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Piktochart vs Canva

I have used Canva for things like designing business cards or creating invitations, but I had not yet used it for infographic creation. Because I am familiar with Canva, I decided to start this week's post by attempting to design an infographic with them first.

Canva is great for all of your design needs but I found myself struggling to bring a useful infographic to life. I wasn't yet familiar with the concept of infographics so I wasn't sure where to start. I decided to explore the concept a little further and read Dr. Robin's suggested blog posts... which led me to Piktochart. This software pretty exclusively deals in infographics, whereas Canva is more of a conglomeration of any graphic design project you can imagine. So while I'll always love Canva for social media posts and creating unique postcards, Piktochart is my new go to for infographic designs.

Piktochart offers a variety of beautiful free templates. The amazing thing about Piktochart is that they teach you to use infographics by using infographics. It's like this bizarre but perfectly sensible infographic inception. Piktochart also has a handy blog with tons of tutorials and resources. I found this to be very useful in my exploration of infographics.

I created this infographic to show you the steps to making a great infographic and why Piktochart takes the cake in this area when pitted against Canva. This highly specialized software is in an exclusive relationship with infographics while Canva merely dabbles, so you are really getting the most bang for your buck in Piktochart.


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  1. UnknownMarch 28, 2018 at 8:26 AM

    Simple and easy to follow- keys to the success of a strong infographic. Laying out the information in 4 easy steps as to what can be included and how to design was a great way to show the simplicity of a product, or in this case, Piktochart. I am also finding it very interesting to read the classes preferred infographic software choices. Seems to be 50/50 so far for Canva and Piktochart.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 31, 2018 at 5:48 PM

    Good insight on to using the different options. I should have branched out a little more---I had used Canva a few years back but stopped for some reason and forgot about it---so I thought it would be nice to try it out again. Good info on Piktochart though!

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  3. AnonymousApril 1, 2018 at 5:04 PM

    Thank you for sharing some of the differences between Piktochart and Canva. I only had the chance to play with Piktochart. The graphic was also very helpful for me. I might have to check out Canva for the social media aspect. Thanks for the post.

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  4. AnonymousApril 1, 2018 at 6:22 PM

    Hey Julia! Thanks for the great info on the differences between canvas and piktochart. I feel that it brought insight into the differences between the two and made me understand how they can be utilized with different projects. I used piktochart and thought it was very useful to use. I think when it comes to canva I might google some youtube videos and see how other people have brought their creations to life in the future. :)

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