Piktochart Alternatives in 2026: The Short Version
Most people leaving Piktochart want another infographic maker, so start there. Venngage is the closest like for like replacement. Canva is the best free one, because its free plan downloads PDF and PowerPoint files where Piktochart Free ends after 2 PNG files. Visme is the pick for interactive reports, Infogram and Datawrapper for charts and maps, and Gamma or Beautiful.ai for presentations.
One reader gets a different answer. If you have an app on the App Store and you opened Piktochart to make social posts for it, use Spreadcast: it designs each post from your App Store listing and publishes it for you, so there is no editor to open. Spreadcast is not an infographic maker, and it will not build a report, a chart or a slide deck.
We make Spreadcast, and it comes first in the list for that one reader, because it is the only tool here that does the design work instead of moving it to another editor. The nine tools after it are ranked by how well they replace Piktochart for infographics, reports, charts and presentations. Every price below was read on the vendor's own page on October 13, 2026.
What Piktochart Is in 2026 and What It Is Used For
Piktochart is a browser editor for infographics, reports and presentations, aimed at people who are not designers. Piktochart's home page now leads with Piktochart AI, which drafts an infographic, report or presentation from a prompt, and with Pikto AI Studio, a set of image tools that includes an image generator, a background remover and an upscaler. The same page promotes AI video generation, and the product menu lists a video editor and a screen recorder beside the visual editor.
The classic editor is still the core. You pick a format (infographic, presentation, report, poster, flyer or social media graphic), start from a template and add charts, maps, icons and tables. Piktochart's guide to importing chart data describes three routes: typing the numbers in, uploading an XLS, XLSX or CSV file, or linking a Google Sheet. Its guide to inserting charts adds a detail worth knowing: charts are interactive only on a published link and turn static in a PNG or PDF.
Piktochart AI also accepts a file. The help page on uploading a document says it reads one TXT, DOCX or text based PDF file at a time and turns it into an infographic, a print format, a presentation or a document. Scanned PDFs are not supported.
One practical limit: this is a desktop tool. Piktochart's page on mobile compatibility, last updated in June 2025, says the editor works best on a desktop or laptop in Chrome or Firefox and is not yet optimized for mobile browsers.
How to Use Piktochart: Making an Infographic Step by Step
If you are weighing Piktochart against the alternatives below, it helps to know how it works. These steps follow Piktochart's getting started guide, updated on June 3, 2026, and its help pages on infographics and saving.
- Step 1
Pick a Format on the Dashboard
After you sign up and log in, the dashboard lists the formats: infographics, presentations, posters, reports and flyers, each sized for its use. Templates marked Premium need a paid plan, and a keyword search such as annual report narrows the list. Piktochart's infographic page says the long infographic format suits websites and blogs and looks stretched in print, so pick Poster, Flyer or Report for anything you will print.
- Step 2
Start From a Template, a Blank Canvas or AI
Select a template and then Edit Template, or choose Start from Blank. Create with AI builds a scrollable infographic from a prompt, pasted text or an uploaded document, which you then adjust for layout, colors and elements.
- Step 3
Edit Text, Graphics, Charts and Maps
Double click a text box to change it. Add icons, photos, charts and maps, and upload your own photos under Graphic, then Photos. Chart data can be typed in, uploaded as a spreadsheet or linked from Google Sheets, as covered above. Drag the line at the bottom of a block to change its height, or set exact dimensions with Resize.
- Step 4
Save Often, in One Tab
Piktochart's saving page says the editor saves each time the canvas changes but can miss changes on an unstable connection, so it recommends pressing Save. Its session page mentions an auto save every 2 minutes and warns against keeping more than one editor tab open, because that can end your session.
- Step 5
Download, Publish or Share
Download as PNG, PDF or PowerPoint, depending on your plan, publish the visual as a link, or share it to social networks. On the free plan the 2 PNG downloads never come back, so publish by link while you are still trying the editor.
Video: Designing an Infographic in Piktochart
Piktochart's own walkthrough, if you want to see the editor before you compare it with the tools below.
Piktochart Pricing in 2026: Plans, Prices and Limits
Every alternative on this page is measured against these plans. Prices are in US dollars from Piktochart's pricing page, read on October 13, 2026. AI credit numbers are per member per month, from Piktochart's AI credits help page.
| Plan | Price | Downloads | AI credits a month | Storage and brand kit | Where people hit the limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, for 1 to 4 members | 2 PNG files per account, in total | 60 | 1 GB, 1 folder, no brand kit | The 2 downloads do not come back. Free templates only, no live chat support |
| Pro | $15 per member a month, or $10 billed annually ($120 a year) | PNG only, with no cap | 500 | 100 GB, no brand kit | No PDF, no PowerPoint, and no saved brand colors, fonts or logos |
| Business | $20 per member a month, or $17 billed annually ($204 a year) | PNG, PDF and PowerPoint | 1,000 | 250 GB, Brand Kit with colors, fonts and logos | The price multiplies per member: 5 people cost $100 a month billed monthly |
| Enterprise | Quote from sales, for 101 members or more | PNG, PDF and PowerPoint | 1,000 | 250 GB, single sign on | No public price |
| Education | $39.99 per member a year | PNG, PDF and PowerPoint | 250 | 100 GB, a limited brand kit | Needs a valid educational email address |
| Nonprofit | $60 per member a year | PNG, PDF and PowerPoint | 250 | 100 GB, a limited brand kit | Registered nonprofits only. Government and healthcare bodies do not qualify |
How much does Piktochart cost a year? $120 per member for Pro and $204 per member for Business. Paying yearly saves $60 on Pro (12 times $15 is $180) and $36 on Business (12 times $20 is $240). The pricing page says Piktochart generally gives no refunds, and its help page on pausing a subscription offers a pause of 1, 2 or 3 months as the alternative to cancelling.
Is Piktochart Free? What the Free Plan Stops At
Yes, there is a free plan with no time limit. Piktochart's Free Account help page, updated on September 17, 2026, lists what it includes: as many projects as you like, a selection of free templates, up to 4 members in a workspace, 1 folder, 1 GB of storage and 60 AI credits that refresh every month.
The catch is the download count. A free account gets 2 PNG downloads, and the same page is blunt about it: "This download limit does not refresh once used." That is 2 files for the life of the account, so the free plan is a way to try the editor and not a way to keep producing. Publishing a visual to a public link and embedding it on a website are ticked on the free plan too, so a visual can be seen without a download.
There is no watermark to worry about. The pricing table ticks the row for no Piktochart logo on downloads on every plan, Free included. The limit is the number of files and the format: Piktochart's download help page says Free and Pro download PNG only, Business adds PDF and PowerPoint, and JPEG export is not supported on any plan.
AI credits go further or shorter depending on what you make. The credits page prices a topic prompt at 1 credit, a document summary at 3, a text to image generation at 6, a Pikto AI Studio image tool at 25 and an AI video at 250. So the 60 free credits cover 60 prompt drafts or 10 generated images (60 divided by 6), and no AI video at all. Pro's 500 credits cover 2 videos and Business's 1,000 cover 4. Extra packs start at 2,000 credits for $20, which is 1 cent a credit, and bought credits do not expire.
A caution about sources. Piktochart's own pages disagree with each other. Its comparison page against Venngage says the free plan includes every template and lists JPG among the export formats, while the pricing page says free templates only and the help center says JPEG is not supported. The help page on sharing and publishing still describes a free account being locked after a free access period. We followed the pricing page and the most recently updated help pages.
Why People Look for a Piktochart Alternative
These are the limits that send people searching, each one taken from Piktochart's pricing page or help center in October 2026.
Two Downloads, Then a Paywall
The free plan allows 2 PNG downloads per account and they never renew. Canva, Datawrapper and Gamma all let a free account keep downloading files.
PDF and PowerPoint Sit on Business
Pro costs $15 a month and still downloads PNG only. A PDF report or a PowerPoint file needs Business at $20 per member a month, which is $5 more for a format most rivals include lower down.
No Brand Kit Below Business
The pricing table shows 0 brand colors, fonts and logos on Free and Pro. Piktochart's brand assets page describes saved fonts, color schemes and logos as the way to stay consistent, and they start at $20 a month. Adobe Express includes brand kits at $9.99.
The Price Is per Member
Every seat pays. Five people on Business are $100 a month billed monthly (5 times $20) or $85 a month billed annually (5 times $17). The free workspace takes 4 members, and the fifth pushes the whole team onto a paid plan.
AI Credits Go Fast on Images and Video
One AI video costs 250 credits, half of a Pro member's 500 for the month. An image tool in Pikto AI Studio costs 25. Monthly credits do not roll over.
Charts Go Static When You Download
Piktochart's charts are interactive on a published link only. In a PNG or PDF they are pictures, and in a PowerPoint export charts and maps arrive as static images. Infogram, Flourish and Datawrapper are built around charts that stay live.
The Editor Wants a Desktop
The help center says the editor is not yet optimized for mobile browsers and recommends Chrome or Firefox on a computer. If you work from a phone or a tablet, that rules it out.
The Posts Still Have to Be Made
A design tool gives you a canvas. If the job was a weekly post about your app, the canvas was never the hard part, the hour was. Our article on the real cost of designing social posts by hand puts numbers on that.
Piktochart Alternatives at a Glance
Piktochart is the baseline row. Spreadcast is ours and comes next. Paid prices are for one person, billed monthly unless the cell says otherwise.
| Tool | Best for | Free plan | Starting paid price | Who does the design work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piktochart (baseline) | Infographics, reports and presentations from templates or AI | Yes, 2 PNG downloads in total | $15 a month, or $10 billed annually | You design it, or edit an AI draft |
| Spreadcast | Apps: every social post designed and published for you | Yes, every post drafted for 1 app | $29 a month flat, with design, captions and publishing to 8 networks included | Spreadcast designs it and publishes it for you |
| Venngage | Infographics and reports, with accessibility tools | Yes, 5 designs, no downloads | $19 a month, or $10 billed yearly | You design it from a template |
| Canva | Free infographics and every other kind of graphic | Yes, with PDF and PPTX downloads | $18 a month, or $144 a year | You design it, and Pro can schedule it |
| Visme | Interactive reports, documents and presentations | Yes, with no download formats | $29 a month, or $12.25 billed yearly | You design it, with animation if you want it |
| Infogram | Data heavy infographics, live charts and maps | Yes, for personal use | $25 a month, or $19 billed yearly | You bring the data and arrange the charts |
| Datawrapper | Single charts, maps and tables | Yes, with no cap on charts | $25 per user a month, or $21 billed annually | You paste the data, it draws the chart |
| Adobe Express | Low cost general design with a brand kit | Yes, with a scheduler | $9.99 a month | You design it, its scheduler posts it |
| Gamma | Presentations and documents from a prompt | Yes, 400 credits at sign up | $12 per seat a month, or $9 billed annually | AI drafts the deck, you edit it |
| Beautiful.ai | Slide decks that keep their own layout | No, a 14 day trial | $14.50 a month billed annually, or $45 for one month | You write it, the slide arranges itself |
| Flourish | Interactive data stories on the web | Yes, published with attribution | Included with Canva Business at $25 a month per person | You bring the data and pick a template |
Prices read on October 13, 2026 from the pricing pages of Piktochart, Venngage, Visme, Infogram, Datawrapper, Gamma, Beautiful.ai and Flourish. Canva and Adobe Express prices were read on October 11, 2026.
The 10 Best Piktochart Alternatives, With Prices, Pros and Cons
Spreadcast is ours and comes first, for the reader with an app who wants posts and not a design tool. The nine after it are ranked for someone leaving Piktochart who makes infographics, reports, charts or presentations. Prices are US prices from each vendor's own pricing page.
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Spreadcast
Free, then $29 a month flat with publishing to 8 networks includedBest if you have an app and want social posts designed and published for you
Spreadcast is here for one kind of reader: you opened Piktochart to make social posts for an app, and each post still costs you an evening. Paste your App Store link once at the start page. Spreadcast checks the public listing every day and designs a finished 1080 by 1350 post whenever something changes: a new version, a new 5 star review, a rating milestone. Each design is built from your app icon, your screenshots and the colors read from the icon, and each network gets its own caption. On Pro, Spreadcast publishes the post to Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram and Discord, plus YouTube for video posts, after one tap of approval or on full autopilot.
Nothing in that flow asks for a template, a prompt or an export. There is no SDK to install and no access to your developer account. An update post boils the release notes down to two or three points beside your own screenshot. A post that shows only the rating can go out by itself, while a post that quotes a reviewer's words waits for your tap, because Apple's ratings and reviews guidance allows reviews in marketing only with the reviewer's permission. In a week with no release, Spreadcast drafts a post about one of the app's features.
Free is $0 for 1 app and drafts every post for you to download, with a small Spreadcast mark. Pro is $29 a month flat for 1 app, with clean posts published on all 8 networks. Studio is $79 a month for 5 apps and 3 seats, and each app keeps its own brand. Plans are on our pricing page. It is built for apps on the App Store and makes still image posts, so keep one of the nine tools below for an infographic, a report or a slide deck.
Pros
- Designs each post for you, with no editor to open
- Publishes to 8 networks, with a caption for each
- Starts from one App Store link
- Free plan drafts every post
- Flat $29 a month, publishing included
Cons
- Built for apps on the App Store
- Makes still image posts, so keep an infographic tool for infographics
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Venngage
Free, then $19 a month or $10 billed yearlyBest like for like Piktochart alternative for infographics
Venngage is the closest thing to Piktochart: a template editor built around infographics, reports, timelines, brochures and charts for people who are not designers. Venngage's pricing page lists a free plan with 5 designs, Premium at $10 a month billed yearly or $19 billed monthly, and Business at $24 per user a month billed yearly or $49 monthly. Where it pulls ahead of Piktochart is accessibility: the contrast checker, the visual simulator, the alt text generator and accessible templates are ticked on every plan, the free one included.
The plan ladder mirrors Piktochart's closely. Premium adds designs with no cap, PNG and high resolution PNG downloads, private links, embeds, premium charts and 50 image uploads. Business adds PDF, PowerPoint and email HTML export, brand kits with logos, colors and fonts, team sharing, folders, password protected links and 1,000 image uploads. Enterprise starts at $499 a month with a minimum of 10 members.
The free plan is the weak point. It shares a design by public link only, so there is no file to download until you pay, and its maps cover Canada and the USA. On price the two are level for one person who needs PNG files: $10 a month on a yearly plan in both. For PDF, Venngage costs more, because PDF export sits on Business at $49 billed monthly against $20 for Piktochart Business. Pick it for accessible infographics and reports. Stay put if a PDF on a monthly plan is the reason you were shopping.
Pros
- Accessibility checker, contrast checker and alt text on every plan
- Same $10 a month yearly price as Piktochart Pro
- PDF, PowerPoint and email HTML export on Business
- Magic Resize on every plan
Cons
- Free plan has 5 designs and no downloads
- PDF export and brand kits need Business, $49 billed monthly
- Free maps cover Canada and the USA only
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Canva
Free, then $18 a month or $144 a yearBest free Piktochart alternative, with the widest template range
Canva is the broadest answer and the best free one. Canva's pricing page lists over 1.6 million templates on the free plan, and Canva's infographic maker puts a chart tool with bar, line, pie and pictogram charts inside the same editor. The pricing page sets no download count for the free plan, where Piktochart Free ends after 2 PNG files. Canva's download help page lists JPG, PNG, PDF, PPTX, GIF and MP4, and reserves SVG and transparent PNG for paid plans.
Charts are a real feature now. Canva's graph maker links a chart to a CSV, TSV or XLSX file, refreshes it when the data changes and keeps chart styles in the Brand Kit. Canva Business also includes Flourish for interactive charts, according to Flourish's pricing page. What Canva lacks is Piktochart's focus. Infographics are one design type among more than a thousand, so you search for the right template instead of starting in an editor built for long reports.
Canva Pro is $18 a month or $144 a year for one person, which works out to $12 a month (144 divided by 12). It adds 5 Brand Kits, Magic Resize, the background remover and scheduling. Canva Business is $25 a month per person. Free already includes 1 Brand Kit with 3 colors, 5 GB of storage and up to 20 AI uses a month. Pick Canva if you make social graphics, slides and the occasional infographic. Our Canva alternatives roundup covers the editors closest to it.
Pros
- Free plan downloads PDF and PPTX files
- Over 1.6 million templates on the free plan
- Charts linked to CSV, TSV or XLSX data
- 1 Brand Kit on the free plan
Cons
- Not built around infographics or reports
- Canva Business is $25 a month per person
- AI use is metered on every plan
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Visme
Free to build, then $29 a month or $12.25 billed yearlyBest for reports, presentations and interactive documents
Visme covers the same three jobs as Piktochart (infographics, reports and presentations) and goes further on interactivity: animation, video and audio hotspots, forms and documents you publish as web pages. Visme's pricing page lists a free Basic plan, Starter at $12.25 a month billed yearly ($147 a year) and Pro at $24.75 a month billed yearly ($297 a year), per person. Billed monthly, the page's own pricing data gives $29 for Starter and $59 for Pro.
Read the free plan carefully. In the comparison table on October 13, 2026, download formats are marked as not included on Basic, which also carries a Visme logo, 500 MB of storage, 50 slides or pages per project and 10 AI credits a month. Starter is where files begin: JPG, PNG and PDF downloads, 1 GB and 200 AI credits. Pro adds PPTX, HTML5, video and GIF downloads, the Brand Kit, analytics, privacy controls and 500 AI credits.
For PDF export on a yearly plan Visme is the cheaper of the two: Starter is $12.25 a month against $17 for Piktochart Business. Billed monthly it flips, at $29 against $20. Students pay $48 a year and educators $96. Pick Visme when a report has to be interactive, or when one tool should make the deck, the document and the form. Skip it if you only need a static infographic now and then.
Pros
- PDF downloads from the $12.25 Starter plan
- Interactive documents, forms and animation
- PPTX, HTML5, video and GIF export on Pro
- Student plan at $48 a year
Cons
- No download formats on the free plan
- Brand Kit starts on Pro
- Monthly billing costs more than twice the yearly rate
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Infogram
Free for personal use, then $25 a month or $19 billed yearlyBest for data heavy infographics, live charts and maps
Infogram is what to pick when the data matters more than the layout. Infogram's pricing page lists more than 35 interactive chart types and 13 map types on the free Basic plan, plus over 800 map types on Pro, which costs $19 a month billed yearly or $25 billed monthly. Charts stay interactive when you publish or embed them, and Pro connects them to live data.
Basic allows 1 user, up to 10 projects and up to 5 pages per project, published online. Infogram's pricing FAQ says Basic is for personal use such as blogs and presentations, and that businesses need a paid plan. Pro raises the limits to 100 projects and 10 pages each and adds HD image and video downloads, privacy control and an AI image maker. Downloads as PDF or image come with the paid plans.
Branding is expensive here. Your own logo, colors and fonts arrive with Business at $67 a month billed yearly or $79 monthly, and that is also where Infogram's logo comes off. The Team plan for 3 to 10 users is $149 a month billed yearly or $179 monthly, with real time collaboration and comments. Pick Infogram for dashboards, maps and reports that update. For a designed one page infographic with icons and illustrations, Venngage or Canva is the more natural fit.
Pros
- 35 plus interactive chart types on the free plan
- More than 800 map types on Pro
- Live data connections on Pro
- Embeds that stay interactive
Cons
- Free plan is for personal use, with 10 projects
- Brand kit and logo removal start at $67 a month billed yearly
- Team plan starts at $149 a month billed yearly
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Datawrapper
Free, then $25 per user a month or $21 billed annuallyBest free chart, map and table maker
Datawrapper does one thing Piktochart does as a side feature: charts, maps and tables. Datawrapper's pricing page says the free plan lets you create, publish, embed and export visualizations as PNG files without limits, and its chart page counts 23 chart types. If the reason you opened Piktochart was a single clean chart for a report or an article, this is the free answer.
The free plan asks for one thing in return: the line Created with Datawrapper stays under each chart. The same page promises that Datawrapper will not sell your data or track your readers, that charts stay private until you publish, and that published charts stay online. Pro removes the attribution and adds PDF and SVG downloads for $21 per user a month on annual billing or $25 billed monthly. Business, at $39 or $46, adds waterfall and dual axis charts.
A custom theme with your fonts and colors is an extra $499 a month, so exact branding is for newsrooms and larger teams. Nonprofits get 20 percent off, and teachers can ask for the Business plan free for the months they teach. Pick Datawrapper for charts that have to be right and readable on a phone. It has no templates for posters, slides or illustrated infographics, so pair it with a layout tool.
Pros
- Free plan with no cap on charts, maps and tables
- PNG export on the free plan
- No tracking of your readers
- 23 chart types, plus maps and tables
Cons
- Attribution line stays on the free plan
- PDF and SVG downloads need Pro
- A custom brand theme costs $499 a month extra
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Adobe Express
Free, then $9.99 a monthBest low cost general design editor
Adobe Express is the low cost general editor: templates, stock assets, quick video edits and AI image generation in a browser. Adobe's pricing page lists a free plan with over 100,000 templates and 5 GB of storage, and Premium at $9.99 a month billed monthly with no annual commitment. Adobe also runs a free infographic maker page for it. At $9.99, Premium undercuts Piktochart Pro's $15 monthly rate by $5.01.
Premium adds brand kits, one click resize, the full template and font libraries and 250 generative credits a month. That puts a brand kit at $9.99 a month, where Piktochart keeps its Brand Kit for Business at $20. The free plan also includes a Content Scheduler for social posts, with 1 account per network.
Express is a good place to land with files from elsewhere. Adobe's import help page says it opens PDF and PPTX files as editable designs, which are the two formats Piktochart Business exports. Pick it if your infographics are simple and you also make social graphics and short videos. Its pricing page says nothing about importing data into charts, so data heavy work belongs in Infogram or Datawrapper. Our Adobe Express alternative page has the full comparison.
Pros
- $9.99 a month with no annual commitment
- Brand kits on the $9.99 plan
- Opens PDF and PPTX files as editable designs
- Free plan with over 100,000 templates
Cons
- Brand kits and one click resize need Premium
- Chart data features are not stated on the pricing page
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Gamma
Free, then $12 per seat a month or $9 billed annuallyBest for AI generated presentations
Gamma starts from a prompt or a document instead of a template. You describe the deck, it writes and lays out the slides, and you edit from there. Gamma's pricing page lists a free plan with 400 credits at sign up and up to 10 slides per prompt, and it covers presentations, documents, websites, social posts and images. For the reader who used Piktochart AI mainly for presentations, Gamma is the specialist.
The free plan is generous with files: it imports PDF and PPTX and exports to PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides. Piktochart keeps PDF and PowerPoint downloads for its $20 Business plan. Gamma's free credits are a one time grant, though, where Piktochart's 60 credits come back each month.
Plus is $12 per seat a month billed monthly, or $9 billed annually ($108 a year), with 1,000 credits a month, up to 100 slides per prompt and Gamma's branding removed. Pro is $25 monthly or $18 billed annually, with 4,000 credits, custom branding and API access. Pick Gamma when the output is a deck or a one page document and speed matters more than pixel control. The pricing page lists no chart data import, so a chart built from a spreadsheet belongs in another tool.
Pros
- PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides export on the free plan
- Imports PDF and PPTX files
- Plus is $9 per seat a month billed annually
- Makes documents and websites as well as slides
Cons
- Free credits are given once, at sign up
- Gamma branding stays until Plus
- Free plan makes up to 10 slides per prompt
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Beautiful.ai
From $14.50 a month billed annually, with a 14 day trialBest for slide decks that format themselves
Beautiful.ai is presentation software where the slide arranges itself. Its Smart Slides keep alignment and spacing in order as you add content, and Beautiful.ai's pricing page counts over 300 Smart Slide layouts, with PowerPoint import and export on every seat. Pro is $14.50 a month for one person, billed annually.
There is no free plan. Pro and Team start with a 14 day free trial, and the page offers a single month of Pro for $45 for one off projects. Team is $40 per user a month billed annually or $50 billed monthly, for 2 to 20 seats, with live collaborative editing, a shared slide library, locked slides and viewer analytics. Verified students with a .edu address get a free annual Pro subscription, according to Beautiful.ai's education page.
Against Piktochart the trade is clear. Piktochart Business at $17 a month billed annually exports PowerPoint files from its Presentation format, with charts turned into static images. Beautiful.ai Pro costs $14.50 on the same billing and is built for slides alone. Pick it if decks are your weekly job. Its pricing page lists slide features only, so look elsewhere for infographics, posters and reports.
Pros
- Slides align and space themselves
- PowerPoint import and export on every seat
- AI content generation included in Pro
- Free annual Pro for verified students
Cons
- No free plan, only a 14 day trial
- A single month of Pro is $45
- Presentations only
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Flourish
Free to publish, paid plans through Canva or by quoteBest for interactive data stories
Flourish makes interactive charts, maps and stories from more than 50 templates, with no code. Flourish's pricing page lists a free plan with no cap on projects, the full template range, and public publishing and embedding with Flourish attribution. It suits the reader whose Piktochart work was really data storytelling: a survey breakdown, a map, a scrolling explainer.
The paid plans are unusual. Presenter is not sold alone: it comes with a Canva Business or Enterprise plan, is billed through Canva, and adds image and SVG export plus charts inside Canva designs and PowerPoint without attribution. Publisher and Enterprise are sold by quote and add team features, a custom theme, live data from Google Sheets or CSV, scrollytelling and HTML export.
So the choice comes down to where the chart will live. Use the free plan if a public, attributed, interactive chart on a web page is what you need. Get Presenter through Canva Business at $25 a month per person if you want the charts in slides and designs. For a static chart with a download, Datawrapper's free plan is simpler, because it exports a PNG and the Flourish free plan lists no export.
Pros
- Free plan with no cap on projects
- More than 50 templates for charts, maps and stories
- Interactive embeds for any website
- Presenter is included with Canva Business
Cons
- Free projects publish publicly with attribution
- Image and SVG export start with Presenter
- Publisher and Enterprise prices are by quote
Infographic Maker Comparison: Templates, Charts and Maps, AI Generation
The first half of the feature by feature comparison. Each cell comes from the vendor's own pricing, product or help page in October 2026. Not stated means the page does not say, which is different from a no.
| Tool | Infographic templates | Charts and maps | AI generation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piktochart (baseline) | Free templates on Free, the full library on paid plans | Interactive charts and maps on every plan, with data from CSV, Excel or Google Sheets | 60 credits a month on Free, 500 on Pro, 1,000 on Business |
| Spreadcast | Not an infographic maker: Spreadcast designs app posts from your App Store listing | Not needed: each post shows your own screenshot, rating or release notes | Spreadcast writes and designs every post, with no prompt to write |
| Venngage | Free templates on Free, premium on paid plans, accessible templates on every plan | Charts on every plan, premium charts on paid plans, maps of Canada and the USA on Free | AI trial on Free, Venngage AI on Business |
| Canva | Infographic templates inside a library of over 1.6 million free templates | Bar, line, pie and pictogram charts, linked to CSV, TSV or XLSX files | Up to 20 AI uses a month on Free |
| Visme | Limited on Basic, full access from Starter | Limited charts and data widgets on Basic, the full set from Starter | 10 credits a month on Basic, 200 on Starter, 500 on Pro |
| Infogram | Infographic and report templates, 100 plus premium templates on Pro | 35 plus chart types, 13 map types on Basic, 800 plus on Pro | AI infographic maker and chart generator, AI image maker on Pro |
| Datawrapper | None: it makes single charts, maps and tables | 23 chart types plus maps and tables, on the free plan | Not stated |
| Adobe Express | Over 100,000 templates on Free | Not stated on the pricing page | Free daily generations, 250 credits a month on Premium |
| Gamma | A prompt goes in, slides or a document come out | Not stated | 400 credits at sign up on Free, 1,000 a month on Plus |
| Beautiful.ai | Over 300 Smart Slide layouts, for slides and not infographics | Charts inside slides, live data linking on Team | AI content generation on every paid plan |
| Flourish | Over 50 templates for charts, maps and interactive content | Its whole purpose, including scrollytelling on Publisher | Flourish Assistant refines a chart from a plain language prompt |
Piktochart Alternatives Compared: Brand Kit, Team Features, Export Formats and Free Plan
The second half: where your brand is stored, how teams work, which files come out and what $0 buys. Same vendor pages, same dates.
| Tool | Brand kit | Team features | Export formats | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piktochart (baseline) | Business only. Education and Nonprofit get a limited one | Up to 4 members on Free, comments and shared workspaces on every plan | PNG on Free and Pro. PDF and PowerPoint on Business | 2 PNG downloads per account, in total |
| Spreadcast | Built for you from your app icon, screenshots and colors | Studio has 3 seats and 5 apps, and approval is one tap | Finished 1080 by 1350 posts to download, or published straight to 8 networks | Drafts every post for 1 app, with a small Spreadcast mark |
| Venngage | Business | Team sharing, shared templates and a team admin on Business | PNG on Premium. PDF, PowerPoint and email HTML on Business | 5 designs, shared by public link |
| Canva | 1 on Free with 3 colors, 5 on Pro, 100 on Business | Real time collaboration, approvals on Business | JPG, PNG, PDF, PPTX, GIF and MP4. SVG is paid | Yes, with downloads |
| Visme | Pro | Pro is the plan for teams, Enterprise starts at 10 users | None on Basic. JPG, PNG and PDF on Starter. PPTX, HTML5, video and GIF on Pro | Projects carry a Visme logo, 500 MB |
| Infogram | Business | Team plan for 3 to 10 users with real time collaboration | HD images and video on Pro, PDF on paid plans, HTML on Enterprise | 10 projects of 5 pages, published online |
| Datawrapper | Custom theme for $499 a month extra | Teams and shared folders on the free plan | PNG on Free. PDF and SVG on Pro | No cap on charts, with attribution |
| Adobe Express | Premium | Teams plan with a 2 seat minimum | PDF, PPTX and MP4 | Yes, with a scheduler and 5 GB |
| Gamma | Custom branding on Pro | Priced per seat | PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides on Free | 400 credits at sign up |
| Beautiful.ai | Custom theme on Pro | Team plan for 2 to 20 seats | PDF and editable PowerPoint | None, a 14 day trial |
| Flourish | One custom theme on Publisher | Shared folders and approvals on Publisher | Image and SVG on Presenter, HTML on Publisher | No cap on projects, published with attribution |
Only one row has nothing for you to export, because nothing was designed by hand: Spreadcast publishes the finished post. For every other tool you download a file and decide where it goes. If that file is a social post, check it against our social media image sizes reference first.
Piktochart Alternatives by What You Make
The right replacement depends on the thing you were making in Piktochart. Here is the pick for each job, and the reason for it.
A Post for an App
Spreadcast. It designs each update, review and milestone post from your App Store listing and publishes it to 8 networks, so the post exists before you have opened anything. More on that for mobile app teams.
An Infographic
Venngage if you want the same kind of editor with accessibility checks. Canva if you want it free: the free plan downloads the file, where Venngage Free shares a link and Piktochart Free stops at 2 PNG files.
A Report
Visme for a report people click through, with PDF downloads from the $12.25 Starter plan billed yearly. Venngage Business for an accessible PDF. Stay with Piktochart Business if a static PDF on monthly billing is all you need: $20 beats both.
A Presentation
Gamma to get a first draft from a prompt, with PPTX export on the free plan. Beautiful.ai if you build decks every week and want the layout handled. Canva if the deck has to match your other graphics.
A Chart or a Graph
Datawrapper. The free plan has no cap on charts and exports a PNG. Move to Infogram when the chart needs live data or sits in a dashboard, and to Flourish when it should animate or scroll.
A Map
Infogram Pro lists more than 800 map types. Datawrapper makes maps on its free plan. Venngage Free covers Canada and the USA only, and Piktochart includes maps on every plan.
A Social Media Post
Canva or Adobe Express. Both have social media templates, and Adobe Express includes a scheduler on its free plan. If the posts are for an app and repeat with every release, see the first card.
Logos, Labels and Merchandise
Kittl. Kittl's pricing page lists a free plan with 100 AI tokens to try it and Pro at $15 a month or $144 a year, with vector exports on paid plans. None of the infographic tools above are built for this job.
Piktochart vs Canva, Venngage and Visme: Short Answers
The three comparisons people search most, plus three that come up beside them. Monthly prices are for one person billed monthly unless the cell says yearly.
| Comparison | Price for one person | Free plan | Short answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piktochart vs Canva | Piktochart Pro $15 a month, PNG only. Canva Pro $18 a month | Piktochart: 2 PNG downloads in total. Canva: downloads that include PDF and PPTX | Canva for range and for free files. Piktochart if infographics and reports are most of your work and you want an editor built for them |
| Piktochart vs Venngage | $10 a month on a yearly plan for both. Monthly, $15 against $19 | Piktochart: 2 downloads. Venngage: 5 designs and no downloads | Venngage for accessibility tools. Piktochart for a cheaper route to PDF: Business at $20 against $49 billed monthly |
| Piktochart vs Visme | Visme Starter $12.25 a month yearly, with PDF. Piktochart Pro $10 yearly, PNG only | Piktochart: 2 PNG files. Visme: no download formats on Basic | Visme for interactive reports and for PDF on a yearly plan. Piktochart for monthly billing: $15 or $20 against $29 or $59 |
| Piktochart vs Infogram | Infogram Pro $25 a month. Piktochart Pro $15 | Infogram: 10 projects, for personal use | Infogram for charts, maps and live data. Piktochart for a designed page built around a few charts |
| Piktochart vs Gamma | Gamma Plus $12 a month. Piktochart Pro $15 | Gamma: PDF and PPTX export, with 400 credits given once | Gamma for a deck from a prompt. Piktochart for infographics, posters and print formats |
| Piktochart vs Napkin AI | Napkin Plus $9 a month per person, billed yearly | Napkin: 500 AI credits a week, PNG and PDF export, with Napkin branding | Napkin generates a visual from text you select, at about 1 credit a word. Piktochart builds the whole page around it |
Is Piktochart or Canva better? For most people Canva, because the free plan keeps working. Piktochart is the better pick when the work is mostly reports and infographics and you are happy to pay yearly. Napkin AI numbers are from Napkin AI's pricing page, read on October 13, 2026 with the yearly toggle on.
Free Piktochart Alternatives: What Each Free Plan Stops At
Free Piktochart alternatives exist for every job on this page. The useful question is where each free plan stops, because that is the moment you pay or move again.
| Free plan | What you get for $0 | Where it stops |
|---|---|---|
| Piktochart Free (baseline) | Projects with no cap, free templates, 4 members, 60 AI credits a month, 1 GB | 2 PNG downloads per account, never renewed |
| Spreadcast Free | Watches 1 app and designs a post for every update, 5 star review and rating milestone, ready to download | Posts carry a small Spreadcast mark, and publishing for you starts on Pro |
| Canva Free | Over 1.6 million templates, charts, 1 Brand Kit, 5 GB, downloads that include PDF and PPTX | SVG, transparent PNG, Magic Resize and scheduling are paid |
| Datawrapper Free | Charts, maps and tables with no cap, PNG export, embeds, teams | The attribution line stays. PDF and SVG are on Pro |
| Gamma Free | AI drafted slides and documents, export to PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides | 400 credits granted once, 10 slides per prompt, Gamma branding |
| Adobe Express Free | Over 100,000 templates, 5 GB, a scheduler with 1 account per network | Brand kits and one click resize are on Premium |
| Flourish Free | Projects with no cap, more than 50 templates, public embeds | Attribution on every embed, and no export listed |
| Napkin AI Free | 500 AI credits a week, PNG and PDF export | Napkin branding on visuals. PPT and SVG export are on Plus |
| Venngage Free | 5 designs, accessibility tools, sharing by public link | No downloads and 6 image uploads |
| Infogram Basic | 35 plus chart types, 13 map types, 10 projects published online | Personal use only. Downloads start on Pro |
| Visme Basic | Projects with no cap, limited templates, 10 AI credits a month | No download formats, a Visme logo, 500 MB |
For a free infographic maker that hands you a file, Canva is the answer. For a free chart, Datawrapper. For a free deck, Gamma. For free posts about an app, Spreadcast Free drafts every one of them.
Free and Open Source Infographic Makers
The ten tools above are hosted services, and we found no open source project that matches Piktochart's template library. What exists are three free, open source programs that each cover one part of the job. They suit you if a subscription is off the table or if files cannot sit on someone else's servers.
Inkscape is a free and open source vector editor for Linux, Windows and macOS that uses SVG as its main format. A hand built infographic is vector work (shapes, icons, type), so Inkscape can make one from a blank page and export it at any size. There are no templates and no chart tool tied to a spreadsheet.
LibreOffice is an open source office suite that costs nothing. Its Impress program makes presentations and its Draw program makes diagrams, which covers the slide and flowchart side of Piktochart. RAWGraphs describes itself as a free and open source tool for data visualization with almost 30 chart models. It processes your data in your own browser and exports a vector or raster image that you can finish in Inkscape.
The honest summary: open source gets you the drawing, the slides and the charts as three separate programs with no templates between them. If you want one free tool that feels like Piktochart, Canva Free is closer, though it is a hosted service and not software you run yourself.
Piktochart for Students, Teachers and Nonprofits, and the Alternatives
Check what you qualify for before you pay or switch. Piktochart discounts its plans for education and nonprofits, and several alternatives go further and charge nothing.
| Who you are | What Piktochart offers | What the alternatives offer |
|---|---|---|
| School teacher or student | The Education plan at $39.99 per member a year, with PDF and PowerPoint downloads and 250 AI credits a month. Piktochart's education plan page covers teachers, staff and students of registered schools and universities | Canva Education is free for primary and secondary teachers and their students. Adobe Express for Education gives schools the Premium plan at no cost |
| College student | The same Education plan, with a valid educational email address | Beautiful.ai gives verified students a free annual Pro subscription. Visme lists a student plan at $48 a year. Datawrapper, Gamma and Canva have free plans that export files |
| Registered nonprofit | The Nonprofit plan at $60 per member a year. Piktochart's nonprofit plan page covers 501(c)(3) organizations, registered nonprofits and churches, and excludes government and healthcare organizations | Canva Nonprofits gives every Canva Pro feature free to one team of up to 50 people. Adobe Express Premium is free for qualified nonprofits. Datawrapper takes 20 percent off |
| Team with an app | Business at $20 per member a month, with every post still designed by hand | Spreadcast Studio at $79 a month for 5 apps and 3 seats, with the posts designed and published for you |
Is Piktochart free for students? No. The free plan is open to everyone with its 2 downloads, and the student price is $39.99 a year. For a student who needs files this term and has no budget, Canva Education or Beautiful.ai's student offer costs less.
How to Move Your Designs Out of Piktochart
Piktochart's help center describes downloading one visual at a time, as PNG, PDF or PowerPoint. You move work by downloading each visual in a format the next tool can read. The formats and limits below come from that help center.
- Step 1
Check Which Formats Your Plan Downloads
Free and Pro download PNG. Business downloads PNG, PDF and PowerPoint. JPEG and Word export are not offered on any plan. A PNG is a flat picture, so a visual you still want to edit needs PDF or PowerPoint.
- Step 2
Download Before You Cancel or Downgrade
The help center gives two answers on what happens after a paid plan ends. The refunds page says you lose access to your saved visuals and that published visuals are unpublished. The plans and billing page says existing visuals remain but advises exporting first. Treat the stricter page as true and download everything while the plan is active.
- Step 3
Use a Month of Business for Editable Files
If you are on Pro, PDF and PowerPoint are one plan up. Business billed monthly is $20 per member, so one month for one person is the price of leaving with editable files. Subscriptions are generally not refunded, so cancel before the next billing date.
- Step 4
Export Presentations as PowerPoint, and Know What Breaks
Piktochart's PowerPoint download page says the export works for the Presentation format only. Groups come apart, charts and maps become static images, complex SVG icons may turn into PNG, and font sizes can shift. Google Slides opens the PPTX file.
- Step 5
Choose the Right PNG Settings
Quality has three levels: Normal keeps the editor size, Medium doubles it and High triples it, and High is the one for print. Turn on the option to download as pages or blocks, or a long infographic arrives as one tall image. PNG downloads come in a ZIP file. The save and download page puts the limit at 50,000 pixels of canvas height.
- Step 6
Save the Data Behind Your Charts
A downloaded chart is a picture with no numbers in it. Copy each chart's data table into a spreadsheet, or keep the CSV or Google Sheet it came from. Canva links a chart to a CSV, TSV or XLSX file, and Infogram lists data import on its free plan, so either can rebuild the chart from that file.
- Step 7
Open the Files in the New Tool
Adobe Express opens PDF and PPTX files as editable designs. Gamma imports PDF and PPTX on its free plan. Beautiful.ai imports PowerPoint files on every seat, and Napkin AI imports PPT, DOC and PDF files. Check the text and the fonts of a few pages before you trust the rest.
- Step 8
Rebuild the Brand Kit and Replace Your Embeds
Copy your color codes, font names and logo files by hand: no import page we read brings in a Piktochart Brand Kit. Our brand style guide template gives you one page for them. Then find every Piktochart embed on your website and swap it, because an unpublished visual leaves an error where the infographic was.
- Step 9
Skip the Rebuild for Recurring App Posts
If the visuals you were about to rebuild are update announcements, review quotes and milestone posts for an app, leave them behind. Paste the App Store link into Spreadcast and it designs those posts from the listing. Our app update announcement examples show what they should say.
How to Cancel Piktochart and Delete Your Account
Download your visuals first, as the steps above explain. Cancelling and deleting are two separate actions: the first stops billing, the second removes the account.
- Step 1
Cancel Recurring Billing
Piktochart's cancellation page, updated on June 30, 2026, says to open Account Settings from the profile icon, go to Plans & Billings under Workspace Settings, select Cancel Recurring and then Confirm Cancellation.
- Step 2
Know What Ends and When
Pro or Business features stay until the paid period expires, then the account drops to Free. Download and sharing options, unused AI credits and premium assets go, and published visuals are unpublished. Cancelling brings no refund, because payments are not refundable.
- Step 3
Piktochart Video Goes Through Support
A Piktochart Video subscription cannot be cancelled from Account Settings. The same page asks you to contact the support team for it.
- Step 4
Pause Instead if You May Come Back
Piktochart offers a pause of 1, 2 or 3 months as the alternative to cancelling, as noted in the pricing section above.
- Step 5
Delete the Account
Piktochart's account deletion page says to open Account Settings, scroll to the bottom of the Personal Profile tab, select the red Delete Account button and confirm with Yes, Proceed. If the button is missing, remove every team member from your workspaces first. Deletion takes up to 14 days, which leaves time to change your mind.
Is Piktochart Safe to Use?
Nothing we read suggests otherwise, and the question is one of the most searched about the product, so here is what Piktochart itself says. Its data protection page states that data stored on its servers is encrypted, that the servers are run by Amazon Web Services in the USA, that only its developers can reach an account and only with the user's permission, and that it stores no card details because payments go through outside payment providers. That page was last updated in April 2022.
The pricing table ticks privacy settings and two factor authentication on every plan, and single sign on comes with Enterprise. Free users' published visuals are set to noindex, so they do not appear in search results, and password protection for a published visual starts on Pro.
For the AI features, Piktochart's AI privacy page says prompts are aggregated and anonymized and may be used to improve the AI, and it reminds users that AI output can be wrong and that they are responsible for what they publish. If you paste confidential numbers into a prompt, read that page first. The same care applies to any AI tool on this list.
When Piktochart Is Still the Right Choice
Stay with Piktochart if infographics and reports are most of what you make and you like an editor that does little else. Canva has more of everything, and that is exactly what some people leave it for. Piktochart's formats, charts, maps and AI drafts all point at the same output: a long, structured, readable page.
Stay if the price works for you. On a yearly plan Pro is $10 a month, level with Venngage Premium and below Canva Pro's $12. Business at $20 billed monthly is the cheapest monthly route to PDF export among the three infographic editors here, against $29 for Visme Starter and $49 for Venngage Business. The Education plan at $39.99 a year and the Nonprofit plan at $60 a year both include PDF and PowerPoint downloads.
Stay for the parts of the free plan that are generous. Sixty AI credits return every month, up to 4 people share a workspace, downloads carry no Piktochart logo, and charts take data from a spreadsheet or a Google Sheet on every plan. If you publish by link or embed and rarely need a file, the 2 download limit may never bother you.
The pairing that works for an app team is simple. Keep Piktochart for the quarterly report or the investor one pager, where a person should decide every block. Let Spreadcast design and publish the recurring update, review and milestone posts, which follow the same pattern every time.
What a Design Tool Costs Once You Count Your Time
A price list answers half the question. The other half is who does the work after you have paid. Subscription prices are for one person billed monthly, from the tables above.
| Tool | Subscription a month | What the price buys | Who designs, captions and publishes a social post |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spreadcast Pro | $29, with design, captions and publishing to 8 networks included | Finished posts for 1 app, published | Spreadcast designs it, writes a caption for each network and publishes it |
| Datawrapper Free and Canva Free | $0 | A chart tool and a template editor | You, in the editor and then in each network |
| Adobe Express Premium | $9.99 | An editor with a brand kit and a scheduler | You design and write it, its scheduler posts it |
| Piktochart Pro | $15 | An infographic editor with PNG downloads | You design it and write it, then share it from the Share menu |
| Canva Pro | $18 | An editor with 5 Brand Kits and a planner | You design and write it, the Content Planner posts it |
| Venngage Premium | $19 | An infographic editor with PNG downloads | You design it, write it and post it yourself |
| Piktochart Business | $20 | The same editor with PDF, PowerPoint and a Brand Kit | You design it and write it, then share it yourself |
| Visme Starter | $29 | An editor with JPG, PNG and PDF downloads | You design it, write it and post it yourself |
Piktochart does share a visual to social networks: its social sharing help page describes posting one public visual to Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn from the Share menu. The page describes no queue and no calendar.
The Cost of a Design Tool Plus Your Time, and Where Spreadcast Fits
An infographic and a social post about an app are different jobs, and the arithmetic below is only about the second one. For an infographic, a report or a deck, pick from the nine design tools and stop reading here.
For app posts, an editor looks cheaper until you count your own hours. Here is the sum, with the assumption stated openly: say one post takes you 30 minutes to design, caption and publish, and you post 3 times a week, about 12 a month. That is 6 hours a month (12 times 30 minutes). We have not measured this for you, so put your own numbers in.
Spreadcast Pro hands those 6 hours back for $29 a month, which is $4.83 for each hour you no longer spend in an editor (29 divided by 6). If you pay for Piktochart Pro at $15 today, the difference is $14 a month, or $2.33 an hour (14 divided by 6). Visme Starter billed monthly costs the same $29 as Spreadcast Pro. One price buys an editor to work in, and the other buys the posts designed, captioned and published on 8 networks.
The free plan drafts every post for one app, so you can judge the designs before paying anything. If your posts follow your releases, our app release notes generator helps with the notes the posts are built from, and how to promote an app on social media covers what to post between releases. If you would rather compare tools that generate posts from a prompt, see our roundup of AI social media post generators.
How We Ranked These Piktochart Alternatives
We make Spreadcast, and it is first for one reason: it is the only tool here that designs the work and publishes it, for the reader whose work is social posts about an app. It is not ranked as an infographic maker, because it is not one. The nine design tools are ordered by how well they replace Piktochart: first the two closest editors, then the tools that do one of its jobs better (reports, charts, low cost design, presentations, interactive data).
We weighed the free plan and what it stops at, the starting price on monthly and yearly billing, which plan includes PDF and PowerPoint export, where the brand kit starts, chart and map depth, and who the tool is built for. Every price and limit was read from the vendor's own pricing, product or help page on October 13, 2026, apart from Canva, Adobe Express and Kittl, which were read on October 11. Gamma and Canva refuse automated requests, so those pages were read in a browser.
We did not run timed tests or count templates ourselves. Where a vendor's page does not state something, the tables say Not stated. Where Piktochart's own pages disagree, we say so and follow the pricing page and the newest help page. Prices change, so check the linked page before you buy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best Piktochart alternative?
If you have an app on the App Store and want social posts without designing them, Spreadcast designs and publishes them for you. For infographics, Venngage is the closest replacement and Canva is the best free one. Visme suits interactive reports, Datawrapper and Infogram suit charts, and Gamma suits presentations.
Is Piktochart free?
Yes, with a hard limit. The free plan has no time limit and includes 60 AI credits a month, but it allows 2 PNG downloads per account and they do not renew, according to Piktochart's Free Account help page. PDF and PowerPoint downloads need the Business plan.
How much does Piktochart cost?
Pro is $15 per member a month, or $10 billed annually ($120 a year). Business is $20 a month, or $17 billed annually ($204 a year). Education is $39.99 a year and Nonprofit is $60 a year, per Piktochart's pricing page in October 2026.
Is Piktochart or Canva better?
Canva is better for most people: its free plan keeps downloading files, including PDF and PPTX, and it covers far more design types. Piktochart is better when infographics and reports are most of your work and you want an editor focused on them. On yearly billing Piktochart Pro is $10 a month and Canva Pro works out to $12.
What are the best free Piktochart alternatives?
Canva Free for infographics you can download, Datawrapper Free for charts, maps and tables, and Gamma Free for presentations with PDF and PPTX export. Spreadcast Free drafts every social post for one app. Venngage, Visme and Infogram have free plans too, but none of the three gives you a downloadable file.
What is Piktochart used for?
Infographics, reports and presentations, plus posters, flyers and social media graphics. It combines a template editor with charts, maps and AI generators that draft a visual from a prompt or an uploaded document. Teams in marketing, HR, education and nonprofits are the audience its site names.
Is Piktochart free for students?
Not fully. Students can use the free plan with its 2 downloads, or the Education plan at $39.99 a year with a valid educational email address. Canva Education is free for school teachers and their students, and Beautiful.ai gives verified students a free annual Pro subscription.
Does Piktochart have an app?
Not one that Piktochart's help center describes. Its mobile compatibility page says the editor is best used on a desktop or laptop in the latest Chrome or Firefox and is not yet optimized for mobile browsers on Android or iOS. If you need to edit on a phone, Adobe Express has iOS and Android apps on its free plan, per Adobe's Free plan page.
Does Piktochart save automatically?
Yes. Piktochart's saving page says the editor saves whenever the canvas changes, and its session page mentions an auto save every 2 minutes. Both suggest pressing Save on a weak connection and keeping only one editor tab open.
Is Piktochart safe?
Piktochart's help center says stored data is encrypted on Amazon Web Services servers in the USA and that it keeps no card details. Two factor authentication is available on every plan. Its AI page says prompts may be used, anonymized, to improve the AI, so keep confidential data out of prompts.
Prices, plans and features change. This comparison describes each product as its own site described it on the date shown under Sources. Check the vendor's site before you decide. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Where These Facts Come From
Every outside number, rule and price on this page links to the page it was taken from.
- Piktochart pricing page with plans, prices and the feature comparisonPiktochart
- Piktochart home pagePiktochart
- Piktochart compared with VenngagePiktochart
- Free Account: what the free plan includesPiktochart Help Center
- How to download or export your visualPiktochart Help Center
- Save, download and printPiktochart Help Center
- PowerPoint download and its limitationsPiktochart Help Center
- AI credits by plan and the credit cost of each featurePiktochart Help Center
- Plans and billingsPiktochart Help Center
- Refunds and what happens when you downgradePiktochart Help Center
- How to pause your Piktochart subscriptionPiktochart Help Center
- Sharing and publishing your visualPiktochart Help Center
- Publishing and sharing visuals on social mediaPiktochart Help Center
- How to import data to your chartsPiktochart Help Center
- Inserting chartsPiktochart Help Center
- Upload a document and turn it into a visual with AIPiktochart Help Center
- Mobile compatibility of the Piktochart editorPiktochart Help Center
- Brand assets: fonts, colors and logosPiktochart Help Center
- Application for the Education planPiktochart Help Center
- Application for the Nonprofit planPiktochart Help Center
- Data protection and privacyPiktochart Help Center
- Privacy and security of Piktochart AIPiktochart Help Center
- Venngage pricing plansVenngage
- Canva pricing page with plan prices and limitsCanva
- Canva free online infographic makerCanva
- Canva graph makerCanva
- Download file types for Canva designsCanva Help Center
- Canva Education for schoolsCanva
- Canva Nonprofits programCanva
- Visme plans and pricingVisme
- Infogram pricingInfogram
- Datawrapper pricingDatawrapper
- Datawrapper chart typesDatawrapper
- Adobe Express plans and pricingAdobe
- Adobe Express free infographic makerAdobe
- Import files into Adobe ExpressAdobe Help Center
- Adobe Express for EducationAdobe
- Adobe Express for nonprofitsAdobe
- Gamma plans and pricingGamma
- Beautiful.ai pricing and plansBeautiful.ai
- Beautiful.ai for students and educatorsBeautiful.ai
- Flourish pricingFlourish
- Kittl pricing pageKittl
- Napkin AI pricingNapkin AI
- About InkscapeInkscape
- LibreOffice home pageThe Document Foundation
- RAWGraphs home pageRAWGraphs
- Ratings, reviews, and responsesApple Developer
- Getting started with PiktochartPiktochart Knowledge Base
- Infographic formatPiktochart Knowledge Base
- Session timeout and auto savePiktochart Knowledge Base
- Cancel recurring billingPiktochart Knowledge Base
- Delete accountPiktochart Knowledge Base
- Adobe Express Free planAdobe Help Center
- Video: designing an infographic in PiktochartPiktochart
Researched and written by Spreadcast. Last checked on October 17, 2026.