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Both cover design & graphics and thumbnails & cover art. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Desygner | Kittl | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $12.50 | From $14 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web, iOS, Android | Web |
| Covers | Design & Graphics, Social Media Management, Thumbnails & Cover Art | Thumbnails & Cover Art, Design & Graphics, Merch & Print on Demand |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
A design suite that stays free for three seats
Desygner does templates, a background remover, auto-resizing and a social scheduler, and gives all of it away on a plan that covers three people in a workspace. The whole pricing page is written as an argument against paying Canva, which tells you who it is chasing and also that the free tier is the product rather than a lure. Paid plans exist for larger teams and are sold per user by the year.
Our note
The free tier is the product here, and it is a genuinely unusual one: three seats with the background remover and the scheduler included. The rest of the pricing page is an argument against paying Canva, which is worth reading with that in mind rather than as a comparison somebody neutral wrote.
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Design templates for merch and covers
Kittl is built for the kind of design that ends up on a t-shirt or a book cover: display type, textures, badge layouts and vector effects that would take an hour in Illustrator. The template library does most of the work and the editor stays out of the way. The free plan carries no commercial rights, which matters if the design is going on something you sell.
Our note
The free plan carries no commercial rights, which matters more here than usual because the output is merch and book covers meant to be sold. Anything headed for a storefront starts at $14 a month rather than at nothing.
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