Using infographic designing tools saves you a lot of time, most of these design tools come with premade templates, icons, charts, and elements using which you can make creative and professional infographics. Using the designing tool you can plan your infographic more frequently compared to designing each element and layout from scratch using software like photoshop or illustrator.
I have done extensive research, tested these tools, and had come up with the below list of the best free and paid infographic tools and apps.
This list is not meant to be a review about each tool, please feel free to click and explore each one of these amazing infographic tool. I will be doing another posts where I will review and compare between tools that belong to similar league.
In the list, I am including all of the websites that I found during my research, i.e I am not excluding anything unless it's irrelevant, I believe every tool & software is backed by people that are creative and hardworking and that each one of these designing tools deserves attention.
I will keep updating the list with new tools and also make sure to remove any discontinued tools from the list.
Once you select the tool and finish designing your infographic, do remember to check the list of infographic submission websites, free and paid for marketing your infographic.
Canva is one of the most popular design tools. Offers a huge number of infographic templates for headstart and inspiration. Once you get friendlier with Canva you can use it to manage all your other designing-related works including infographics, you don’t have to learn another tool.
Pricing: Free / Paid starts at $12.99 - With the Free plan you can do the unimaginable.
Venngage is exclusively meant for designing infographics along with designing reports, charts, and diagrams which are key functions of any infographic. It has an average traffic of over 2 million, which makes it a reliable tool.
Pricing: Free (limited to 5 designs only) / Paid plans available for monthly $16 or $39 or $499
PiktoChart is also an exclusive tool for designing infographic and reports, it also has a very easy to use video editing tool. Allows to sync data with Google sheets and convert to charts & graphs, offers a variety of graph styles including bubble & radial bar. I personally love the design of their templates.
Pricing: Free (very impressive 4 team members, 5 projects, unlimited photos, templates, elements) / Paid starts at monthly $14 and then custom plan for the enterprise. Offers special price for nonprofits $60/year and students $39.99/year.
Easelly comes with a very simple and clutter-free interface, check out their video below. Their highlight is that they offer designers for hire in 3 easy steps, they have 50+ designers with 5+ years of experience.
Pricing: Free Signup but haven’t mentioned what it includes / Paid monthly plans are $2 for students, $4 for individuals, and $5 for business.
Visme looks promising at first glance, ideal for designing infographics and presentations. They have traffic of over 3 million. You can also design printable designs with Visme, create large-size high-quality designs and download them as PDF bleeds, or images. Additionally, they also offer social media scheduler.
Pricing: Free limited design and templates / Paid monthly plans starts at $12.25 for personal use and $24.75 for business.
As the name suggests, Infogram is a tool developed primarily to design infographics, reports with charts & graphs and to visualize data for ease of understanding and marketing. The favorite feature that I love about Infogram is you can create interactive infographics with navigation between a set of infographics, like a website. Check out a video that explains the same.
Pricing: Free include 37+ interactive chart types & 10 projects / Paid monthly plans starts at $19 then $67 and $149 for team.
Express by Adobe is definitely one of the powerful cloud base designing tools, it offers background removal with a free account which a lot of other tools charge for. Though it's not a tool specifically for infographics but is nothing short of incredible since it's a tool by Adobe, the pioneer in designing software.
Pricing: Free includes limited stock photos & 2GB storage / Paid cost monthly $9.99 with 100GB storage and tons of other useful features.
Snappa is simple, you will love it if you are someone who starts a design with templates, it has got a learning curve when it comes to designing infographics, you will have to design your graphs & charts using the elements, and you cannot generate charts & graphs inside Snappa. I wish they add this feature in the near future.
Pricing: Free plan allow 3 downloads a month and 1 user only / Paid monthly plan starts at $10 for 1 user and $20 for 5 users.
Using Animaker you can visualize your story in a video format. Audiovisual is a more effective & engaging format compare to an image infographic or motion graphic. If you are a profitable business looking for conversions and engagement then you must create at least 50% of your promotional content in an AV format.
Pricing: Free signup but doesn’t mention what you get in the free plan / Paid monthly plan starts at $10 then $19 and $49
You can create animated infographics quickly and easily with Biteable. You don’t have to learn too much as the interface is simple and feels like designing tools like Canva, so you just drop your elements, graphs, charts, and characters and animate them by adjusting the settings.
Pricing: You can try it for Free without adding a payment method / Paid monthly plan is $49 and $249
If you love Canva you will most likely also fall in love with BeFunky. The interface is very smooth and fast, you can also try Befunky’s infographic maker without signing in. I think it's a great tool for photo editing and enhancing at the most affordable price, but it lacks charts & graphs. However, if you are working on an infographic that doesn’t require any charts/graphs then I would highly recommend trying Befunky infographic maker, their infographic templates look promising and pricing is extremely cheap.
Pricing: Free plan comes with limitations / Paid monthly plan costs $4.99 if you pay annually otherwise $9.99 if you pay monthly.
Mind the Graph is one of the most recommended infographic designing tools, this is because the sole purpose of this tool is only for designing infographics, it provides all the elements & features that a most advanced infographic could require. You can visualize your research papers and scientific illustrations in a matter of clicks. You just need to provide inputs to the tool and it will create the infographic layout & design automatically for you. It can save you a lot of valuable time, it's a no-nonsense infographic designer tool trusted by most honored institutions like Harvard, Stanford, Pearson, and more.
Pricing: Free is very limited but good to try out the tool / Paid monthly plan starts at $6.5 if bought yearly otherwise $9.9, they have 2 more price slabs if need be.
Conclusion: There are so many choices for an infographic design tool, some are better than others in terms of pricing, features, usability, etc. It's indeed a hard decision to make.
My core advice is that you shortlist the 3 best tools of your choice from the list, sign up for a free or trial account, and use the tool with your maximum capacity, this will help you find out which tool offers you the best return in terms of usability, functionality, responsiveness, most graphics & design elements. Sign up for an annual paid plan only once you have done the alpha-beta testing first.
I am still using Canva because it was the first cloud tool I started using and got used to. But while writing this blog post I have come to believe it's time to try other tools when it comes to designing infographics, I think I will give Visme a try and might write a blog post comparing it with Canva.