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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.
A design suite that stays free for three seats
Static graphics and short animations together
Desygner | PixTeller | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $12.50 | From $9 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | None |
| API | Yes |
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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.
Only on this side
Static graphics and short animations together
PixTeller makes the small visual assets a channel gets through in a week: cover art, quote cards, banners, and short animations built from the same design rather than in a separate tool. Templates and a large photo library carry most of the work, and anything static can be given motion without leaving the editor. It is aimed squarely at people producing volume rather than at anybody chasing a particular look.
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| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
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| Their cut | None | None |
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| Runs on (they differ) | Web, iOS, Android | Web |
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| Covers | Design & Graphics, Social Media Management, Thumbnails & Cover Art | Thumbnails & Cover Art, Design & Graphics |
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| Works with | Instagram, Facebook | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
The animation is the reason to pick this over the many static graphic editors at the same price, so if you only need still images the free tiers elsewhere are broader. At $9 a month it is cheap enough that the decision usually comes down to whether the template library suits your subject matter.