Canva vs. Microsoft Powerpoint

Canva

1,725 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Powerpoint

868 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Canva	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Canva 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
Microsoft Powerpoint	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation software designed to allow users to create slide-based presentations including video and images, as well as slide transitions and animations.	$139.99

Pricing

Canva

Microsoft Powerpoint

Pro: $12.95
per month
Enterprise: $30.00
Per Month Per User

One Time Purchase: $139.99

Pricing Offerings
Canva	Microsoft Powerpoint
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Canva	Microsoft Powerpoint
Considered Both Products	Canva Verified User Chose Canva Despite that fact that PowerPoint wasn't completely replaced by Canva, it's now used as a base for sketches and drafts. Presentations are much easier to prepare in Canva, taking advantage of their templates. PowerPoint required more time and edition just to create a standard … Incentivized Helpful? Genie Huff-Forkner Co-Owner, Executive Director of Marketing & Public Relations in Marketing at New Media Vegas, LLC (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Canva You can just about forget about using Publisher or PowerPoint once you start using Canva! Canva blows them out of the water! PosterMyWall is good for posters, just like it says in its name. If you are not a graphic designer by nature, then Photoshop is not for the … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Powerpoint Canva: The animations and effects are very limited and hard to customize unless you are a Canva Expert. Too many of the items are only available to premium subscribers (which can be highly frustrating). Some of the stock images, icons, etc., will be copied to your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Powerpoint Both Google Slides and Canva are way more complex to use than Microsoft Powerpoint. They have specific symbols that are hard to memorize, many tools are hidden, they are harder to navigate, and shortcuts are not customizable, which makes everything less efficient. Google Slides … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Powerpoint Google Slides is like a Microsoft Powerpoint lite. It has similar functionality in enabling you to add items easily to a slide deck and has good shareability for businesses that use Google apps. It lacks some of the sophistication of Microsoft Powerpoint - I find slide decks … Incentivized Helpful? Thierno Ousmane DIALLO Loans Manager in Finance and Accounting at NSIA BANK (Banking, 501-1000 employees) Chose Microsoft Powerpoint Microsoft PowerPoint is just unbeatable when it comes to presenting. The software is reliable in terms of experience and security (we have multiple threats on the internet). The other reason why I use mostly Microsoft PowerPoint instead of Apple Keynote is because of the rich … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Powerpoint I think Microsoft PowerPoint is significantly better than other programs I have used, such as Google Slides or Prezi. It's straightforward, easy, not overloaded with design, which you can pick your own. Functionalities make sense and have just enough flexibility to avoid … Incentivized Helpful? Hein Grobler Freelance Faculty at USB Executive Development (Pty) Ltd (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Powerpoint I do believe that PowerPoint is in the top 3 programs with concerns about its ease, ability, and functionality. It is and will remain, my go-to program for designs and presentations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Powerpoint I used PowerPoint for 3 years and I like it because it has a lot of features to organize a slide show. And we can combine text, graphics, multimedia to make a presentation. In PowerPoint presentations you can reduce the paragraph size in bullet points. I mainly use it to make … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Canva	Microsoft Powerpoint
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (172 ratings)	9.0 (55 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (12 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	6.9 (15 ratings)	8.5 (4 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)