Canva users find the app overly complicated
12 posts in the last 30 days, all from App Store.
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.229.0) — I think I just don’t understand how to use the app yet so asking me this early on is a little annoying”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.229.0) — It is so annoying to use any tool on this app. I’ve been trying to change a shape in this app for the last 5 minutes and it’s not letting me do much without glitching the hell out. I can’t zoom in and out on my iPad easily, the pictures I wanted to add…”
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.227.0) — Like there are no tutorials or ways to ask questions in the app that I know of. You have Google everything. I hate the new video timeline update where if you delete a slide you have to delete every element also. You can’t unstack the element timing…”
Multiple Canva users express frustration with the application's complexity, citing difficulty in creating simple designs and a lack of clear structure for new users. They feel the interface is not intuitive.
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“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.231.0) — Very clunky, has lots of features but the flow is hard to work with.”
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.230.0) — I would change the my star rating to 5 but for 3 years now iOS & iPadOS versions of this app are overlooked for far too long. Seems like iPadOS versions over the 2 OS’s has been overlooked and sacrificed in order to make the Canva AI more glorious - the stand out and only reason to use the app!?! This last week after the last update was painfully hard to work on my designs and slides while traveling. Not only is it hard to copy and paste text from other app sources to”
[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.230.0) — Très difficile à naviguer
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.230.0) — despite almost everything having a crown on it, i’m lucky enough to still be able to make the things that i need. i used to see a filter that allowed me to only see the free items and magically that button has disappeared so i have to scroll through thousands of items locked behind a paywall that i will never buy. i might as well use another app, all i needed was a ding dang border and an animation slide”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.230.0) — Just trash. Not a single things is straight forward and keeps just trying to push their paid bs before I can even dugout how tf to use it in the first place.”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.229.0) — I think I just don’t understand how to use the app yet so asking me this early on is a little annoying”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.229.0) — It is so annoying to use any tool on this app. I’ve been trying to change a shape in this app for the last 5 minutes and it’s not letting me do much without glitching the hell out. I can’t zoom in and out on my iPad easily, the pictures I wanted to add took forever to download onto it. It’s taking me an extra 45 minutes to edit something that probably would’ve taken me 20 minutes to do on Microsoft or google slides at this point. Not user friendly to iPads at all! The”
[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.228.0) — This app is completely horrifying. I genuinely cannot believe the people behind this app put this out thinking, “yeah you know what this is great!” ABSOLUTELY NOT.…
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.227.0) — A bit complicated and very difficult to understand, not users friendly, should make it self explanatory.”
“[Canva] ★★★ 3/5 (v4.227.0) — Maybe I’m the only person in the world that finds this app really clunky. It’s fine if you’re an artist and you know what you’re doing I’m not.”
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.227.0) — Like there are no tutorials or ways to ask questions in the app that I know of. You have Google everything. I hate the new video timeline update where if you delete a slide you have to delete every element also. You can’t unstack the element timing anymore and just delete the slide and the element together. Its bad. I’m going to find a new editor.😩”
“[Canva] ★★★ 3/5 (v4.227.0) — Not as user-friendly as CapCut from my first couple tries at it”
“[Canva] ★★★ 3/5 (v4.226.0) — It’s okay. I like it, but the AI annoys me a lot. It doesn’t always work if I use it. It seems to mess up a lot. Other than that, I like this app”
“[Canva] ★★★ 3/5 (v4.226.0) — I’m not very happy that I am trying to create a book & I can’t go back and even edit it back it keeps scrolling back to the beginning. When using the ai it keeps messing up the work where I need multiple attempts to even get something corrected and now I am out of data and have to wait til it resets when I pay more money for the app. If it continues I unfortunately will have to unsubscribe from the subscription”
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.226.0) — Too hard to understand need to learn the whole thing just to do a simple project”
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v4.226.0) — Every single time you update this app, it makes it more difficult to use on mobile devices.”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.226.0) — I use to love it but now its not easy to use don’t know why they change the program? Is there a bunch of programmers that says lets make it harder for people. So sad! You need to pay me for wasting so much of my time!”
“[Canva] ★★★ 3/5 (v4.225.1) — So first it’s really really hard to understand but once you go through videos and you watch it a whole bunch of times you’ll get it instantly in a little click so try to like watch videos before you try the app so you get the layout in format”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.225.1) — Canva used to be so great before they integrated AI and other “improvements” to their app. It is so inconsistent with how well it works. One day I can get things done. The next day, it freezes, won’t give me guidelines for centering, refuses to download after an hour or two of working on an image, pushes printing options when I’m not designing to print on site, downloads incorrectly (ex. no transparency when it is toggled on), edit colors are completely off, and that’s”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v1.124.0) — Really not a fan of Canva. It’s extremely clunky to use. At least the desktop app gives you some sense of how to do things. The mobile app is probably one of the most difficult and worst apps I’ve ever used in my life.”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.225.0) — Why is the whole app based off the web version? Make the app just for the app, NOT THE WEBSITE!!!!!”
“[Canva] ★★★ 3/5 (v1.124.0) — Still learning to work it so that’s why I gave it 3 stars. Hard to figure it out on certain things”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.224.0) — I have tried using Canva many times and I've never successfully created one logo or design bc of its awkward and clunky interface. Typicsl silicon valley design to max sales over UX. Never again”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.223.0) — Title says it all. The program assumes you know what your doing.”
[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v1.123.1) — Clunky and not intuitive
[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.222.0) — The AI is horrible. Bad user interface.
[Canva] ★★★ 3/5 (v4.222.0) — Not good but it gets the job good ig
[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.221.0) — Can’t free form not user friendly
“[Canva] ★★ 2/5 (v1.123.1) — Every time I go to use this it deletes all of my work and makes everything more complicated then I need it to be. Though I love what it can do, it’s complicated to move from one doc to another smoothly.”
“[Canva] ★ 1/5 (v4.219.0) — Bro I'm just trying to make a funny meme it's not that serious and there's no reason it should be this complicated”