Flipsnack vs Canva: Online Design Tool Comparison

Wondering which online design software is better – Canva and Flipsnack? Or simply curious about the differences between the two tools?

Canva and Flipsnack are two popular online tools that offer users the ability to create great-looking designs all within their browser and with no design experience required.

Below we’ve covered the top level differences between Flipsnack and Canva to help you make an informed decision on which tool is best for you.

Let’s dive into it.

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• Overview
• Templates

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Overview

Here’s a top level comparison of the two products:

Which is the best tool?

We’ll update this article with a full breakdown and comparison of the various aspects of the two online design tools, but for now based on several factors including overall value for money, ease of use, template library size and variety, and few others we would say that Canva is the better option at the moment.

As a complete online graphic design software we would recommend Canva ahead of Flipsnack. At the moment, there’s simply so much on offer with Canva from their template range and library, to video creation, and integrations that allow users to easily create flipbooks too.

That being said, if you’re someone who is planning on regularly creating online interactive magazines or flipbooks, Flipsnack is a fantastic tool. They make the process of creating professional looking online publications a total breeze.

What are Canva and Flipsnack?

Canva is an online graphic design tool that allow you to create awesome designs and videos with ease. No matter what your design experience is you can jump onto Canva and get creating straight away.

When it comes to creating interactive flipbooks, you can’t directly do that on the Canva platform.

What you can do though is create the pages for a flipbook, brochure, magazine, etc. on Canva and publish it directly to one of several flipbook platforms including Heyzine, Publuu, Simplebooklet, FlowPaper, and Issuu.

You can see in the image below an example of a flipbook we created in Canva (we know the pages don’t completely match), and then published via Heyzine:

Flipsnack’s main focus is helping their users creating interactive flipbooks, magazine, brochures, catalogs, etc. that can embedded and shared online.

You can also easily convert PDF files into flipbooks using Flipsnack’s tools.

Flipsnack has added other template categories to their tools including posters, flyers, presentations, books covers, album covers, and more.

Both tools are very beginner-friendly with simple and intuitive user interfaces that most people will have no problems learning.

Canva’s tools and templates cover almost every conceivable area, whilst Flipsnack’s strongest areas are their interactive flipbook creation, magazine templates, brochure templates, and portfolio templates.

Templates

Here are some of the main template categories available on both tools:

Canva and Flipsnack both offer a good amount of templates in some similar categories. However, as you can see Canva has quite a few more templates in most categories.

Canva also has plenty of template categories that aren’t currently covered on Flipsnack:

Templates unique to Canva

Here are a few examples of template options unique to Canva:

• Logos
• Twitch designs – overlays, panels, emotes, etc.
• T-shirt designs
• Instagram templates
• Facebook templates
• Website templates
• Podcast covers
• Mockups
• YouTube intros and outros
• Infographics
• Business cards
• Photo collages
• And a lot more!

Templates unique to Flipsnack

We couldn’t find any template categories from Flipsnack that aren’t already currently available on Canva.

The main benefit of using flipsnack is that you can quickly transform your designs into digital interactive flipbooks.

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Wrapping things up

This article will be expanded into a full review of how Flipsnack and Canva compare, so stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, we hope this comparison article helped you!

Flipsnack is a fantastic tool, particularly for users looking to create a digital interactive flipbooks to help engage and delight their readers, but at the moment Canva is a little bit ahead as a fully fledged online design software.

Why not try both out for yourself to see which one suits your needs.

Good luck creating! Also, let us know in the comments which tool you prefer and why!