Adobe Spark is one of the best and easy-to-use tools for creating visually appealing graphics for social media. The service is hugely popular with influencers and budding social media artists. While Adobe offers a free version of the service, the company has brought most of Adobe Spark’s customization tools under the high-priced Creative Cloud umbrella.
Adobe Spark is an easy-to-use tool for creating eye-catching images to share on social media. However, if you want to exit the Adobe ecosystem, here are some great free Adobe Spark alternatives you can check out.
1. Canvas
Canva is often compared to Adobe Spark and is a worthy alternative. The service has more than 55 million monthly active users and provides access to over 75 million stock images. The service is easy to use and cross-platform so you can start your project on one device and continue working on another.
With its massive library of assets, you can create anything from customized social media posts to visually appealing presentations. The service even lets you collaborate with others on a project.
Canva includes thousands of premium fonts, text styles, stock images, and more to pamper you (and sometimes confuse) you. You won’t have to leave the app to find anything on the web.
Canva is available on the web and has apps available for most operating systems, including iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Images in the free tier are watermarked and you have to pay $1 to remove watermarks from each premium asset in your project.
Canva also offers Canva Pro for $12.95 per month; this gives you access to unlimited premium photos, custom templates, a branding kit and more. You can also try Canva Pro free for one month.
2. Bumper by Pablo
Pablo is a minimal and simple graphic design tool from Buffer, a well-known social media management tool. The key to Pablo is simplicity, the service requires no account creation and you can get started right away by opening the website.
You can upload a custom image or search over 600,000 images on the website, optionally apply some pre-loaded filters and add text/quotes. The image can be easily downloaded and you can also share it directly via Buffer. Pablo is one of the best ways to organize photos for social media on the go.
Pablo is web-accessible and if you need to work offline, Buffer offers a Google Chrome extension that you can install on your Windows, macOS, or Linux-based laptop.
3. Designer
Desygner is simple to use, yet offers some of the most advanced features. It has several templates available and the service even lets you import pre-built PSD and SVG files.
Desygner allows you to convert a graphic to other dimensions with a single button click. Let’s say you designed a Facebook post on Desygner and now you need to upload the same thing to Instagram, but you will have to redesign everything as the service adapts more to vertical content. In Desygner, you can quickly resize a graphic to other dimensions with just a click of a button.
Desygner is free to use on the web. It has standalone apps, but they are only available for iOS and Android. The service also offers a paid plan that will cost you $4.95 per month when paid annually and will give you access to stock photos, a social media timer, and lots of eye-catching templates. Go ahead, give it a try and we’re sure you’ll be impressed.
4. Piktochart
Piktochart is one of the best infographic creators available on the entire internet. The service offers an intuitive tutorial on registration. It has a huge library resource including helpful blogs, video tutorials and even a dedicated channel to educate users on how to use Piktochart.
Piktochart allows you to download your chart as ‘blocks’ so that you can use the standalone source elsewhere. You can also collaborate with others on a project.
Besides templates for Instagram and Facebook, Piktochart even lets you create infographics for certain things like financial forecasts or investor talks.
Piktochart is free to use, but if you want to take advantage of advanced features, the service costs $25 per month.
5. Snappa
Snappa is another impressive Adobe Spark alternative. Snappa not only gives you access to over a million stock images and vectors, but the service survives thanks to its rich library of text and fonts.
It has tight integrations with all major social media networks, making it easy to edit posts and content on the Snappa app. It has all the Adobe Spark tools, including text editing, grid view, magnetic object grabber, but with those tools Snappa has a bit of additional customization here and there.
One thing that stands out is the ‘popular’ tab where you can find many options such as color picker and image picker. It lists all the in-demand options among social media users and influencers that you can use to make your content look in line with the ongoing trends.
Snappa is also available on the web, and the company says it’s in the middle of developing standalone desktop apps. You can even try the Pro plan, which will cost $10 per month. Snappa is currently offering four months free on their Pro plan when you pay for a one-year subscription.
Leave the Adobe Ecosystem
Have you tried any of the services listed above? What features do you like compared to Adobe Spark? Want us to consider alternatives for other Adobe apps? Let us know in the comments section below.
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