is included too. You can publish your microsite directly to a Visme URL and make it public or password-protected; Enterprise users can also connect microsites to a custom domain.

So, overall, the gap between Canva and Visme for web design has narrowed considerably.

Overall though, Canva is the stronger choice here. Its website-building functionality is more established, and — most importantly — its selection of 3,000+ website templates gives you vastly more starting points than the 30+ microsite templates currently available in Visme.

Neither platform is a substitute for a fully-fledged website builder like Wix or Shopify, but for creating a simple, good-looking site without any coding, both are now viable options.

AI tools in Canva and Visme

AI has become a significant part of both Canva and Visme, with each platform now capable of generating not just individual pieces of content — text, images and video — but complete designs from a simple prompt.

Canva brings most of its AI functionality together under its ‘Magic Studio’ umbrella. This includes ‘Magic Write’ for generating and rewriting text; image and video generation; AI-powered image editing; background and object removal; translation; and tools for generating complete designs and layouts.

One of Canva’s key strengths here is how deeply these features are integrated into the platform. AI tools appear throughout the Canva workflow, letting you generate, transform and edit content without continually leaving the design you’re working on.

Visme has an increasingly impressive AI offering too, with a particularly strong emphasis on generating complete business content. Its ‘AI Designer’ can turn a prompt into a presentation, document, printable or social media graphic, automatically generating the copy, imagery and layout involved.

Both platforms place monthly limits on AI usage. Visme uses AI credits, with its free ‘Basic’ plan providing 10 credits per month, its $29 ‘Starter’ plan 200 and its $59 ‘Pro’ plan 500; Enterprise users get unlimited credits.

Canva similarly limits AI usage, although its system divides features into Standard, Premium and Ultra AI categories. Canva Free includes up to 200 Standard AI uses and 20 Premium AI uses, while Canva Pro provides 10 times the Standard and Premium AI usage available on the free plan, plus up to 20 Ultra AI uses. Canva Business and Enterprise raise these allowances further.

Ultimately, Visme is strong when you want AI to quickly produce structured business content such as presentations and reports. But Canva wins this round fairly comfortably. Its AI offering spans a wider range of tasks, with features that Visme doesn’t currently match — including Canva Code for generating interactive experiences, Magic Layers for turning flat images into editable layered designs, Magic Insights for analyzing data, and AI-powered ad creation through Canva Grow. Its generous AI allowances on paid plans strengthen its case further.

Data capture forms — still a Visme USP?

Both Canva and Visme now include online form makers, but Visme’s remains the more fully featured option, offering greater control over form fields, data management, and integrations.

The Visme form builder facilitates the creation of a wide range of form types, including newsletter signup forms, lead magnets, contact forms, event registration forms and more.

Using this feature is very straightforward — a simple ‘elements’ editor lets you add logos, headings, texts and fields easily, and style controls are provided that enable you to change colors, typefaces etc.

Forms you create can be embedded on your website in pop-up, sidebar or in-body format; alternatively, they can be shared via a link. The data captured can be stored within Visme, or sent to a variety of popular email marketing and productivity tools, including Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot and Google Sheets.

(If your preferred data capture system is not catered for, there’s the option of using Zapier to connect it to Visme.)

Now, you’ve probably come across a lot of similar form-building tools previously — and in fact, if you use an email marketing app, you’ve probably already got access to this sort of functionality. So what makes Visme forms different?

The answer lies in the animations you can add to them. Visme has done a lot of research into conversion rates, to see what sort of form layout generates the most signups — and their studies reveal that interactive forms involving animated characters are likely to perform best. According to the company’s data, using these types of animated forms can lead to an increase in conversion rates of up to 40% and a reduction in cost per acquisition (CPA) of up to 28%.

Accordingly, Visme has placed customizable, animated characters at the heart of their new form building feature — you can design your own characters and make them perform in various ways beside your sign up form (everything from moonwalking to weightlifting is catered for).

When creating a character, you can choose its sex, color, clothes, actions and even facial hair.

Now, it has to be said that these dancing, weightlifting and yawning characters won’t be for every brand. But helpfully, Visme users who don’t want to feature these sorts of animations in their data capture process can simply switch the characters off (and create regular sign-up forms instead).

Either way, Visme’s new form-building feature is a really useful addition to its toolkit.

But I did have one key concern about it, and that was how the forms created with the tool would be treated by Google. The company is on the record as saying that aggressive use of ‘interstitial popups’ on a website can damage its search rankings.

I spoke to Visme’s team about this and they highlighted the fact that the forms have an ‘SEO-friendly mode,’ where they are only triggered after 50% of a page has been viewed, or when a user tries to leave it (by hovering over the back button or browser address bar).

According to Visme’s research, this prevents Core Web Vital scores (Google’s metrics for site speed and stability) being negatively affected. This is very welcome news, as a lot of popup forms can wreak havoc on CWV.

But whether or not this SEO mode will meet Google’s requirements that popup forms remain unobtrusive is moot — at the end of the day, whilst noticeable, fun and elegant, Visme forms are ultimately intrusive (which is kind of the point!).

Overall though, the feature is great and looks set to get better; if you’re comfortable with pop-ups, you’ll find this a really useful addition to your design toolkit that may boost your lead generation rates.

In terms of what Canva offers on this front, it has now introduced its own built-in form maker, letting you create basic sign-up, feedback or contact forms directly within the platform. The feature integrates neatly with Canva’s editor, so you can design forms using your usual fonts, colors and logos — and keep everything on-brand without leaving the workspace.

At present, Canva Forms focuses on straightforward data capture rather than advanced form logic or automation. It lacks the deeper customization options, animated elements and conversion-focused features that make Visme’s tool stand out. However, it does support connections to apps like Google Sheets, Mailchimp and HubSpot via Canva’s app directory, which will cover most simple marketing needs.

You can also integrate the Typeform package with Canva in various ways. This brings with it an additional set of costs though — costs that are likely to end up exceeding those of your Canva subscription. And, unlike Visme Forms, the templates that TypeForm provides are not character animation based (meaning, that if Visme’s calculations are correct, you’ll lose out on the superior conversion rates).

So ultimately, when it comes to form building and data capture, I’d give the win to Visme.

Ensuring brand consistency

So far, we’ve looked at a lot of the things that you can create with Visme and Canva.

However, whatever the type of creation involved, there’s one key thing that it usually needs to adhere to: brand guidelines.

This is especially important when tools like Visme and Canva, which are in many ways aimed at non-professional designers, are being used — and thankfully, both give you access to features that help ensure brand consistency.

In the case of Canva, brand issues are handled via its ‘brand kit’ tool, and in Visme, by its ‘My Brand’ equivalent.

Both let you add/define:

Once these are in either system, you can then apply them as necessary to your designs.

(In Canva, you can also add some extra assets to your brandkit, namely brand photos, brand graphics and brand icons).

Visme has a slight edge in the brandkit department, however, because it also lets you add a bunch of ‘brand links’ to proceedings — website addresses, Facebook URLs, phone numbers etc. These can be applied automatically to any materials you create.

It should be noted, however, that in both platforms, the brand kit tools aren’t available on the free plans.

In fact, with Visme, you need to be on the $59 per month ‘Pro’ plan to access the brand kit feature.

Canva, by contrast, lets you create 1 brand kit on its free plan (with up to 3 colors), 5 on Pro, 100 on Business and up to 1,000 on Enterprise — making it far more generous than Visme in this regard.

Organizing work and collaboration

Organizing your work in Canva is straightforward. A simple folder structure, which you’ll find in Canva’s ‘Your projects’ section, lets you create folders that house your designs.

If you’re on a ‘Canva Business’ plan, these folders can be shared with team members, who can work on any designs that the folders contain (different permissions apply — users can view, edit or comment on designs depending on their access rights).

This all works in a similar way to Dropbox and other file sharing services — you simply share a folder with somebody by entering their email address into the folder’s settings.

The ‘Canva Business’ plan also gives you ‘workspaces’ where you can drop designs, folders and templates, as well as add members to your team (and create sub-groups within your team).

As previously mentioned, pricing for Canva Business costs $25 per team member per month.

Visme’s file sharing setup works in a similar way — you can create shared folders and use workflow management tools. But you should note that folders can only be used on the ‘Pro’ plan, which costs a hefty $59 per month (if paid for monthly; $24.75 annually), and workflow / edit rights management tools are only available on the ‘Enterprise’ plan (pricing for which is negotiable).

So all in all, the much better value option here is Canva.

Printed products

Canva and Visme are both undeniably great for creating visual assets for use in a digital context: they let you come up with pretty stunning designs, and quickly too.

But what about designing stuff that gets printed?

Well, on premium versions of both tools, you can download any design in PDF format (among others which I discuss shortly) — and printers can definitely work with those.

But both tools also give you a range of templates that are specifically geared towards printed material (brochures, menus, flyers etc.).

In Visme, you can see all these in its ‘Printables’ section.

Canva goes one better, however, by actually acting as your printer. If you go to its ‘Printed products’ section, you can choose a template, edit it and then click a ‘Print’ button to get your design professionally printed.

This makes Canva an ideal tool for manufacturing things like business cards, invitations and flyers without the need for any third-party printing or manufacturing companies getting involved.

(We’re not necessarily talking about items that you print on paper or card — it’s possible to manufacture a range of other items with Canva too, like tote bags, t-shirts, hoodies and mugs. There are 65+ types of print products in total, and according to Canva, these are all ethically produced).

Additionally, when you use Canva as your printer you can avail of a so-called ‘happiness guarantee’ — which means that if you’re not satisfied with your product, Canva will reprint it for you free of charge.

Additionally, North American users can avail of in-store pickup for some Canva print orders — via FedEx office stores in the US and Staples stores in Canada.

However, you should note that:

But nonetheless, the option to get Canva to print your items is a great one to have, and there isn’t currently a similar feature available from Visme.

Apps and integrations

Like a lot of other SaaS (software as a service) products, Canva and Visme both offer a range of apps that add functionality or provide integrations with other popular services.

In Canva, you’ll find these in its ‘app directory,’ pictured below.

Many of the apps on offer from Canva are to do with adding special effects to your images, or retouching them, but there are also some handy apps available for putting your images inside device frames (i.e., inside an iPhone, on a tablet etc.), or creating product mockups using them.

The Canva integrations help you import images or videos from other apps into the tool. For example, you can connect your Canva account to services like Google Photos, YouTube, Facebook and Google Maps, and incorporate content from those into your designs.

You can also connect Canva to productivity tools like Slack and OneDrive, or email marketing tools like Mailchimp and Constant Contact.

Canva’s app directory also features a growing number of AI-powered apps. These include image generation apps, apps for adding AI presenters and voiceovers to your videos, and apps that generate original music from your prompts.

There are also some apps and integrations available for Visme — but these are far fewer in number (24 to Canva’s 1,300+ ).

And, whereas the Canva apps provide a mix of additional features plus integrations with third-party tools, the Visme ones are really only about integrations, and mainly to do with getting content in and out of other services — tools like YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, Dropbox, Google Drive etc.

So when it comes to apps and integrations, the winner is again Canva.

Exporting your designs

When you’ve completed a design in Visme or Canva, it’s time to share it!

To do this, you don’t technically need to export anything — both platforms give you ‘share’ links that let other people view your creation online.

But there are plenty of occasions when you’ll definitely need to export your designs into various formats.

To this end, Visme lets you export your projects into:

Canva offers the following output formats:

Looking at the two lists above, you can see that if you want to convert a project into a website, Visme has an edge: it lets you output to HTML5 format whereas Canva doesn’t.

As discussed earlier, the HTML5 export option technically lets you create web content with Visme — but it also makes your designs more suitable for offline use: for example, you could save professional presentations to your laptop in HTML format, which you could then display on a projector without any need for a Wi-Fi connection.

Canva is a better bet for users who need to export their designs as vector graphics however, thanks to its SVG export option.

(Incidentally, it would be good to see both tools let you output your designs into some other visual formats too — a key example being Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator files, which would let you or a professional designer edit your work in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator respectively. It is possible to do this in Adobe Express and Photoshop. You can read more about these design tools in our full Adobe Express vs Canva comparison and our detailed Canva vs Photoshop review.)

There’s another aspect of exporting in Canva that’s worth flagging up as a key benefit of the tool — its ‘Resize & Magic Switch’ tool, which lets you ‘repurpose’ existing designs for different platforms really easily. You can take an existing design, and then use the tool to automatically reformat it to suit different social media platforms or other formats.

In other words, you can take a particular design and, by using the Magic Switch tool, convert it into a Facebook post, an Instagram post, a blog post banner, a presentation etc., and output everything at once.

In addition to resizing your designs for different formats, ‘Resize & Magic Switch’ also lets you translate the text content of your designs into multiple languages, making it very useful for repurposing designs for different local markets.

Now to be fair, Visme lets you repurpose content fairly easily too — you can use its new ‘AI Resize’ feature to change a design’s dimensions and convert it to a different aspect ratio or make bulk changes / exports. However, unlike Canva’s ‘Magic Resize’ tool mentioned above, Visme’s ‘AI Resize’ feature doesn’t have any translation or localization features for adapting your designs to different markets or language regions.

(Additionally, Visme users are limited to 500 uses of the ‘AI Resize’ tool per month, while Canva’s ‘Magic Switch’ tool can be used as often as you like.)

Finally, the biggest difference between Visme and Canva when it comes to download options is the fact that Canva lets you export your designs on its free plan, whereas with Visme, you have to be on a paid-for one — and an expensive paid-for one if you want to avail of all the available export formats.

Canva does place some restrictions on export formats on its free plan: you can’t use compression tools, output PNGs with transparent backgrounds or download your work in SVG format. But you still get access to a lot of download options for free — and if you want more, you’re looking at a fairly low fee: $18 per month.

By contrast with Visme, you only get access to the full range of output options on its $59 per month ‘Pro’ plan.

So overall, unless you need to export your work in HTML5 format, the better-value option when it comes to exporting designs is unquestionably Canva.

Mobile apps

Both Canva and Visme provide iOS and Android mobile apps for editing your designs on the go.

User reviews of the Canva app are very positive — it scores 4.9 stars out of 5 in the Apple app store and 4.8 in the Google Play store.

The two versions of Visme’s mobile app are also popular with users — it has a current score of 4.6 and 4.3 stars out of 5 in the Apple and Google app stores respectively.

I tested the iOS Canva and Visme apps and found them both extremely easy to use — and while I would always be inclined to use a desktop version of either product to do any ‘serious’ design work, both apps were great for designing on the go.

You can take a photo, import it into either app, add a bit of text and have a fantastic looking social post ready to publish in seconds.

Customer support

When it comes to customer support, Visme has the edge. It provides email and readily accessible live chat support, while Canva’s support is primarily email-based.

Canva does now list live chat as a support option on its pricing page, but only for ‘select issues.’ And when testing the platform, I couldn’t find a way to access it — even Canva’s own AI support assistant told me that live chat wasn’t available.

With Canva, how long you’ll wait for a reply to a help ticket will depend on the type of plan you’re on. The turnaround times for each plan were recently listed as follows:

Visme’s live chat provides a much more direct route to support. When I submitted queries to the Visme help team, responses were virtually instantaneous.

Both platforms also make it very easy to access contextual support while you’re designing — question mark icons in both interfaces let you quickly locate relevant help materials or seek further assistance.

There’s a notable difference here, however: Canva’s contextual support is primarily provided by an AI assistant, while Visme gives you access to a real-life support team.

Finally, both tools provide you with a wide range of support materials via searchable online help portals.

Overall, though, Visme wins this round — its readily accessible live chat and easier access to human assistance make it considerably easier to get timely help.

User reviews

Up to now, I’ve shared my take on the main features, pricing, and usability of both platforms — but it’s also helpful to see how users rate their experiences on key review sites like G2, TrustRadius, Capterra, and SourceForge.

As you can see, Canva enjoys a higher average user rating of 4.7/5 compared to 4.1/5 for Visme, and it has been reviewed by far more users overall — giving its results greater weight.

Visme vs Canva: conclusion

Visme and Canva are both extremely useful tools for anybody who needs to create visual content but who doesn’t have a budget to spend on graphic designers. For a relatively modest fee, both tools give you access to a huge range of royalty-free images and videos, and design tools that let you create quite stunning results with them.

But because of its fully functional free plan, its stronger feature set and above all its more competitive pricing, Canva is definitely the winner in this contest. Unlike Visme’s free plan, which doesn’t let you export your work, Canva’s free plan is feature-packed and lets you create, share and download your designs.

Canva’s better video editing interface, more comprehensive AI tools, mobile app offering, resizing functinality and significantly wider range of templates give it a clear advantage in the features department.

Canva also offers considerably better value for teams. Canva Business costs $25 per user per month, while Visme’s ‘Pro team of 3’ plan costs $119 per month — equivalent to around $40 per user. So, on a monthly basis, Canva costs around 37% less per team member. It also gives you a little more flexibility when setting up a team, because you can start with two users rather than Visme’s minimum of three. Given that Canva offers the stronger feature set overall, this significant price advantage makes it the much better-value option for collaborative use.

Visme does have a couple of advantages over Canva: it lets you export your work to HTML5 format, its brand kit feature is more comprehensive and it offers more support channels to its customers.

But overall, out of the two content creation tools under discussion, my view is that the champion is Canva. However, the best way to find out which platform is right for you is to try both, and you can access free versions of Visme and Canva below:

I’ll leave you with a summary of the key pros and cons of both tools; and if you have any questions about Canva vs Visme, do pop them in the comments — we read them all and will do our best to help.

Visme vs Canva — pros and cons summary