BrandTab vs Canva
A Canva Brand Kit alternative for small brands
Canva is where many small brands make their posts, slides and flyers, and its Brand Kit keeps logos, colors and fonts right beside the editor. BrandTab isn’t a design tool. It’s where the whole brand lives, so you can use it in Canva and everywhere else.
Where Canva and BrandTab agree
- Both keep your logos, colors and fonts in one place.
- Both can start a brand from your website: Canva’s brand kit builder and Tabitha both read a URL.
- Both handle more than one brand: Canva Pro holds 5 Brand Kits, and BrandTab Creative holds 20 brands.
Where they differ
What Canva does better
- A full design editor with millions of templates. BrandTab doesn’t try to be one.
- Brand Templates and locked elements keep a team’s designs on brand while they’re being made.
- Approvals and team roles on Business.
- AI design tools such as Magic Resize and background removal.
Choose Canva Canva alone is enough if every brand asset you need lives inside Canva designs, and nobody outside your team asks for the files.
Choose BrandTab Add BrandTab when the brand has to travel: printers, partners, a website, a press request, or clients who don’t use Canva. Keep designing in Canva, and keep the brand in BrandTab.
How BrandTab does it
- Tabitha sets it upGive her your website, or drop in a messy logo folder, and she suggests the logos, palette, fonts and copy for you to review.
- Copy it anywhereQuick copy (⌘K on Mac, Ctrl+K on Windows) and the free Mac menu bar app put a hex code, a bio or a logo into any app in one step.
- Hand it to anyoneA share page or a brand package gives a printer, partner or client every logo and color without an account, with one Download everything button.
What each costs
Canva
Free with 1 Brand Kit, limited to one palette of up to 3 colors. Pro is US$18 a month or US$144 a year for one person. Business is US$25 per person a month, or US$250 a year.
- Free
- US$01 Brand Kit, one palette of up to 3 colors, no uploaded fonts
- Pro
- US$18/month or US$144/yearOne person, 5 Brand Kits, Brand Templates, custom fonts
- Business
- US$25/month or US$250/year per person100 Brand Kits, Brand Controls, approvals; no seat minimum
- Enterprise
- On requestSSO, audit logs
Checked November 1, 2026 on canva.com/pricing, Canva help: color palettes. Canva’s prices vary by country. These are its US prices.
BrandTab
Free for 1 brand. Creative is $19 a month for 20 brands. Studio is $39 a month for unlimited brands and 2 team seats.
- Free
- $01 brand, 500 MB of files, 5 Tabitha smart reads a month
- Creative
- $19/month or $190/year20 brands, 20 GB, share pages and exports. Founding price $12/month
- Studio
- $39/month or $390/year for 2 seatsUnlimited brands, $15/month per extra seat, free client access. Founding price $29/month
Founding prices are for anyone who subscribes in BrandTab’s first three months. See every plan.
Questions people ask
Can I use BrandTab and Canva together?
Yes, and most people do. Keep designing in Canva. BrandTab holds the logo files, exact colors, fonts and approved words, and quick copy puts any of them into Canva with one shortcut.
Does Canva’s free plan include a brand kit?
Yes: one Brand Kit with a single palette of up to 3 colors. Uploading your own brand fonts needs a paid plan, according to Canva’s help center.
Is Canva Teams still available?
Not for new sign-ups. Canva Business replaced it, at US$25 per person a month with no seat minimum (checked November 1, 2026).
Can BrandTab read my website like Canva’s brand kit builder?
Yes. Tabitha reads a brand’s website and suggests its logo, palette, fonts and copy for you to review. Free includes 5 smart reads a month.
Your brand’s next chapter
Try BrandTab beside Canva.
Logos, colors, fonts, voice and copy for every brand you look after, with share pages and media kits built from the details you saved once.
Your first brand is free.
Download BrandTab for MacFree with every plan. macOS 11 or later. Windows is coming soon.