Canva vs Microsoft PowerPoint

Pick Canva if you are a marketer, founder or small team that makes a steady stream of visuals without a designer. Brand kits keep colours, fonts and logos consistent, a content planner handles social scheduling and bulk creation makes variants from a data file. Folders, comments and approvals on the Business plan suit a team that writes, approves and schedules.

The free plan covers a lot. Watch for sameness from popular templates, and for the AI allowance on your plan.

Skip it as your main tool if every deck must stay a native PowerPoint file.

Pick PowerPoint if you present to customers, investors or a board, or if your company already runs on Microsoft 365. Customers almost always accept the file, and several people can edit together in the browser, with files in OneDrive. The web version is free with a Microsoft account.

It is also the safe choice when the deck must work offline on a plane or travel as an attachment.

PowerPoint does not stop people changing fonts, logos and numbers. Set up slide masters, keep one shared master deck for sales and review pricing slides on a fixed schedule.