Last Updated on March 7, 2023 by Shane
The Verdict
Glorify and Canva are two similar software, but Glorify is pretty small compared to Canva for now. Glorify is like a mini version of Canva with fewer features.
Since Canva is an older and bigger software than Glorifly, it has a larger library of templates, graphics and other assets for now. Also, it has more powerful features than Glorify.
It is more affordable than Canva; however, it doesn’t have as many features as Canva. They are growing fast, but for now, I recommend Canva over Glorify. The best thing about Glorify is its pricing.
For example, if you buy a Pro plan which costs $359.91/year, 5 users will get access. This means it costs only $5.99 a month per user.
The bottom line is you can use Glorify only if your budget is extremely tight and you’re fine with a tool with lesser features.
Otherwise, go for Canva.
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Glorify Vs Canva, this comparison will clear all the doubts and questions you have about these two powerful software.
I’ll explain them in detail and help you decide which one is better than which based on your need.
At the end of this comparison, you’ll learn about the basic features, how easy they are to use, pricing, tutorials and customer support, and design quality.
And finally, what do I recommend and the reasons for it.
Comparison Table – Renderforest Vs Canva
| Glorify | Canva | |
| Overall rating |  |  |
| Ease of use | Very easy | Very easy |
| Subscription | Monthly & Yearly | Monthly & yearly |
| Free trial | Yes (limited access and no watermark) | Yes (limited access and no watermark) |
| Refund | 30 days money back guaranty | No |
| 2D Animation | No | Yes (basic animations) |
| 3D Animation | NA (not an animation tool) | NA (not an animation tool) |
| Regular Videos | No | Yes |
| Best for | Social media graphic design, graphics for eCommerce branding and marketing, google ad banners, social media ads, etc. | Regular videos, social media videos, graphic design, presentations, website design, logo design, etc. |
| Compatibility | Windows & MAC | Windows & MAC |
| Price | $119.88 to $239.88 per year | $155.88 to $179.88 per year |
| Recommended | Not for now | Yes |
| Website | www.glorify.com | www.canva.com |
Glorify – A Brief Overview
Glorify is an affordable, easy-to-use cloud-based graphic design software that’s helping thousands of businesses and individuals.
For now, it allows you to create mainly social media graphics, ebooks, mockups, digital banners, infographics, etc.
It is entirely focused on digital-only designs for eCommerce.
It was founded by two friends Omar Farook, a motion designer and Harun Rashid a serial entrepreneur, in 2019.
Its headquarter is based in London, England. By 2022, they grew their users to more than 300,000 by 2022.
They are growing fast and planning to add more features in the future. They are currently working on adding presentations and videos to the software.
If you want to know more about it, here’s their complete roadmap.
Canva – A Brief Overview
Easy-to-use, all-in-one graphic design software, Canva is arguably the most popular and loved by its users.
Canva makes graphic designing easy and accessible for everyone.
You can design or create logos, websites, videos, social media graphics, brochures, business cards, flyers, posters, and many more using Canva.
It was founded in 2013 by Melanie Perkins (Graphic Designer), Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams in Australia.
Its headquarter is in Sydney, Australia. By 2022 it grew its users to more than 80 million users.
Canva is loved by its users, mostly because of its design quality and its ease of use.
It has a huge library of professionally designed templates, graphics, and other assets.
A Brief Comparison
Glorify is a graphic design software just for eCommerce and digital designs, whereas Canva is an all-in-one graphic design tool where you can design almost everything.
Since Glorify is a new software compared to Canva, it has a lesser number of assets and features than Canva.
In Canva you can create videos for YouTube, marketing, social media, etc., but Glorify can’t do that yet.
Glorify has a plan for the future to add the feature, but not for now.
The design quality of templates and other assets of the two softwares are equally premium and high quality.
They look like they are all designed by professionals and mature designers.
Glorify is a bit more advanced and complex compared to Canva. It might take a little more effort to get used to it than Canva.
1. Basic Features
Glorify has an infinite canvas. What’s an infinite canvas?
It’s an infinite space on Glorify’s user interface where you can place all the elements infinitely.
It is helpful to bring in all the elements you need at once, place them together and organize the artboard.
Using Glorify, you can create mockups of your designs. It allows you to use their realistic 3D mockup scenes.
You can use it as an alternative to product photography.
You can centralize your brand assets like your logo and brand colors and fonts and access them quickly and easily using the Brand Kit feature.
Their background remover works like magic. It makes it so fast and easy to remove almost any kind of background from your photos.
To add a realistic touch to your images, you can add shadows or reflections to them using its shadows and reflections feature.
You can also customize opacity, transparency or color using this feature.
Its annotate tool will allow you to easily indicate the important features of your products with lines, arrows and ovals.
The smart resize feature of Glorify lets you smartly resize or create multiple variations of your design fast and easy.
This is one of my favorite features of Glorify – Template Bundle. This allows your designs to stay consistent across all your marketing campaigns.
It helps your brand to stay consistent and get stronger.
On the flipside, Canva has much more features and larger assets library than Glorify.
It can create websites, videos of any size, flyers, brochures, logos, business cards, infographics, graphs, presentations and many more that Glorify can’t.
Canva also allows you to collaborate with your team and give feedback, comments, reviews, approval and so on.
You can use it on your mobile divices as well using its iOS or Android apps.
Winner
Since Canva has so many more features than Glorify, the winner will be Canva.
Even though Glorify is a powerful tool and has a future plan to add more features, it is way behind Canva.
Canva’s features are more powerful and effective than Glorify.
2. Ease of Use
Glorify is easy to use. It is built to be used by anyone who doesn’t have any experience in design before.
Its clean and minimal user interface design makes it look easy to use and not overwhelm the users.
Let’s talk about its interface design in more detail. It consists of four main sections – the canvas, artboard, toolbar and edit and layers panel.
Artboard is placed at the center of the interface. This is a small section on the canvas where your final design will be.
The largest part at the center of the interface is its canvas.
It is a free space where you can place your design elements, play around with them and get creative.
At the left vertical corner of the interface, there’s the toolbar. Here, you’ll find all the crucial tools you need to create your designs.
The tools are shown in just icons to make the interface look minimal. There’s no text to tell you which tools they are.
Then how will you know about the tools and how to use them?
When you hover your mouse cursor on the icons, you’ll see them with the text showing you which tools they are.
The right vertical cornet of the interface is where the edit and layers panel is.
This panel will let you edit the elements you have selected, like changing colors, filters, blur, effects, color overlay, contrast, brightness, and so on.
Compared to Canva, Glorify is a little more complex for beginners. That’s because Glorify is a bit more advanced tool than Canva.
Canva is arguably the best easy-to-use graphic design software out there.
It is one of the best tools to design almost any kind of graphics fast and easily.
Unlike Glorify, it allows you to design almost anything related to graphics.
From logos to websites, brochures to business cards, posters to flyers, infographics to graphs, presentations to whiteboards, social media posts to videos and more.
Not just that, it also allows you to collaborate with your team and give comments, feedback, approval, etc., within the software.
Compared to Canva, Glorify is a little more complex for beginners. That’s because Glorify is a bit more advanced tool than Canva.
Canva is arguably the best easy-to-use graphic design software out there.
It is super beginners friendly and has only the basic features to make it less complex for its users.
Their goal is to make it as user-friendly as possible.
Even though it has a large number of features, its user interface is designed to be as simple as possible.
It is super clean and straightforward.
Canva’s user interface has four crucial parts – Canvas or artboard, toolbar, tools preview panel, and timeline.
The canvas or artboard occupies the largest part of the interface. It’s the section where you add all the elements and design.
The toolbar is at the left corner of the interface, and it’s placed vertically.
It has all the essential tools you need to use.
The tools are placed as icons with text. The icons are Templates, Elements, Uploads, Text, Photos, Styles, Videos, Backgrounds, Audio and More.
The tools preview panel is placed vertically just next to the toolbar. It shows the preview of the tool you have selected on the toolbar.
The horizontal bottom of the canvas or artboard is where the timeline is placed.
You can see this only when you are working with any kind of videos.
This shows the scenes of the videos you are making and makes it easy to trim or extend the footage.
Winner
Even though Glorify is easy to use and is designed to be user-friendly, it is a bit more complex compared to Canva.
It’s because Glorify is a little more advanced and flexible than Canva.
Hence the winner in the part of the battle is Canva.
3. Tutorials
Their YouTube channel is the only primary place to find tutorials for Glorify.
They have shared all the necessary tutorials, tricks and tips, updates and other information there to help their users.
They don’t have any kind of tutorials on their website.
They have a blog as well where you can find all the content related to design, marketing, eCommerce, social media, updates, etc. and learn about them.
On the contrary, Canva’s tutorials are almost everywhere. They have listed all the essential and common tutorials on their website.
Their Design School is the webpage on their website where you can find almost all the tutorials.
They also have free courses listed on this page if you want to master Canva.
The courses are on topics like Canva Pro for Nonprofits, Print Advertising, Canva Design Skills for Students, Typography & Layout, Creating a Logo, Canva on Your Mobile, Presentation to Impress From the Experts, Graphic Design Basics, and many more.
Not just these, they also have YouTube channels, a blog, events and a Facebook Group.
You can find other tutorials you can’t find on their website on their YouTube channel.
They share all the latest updates, short and long tutorials, interviews and more on the channel.
Their blog posts will keep you updated and educate you about marketing, branding, business, design, videos, and more.
Canva’s event is the thing I like the most about what they do to educate their users.
They organize online events every month on topics like “How to design your brand, logo, personality and more”, “Foundations of graphic design”, “Canva essential teams training”, “Designer essentials – Canva for Teams workshop”, etc.
They do so many things to help and stay engaged with their users.
Winner
Canva is doing so much more than Glorify to educate, update and help its users.
They have a dedicated tutorial webpage on their website, online free courses and online events to educate and help their users, which Glorify don’t do.
For that reason, Canva will be the winner on this part.
4. Pricing
The pricing structure of Glorify is pretty simple and straightforward. It has technically 3 plans – Free, Pro, and Business.
The Free plan costs $0, as the name says it. But it comes with limited access.
Here, you’ll have access to 3 users account, 1 workspace, 10 background removals per month, 5 downloads a month, 5 projects, and unlimited guests.
The next one, the Pro plan, costs $29.99 a month only if you pay annually. Which is $359.91 a year.
However, if you pay monthly, it will cost you $39.99 a month, which is $479.88 a year. You’ll be saving 25% by paying annually.
In this plan, 5 different users are allowed on a single account.
That means if you divide the total price by 5 users, it just costs $5.99 per user for the annual payment plan.
And for the monthly payment plan, the cost is $7.99 per user.
Finally, the Business plan costs $74.99 a month only if you pay annually; that’s $899.91/year.
If you pay monthly, the cost increases to $99.99 a month, which is $1199.88/year.
10 users are allowed on a single account in this plan.
This makes the cost per user $7.49 a month if you pay annually and $9.99 per user if you pay monthly.
Here, you’ll get access to 10 users, unlimited workspaces, unlimited BG removals, unlimited downloads, unlimited projects, unlimited guests and unlimited designs.
On the other hand, Canva has only three pricing plan options. They are the Canva Free plan, the Canva Pro plan, and the Canva for Teams plan.
The Canva Free plan allows access to more than 250,000 free templates, 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, brochures, flyers, business cards, and more), more than 1 million free photos and graphics, wide range of printable products to design and get delivered to your doorstep, 5GB of cloud storage and more.
The next plan, Canva Pro, costs $12.99 per month, which is $155.88 a year. If you make the payment at once for a year, you can save 16%.
And the third one, Canva for Teams, is $14.99 a month, which is $179.88 a year. You can again save 16% if you make the full payment of a year at once.
Winner
It is clear that the cost of Canva is more affordable than Glorify’s.
Considering the features and values Canva provides, the pricing is more reasonable than Glorify.
Hence the winner is Canva for this part.
5. Customer Support
Glorify’s customer support is not very good. They have only one way to contact them.
The chat on their website, which is a chatbot, actually.
When I raised a query and explained my problem on their chat, they wrote back they would email me in a while.
They emailed me after around 13 hours.
They could have done more than this.
On the other hand, unlike Glorify, Canva has listed all the FAQs and common queries on a dedicated page on their website.
If you can’t find your queries on the list, you can contact them through their 24/7 email customer support.
They claimed that they would get back to your queries within 24 hours. It might also take about a week, depending on the urgency of your queries.
Winner
Canva has provided more options to its users to resolve their queries and issues than Glorify.
Also, Canva’s customer service writes back to queries and tries to resolve them faster than Glorify’s.
Therefore, the winner of this part of the battle is Canva.
6. Videos and Designs Quality
Glorify’s design quality of the templates and other assets looks premium and very professional, but it doesn’t have a feature to create videos.
Similar to Canva, one of Glorify’s co-founders is a designer.
For that reason, it has good taste in designs.
The design quality of Canva is one of the best among its competitors.
The design quality of the templates for the videos and graphics is professionally designed, and they all look premium.
Some examples of designs made by using Glorify and Canva are listed below.
a. Designs created in Glorify
b. Videos created in Canva
Winner
Who’s the winner, then?
The quality of design of the two softwares is equally good. They all look professional and well-designed.
They both take design very seriously and understand the importance of design for businesses.
Since both Glorify and Canva are equally excellent in design quality, the result of this part of the battle will be a tie.
Final Thoughts
Even though Glorify is a great software, Canva has many more features than Glorify, like logo creator, website builder, video maker, and many more.
Since Glorify is a little more advanced software than Canva, it is a bit complex and takes a little longer to understand all the tools and features.
Canva provides more ways to educate and help its users than Glorify. Unlike Glorify, they have tutorials on their website and YouTube both, free online courses and free online events.
Talking about the cost of the two, Canva is more affordable than Glorify. Canva has more value for its price than Glorify.
Canva’s users have multiple ways to resolve their issues and queries; however, Glorify has only a chatbot.
The design quality of both Canva and Glorify is exceptional. They both have equally valued the importance of design.
So which one is the better one for you?
Use Glorify if
- You want just graphics but not videos
- You want a powerful and high quality graphic designing tool
- You have a team who’s going to be using the tool for designing graphics
- You don’t care about the price and want a tool that can design just graphics
- You want a little more advanced designing tool than Canva but also easy to use
Use Canva if
- You want a premium and high-quality all-in-one design software which is easy to use
- You need videos for your business or projects more than just static designs
- You want a reasonable and affordable yet high-quality design tool
- You want a team collaboration feature to give feedback, review, approval, etc.
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That’s a wrap of this epic battle Glorify vs Canva. Get the right tool and keep creating.
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