Awhile back a representative at Visme found me on Twitter and asked if I would like to try out their premium product for 3 months. My options expressed below are my own.
I’m a heavy Canva user and have been a premium member there for quite a while. I found Visme to be full of great assets. The layout and styling options are easy to use. It’s also filled with lots of modern looking templates.
The Upsides: One unique and cool feature of Visme is that they have a diversity tool so that you can change the skin tone of each character you add to a design.
The characters also come with a whole menu option full of poses. This feature is great because I often have to spent a lot of time searching through pages and pages of graphics to find the same character (or art style) but in different poses or with different expressions. And their animation tools are fantastic. However, the characters poses are only available animated and do not show “posed” if you download as anything other than a video.
Here is a quick piece I did to show the skin tone options. You can also create your own skin tone palettes so the customizations are limitless.
Click here to see it animated.
There are also avatars. These faces have customizable colors, but do not come with preset pallets so it can be tricky getting them looking just right. The top line of the sample image below is Visme vanilla. The bottom line is with my tweeks.
However they DO hold their pose after the animate ends, see below for animated version.
Adding data to an infographic is a snap and there is a whole tool for adding sections to your infographic. You can also make the infographic interactive with hot spots, links and embeds. Which takes your infographic to a whole new futuristic level.
I spend about 15 minutes creating this reading infographic with random facts I found on Google. I didn’t add any of the really fancy featured mention about, but I can see where those would be great editions that would only take a little more time.
The Downsides: I found there was a lack of religious and holiday graphics. Both of which I rely on heavily. Also while creating the sample infographic for this post I couldn’t find any icons for child or children except a bottle and pacifier. And there are no children characters.
In general there are not a lot of different art styles to pick from. If you like their modern design elements you are good to go. If you want a different aesthetic then you may want to look elsewhere.
There is also some issue with artifacting with the animations. As you can see in the gif above.
They also do not have a font search or sort function, which I have come to rely on in Canva.
Bottom line:
I will use Visme in the future when making storyboards or infographics. It’s an excellent tools for both. It seems Visme has been adding lots of new tools and graphics to their offerings. And will be one to keep your eye on. I will continue to use Canva for most of my daily creations, like social graphics and worksheets.
Update: For clarification, Visme asked me to let you know that Visme is much more than an infographic tool. If you’d like to see what else it can do please click one of the links below.
- Visme can be used to make Graphs and Charts
- You can create Printables such as Flyers in Visme
- Visme can also be used to create Scatter Plots
- Visme also has a Survey results tool
Let me know: Have you tried Visme or Canva? Do you use any other online or cloud based design tools? Drop me a comment and let’s chat about it.