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Infographics creation tools

  Notes, as of June 2017  
 

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Venngage

  • Has templates supporting education for both teachers and students
  • They offer support by way of tutorial docs and videos.
  • Templates are drag and drop style and include Infographics, reports, posters, promotions and social layouts.
  • Infographic can be shared privately, embedded via a link on blog or website, or downloaded as images or PDF.
Price is 29. Per month and 99 per year
Features included for both prices
Premium Features for all users
Premium Charts & Icons
35 Accounts for Students & Teachers
Class Sharing
14 Day Trial Period
Comment:  There are a number of templates to choose from. They are ok looking, maybe a bit on the basic side.

Visme

  • Has 500+ templates and 6000 icons
  • Drag and Drop design
  • Price is 0  (Free) for 3 projects - 10 Per month (Standard) for 15 projects, 20 (complete)  per month unlimited and 60 per month (team = 3 users)
  • Templates include presentations, infographics, reports, web content, product presentations and wireframe layouts.
  • There is educational pricing, must write a request for it
Features included
    Free  = public files and JPG format only
  • Up to 3 Projects
  • 100 MB Storage
  • Limited Templates
  • Download as JPG or PNG
  • Some Charts & Widgets
  • Public Projects
    Standard = Public and JPEG, PNG, PDF formats
  • Everything in Free plus
  • Up to 15 Projects
  • 250 MB Storage
  • All Premium Assets & Templates
  • No Visme Brand on Projects
  • Download as PDF
  • All Charts & Widgets
  • Create color palettes
    Complete & Team = Privacy controls and JPG, PNG, PDF, HTML5 Formats
  • Everything in Standard plus
  • Unlimited Projects
  • Unlimited Storage
  • Download as HTML5
  • Slide Library
  • Privacy Controls
  • Collect and Store Leads
  • Organize with Folders
  • Record Audio
  • Premium Charts & Icons
  • 35 Accounts for Students & Teachers
  • Class Sharing
  • 14 Day Trial Period
Team options also adds
  • Everything in Complete plus
  • Add and Manage users
  • Share Projects & Folders
  • Set Permissions
Comment:  Not a lot of great template options, but ok. Not the best graphic quality when printing, gives a warning about that but fonts should print fine.  Screen resolution based projects create small output on many of the templates, but there is a custom page-size option.  

Canva

  • Has templates supporting education and has integration with Google Apps 
  • They offer support by way of slide show style tutorial docs and blog posts.
  • Templates are drag and drop style and include Infographics, reports, posters, lesson planning, presentations and many other unusually layout styles.
  • Can be used on iPads and iPhones via app as well as the web.
  • Your projects can be saved and shared in Social media via FB and Twitter or Downloaded in JPEG, PNG and PDF formats.
Pricing
Canva - FREE FOREVER
  • Two folders to organize designs
  • Up to 10 team members for free
  • 1GB storage for photos and assets
  • Access to over 8,000 templates
  • Upload your own images
  • Access millions of photos for $1 each
Canva for Work - $12.95 per user / month
  • everything in Canva, plus:
  • Unlimited folders for your designs
  • Invite up to 30 team members
  • Unlimited storage for photos and assets
  • Exclusive access to 300,000 free photos, illustrations, and templates
  • Upload your own images
  • Access millions of photos for $1 each
  • Magically resize your designs
  • Upload custom fonts for your brand
  • Set color palettes for your brand
  • Save templates for you and your team
  • Organize your photos with folders
  • Easily find your designs with search
  • Priority support
Canva Enterprise - Teams with more than 30 members GET IN TOUCH for pricing
  • everything in Canva for Work, plus:
  • Team administrative controls
  • Advanced analytics
  • Single sign on
  • Dedicated account manager
  • 99.9% uptime SLA
Comment: base layouts seem well designed and good looking with lots of style options.
There are some extra design tools including a basic photo editor, color palette, and font combo helper. The library has hundreds of elements, many are free, premium elements may have a cost but never more than $1.

Piktochart 

  • Has over 600 templates for infographics, presentations, reports, banners and printable formats.  4000 images and icons
  • They offer support by way of  wiki docs, videos and blog posts.
  • Can upload 400MB of your own images.
  • Templates are drag and drop style
  • Presentations can be presented on line in slideshow mode.
  • Your projects can be saved and shared in Social media, HTML code for websites or mail links.
  •  Downloaded as JPG, PNG, PDF in a range of different resolutions formats.
Pricing
Educational pricing costs $39.99 for a 12 month PRO subscription. This gives access to all Piktochart templates, graphics and features. 

There is also  a bulk-purchase discount for a minimum of 20 users  (9.00 per user) - this is aimed at groups of students. The minimum term of subscription is 4 months. There is also a annual subscriptions available.
Classroom Pro for 30 accounts for 4 months is 120.
Comment: base layouts seem ok.

easelly

  • 100,000s of images and infographic templates but only are free to use.
  • Educators get 50% off pro accounts
  • No limit on upload sizes
  • Templates are drag and drop style
  • Your projects can be saved and shared in Social media, HTML code for websites or mail links.
  •  With a Pro account you can export your visual in PNG and PDF formatsThe PDF exports are in SVG and 300 dpi.  The max size of the visual can be 24x24 inches.
Pricing
Educational price is 18. Per person per year.  This gives access to all assists, even the 3.00 per month charge for icons and maps etc.
Via chat -> You can take sign up for the discount if you visit www.easel.ly/coupon
Comment: templates look ok

Mind the Graph

  • This site is for science-based infographics and presentations
  • Templates are most offend in presentation layout but there are some portrait style layouts
  • Over 3000 scientific illustrations and many templates
  • Support via blog, videos and examples
  • Templates are drag and drop style
  • Can be downloaded in screen and print sizes
  • 9.00 us per month gives the best purchase option
Comment:  Graphics look ok and seem well designed for this purpose.  You can request new graphics and templates if what you are looking for is not available.  They will then make those available in their pool. 

myHistro (timeline maker)

This is a bit different. It is free to use on the web and there is an Apple app for it as well.
It makes interactive geo-located timelines can be downloaded as PDF or exported to google earth.
It is being marketed as a social memory bank: MyHistro is the social memory-bank, created on the same foundation of combining maps and timelines as of the one-of-a-kind history site Histrodamus. 

This could be a great tool for some who want to do a different kind of digital storytelling.

Timeline (Knightlab)

https://timeline.knightlab.com

Is an open-source timeline maker with lots of different features and highly regarded as one of the most interactive free timeline creation tools.  It works with Google tables to layout the timeline. You must download the template to use with this timeline maker.  Images can be added to the timeline.

There is a short video tutorial on how to make a timeline and a number of professional examples to view.