You ready to hear a shocking confession?
I am not at all the Canva fan that the whole entire internet keeps telling me I should be.
(…Phew. That was easy. Though, on the other hand, did you know I’ve been hemming and hawing and sitting on this post for more weeks than is sane? Maybe I wasn’t as ready to share as I thought!)
Now, I knoooow about all the things that everyone loves, like the masses of templates and layouts, the speedy customisations, the free-ness and overall lack of cost… But it just hasn’t clicked for me. I’ve never taken to it the way I have to other things – or, clearly, the way other bloggers / content creators / keen creatives have embraced it for their needs.
(Plus, I love feeling like I’m not tied to my desk, so I do quite a bit of work on my tablet. And the Canva app? Pretty, but never the smoothest for me, so that hasn’t helped.)
Odds are this might describe you as well, though. I’ve seen so many stressed, frazzled women online express their confusion, their overwhelm, their frustration with Canva. So many others, too, who’d just like to have an easy to grasp alternative on hand.
Luckily, there are several apps* available that split their talents between a mild form of photo editing and some creative, text-based graphic design. They all have their benefits and their drawbacks, of course (I mean, don’t we all), but hopefully at least one of the apps that I’ll be going over will make your life easier when it comes to designing graphics for your pins, your social media or your blog.