Canva vs. Microsoft Publisher

Canva

1,725 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Publisher

45 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 Publisher	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application available with an Office 365 subscription, or as a standalone download.	$139 one time purchase

Pricing

Canva

Microsoft Publisher

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

Microsoft Publisher: $139
one time purchase

Pricing Offerings
Canva	Microsoft Publisher
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 Publisher
Considered Both Products	Canva Kathryn Juarez Community Relations Director in Corporate at Boley Centers, Inc. (Mental Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose Canva Before turning to Canva's online platform for my printed pieces, I was using MS Publisher. Publisher is a good tool but Canva has taken things to a new level and is designed with the end-user in mind. It's simple to use; has many built-in templates, fonts, backgrounds, … 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? Verified User Chose Canva Canva is a lot easier to use than Publisher. I actually started using Canva after getting frustrated in Publisher trying to create a simple graphic that featured numerous sponsor logos and a little text. Canva also defaults to saving as either jpg, pdf, or png and will prompt … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft Publisher It works better than PowerPoint if it is one-page sharing content or poster, as opposed to a full presentation. It doesn't have as much functionality as Canva, but is more cost effective as it is included with the MS Office 365 Suite. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Publisher I have used Canva and multiple other tools like Adobe Express for creating same type of graphics, designing and banner designing, and it had outcome with very well and defined result, and it can compete with Publisher, and both can be stack up against each other very … Incentivized Helpful?
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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
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Canva	Microsoft Publisher
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (172 ratings)	8.0 (10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (12 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	6.9 (15 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)