Storage & Organization
Transcript
This will be a quick video because there’s not a lot of differences to report between the free and Pro plans of Canva when it comes to storage and organization.
At one time, there used to be a big difference in terms of custom folders, specifically you could only have two custom folders on the free Canva plan whereas you could have unlimited folders on Canva Pro.
As someone who focuses so heavily on teaching how to get organized in Canva, this feature difference alone was worth upgrading and staying on a Pro.
But fortunately for Canva users, this difference was dropped quite a long time ago and you can now create unlimited folders on both the free and paid subscriptions of Canva, and you can also create subfolders that are nested 10 levels deep on Canva Free and Canva Pro.
But let’s talk about the couple of organization differences that do exist and those are specifically the number of items you can store in a folder, and the total storage space allotted to your account.
On a free plan, you will only have 5 GB of storage space for your designs and media while Pro accounts allow for up to 1 TB of storage.
Depending on how much you use Canva, this may not be an issue. But if you do upload a lot of images or video, you may find yourself running into that storage limitation.
Note that media in the trash folder does not count towards your storage totals at this time.
In terms of creating custom folders, like I said, you can create an unlimited number of folders on all plans, but free users can store a maximum of 200 items in a folder whereas Pro users can store up to 1000 designs or images in a folder.
Otherwise, your experience using and moving content into folders should be the same regardless of which plan you’re on.
Finally, one more difference worth noting is that Design & Media Tagging is only available on a paid subscription.
You can access tagging by hovering over a design, image or video and clicking on the 3 dots. Then you’ll see here that you have an option to add keyword tags which will make it much easier for you to search for content in your Canva account in the future.