As a long time Adobe user, I have enjoyed using Canva on the fly for social media posts. But I always struggled with certain things. Then there was a promo for Crello and decided to try it. Signed up for their free version and I was hooked.

Why I like Crello:
• More intuitive than Canva
• The templates are much nicer
• Animation is a breeze (things actually line up correctly)
• Creating a presentation is so much easier
• The photo choices are nicer
• A better selection of objects/elements
• You can customize objects/elements in ways that you can't with Canva
• Resizing is much easier than Canva
• Super easy to make animated stories/reels (After Effects always felt like overkill to me but Illustrator wasn't sufficient)

Couple of bummers that I hope get added at some point:
• If you start a design on mobile, you can't finish it on desktop
• No content planner
• No brand kit (fonts, colors, logo)
• No color picker and/or
• Extract colors from image

I still find myself going to Illustrator to make carousels (because it's so simple being able to export artboards as images - I'm lazy and don't want the extra steps of having to crop and save an image into carousel parts), but other than that I have been using Crello for basically everything else.

Definitely one of my favorite purchases!