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VistaCreate
What Is VistaCreate?
VistaCreate (ex-Crello) is a graphic design platform that allows anyone to create striking visual content. On October 27, 2021, Crello joined the Vista group of companies and changed its brand name to VistaCreate.
Access 150K+ professionally designed templates and a vast library of 70M+ photos, videos, and clipart. Quickly edit images and video content, remove photo backgrounds, and add music. Download, share, or print your projects for commercial, professional, or personal use.
Who Uses VistaCreate?
VistaCreate was created for entrepreneurs, small businesses, marketing professionals, and bloggers who need to create content daily without having a large budget.
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Reviews of VistaCreate
Affordable yet extremely functional
Comments: I AM very satisfied with VistaCreate and look forward to learn more every day.
Pros:
Ease of use, price and versatility are a welcome combo.
Cons:
The names of the functional, some of them are misleading.
VistaCreate Response
10 months ago
Hi there! Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with VistaCreate! We're delighted to hear that, and your satisfaction is our top priority. We also appreciate your commitment to learning and growing with VistaCreate. Regarding the functional names, we appreciate your feedback. We are continuously working on improving our platform, and your insights are valuable in this process. If you have specific suggestions or details on which names you find misleading, we'd love to hear more to enhance your experience further. We're thrilled to have you as part of the VistaCreate community, and if you ever have questions or need assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thank you for choosing VistaCreate!
A fantastic tool with useful features that's sadly behind the competition.
Comments: In my pros and cons I compared Vistacreate directly with Canva, Kittl, and Microsoft Designer for obvious reasons. Because Vistacreate, Canva, and Kittl are all a similar monthly price, I consider this a fair comparison. Vistacreate is a great program. It works well. It has a ton of useful tools and you can use it to quickly create designs. The program felt like it was supporting me as the creator. However, with a significant lack of graphical assets and a poor search tool, Vistacreate is significantly harder to use to create a truly creative design. I was fortunate enough to be able to purchase a lifetime license of Vistacreate through Appsumo, which makes it an AMAZING deal that I would wholeheartedly recommend. However, at the normal price of around $120/year it is much harder to recommend VS the competition. If you stick strictly with templates and value ease-of-use, then Vistacreate is a great way to go. However, if you want more control over your designs, better integrations with other tools, more photos, graphics, icons and illustrations to choose from, then there are better alternatives to Vistacreate. At the end of the day, I still think the program is well worth the asking price. You get a lot of functionality for the money. If the other tools didn't exist, I would give Vistacreate a 5 out of 5. But because the competition is SO good, I have to give it a 4 out of 5 for now.
Pros:
- Fast, fluid and simple UI - Fantastic, high-quality template selection compared to similar programs. - Quick and effective background removal tool - Quick masks to transform any photo into a shape (better than Canva frames) - A useful "Brand Kit" tool to keep the primary logos, colors, and fonts nearby. I wish I could add more than 3 fonts to a single brand identity. However, you can have many brand kits available at once, so that helps. - The ability to quickly create video-centric content (Reels, Stories, Animated Intros) is simpler and faster to use than competing programs. It lacks some of the more powerful video-centric tools, but speed and ease-of-use is more important for multi-purpose tool like Vistacreate.
Cons:
- Although there are an OK amount of objects/graphics, it still pales in comparison to Canva and Kittl. This is the greatest reason I can't totally recommend using Vistacreate over these other tools. - The search functionality is way behind competitors. This is another BIG negative. (See below for more details) - Vistacreate needs better layer management tools. Right now it's only the very basic "Move Backward" "Move Forward" type of system. - The mockup tools are slightly behind Canva and Pixelied, and way behind Kittl. - Vistacreate has fewer AI tools than competitors (if you care about them). Although most AI tools still fall in the "neat gimmick" category, some are becoming truly useful. Regarding the search tool: For fun I searched "Astronaut Cat" on Vistacreate, Canva, Kittl, and Microsoft Designer: Vistacreate gave me nothing. Not a single graphic. It's easily in last place. It didn't even show me a single generic cat or astronaut graphic. Microsoft Designer was in third place. It gave me generic cat and space graphics but not a single astronaut cat. But at least it showed me something. It also makes up a little ground with its ability to create Cat Astronaut icons using AI. Kittl is strongly in second place, and not far from first. Kittl provided about 8 images of astronaut cats. But it also gave many different and unique astronauts, cats in space, and even a hamster and other animal astronaut images. Lots to choose from. Canva was the obvious winner providing over 20+ different astronaut cats, 15+ cat-in-space graphics, and tons of other various astronaut, cat, and space graphics.
VistaCreate Response
2 weeks ago
Hi Devon, Thank you for your detailed review! We’re glad to hear that you enjoy features like the templates, background removal, BrandKit, and video content creation. We also appreciate your feedback on areas where we can improve. We’re actively working to expand our assets and enhance the search feature, so your input is really valuable. We’re also thrilled that you found great value with your lifetime license! If you have any further suggestions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out. Thanks again for your support!
Sucks
Comments: Easier to create than in VistaPrint, but doesn't work well, ie no resize, had to download PDF and upload it to Vista Print.
Pros:
The backgrounds and templates are good. There are a lot of choices.
Cons:
Could not resize my flyer. Customer service had to do it. Customer service is very inadequate. Simple questions are evaded and unanswered. Seemed inexperienced. Insulted me with suggestions that are obvious. Could not get the cart to show to print on Vista Print. Finally had to download the PDF from Create and upload it to Vista print. Seems like this program tries hard but misses the mark.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hi Cynthia! Thank you for sharing your opinion with us. We will ensure to consider it to improve our platform and customer service in the future.
Happy to have moved from a well-known platform
Comments: Overall I LOVE Vista as the interface is simple, clean, easy to navigate; the free versions are perfect and of High resolution too! For a beginner, it is the perfect solution ;-) Thank you team!!
Pros:
The HD quality of the graphics when I download them. I moved from a well known and used service because of their bad image resolution .... even for paid versions!
Cons:
It can be improved with more feature choices like creating bulk graphics to schedule them to social media for at least 30 days. Or choose the view of our pages to show in vertical view. Or the ability to get free designs from other creators in Vista.
VistaCreate Response
3 months ago
Hi Diana, Thank you so much for your detailed review! We’re thrilled to hear that you’re happy with the HD quality of our graphics and that you found VistaCreate to be a simple and effective solution for your design needs. We appreciate your suggestions for additional features. Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we’re always looking for ways to enhance the user experience. If you have any other ideas or need assistance, feel free to reach out. We’re here to help! Thanks again for choosing VistaCreate!
Good free site.
Comments: Very positive. I was able to do a few graphics very easily
Pros:
Easy to use. I found it was more easy to navegate than canva. More beginner friendly. Also is free. Tgat is a plus for personal projects
Cons:
I would like the option to create in bulk. I didn’t see it
VistaCreate Response
3 months ago
Hi Carla, Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! We’re delighted to hear that you find VistaCreate easy to use and more beginner-friendly. It’s great to know that our free option has been beneficial for your personal projects. We appreciate your feedback, and we’re always looking for ways to improve. Your suggestions help us enhance the platform for all users. If you have any other ideas or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to support you!
I'm thrilled to have discovered this!
Comments: FUN as well as impressed with the ease of use.
Pros:
Ease of use vs. dealing with sizing of elements to fit a certain format.
Cons:
I'm satisfied with the starter because I design elements myself.
VistaCreate Response
3 months ago
Hi Shawna, Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We're thrilled to hear that you find VistaCreate easy to use and enjoyable, especially compared to your previous experience. It’s great to know that our platform is helping you create designs more efficiently. If you ever have questions or need assistance as you continue to design, feel free to reach out. Happy creating!
Great app for making presentations
Pros:
I love that it is an easy app to use, has tutorials, and has clear features. It makes my work more accessible and optimizes the time I take in order to finish a presentation
Cons:
I think there needs to be more content on the music library
VistaCreate Response
last year
Hi Jessy! Your kind feedback drives us to keep it up, thank you! As for the request to add more content to the music library - we will definitely pass it on to our Product team for consideration.
Vista Create is a great platform to design posters and flyers.
Comments: Vista is great. I have made money using Vista Create, designing flyers, posters, and ads for people. I would recommend it to friends any time.
Pros:
It is very easy to use, and their customer support is unbelievable.
Cons:
The templates were not always on target for my target audience.
VistaCreate Response
9 months ago
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with VistaCreate! We're delighted to hear that you find our platform easy to use and that our customer support has been helpful to you. We appreciate your feedback regarding the templates, and we'll certainly consider it as we continue to improve our offerings to meet the needs of our users better. It's fantastic to hear that VistaCreate has been instrumental in helping you design flyers, posters, and ads and even earn money from your creations! Your recommendation means a lot to us. If you have any further feedback or questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're here to support you every step of the way. Thank you again for choosing VistaCreate!
Lots of styles/forms to choose from
Comments: Had fun looking at all the different styles from which I could make a Certificate of Appreciation.
Pros:
Many ways to make a Certificate and many other types of forms, flyers, etc.
Cons:
This was my first time to visit the site (Nov 10, 2024). Will have more inputs later.
VistaCreate Response
last month
Hi Greg, Thank you for your review and for taking the time to explore our site! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed browsing the various styles for creating Certificates of Appreciation, as well as the other forms and templates we offer. We understand that you're just getting started with us, and we look forward to hearing more of your thoughts as you continue to explore our platform. If you ever have any questions or need assistance, don't hesitate to reach out via [email protected]—our team is here to help.
Complete app from design to printing to shipping
Comments: I wanted to try to create a menu for the restaurant and a business card and then I sent the business cards with vistaprint to my restaurant
Pros:
I liked the ability to create multiple things about the app
Cons:
The thing I least liked about the app is that it isn't very easy to use.
VistaCreate Response
2 weeks ago
Hi Cristian, Thank you for sharing your feedback! We're glad to hear that you enjoyed the ability to create multiple designs and found the app useful for your restaurant's menu and business cards. We also appreciate your thoughts on the user experience. We're always looking for ways to improve, and your input will help us make the app more intuitive and user-friendly. If you have any suggestions or need assistance with any features, please feel free to reach out. We're here to help!
Alternatives Considered:
Great if you want something quick and easy to use to make great social media posts and graphics
Comments: It's great for me as I need to create a lot of social media posts and Crello makes producing posts a lot quicker than the software I was using before, just because it cuts out a lot of the additional options that something like Photoshop has which aren't really needed for my social media posts.
Pros:
Easy to use, great value and also now is integrated with Publer.
Cons:
Some glitches with certain browsers not working all the time with it and on occasion I get some what appear to be guide lines appear on the screen which seem to restrict what I am able to do. I'm not sure how to get rid of them and so end up having to go out of a project and then back into it to carry on editing it.
VistaCreate Response
3 years ago
Hey Phil, thank you for sharing your use case. We are pleased to hear you are now our lifetime user and we hope you will further enjoy working in Crello
Vistacreate is an easy way to do your work but, Don't expect much
Comments: I use it only when i want to do small works ( which is very cool with ) faster but, i don't depend on it in big works which need many details
Pros:
It saves alot of time in doing small projects because the drag and drop is the most important feature for me
Cons:
There are no Arabic fonts. Also, the background removal should be in the free trial because it is the feature which made me use it more than Canva
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hello there, thank you for your feedback! We will keep it up! Regarding the background removal - yes, it is included in the free trial along with the other PRO features. Users are welcome to use them all freely during the 14-day free trial.
Alternatives Considered:
Create Winners with VistaCreate!
Comments: I was using this software when it was Crello. Excellent software, it can do so much! I highly recommend! With the integration to Vista, it's now easy to print.
Pros:
VistaCreate is easy to use and intuitive. It has templates that you can customize for fonts, colors, photos/videos, or you can start from scratch. I love that it uses royalty-free photos, vectors, and has background removal.
Cons:
No problems to report! Nothing that I dislike...it's a keeper!
VistaCreate Response
3 years ago
Hi Monique! We value your positive feedback. It motivates us to keep it up to the top-notch level.
Alternatives Considered:
Truly inspiring visual creatives
Comments: I only have good things to say about my experience with Crello. The small inconveniences that I have experienced are not enough to takeaway from me using Crello for a long time to come. I love being able to whip out a creative in as little as 5 minutes!
Pros:
Crello is my go to software for creating my social media and marketing creatives. It makes the process so quick and easy, I could actually spend hours in the software just trying new things. I love the templates that they continue to provide in the sofrware, with new inspirational templates being released constantly. I consider myself creative, however sometimes I need a little bit of inspiration to get me going - Crello is perfect for this. It is easy to use and doesn't over complicate the process of moving elements around the canvas. I love the animations they provide in the software as well - especially given video is one of the main booming areas of marketing now. I also love how easy it is to use my own images and logos to include in my designs. Crello has definitely made itself a good contender in the marketing space. I also love the amount of options/formats that are available to export in Crello.
Cons:
Sometimes it is hard to select elements that have been layered towards the back of the canvas. In the end to resolve the issue I would have to move all the layers/elements in front of it to get to the desired element. A layer selection tab would be ideal to resolve this - which I have requested to their support (who are very responsive and quick to answer any issues I have). Also due to the sheer number of templates/formats they provide, it also takes some time to find the right template that I want to use. It would be great if the software remembered my most used template (or even a "Recently used" section would be ideal).
Deja Vu Optics
Comments: I like the product. I currently use Corel Draw and Corel Vector for my graphics. May look at changing down the road.
Pros:
Is web based, so can access anywhere there is an internet connection to edit, can invite collaborators
Cons:
Could have a downloadable Desk top that is connected to the on line account and would update both ways.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hello there, Vince! Thank you for your kind feedback. We will keep your suggestion into consideration to improve VistaCreate website in the future!
I love the templates and the whole experience.
Comments: I solve many things with Vista Create, from perfecting my posts, banners, videos, customizing photographs for photo frames, personal things, I'm already working on my portfolio and I manage to make beautiful presentations for my digital marketing course.
Pros:
I love the templates and every experience I've had with this app. Easy to use, practical, dynamic, intuitive. There is an incredible variety of tools that allow anyone to become a good designer.
Cons:
I really like the app, and I'm learning more every day, at the moment I have no complaints, I think I hardly ever will.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hi Lilian, thank you for your feedback! We will keep it up!
How to easy used and change icon
Comments: Nice, somtime slow
Pros:
Share and save tools are nice, introduced how to used are nice
Cons:
Move tools are slowly, selected and zoom are slowly
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hey there, Nuttaya¿ We appreciate your feedback. Please, consider cleaning out the cache and cookies to ensure the speedy connection. Regards, VistaCreate Care Team
Liked My First Round With VistaCreate
Comments: I liked my first try at using it. I see the potential for it, and I have a lot more to explore.
Pros:
The animation tools, and the ability to create multiple pages within each project, and then save my projects, while also being able to save and export the files into both GIF image format and MP$ video format.
Cons:
Some of the text fonts don't allow the letters of some of the fonts to fit inside the text box, and the parts outside of the text box are cut off. I also had several issues with certain letters and symbols in my text boxes that would be BLACK instead of the color selected for the text. This needs to be corrected if I'm going to pay for the software, as I hate wasting time on my projects due to inefficiencies in the tools I use.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Good day, Greg! Thank you for sharing your opinion with us. We will ensure to consider it to improve our platform in the future.
Vista they are excellent in communication they give you a wide space to improve your choice.
Comments: I like Vista they are excellent.
Pros:
For the graphic design that I'm looking for, Vista support and help in choosing and modifying as you like.
Cons:
support you in fined and creating your design.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hi Rafid, thank you for your feedback! We will keep it up!
VistaCreate - It gets better and better
Comments: I'd classify VistaCreate as an Intermediate Graphics Software. After a short learning curve, you will start appreciating and valuing the hidden features that VistaCreate's developers have built
Pros:
I like its combination of having Video and Images under one roof. A close second is its Animation templates, which I really really really like.
Cons:
Limited video editing functions. It may not be fair to fault VistaCreate on this aspect because it is primarily a (Static) Graphics Editing Software. But who knows, may as time goes by, their developer will improve and the video editing functions might match those of their graphics editing features.
VistaCreate Response
3 years ago
Hi Hak Chong! It is a pleasure to receive feedback from our loyal user. Indeed, we keep progressing and adding more functions and features. We will ensure to widen the functionality to meet all needs of our customers.
seasons
Comments: Nowadays it is to stay in fashion and go hand in hand with new prospects, so I recommend roasting it
Pros:
The success of a campaign is thanks to the impeccable use of it. I highly recommend it.
Cons:
I trust it's my inspirations so I don't have to comment on this.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
We are grateful to get such feedback from our dear customers. We will keep it up!
Great team collab graphic tools for online visuals
Comments: Overall vistacreate satisfies all my online/web post and banner creations. However, when you need a high-end grade graphics done, you'll still have to go back to Adobe suites of tools
Pros:
Easy to use and very similar to its trail blazer competitor Canva. One better thing it does is canva pro allows up to 10 team members to work on my graphic's. It's great for small business, or small agency.
Cons:
Export functions are not very good. Only supports English and no other languages, export format is limiting.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hi! Thank you for sharing your opinion with us. We will ensure to consider it to improve our service in the future.
21st Century Best Online Graphic Design Tool
Comments: VistaCreate is now my employer considering the fact that I did not manage to secure a job when I graduated from college. It is only VistaCreate services that are helping to pay up my bills.
Pros:
It is flexible and allows the products to be delivered in different outputs for example pdfs, images, videos, and many more.
Cons:
I would prefer if the software can introduce a desktop version for the platform just like what they did with mobile phone version but the desktop version should have more great features than the mobile one. The Desktop app should also have offline capability.
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Hi! Thank you for sharing your opinion with us. We will ensure to consider it to improve our service in the future.
Design superb graphics for your social media posts
Comments: One of the SaaS that I use daily. It makes life easy for me as I can get my social media posts ready in no time.
Pros:
1. Crello has gorgeous templates 2. It is extremely simple to use and you do not need any tutorials 3. It autosaves your work 4. Resize option is great as it allows you to easily customize your post for different social media channels
Cons:
1. The keyboard does not work very well with Crello. I would love that to improve
VistaCreate Response
3 years ago
We do our best and we're pleased our efforts resonate with you. Your suggestion was forwarded to our developers. Thank you for helping us become better.
Vista Create - used to be Crello
Comments: For a basic graphic design for somebody with no skills, it's good
Pros:
It's basically easy to use and creates a good design
Cons:
It's not super intuitive, and there are some limitations, but they do have tutorials that you can use to eventually figure out what you want, and although it may take a day, their customer service will point you in the right direction with tutorial links as well
VistaCreate Response
2 years ago
Dear Christian! Thank you for your feedback. We're happy to develop such a wonderful tool 💙