Raspy vs Canva photo editor
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Canva is not really a photo editor; it is a design tool that includes one. Its adjustments are decent, its templates are the reason people use it, and everything you upload lives in your Canva account on Canva's servers, where its privacy policy says it may be analysed and, unless you opt out, used to train its AI. Raspy is the opposite shape: one narrow job, no account, nothing stored.
| Raspy | Canva | |
|---|---|---|
| Where editing happens | On your device, in the browser | Uploads are stored on Canva's servers in several countries and may be used to train its AI unless you opt out |
| Account | None | Required to edit and to download |
| Price | Free, no ads | Free plan with limits on AI use; Pro about $180 a year |
| Tools | 15 iPhone-style adjustments, crop, straighten, flip | Templates, text, elements, layers, filters, Magic Studio AI |
| HEIC import | Yes, decoded on your device | Yes, up to 50 MB |
| Free export limits | None | No watermark on your own photo; transparent, compressed and bulk downloads are Pro only |
| Metadata in exports | Always removed | Not documented |
| Offline | Yes, installable | Existing designs can be marked for offline use for up to 14 days |
Where Canva wins
Anything that is a design rather than a photo. A social post with a headline over the picture, a poster, a collage, a presentation, a birthday card: Canva has a template for it and thousands of fonts and elements to fill it with. Its photo adjustments and filters are fine for the picture inside a design, and the Magic Studio tools remove backgrounds and generate fills. If the end product has words on it, Canva is the tool.
Where Raspy wins
The photo never leaves. Canva's privacy policy is explicit that the media you upload is received and stored, in the United States, Australia, Singapore, the EU, the UK, the Philippines and New Zealand, and that content may be analysed to train its models unless you turn that off in privacy settings. For a family photo that is a lot of places to be. Raspy processes the photo in the page and has no server that could receive it.
No account. Canva needs a login to edit and to download; guests on a shared design cannot download at all. Raspy opens the file picker and that is it.
A real photo editor's adjustments. Raspy has highlights and shadows recovery, black point, vibrancy with skin protection, definition and noise reduction, working in linear light, with a straighten that fills the frame. For fixing a photo rather than decorating one, that is the more useful set.
Metadata. Raspy's exports carry no EXIF or GPS. Canva does not document what its downloads contain.
Which to use
Canva for making something out of a photo. Raspy for making the photo itself better, with nothing uploaded and nothing to sign up for. Many people will use both: fix the photo in Raspy, then drop the result into a Canva design.
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