Written by Shikhar Singh
What is Simplified and VistaCreate?
Both Simplified and VistaCreate are digital graphic design tools. They are known for their extensive content creation capabilities, including graphical posts, animations, GIFs, and videos.
For whom:
- Social media managers
- Content teams
- Marketers
- Marketing agencies
- Content creators/influencers
- Entrepreneurs
- Founders
They exist to:
- Design social media posts
- Edit videos
- Create GIF and animated posts
- Design graphics for your business
Alternatives to:
- Canva
- Lucidpress
- Snappa
- Adobe Spark
- Tyle
- Pixelied
Use Cases:
- Create web designs
- Create social media posts
- Animation & video posts
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The best digital design tool for creating content
About Simplified
- Simplified is a powerful design platform that helps you create engaging content, scale your brand, and collaborate with your team like never before.
- KD Deshpande founded Simplified in October 2020, and “according to the founder, Simplified is one app to create, collaborate, and scale your marketing.”
- They include and AI assistant to make your copywriting in the design.
- Simplified is on its way to becoming an all-in-one tool for social media marketing: Create, write copy, scale, and publish images and videos with a single app.
Simplified Quick Tour Video
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Create a post dashboard
My projects dashboard
Add brand kits dashboard
Media library dashboard
About VistaCreate
- VistaCreate (ex-Crello) is a graphic design platform that allows anyone to create designs in minutes that look like they took hours.
- Crello was founded by Dmitry Sergeev in Cyprus in 2016 and was recently acquired by Vista and renamed VistaCreate.
- According to the founder, “Crello is a visual editor (easy-to-use design tool) launched by Depositphotos. It allows creating social media images, videos, ad banners, posters, email headers, and other popular formats.”
- VistaCreate has more than 50,000 unique templates created by professionals according to the latest design and marketing trends.
VistaCreate website 2021 | Comparison review | Best design tool
VistaCreate Quick Tour Video
Check out VistaCreate's screenshots
Create a post dashboard
My projects dashboard
Add brand kits dashboard
Media library dashboard
VistaCreate is a design tool that allows us to create designs faster. There are thousands of professional templates, millions of creative assets, and image, video, and vector libraries.
Similarly, Simplified allows us to create content using its templates as a collaborative design tool. It also allows us to create copy and long-form content using the AI writer.
Here, we will evaluate both tools for their ability to create content and their additional features.
Thoughts about Simplified for creating content:
- Simplified lets you collaborate with your teammates in real- time using its comment feature.
- It lets you save any component or design and reuse it later.
- Simplified's keyboard hotkeys guide makes designing easy.
- It lets you use gradients in background, which is 100% customizable.
- With Simplified, you can play with all the elements/layers in the design and have advanced customization options.
- You can view the art boards side by side in Simplified. If you're writing A/B test ads, it's very helpful to visualize the differences between the two versions.
Few extra benefits:
- Simplified is an all-in-one content creation platform. With over 30 AI templates, you can create plagiarism-free blog content and social media headlines.
- You can create long-form content using Simplified's AI assistant.
- Simplified will soon bring one of the most loved features, i.e., scheduling and publishing in-app.
- You can skyrocket your social media marketing with just one app with Simplified; no need for multiple tools.
Thoughts about VistaCreate for creating content:
- VistaCreate's template library has more options than Simplified's.
- It also has templates for printing (such as posters and presentations).
- VistaCreate lets you use a mix of stock photography and illustrations in your designs.
- As a contributor, you can add your design templates to VistaCreate's extensive library and make some money.
Thoughts on UI/UX
- I work a lot with design tools and understand the importance of the user interface very well. After testing Simplified and VistaCreate, I found that both tools were very easy to use.
- These tools are designed for non-designers, and they do the job very well.
- I really liked the dark theme of Simplified UI; it helps me to work for a long time.
- VistaCreate offers a mobile app, but I didn't find it very user-friendly.
- Simplified, on the other hand, does not offer a mobile app, but you can use its website on your mobile device.
Final thoughts
- Both tools allow you to create beautiful content on a large scale using their stock libraries and professional templates.
- The two tools let you trim video clips, but Simplified's Video Editor provides an intuitive timeline view for video editing.
- Both offer a magical one-click resizing tool that lets you create images of any type. Moreover, both platforms also offer a background removal feature.
- Being a great alternative to VistaCreate in design and video, Simplified offers additional benefits like copywriting and long-form content. Simplified is the clear winner in this round.
Final Rating:
Here are the ratings:
9/10 to Simplified
8/10 to VistaCreate
MAKE YOUR CHOICE
Features
Nothing beats a side-by-side features comparison
(Check the table below...)
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Features | Simplified | VistaCreate |
|---|---|---|
AI copywriting | ||
Unlimited personalized brand kits | ||
Custom fonts | ||
Design templates | ||
Upload your assets | ||
Video editing | ||
Video templates | ||
Animation & transition | ||
One-click magic resize | ||
One-click background remover | ||
Content planner and scheduler | In short-term roadmap | |
Team members | Unlimited | Limited |
Team sharing | ||
Real-time collaboration | ||
Folders | ||
Premium community | ||
API | ||
Integrations | Google Drive, Shopify, Storyblocks, Pixabay, Unsplash, Brandfetch, Pexels, Airtable, Zapier | WordPress, Depositphotos |
Live chat support | ||
Video tutorials | ||
Blog | ||
Help documentation | ||
Mobile App |
Conclusion features
Simplified is a collaborative design platform that lets us quickly create images, videos, and copy from one place. VistaCreate also allows us to create professional looking designs with just a few clicks.
In this section, I'll briefly summarize the pros and cons of each tool.
Advantages of Simplified features:
- Simplified provides you access to Giphy, so you can use GIFs in your designs.
- Simplified offers you the layers feature, which gives you more control over the design.
- Simplified integrates with Google Drive, Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels, Brandfetch, and Storyblocks.
- There is also an AI Copywriter and a Long form Content Writer.
- The AI Copywriter supports more than 10 languages.
Disadvantages of Simplified features:
- Simplified does not have a mobile app.
- There are no templates for print materials.
Advantages of VistaCreate features:
- There are more than 50 template formats available.
- You can add sticker animations to your designs.
- You can download more than 50M creative assets.
- The designs can be downloaded as GIFs and PDFs.
- Additional free tools include 'video to GIF converter' and 'image format converter'.
Disadvantages of VistaCreate features:
- When you try to edit an unfinished design from your desktop to your mobile device, the app does not support some designs.
- There is no real-time collaboration feature, and there is a limit of 10 members per team plan.
Final Score Features
- As far as features are concerned, Simplified has many advantages over VistaCreate.
- Simplified leads in layer and gradient customization, real-time collaboration, integration with media libraries, AI copywriting, and timeline view during video editing.
- On the other hand, VistaCreate has some advantages over Simplified: more design templates, creative assets, sticker animations, and some other free tools.
- Simplified will soon introduce a publishing and scheduling feature within its app. It will be the first all-in-one tool for social media marketing. So Simplified is the clear winner in this round.
Final Rating:
Here are the ratings:
9/10 to Simplified
7/10 to VistaCreate
MAKE YOUR CHOICE
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Pricing
Simplified Pricing Overview
Currently, Simplified offers two pricing plans. One is monthly pricing plan and the other one is lifetime deal plan.
Let us take a look at both of them:
Simplified monthly prices:
- Simplified offers two basic paid plans and one custom plan for large enterprises.
- Pricing for the paid plans is $10 per member per month (small teams) and $30 per member per month (enterprise).
- You get a 20% discount on all their plans if you pay annually. A free trial of the paid plans is also available.
- In addition, there is also a free plan with limited features.
Take a look at the monthly pricing details:
Free
- Unlimited design & video projects, 5000 words, 5 guests, 1 GB workspace storage.
Small Teams
- Everything in free plan+ Video editing, Google fonts, 10000 words, 10 background remover credits, 10+ languages, 10 GB workspace storage
Businesses
- Everything is Small Teams+ 50000 words, long form editor, 25 background remover credits, 25 GB workspace storage, Unlimited brand kits
Simplified lifetime deal prices:
- License Tier 1: $79 one-time payment, 1 editor seat
- License Tier 2: $159 one-time payment, 3 editor seat(s)
- License Tier 3: $299 one-time payment, 6 editor seat(s)
Take a look at the lifetime deal pricing details:
VistaCreate Pricing Overview
- VistaCreate offers a single paid plan that costs $13 per month. However, you can save 20% if you sign up for an annual subscription.
- There is also a free starter plan, but with limited features.
Take a look at the VistaCreate pricing details:
Starter Free
50k+ design templates, 1M+ creative assets, Background removal feature, 10 GB storage
Pro
The whole in Starter pack +
50M+ creative assets, Team account, unlimited brand kits, Unlimited storage
VistaCreate (Crello) is also having Annual deal plan which just costs $67 per year.
Take a look at the complete details about VistaCreate annual plan below:
Pros and cons of Simplified pricing:
Pros:
- Pricing plans according to your goals: Create, Collaborate, Scale and Automate
- Forever free plan available
- Trial on all paid plans
- Unlimited members (Need to pay extra for additional members)
- Lifetime deal available
Cons:
- Limited storage in all paid plans
- Limited background removal credits
Pros and cons of VistaCreate pricing:
Pros:
- Free plan available
- Save $53 on annual deal plan
- Unlimited storage
- Unlimited background removal credits
Cons:
- Limited members
- No lifetime deal available
Concluding thoughts on pricing
Let us do the math for an individual and as well as for a team:
(1) If you are an individual:
Simplified will cost you $10 per month and includes more than 30 AI copywriting templates that you can use to write up to 10,000 words.
Simplified will also soon allow you to publish to social media.
VistaCreate, on the other hand, will cost you $13 per month, and you'll have to pay extra for the copywriting and publishing tools.
Simplified is a good choice in this case.
(2) If you are a team:
Suppose your team/agency consists of 5 members;
Simplified costs you $30 per member per month, or $150 per month, and includes 50000 AI copywriting words.
VistaCreate, on the other hand, supports up to 10 members on a team and costs $13 per month, but you have to pay extra for the copywriting and scheduling tools.
VistaCreate also does not support more than 10 members in a team, so it's not suitable for large teams.
You can choose either in this case.
Simplified offer their pricing plans according to your marketing goals and lifetime deal is also going on.
So, Simplified is the winner in pricing round.
Pricing Score:
Here are the scores:
9/10 to Simplified
8/10 to VistaCreate
MAKE YOUR CHOICE
Battle Decision
Simplified
This SaaS battle is now over, but one thing is certain:
Simplified leads the battle in many aspects!
Why Simplified is the best tool for creating content and a great alternative to VistaCreate?
- Simplified gives you more control over your design with advanced layer customization features.
- You can edit and export videos up to 5 minutes in length.
- Eliminates the use of copywriting and long-form content writer tools.
- Allows your team to work together and scale content creation all in one place.
- Affordable pricing tailored to meet your needs.
- Saves a lot of time when creating content.
- Live chat support answers all your questions 24×7.
- Scheduling and publishing will be available soon.
- It is on its way to becoming an all-in-one content creation and publishing platform.
VistaCreate has all the features you need to create professional-looking designs for your social media. Additionally, it has a built-in media library and thousands of templates.
Simplified, on the other hand, also has all the features you need to create stunning posts on social media.
With features like video editing up to five minutes, advanced customization options, AI copywriting, and long-form content writers, Simplified is far ahead of VistaCreate when it comes to content creation.
You can also create and publish all your marketing content on the same platform using in-app publishing and scheduling.
It also saves you money by offering a single app that provides you with a solution for design, video, copywriting, long-form content, scheduling, and publishing.
To put it simply,
Simplified = Online design tool + AI copywriter + scheduling and publishing tool for social media
Now It’s time to MAKE YOUR CHOICE.