TOP PICKS | 11 TOOLS

Best Infographic Design Apps and Websites

Infographics are an awesome way to convey a lot of complex information relatively quickly and engagingly. They offer engaging options for spicing up presentations and encourage creators to apply skills in everything from graphic design to math. These apps and websites for creating and designing infographics can help both teachers and students communicate their ideas and demonstrate learning, stretching visual and conceptual thinking while cultivating valuable design skills.

Top Picks

Print list

Canva - Photo Editor & Design

Create snazzy designs in seconds with flexible, cloud-based tool

Bottom line: A flexible, accessible way to get kids -- especially design novices -- creating digitally in your classroom if you have stable internet and time to get students set up to be successful.

Grades: 4–12 Price: Free

The Noun Project

Think in pictures with vibrant visual language everyone can understand

Bottom line: It's a neat, well-executed concept with lots of possibilities for learning, imagining, and creating.

Grades: 4–12 Price: Free To download icons without attribution, monthly rates range from $10 (personal) to $500 (agency).

Smore

Create online flyers, learn a little about marketing with design tool

Bottom line: A fast way to fashion attractive flyers, but students will need outside help to learn about PR and marketing and effective, concise writing.

Grades: 5–12 Price: Free, Paid Basic, very limited version, is free. Personal, business, and corporate plans available for monthly fees. Educator plan is $79/year.

Microsoft Sway

Cool scroll effects, flexible features boost visual storytelling tool

Bottom line: A great tool for design and presentation, if great visuals and easy sharing trump having the active viewing features present in other tools.

Grades: 6–12 Price: Free

Easel.ly

Think critically, share creatively with infographic-creation tool

Bottom line: Even though the basic themes and images are limited, when prepared well, this tool can help students connect with content in a meaningful way.

Grades: 7–12 Price: Free

Infogr.am

Snazzy, easy infographic maker visually pleasing but lacks design help

Bottom line: The site is a great asset for classroom presentations and analyzing data, but educators need to provide guidance to ensure students learn while using it.

Grades: 7–12 Price: Free, Paid Free version supports 10 projects and public sharing only. Pro version, available for $25/month or $228/year, supports up to 100 projects and allows for private projects, as well as premium theming and a large library of images.

Lucidpress

Collaborative publishing and design tool has lots of options, templates

Bottom line: An easy-to-use mash-up of InDesign and Google Drive, Lucidpress fills a niche for publication creation and collaboration.

Grades: 7–12 Price: Free to Try, Paid

Piktochart

Add oomph to info with sleek infographic tool

Bottom line: Tech-savvy kids will immediately take to this well-designed, reasonably easy-to-use tool.

Grades: 7–12 Price: Free, Paid There's a free version. The paid version for educators is $39.99 per year and allows access to all templates. It also adds 400MB of storage for custom photos, a variety of options to download projects, private projects, and removes the Piktochart watermark. There's also a classroom account that supports up to 30 accounts for $120 for four months.

Venngage

Create impressive infographics with ease

Bottom line: Surprisingly simple way for students to think critically and communicate ideas in an appealing, visual format, but could be a bit more edu-friendly with extra educator/student supports.

Grades: 7–12 Price: Free to Try, Paid $29/month gives educators 35 accounts for students and teachers, class sharing, and premium features for all users. The yearly subscription costs $99 and gives educators 35 accounts for students and teachers, class sharing, and premium features for all users.

Adobe Spark

Super-flexible design tool for crafting fab images, videos, and sites

Bottom line: This free, one-stop shop for creating sleek graphics, web stories, and animated videos is incredibly easy to use and challenges students to think critically about visual presentation.

Grades: 8–12 Price: Free