Canva: Design, Photo & Video 4+

Great for on-the-go and emergency tasks

I’m really grateful for Canva - both for the desktop and the phone app version. It helps me especially during times when I’m given last minute design tasks.
Unlike before, I have to look for a cafe or any place with wifi just to finish up my work using my laptop; but with Canva, I can access my work even when I’m traveling and submit designs with ease because all the PRO features are also available in the phone app version.
Thank you for making things better for government employees like me! 🤗❤️

By far the easiest editing app

I enjoyed how easy and simplistic the canva app is. With its use of templates and graphics design made it easy to understand of editing, but my only complaint is that editing a video is really incosistent, sometimes it glitch to random frames into the video, spiliting in a video is the main issue, it sometimes cause loading problems and making static freeze frames and buffer error, While it doesnt effect the main video once downloaded the video while editing is extremly slow with tedious short pauses while playing the video in the app, also I think its not designed for over editing, I have a project on school that requires me to add a lengthy and well edited video, I have to split the video into 3 parts, The introduction the body and the conclusion because it was really slow to play it. My final complain is that downloading takes either really long or doesnt even work at all, I have conmon instances of my phone not downloading the video at all, its either it stops the download and the pop up "Canva saves your design" or in the words, Or either crashing all together, I only get to download the video with my laptop. Maybe the problem was my low running mobile device but im using a iPhone 10? Its hard to understand the situation

Short summary: Its a really easy editing app, but it does have a limiting engine and a slow download process (IN MY EXPERIENCE)

Developer Response ,

Hello AllOngoing, thanks for the feedback and for using Canva. We're sorry to hear that it takes time to download your videos. Kindly check this link for more info: https://bit.ly/3EVKKip. We also suggest to please update your app to its new version and see how it goes. If the error persists, send us a report at canva.me/ios. Thanks for your patience. - Lily

Good but

I like that you can access many graphics on the premium version but the image resizing can only be adjusted proportional by height and width. You cannot resize the image independent of the height or width. It has to be proportionate and it is a bummer.

There were also limited color editing features, you can’t freely recolor the graphics available. The only thing you can do is to find an image that allows recolor (which would take too much time and at worse, you’ll give up on your initial design concept).

There was also no drawing feature where you can incorporate your own concepts. The irony because this is a creative design app which you pay for premium every month, you have less options to do what you want. Your design will be fully dependent on the images, effects, font and other elements that are available in the full version. Im short, you have no freedom in your design.

Finally, why on earth can’t the images be symmetrical when i resize an image. It really bothers me a lot when the ruler shows that my image is not centered!

In conclusion, the app is good for those who just wanted to create a design without the help of a professional graphic designers. But if you are a professional, this might not be the app for you.

Developer Response ,

Hi Jlyeaeun, thanks for your feedback. We really appreciate it. We're continuously working to make the app much better. Please keep an eye for our future updates as we regularly release new features and improvements. Feel free to let us know your concerns at canva.me/ios. - ED