--- title: CorelDRAW Reviews meta\_title: 'CorelDRAW Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 556 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CorelDRAW works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 556 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: Graphic Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/graphic-design --- # CorelDRAW Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by CorelDRAW but has limited features. Are you part of the CorelDRAW team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Designed with your productivity in mind, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite is trusted by millions of graphics pros and design teams around the globe for endless creativity with no time wasted. This fully-loaded toolkit for professional vector illustration, layout, photo editing, typography, and collaboration is equal parts creative and efficient: the perfect recipe for delivering breathtaking design projects, quickly. Fast track to fabulous with an affordable, ever-advancing CorelDRAW Graphics Suite subscription, packed with all the tools you need for graphic design on a deadline. * * * Seller [Corel Corporation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/corel-corporation-10b41cd4-0594-4f58-8f0a-212c911385c6) Discussions [CorelDRAW Community](https://www.g2.com/products/coreldraw/discuss) Languages Supported Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Sarah Daly Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 14 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/coreldraw/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Adobe Illustrator](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe Illustrator") Adobe Illustrator 4.6/5(6,192) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-illustrator/reviews) [ ![Adobe Photoshop Lightroom](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom") Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.6/5(3,298) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-photoshop-lightroom/reviews) [ ![GIMP](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GIMP") GIMP 4.3/5(1,485) ](https://www.g2.com/products/gimp/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/coreldraw/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 556 real user reviews. 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Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/13/2023 "Was my go-to for years....really fast becoming outdated by online offerings" 1.5/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? I knew how to use it. upgrades didn't change the tools too drastically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? doesn't have near the graphic tools of online services now (font and image centering/placement in the work area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CorelDRAW solving and how is that benefiting you? I could create my own professional looking marketing images. Benefitted by its ability to import and manipulate many image formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Sijo Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sijo Z.") SZ Sijo Z. Martial Art Master Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/2/2021 "Great Product but bad support and annoying forced pop-ups" 1.5/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? I think CorelDRAW (vector Graphics) is the best graphic product around or was. I started using it when it was Corel2, sometime around 1990. It integrated fantastically with CorelPain (Bitmap Images), both felt and work similarly. I liked it so much so that we bought near 1000 copies for our Engineers and I never looked back. Before we purchased we evaluated three other products, including Arts & Letters and Adobe but by far, Corel was the best, hands down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? In the 30 years since, Corel has become so-so. Once, CorelDRAW and CorelPAIN felt like the one product, and most functions were similar. Since they feel like different products, with even a simple cut and paste between the two causing size problems, I can no longer say that it is the best on the market as I see Paint Apps with better functions than CorelPain, including masks, effects, filters, and the like. Often I use online bitmap editors instead of CorelPain and have other BitMap editors to fill CorelPaint's huge omissions. One of my biggest gripes is background removal and masks, but one thing is even worse; Corel Support. What can I say to Corel support that 100's of published gripes do not already say. Hundreds of complaints about Corel Support, especially since its 2021 expensive upgrade seems to be the least stable since the '90s. But there is one Corel Unique feature across all Pain, Draw, and Video that raises the heckles of most people to the boiling point, forced pop-up inside the program. As a Corel user, you have to log in to your account as a security feature, which is understandable. But, Corel uses this to piggyback a stream of in-program pop-up spam advertising that is difficult to stop. Yes, there is a setting, but that is a recent addition, only after hundreds or even thousands of complaints. Summary - Look around first before you buy, and consider the steep price of Coraw Graphis Suit, which tries to sell you its products as an integrated suite. It is integrated, but not very well, and the great feature it once had, that the Pain and Draw worked and felt very similar, that is long gone. With a price tag of $640, 'for the graphics enthusiast', it is not worth the cost. The cut-down, Essentials version for $235 may be good value, but they need to improve stability, remove pop-up spamming and realign the two products functions. You could do the ridiculously priced Professional version for $549/ PER YEAR or even the Technical version for $895/y but I would suggest shopping around to get exactly what you want from different products without a yearly cost. If the functions were similar as once in the 90s' then it may have been worth it as a new user, reducing vastly on the steep learning curve, but now, shop around. There are so many great and innovative products out there including the market leader Adobe Illustrator but also Affinity Designer. If you are not sure, try Inkscape, a free open-source editing program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CorelDRAW solving and how is that benefiting you? I loved Corel Graphics Suit, but I think their marketing, support, and design strategy is detached from the 21st century. I think they are going down the path of other products that were once market leaders but failed to adapt to the circumstances like Swiss Watches and Nokia. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Yujin J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Yujin J.") YJ Yujin J. Illustrator/animator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/23/2020 "Long way to become industry standard" 2/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? Textures and brush strokes close to traditional medium. CorrelDraw offers variety of texture and brushes. Pricing is high but at least it is not monthly subscription base like Adobe programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? Outdated UI, brush setting, and effect/filters compared to other softwares like Photoshop. Also the pricing is quite stiff for artists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CorelDRAW solving and how is that benefiting you? Good for hobby work or special type of task. But it cannot be an industry standard due to lack of their functions as a digital art software, it only serves a purpose of a painting software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Design](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Design") UD Verified User in Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/26/2020 "Coreldraw sucks not good anymore" 1.5/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? The best thing will be when I don't need to use anymore Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? Crashes all the time especially when you spend hours creating artwork. I have used this product for a long time and it is very upsetting. Now it is just getting worse and the upgrade is even worse. I will be looking for a new product for my designs. Highly recommend not using this product. Will keep you posted on what I find Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CorelDRAW solving and how is that benefiting you? The whole program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/5/2019 "It's OK " 1.5/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? Powerful once you know hwk to use it. Able to interface directly with our laser cutter. Seems usable for some serious design work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? Very bad user experience. No good snapping features. Need to lookup tutorials all the time. Generally unintuitive UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CorelDRAW: Adobe Illustrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CorelDRAW solving and how is that benefiting you? Coreldraw helps us use our laser engraver. We take images, dxf files, drawing files, pdfs, and other media and turn it into black and white raster / engrave / cut plotting data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Geovanna D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Geovanna D.") GD Geovanna D. Lead Graphic Artist & Screen-printer Animation Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/13/2018 "Not a great program" 2/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? I'm not really a fan if Corel draw. I find it hard to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? It glitches a lot and it also is hard to learn. Very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CorelDRAW solving and how is that benefiting you? Not many at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Barbara E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Barbara E.") BE Barbara E. Sócia / Partner Graphic Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/27/2016 "Necessary evil" 2/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? Since it is the most used software when it comes to non-professional users, it is definetely a must-have if you need to work with files prepared by other people. Some old school graphic designers also prefer Corel Draw, especially if they are really used to it, and are not interested in going through the effort of learning a newer, more effective vector illustration software. Therefore, even if you are an up-to-date professional graphic designer, it is important to have a running version of Corel Draw, because you will eventually need to open a .cdr file sent by clients, service providers or collaborators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? For people who are used to work with the Adobe Creative Suite, it can be really frustrating to work with Corel Draw, since the shortcuts, metaphors, and basically the whole process of using it, are totally different. It is also difficult to work with .cdr files in Adobe software such as InDesign or Photoshop. Since Adobe has its own vector graphics software (Adobe Illustrator), and it comes included in most plans people subscribe to in order to get other software anyway, Corel Draw ends up not making a lot of sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is CorelDRAW solving and how is that benefiting you? Corel Draw solves the problem of working with files prepared by clients, providers or collaborators who are not professional graphic designers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ariel M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ariel M.") AM Ariel M. Ilustration | Graphic design Graphic Design Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/11/2016 "Outdated" 1.5/5 What do you like best about CorelDRAW? Vector shapes are easy to work with, the way to adjust nodes is pretty friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about CorelDRAW? The software seems stuck in time. First of all, no Mac friendly version in a decade for a design program is a big red light, or should be. Also, tons of trouble with colors when exporting to most formats. The "pages" system is pretty awkward, specially having worked with illustrator's artboards which allow to view the whole thing at once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering CorelDRAW: Move to illustrator if you're an illustrator or a graphic designer. Specially Mac Users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about CorelDRAW? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about CorelDRAW ](https://www.g2.com/products/coreldraw/discussions/new) GU Guest User • Last activity over 2 years ago Is CorelDraw free? 1 Upvote 2 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-coreldraw-free) ![Brenda H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brenda H.") 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