Venngage

Pros: The large library of templates of which you can easily adapt for your intended purpose.

Cons: The lack of functionality without paying for the premium subscription, like downloading the files you need but as long as you're online for presentations or showcasing to customers then you'll be a-okayyy!

Overall: I'm working through it slowly and finding great ways of creating visual aids ie inforgraphics to explain different parts of my business or and communicating the right message to the right customer in an easy way.

Pros: Numerous templates, many icons, and graphics to choose from, ease to publish

Cons: Not easy to move from one to another like copy and paste

Overall: I use the product to create infographics for my consulting and training firm to promote our training workshops or to post on our website or Facebook. Once the research is done, I can knock out one in an hour or so.

Pros: My students and I have enjoyed using Venngage for poster-making projects and infographics. There's a lot to like about it, especially since it's easy to learn to use and it's very user friendly. My students were creating in no time at all. Venngage offers of good selection of templates to choose from and they are well arranged and filtered when searching for a template type.

The offered templates look good - they are well designed, simple, and clean. The templates are helpful in the classroom because it gives students somewhere to start - less artistic students don't have to stare at a blank screen; instead, they are given an idea or motivation to start from and edit. Editing and creating is simple with the drag-and-drop features and layout of the platform. Venngage also offers a good selection of images that you are allowed to use in your projects for free; however, you do not have the ability to upload personal pictures with the free version. Another great features is that it autosaves - this is great for a generation of students that is accustomed to Google Apps automatically saving, at all times.

Cons: While I've enjoyed using Venngage for a few projects, I do have some concerns. For starters, you cannot upload your own images on the free version (a feature available with other platforms). Beyond that, you cannot download or export images as a PDF or PNG unless you have the premium version. Even though I like Venngage, this was somewhat frustrating to discover as I'd never experienced this problem with similar platforms. You can also only create 4 designs for free and all of these projects will contain the Venngage logo/branding. I must point out that my least favorite things about this software are all "free subscription" problems. From what I've read, if you purchase a subscription, all of my concerns are resolved. I understand - they are a tech company and they need to charge for the awesome product. I've just found other platforms with similar abilities that offer more features for free. I think it would be phenomenal if they'd consider some sort of teacher or education package, but as of now, this is too pricey for educational purposes.

Overall: I have been pleased with Venngage and what it has allowed my students to do; however, I think the free version is too limited.

Pros: Lots of templates and icons to support unique graphics

Cons: Would be nice if you could request custom templates

Pros: It is relatively easy to put together an infographic using this software. Having spreadsheet-like capability when importing data is useful and an easy-to-read infographic can be created very fast.

Cons: Infographics tend to not be pleasing to the eye even when utilizing their templates. The visual elements in the library are very basic and although it is possible to import your own, it adds a lot of time to the design. I also think the software has issues when it comes to alignment. The crosshairs confirming that an element is centered always seem to be off by 5-10%.

Overall: My marketing team uses Venngage when creating quick infographics for content marketing and social.

Pros: Graphics, ease of use , multiple template selections

Cons: Very few templates are designed in landscape format

Shouldn't have to pay more to better organize "me designs"

Pros: Wide variety of info graphics available on the platform

Cons: There are not a lot of free templates which limits the ability to really try out

Pros: What I like most about this software is that it gives me acces to a host of icon options. In short, Venngage allows me to be versatile with icon usage in my website design processes.

Cons: I would like more vocabulary attached to the icons and I would like a larger variety of icons to be available.

Overall: Website trends reflect a reduced interest in both stock photo's and information. I do away with both by converting information to relate to icons and short statements. Website users prefer this. My websites are visually more appealing and users are happier.

Pros: I love working with Venngage- everything is easy to use and the templates are eye catching.

Cons: You cannot access all templates for free, yet they present them as though you can.

Pros: If you are producing charts to present data, Venngage excels with many chart templates and symbol elements offered for free.

Cons: Venngage offers the ability to produce a fair image with their online image for free, which is greatly appreciated. However, their interface and results are not as sleek looking as what you can produce with some of their competitors. It is difficult to present ideas that are more conceptual and visual than numbers-driven with Venngage.

Overall: I have used Venngage to generate chart images for my non-profit. I have found them more challenging than some of their competitors to use for creating idea-driven infographics.