Canva vs Lumen5

Making life easier

You can search Canva for pretty much anything. Need a special certificate for an award? Canva has hundreds to chose from. Need a cool menu template? Canva has you covered. Need a yoga template for International Yoga Day? Canva has your back. Need something for social media? Need help with a new job posting...you guessed it, Canva has 100's of pre loaded templates. You can chose colors or change what's there. You can add photos/change them out. You can use what they have or make it your own. Canva is also very user friendly. I love it!

Katelyn S. Sales and Recruiting

A great product

I love their Text to to Video feature. It allowed me to create something almost tremendously useful when I tried the free version. This is after spending a lot of time. I loved the way their scene composition worked. I like the edit feature of the script. While it is time consuming, this is way better than working with a professional marketing firm and the cycle time. I like their customer engagement approach. I had the privilege to talk to the founder with the feedback call. He pointed me in the right direction. That is what I call, "white glove service"

Naga S. Partner

I have become a designer without actually being a designer.

I get to explore. I can also create images to give life to the idea in my head, then create from it. Canva is alo easy to use and the tools make work implementation easy, but better in pro. Normal use features are limited, so pro is always better. I use Canva for all my designs, multiple times a week, since it's easier to use and understand.

Gift O. Remote Content and Social Media Manager Media Production

Easy way to create marketing videos

Professional look, royalty free, great customer-facing results. We use Lumen5 videos to promote our business online, which helps provide digestible content for marketing.

Sam S. Demand Marketing Manager

User-Friendly & Always Evolving

The best thing about Canva is its ease of use! I've worked with numerous other design programs extensively - including Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator, as well as Quark - and with Canva, I'm able to do everything and more - with such ease! I literally use it every week as a primary part of my job, and I love using it for personal projects as well. It integrates easily with the programs we use to manage our marketing and content distribution, so that really helps to streamline our weekly workflows.

Cydney D. Senior Product Specialist Computer Software

A pioneer in text-to-video

Lumen5 is a well-established way for small businesses to create lots of professional videos quickly and easily without being a video expert. Improvements keep being made, such as adding AI voices, AI scripts and AI editing. Videos are easy to switch between wide, square and tall formats to suit different social platforms. Customer support is quick, though rarely needed. Since Lumen5 is cloud-based, implementation is easy regardless of your hardware.

Promod S. Actuary

Canva is great for inspiration and creation!

What I love most about canva is the layout inspiration. Sometimes, especially when overlaying text on images, it's hard to make it look great, and those layouts are super helpful as inspo. Great for quick Reels but I think the video editing itself is a little limited. (in terms of timeline), but the templates are great, ann there's an additional app for pretty much anything under the sun.

Gabriel C. Social Media Manager

Great tool for social video

Lumen5 allows you to create really simple videos for Youtube, PR and Social Media. In terms of putting a simple video together with limited experience it's far more user friendly than almost any other tool that I've used. The features that allow you to directly connect an RSS feed is really well done and generally returns good videos.

Rory B. Director of Growth