QuarkXPress vs Canva: Which is a better fit?

Grice W.: Hi. My name is Grice. I'm CEO of a recruiting company, and I give QuarkXPress a three out of five. I looked at other products, mainly Adobe Creator. Felt like that it was a little bit more cumbersome to learn. It was also on a monthly subscription basis only, and I didn't want to make that kind of a commitment on an ongoing basis. I wanted to be able to own the software outright, which is why I didn't go with those guys. I went with QuarkXPress because I had some prior experience like 20 years ago using a version of it prior. It felt like I had some awareness of what its capabilities were. It's a pretty hefty program. It's a lot to learn, but I felt like I could have a headstart compared to learning Adobe from scratch. The training was thorough and there were enough online tutorials to help me get up to speed. QuarkXPress is a significant program. It was a big change for some of the folks to learn. There was a lot of hands-on mentoring that needed to be done, but it was a rewarding switch. But it was definitely a pretty challenging onboarding. QuarkXPress is great because it's got so many micro-level ways to adjust and format and things like that that are really important as a designer, as a creator. I feel like if you know what you want to do and what you want to control, that's a good headstart before you make a product selection like this. But I'm really glad I picked these guys.

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.