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What does Canva do?

Tool: Canva

The Tech: Design Tool

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Their Pitch

What will you design today?

Our Take

It's PowerPoint for people who can't design. Drag templates around, add your text, export a graphic that doesn't look like it was made in MS Paint.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Your Instagram engagement dropped 40% because posts look amateur** → Professional-looking graphics in 15 minutes instead of hiring designers or learning Photoshop
  • +**You're paying $2k/month for basic social media graphics** → Teams create their own branded content, cut design costs by 80%
  • +**PowerPoint presentations are soul-crushingly ugly** → Animated slides with consistent fonts and colors that don't make audiences cringe
  • +One-click background removal — no fiddling with magic wand tools or green screens
  • +AI generates custom images from text prompts when stock photos look too stock-photo-ish

Best For

  • >Your social posts look like they were made by a caffeinated intern in 2008
  • >Small business drowning $500/month paying freelancers for basic graphics
  • >Teachers tired of boring slides putting students to sleep

Not For

  • -Professional designers who need pixel-perfect control — this is Fisher-Price for real design work
  • -Companies over 500 people — the enterprise features are surprisingly weak for something this popular
  • -Anyone doing serious print work — exports often need tweaking and colors shift

Pairs With

  • *Google Workspace (import docs and presentations, export back to Drive)
  • *Instagram (direct posting so you don't have to download then re-upload)
  • *Slack (where team members share design drafts and argue about font choices)
  • *Mailchimp (for email headers that don't look like they're from 1999)
  • *WordPress (featured images and blog graphics that match your brand)
  • *Zoom (custom backgrounds and presentation slides that don't embarrass you)

The Catch

  • !Free tier is basically a demo — you'll need Pro ($15/month) after your second design for background removal and decent exports
  • !610k templates sounds great until you spend 20 minutes scrolling through wedding invitations looking for a simple logo template
  • !Mobile app crashes on complex designs, so don't plan on editing your masterpiece during your commute

Bottom Line

The training wheels for graphic design — gets you 80% there in 10 minutes, but you'll hit the template ceiling fast.