3 of The Best Complementary Products for Canva Users

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I love Canva, but let's face it – it has some limitations that can make it a bit challenging digital marketers, to create marketing assets for their digital products.

That’s why in today’s posts I just wanna share 3 tools that best complement Canva as a design tool.

Let’s get into it.

First up we have:

Pika.style: Screenshort Capture

Pika.style is a screenshot design tool that makes it easier for you to turn their product screenshots into visually product mockups, an area that Canva lacks in the most.

The thing that I like about Pika is the fact that they give you full customization to your screenshots, from the type of browser frame you want to add to being able to tilt the image in the position you want it to tilt at, which is something Canva doesn’t really offer.

As for how the tool works, it’s pretty simple:

Just paste in the specific webpage URL that you want to create a screenshot mockup on, and Pika will go onto capturing the image and at this point all you have to do is just customize the image any way you see fit.

You can also take full page screenshorts and mobile view screenshorts, I would say this feature is most benefitual to SaaS founders and web designers.

I go into much detail in this post!

Secondly, we have:

Tinykiwi: Image Editor

Tinykiwi is somewhat similar to Canva but is primarily focused on helping you create better looking creatives.

I primarily use Tinykiwi as my source of creative inspiration when it comes to designing my social cards and social banners (e.g., YouTube banner, LinkedIn banner, and so on).

For context: A social card is a visual and text-based snippet that represents a link when shared on social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

These cards make links more attractive and act as clickbait.

If you hang around Twitter a lot, then you know what I’m talking about.

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Placeit: Realistic Product Mockups

I can say this with a clear chest: Canva’s product mockups suck.

Placeit offers a wide range of product mockups (t-shirts, mugs, books, devices, etc.).

It’s particularly useful for e-commerce businesses, print-on-demand sellers, and marketers who need to create realistic product mockups quickly.

I’ve only used Placeit once, and that was when I was creating iPad mockups for my Notion templates. Since then, I’ve never really used it that much, but I thought I might as well include it because I know how bad Canva’s product mockups are, trust me when I say I know.