Slidebean vs Canva: Which is a better fit?

James M.: Hi, my name's James. I'm the CEO and co-founder of a startup. I give Slidebean a two out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Yeah, so before we used Slidebean, we'd also used Beautiful.ai, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and since Slidebean we're currently using Canva. Yeah, so we chose Slidebean, because they had the option to develop startup-specific pitch decks. So previously we'd used just the software, and that was okay, but we really wanted to utilize their experience as a startup and [inaudible 00:00:42] with investors to develop an investor-specific pitch deck. However, that experience itself wasn't great. Yeah, the process to get started with Slidebean was quite easy to start off with. We had an interview with one of the UX researchers who got a bit of our background about our startup and then put together our story. Also shared a lot of our information and assets with Slidebean, however, the next step was really difficult. So when that information got passed onto the designers, that's when we started to see some serious issues regarding the quality of the work. For anyone that's looking to use Slidebean, I definitely recommend it if you're just looking at a quick software to get started and utilize yourself. I wouldn't utilize any of their more advanced features, so paying for the pitch deck reviews and the financial tables. That stuff was really basic, and the quality of their designers and consultants are quite low. They generally use people in developing countries that don't really understand the startup space. So I'd recommend potentially using Canva or even Slidebean, and then taking your MVP deck to someone on freelance or someone on Upwork who has had experience with startup pitch decks in your industry.

Faith: My name is Faith. I'm a graphic designer and my company is Just Me. And my one to five rating for Canva is probably a four. I was using Adobe Photoshop before I used Canva, and it was just taking me a long time to boot up and it was super expensive and several of the tools were just very clunky and more in depth than I needed for what I do. I chose Canva because I really like it. It's easy. I can send things to other people to collaborate on. It's a very click and drag format, and it does a lot of the spacing for me, and it has amazing templates that I can customize to whatever I'm doing. Getting started with Canva was super easy. I just put in my name and email, signed up for an account and got to work. I highly recommend Canva, especially if you do social media content or anything like that because you can have it on your phone and your computer and sync changes between both of those, depending on if you're posting on social media from your phone or if you need a more heavy duty on your computer to post a flyer, that kind of thing.