
About PicMonkey
PicMonkey offers easy-to-use design tools that help you create eye-catching images for every platform and wherever you promote your brand. Get a head start with designer-crafted templates for logos, social posts, ads, banners, and more — or start from scratch and add graphics, text, and textures.
As your brand grows, PicMonkey grows with you. Increase your output and keep your brand look consistent with brand kits, collaboration tools, and asset management tools.
PicMonkey is accessible in the cloud, for your desktop computer, and also as a mobile app for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
Key benefits of PicMonkey
Get dramatic, on-trend looks with transformative tools:
—Effects you can paint on, add outlines, shadows, color shift & more
— Background remover erases photo backgrounds in one click
— Animation puts a move on any graphic, photo, or logo in just a few clicks
— Image fill lets you create clipping masks for text and graphics
— Draw lets you doodle on images with lots of brush tip options.
— Collage give you the power to create super flexible layouts for every
Create images your way:
— Create from a blank canvas or photo, or get ready-made style with a template.
— Totally customizable fonts, textures, graphics, and stock photos and videos
— Come for the one-click magic, stay for the high-end capabilities.
Increase output, save time and money:
— Use time-savers like Smart Resize, Brand Kit to speed up your workflow (available with a Pro subscription).
— Never buy a stock image: photos from Unsplash and iStock by Getty, and videos from Pexels and Pixabay come with your subscription.
— Collaborate with team members with commenting, real-time co-editing, and team folders (available with a Business subscription).
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Real-time collaboration Photo Editing Tool with Cloud Storage!
Reviewed on 21/02/2021
PicMonkey has Everything for advertising, creating visual content, and creating brand new graphical...
PicMonkey has Everything for advertising, creating visual content, and creating brand new graphical posts on social media pages. Beautiful graphics have made our site content and social media pages much more impressive and have caused our site visitors to be much more and this has increased our sales and orders.
Pros
The ability to remove background with just one click and the use of artificial intelligence for better performance of photo editing is very lovable and practical for me. The brand Kit feature is awesome, when I have uploaded the company logo and font, PicMonkey creates a full pack company brand kit with everything we need from A to Z. PicMonkey has everything I need to edit and produce visual content, a database of thousands of ready-to-use commercial stock photos, thousands of pre-made templates and fonts, email templates, collage boxes and everything I need. Also, the ability to store files and images in the cloud is very important and useful.
Cons
The features that are available in the desktop version are not available in the mobile version and are better than the features of all versions, also the ability to edit very large photos with large files should be added to the software. In general, the rest of the facilities are good and acceptable.
Alternatives Considered
CanvaReasons for Choosing PicMonkey
In previous Softwares and Applications, missing storage capabilities in the cloud, as well as ready prebuilt templates and stock images were not as much as what we have now at PicMonkey.Switched From
Fotor, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), BeFunky, Affinity Designer and Adobe Creative CloudReasons for Switching to PicMonkey
Various features such as the ability to work in groups on Photos at the same time (Realtime Collaboration), as well as highly intelligent artificial, which has made the work much better for editing photos.- Industry: Photography
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Affordable photo editing software
Reviewed on 29/07/2022
I successfully edited many photos with picmonkey, and I created social media ads for my business....
I successfully edited many photos with picmonkey, and I created social media ads for my business.
While there weren't as many tools as I wanted and the library wasnt as vast as I would like, I was happy with the outcome of my work on Picmonkey. I created our first logo with Picmonkey and customers complimented me on it many times.
Pros
Picmonkey provides most basic photo editing tools, crop, filter, collage maker, etc.
A library of templates is available, to edit templates a drag and drop feature is provided. There is a faunt library and text can be manipulated with shadowing or curvature.
Cloud storage is available and your Picmonkey files can be accessed from any device when you log in.
Files can be shared to most social media or through email.
Picmonkey is not hard to use, customer support is provided. Updates and improvements are made occasionally, recently background remover was added.
Cons
Picmonkey does not rank high for me in tools or library quality.
I have used other software with many more editing tools provided, and more options within those tools (for example more filters in the filter tool).
To download any of your work you'll need to pay for a subscription. The cheaper subscription on Picmonkey provides the same as the free version of other software.
Reasons for Choosing PicMonkey
My business temporarily came upon a time of financial strain and I needed a low cost alternative. Picmonkey listed many of the tools I needed for a lower price.Switched From
Adobe PhotoshopReasons for Switching to PicMonkey
Picmonkey was rated easy to use. I needed the new product to be something I could learn quickly as my business is dependent on this kind of software.
- Industry: Sports
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
PicBasic
Reviewed on 15/12/2018
PicMonkey was one of the first free design editors I stumbled upon and I really liked it for the...
PicMonkey was one of the first free design editors I stumbled upon and I really liked it for the simple tasks I needed complete. I even sprung for the annual subscription just to have additional features. For a while, I would say it was the best of it's kind. However, new competition sprung up, and in an attempt to pivot to be more comprehensive, I feel that PicMonkey lost touch with why customers were using it in the first place. Others may appreciate the added changes, and those are people who are simply unaware that there are better choices elsewhere. Again, these changes are relatively recent, as PicMonkey's new iterations are still in beta testing, and maybe in the end it will be a more superior product than I'm giving it credit for. I just abide by the old saying "It's better to be a first rate version of yourself than a second rate version of someone else."
Pros
One of the only reasons I still use(d) PicMonkey was the ability to quickly create a collage of photos and add some filters, text, stickers. The low subscription cost was attractive, and I figured if it saved me additional formatting time it would take to use PhotoShop, it would be worth the deal. It's done the trick for the past few years.
Cons
The new BETA platform is a nightmare. PicMonkey had already been circumvented by other competitors offers free and easy design solutions like Canva, that allowed you to save and store your designs in the cloud. PicMonkey caught on and it trying to create a "hub" for design storage and a more sophisticated design platform, but in turn, they butchered what was once a simple and easy tool worthy of a low cost subscription in favor of cut rate imitator of more sophisticated platform. I won't be renewing when my subscription expires in January.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Creative, simple to use, but "okay" for the price.
Reviewed on 31/07/2023
If you are willing to pay a monthly/annual subscription, PicMonkey is perfect for you. It has a lot...
If you are willing to pay a monthly/annual subscription, PicMonkey is perfect for you. It has a lot of features that will make your creations look professional. Due to this fact, it may be used for personal, work, and educational purposes.
Pros
PicMonkey auto-saves all of your creations in your personal online library, so I do not have to worry about losing my progress. It also has beautiful features such as makeup and nice filters. This app allows you to professionally edit your photos and make them go from "nice" to "outstanding"! Personally, I love the option of "duplicate", so I can eliminate undesired parts of my photos without anyone noticing. Also, PicMonkey makes it easy to directly share your creations on more than 10 different social media, including Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Ads Manager, Youtube, etc. Everything is user-friendly and simple.
Cons
If you are trying PicMonkey for the first time and you do not have a paid subscription, you will not be able to download your content. This is understandable, but I'd like the app to warn me about this before I start editing. On the other hand, the price is a little bit high having in mind that other apps have the same features for free.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Basic Filters for Simple Projects
Reviewed on 21/04/2021
It's easy to use, has tons of options, and isn't super costly. However, it's pretty basic, so if...
It's easy to use, has tons of options, and isn't super costly. However, it's pretty basic, so if you want higher quality editing, I don't think it's worth it.
Pros
I liked how many filter options there are, how easy it is to use, and how quickly it works. I used it mostly for photo editing with the filter options.
Cons
The free trial is nice, but so so many features are paid. It's not super expensive, but if I wanted a good photo editor, I'd shell out for PhotoShop or something else. I just didn't think it was worth the money for our company.
Alternatives Considered
Gravit Designer ProReasons for Switching to PicMonkey
The free trial had the options we needed at the time.Response from Shutterstock
Thank you for your carefully considered review, Molly. We wanted you to know that you can do TONS of super sophisticated looks, for your photos or designs, in PicMonkey. Have a look at the articles in our Resource Center, here: https://www.picmonkey.com/blog
PicMonkey FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for PicMonkey.Q. What type of pricing plans does PicMonkey offer?
PicMonkey offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: USD 7.99/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Basic subscription is $7.99 when you choose month-to-month billing, or $72 when you choose annual billing (which amortizes to $6 a month). The Pro subscription is $12.99 month-to-month, or $120 annually (which amortizes to $10 a month). The Business subscription is $228 a year and can only be billed annually, and you can add extra seats — it amortizes to $19 a month per seat. What you get with Pro, in addition to all the Basic offerings, is unlimited storage, Smart Resize, Background Remover, PDF download, brand kit, animation, iStock by Getty photos, premium Draw brush tips, priority email support, and the ability to upload your own fonts. What you get with Business, in addition to all the Basic and Pro offerings, is multiple brand kits, real-time co-editing, commenting on images, team folders, and seat and permission management.
Q. Who are the typical users of PicMonkey?
PicMonkey has the following typical customers:
51–200
Q. What languages does PicMonkey support?
PicMonkey supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does PicMonkey support mobile devices?
PicMonkey supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does PicMonkey integrate with?
PicMonkey integrates with the following applications:
Buffer, Google Drive, Instagram, Meta for Business, OneDrive, Twitter/X
Q. What level of support does PicMonkey offer?
PicMonkey offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base
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