# Stencil Reviews **Vendor:** Getstencil **Category:** [Photo Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/photo-management) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About Stencil Stencil is the web's favorite graphic design tool! It is the fastest and easiest way to create engaging visuals for small business owners, bloggers, social media marketers and more! No need to hire expensive designers or take time to learn complicated software. Stencil is the one tool you need to source beautiful stock photos, fonts and icons to create beautiful images faster than you ever thought possible. ## Stencil Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users love the **creativity** offered by Stencil, with easy access to stock photos, icons, and templates. (1 reviews) - Users love the **ease of use** of Stencil, benefiting from its extensive stock photos, icons, and templates. (1 reviews) - Users love Stencil for its **reliability and daily usability** , making it an essential tool in their routines. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **limited storage** for branding colours frustrating, but some manage by keeping Hex codes accessible. (1 reviews) - Users feel the **outdated design** of Stencil has led to it being overshadowed by competitors like Canva. (1 reviews) ## Stencil Reviews ### 1. Stencil: An Essential Daily Design Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Heike F. | Chief Consultant @Dr. Franz Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2025 **What do you like best about Stencil?** I truly enjoy using Stencil, and it has become one of the tools I rely on almost every day. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** Unfortunately, I am unable to save my branding colours, which would make Stencil even better. However, I can work around this limitation by keeping my Hex codes handy whenever I need them. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this tool to create images for many of my tasks. It's quick, easy to use, and gets straight to the point. While it may not offer all the features that Canva does, I still find myself preferring it for most of my needs. ### 2. Like Canva, but not as good **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark D. | Business Consultant, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Stencil?** Easy to use, lots of stock photos, icons and templates. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** It's not changed much, at one point it was very similar to Canva, but the lack of development means it's been left in the dust by competition. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stencil allows me to create different graphical assets using templates, icons and photos. ### 3. Does the job **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justine A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Stencil?** It does everything I need it to. I can upload my own fonts (there's a limit), resize my images, and pretty much do everything I need to make a Pinterest pin. I also upload my my own photos and use the available graphics on Stencil. It's been very easy to use. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** The workspace is a little small, so I can' t see with detail all of my designs. The templates are also not very pretty. It doesn't matter because I don't use them anyways. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Stencil to make Pinterest pins, and I've been using it for a few years now. I haven't looked back. I can save my templates and they recycle them so my pins have a consistent style. ### 4. Stencil is so easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jess L. | Wellness Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Stencil?** I love that I can open Stencil from my browser menu easily when I'm working on social media or my own website **What do you dislike about Stencil?** I dislike that I can paste text using a few keystrokes, but I can't copy text . **Recommendations to others considering Stencil:** Simple and easy to use. Try it. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can create different optimally sized images for each of my social accounts and websites from my original design with a click. Simple. ### 5. It served its purpose **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Stencil?** It's a good service if you want to develop social media posts. It provides a lot of options and is easy to build posts. It also has a lot of options. But to be honest I replaced it with Canva which is far more robust. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** It's not as good as Canva and even though I bought a lifetime deal through Appsumo for Stencil, my business needs have moved beyond what Stencil can do for it. I think they have a long way to go to match Canva, though they are trying. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** A good way to build graphics. Specifically graphics for my social media posts. It's easy to use for that purpose and can be used on my iPad which is important for me. ### 6. Easy to use tool for social media image creation! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle G. | Director, National Resources, Strategy, Partnerships + D, E, I Committee , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Stencil?** Stencil is an easy way to make images for social media and websites. It was intuitive to learn and use, no training or even video training needed. With pre-set sizes, it is easy to make sure you are creating the correct size. They have a ton of available great images and quotes images but it is easy to upload your own as well. They have their own templates which I don't use but another time-saver. Nice that you can have your logo easily appear on all images. The Chrome add-on makes it easy to open up images in Stencil, love it. Check out social media feeds you like to get good ideas instead of just winging it. Took me a good year of use before my posts looked professional. This tool makes it easily possible to create the posts (and use their good-looking templates) but the creativity is still up to you. Pick a consistent look and feel. Huge storage space I've been making images for 3+ years and can organize and access them all easily and haven't had to upgrade to keep them. The search function to search their images and your own is great. Being able to make custom sizes and save them for easy access each time. I have folders for created and used images based upon the color scheme. I have it integrated with Buffer for easily scheduling to social media, perfect integration to make whole social media post creation and scheduling seamless. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** Customization is limited, making images re-sizable make them unusable because it shrinks them smaller than the original size and pixelated. It would be great if more fonts are available, although I just noticed you can upload fonts. The copy and paste function can be a little tricky but you get the hang of it. I have never been able to get save custom templates to work properly for me, could be user error but would make it easier to keep a similar look and feel. **Recommendations to others considering Stencil:** I am not sure if Stencil integrates with other social media scheduling companies. I only use Buffer because of the integration with Stencil and there might be others available. Use consistency and branding to make your images look professional. Posting 2xs a day is a waste of time, we eventually decreased to a few times a week. Keep images clean and crisp, not too busy, and take the time to plan out your strategy instead of just posting to post. Take time to place in Stencil and learn all the great features, even entry-level/non-computer experts can figure it out. There is no need to format images just upload and start there. It's fun and easy to use but a strategy for scheduling, offers, types of posts made it what will make it generate revenue. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to make professional consistent social media posts across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I can create months worth of posts in a relatively short amount of time. I can easily see if I have used the image before, organize images, and mark them as used so as not to repeat posts/images. Instead of searching Google for quotes, I can search right in Stencil. Stencil has helped us create a polished consistent look across platforms. Because of my website company's lack of photo specs, this was the only way I was able to keep photos a consistent size. Great integration with Buffer and the Chrome addon save safe immense time. I tried different social media image creation tools and Stencil showed to be the best for the value. The results of having a professional well crafted social media presence are an absolute necessity for all organizations. I haven't tried others but haven't needed to because Stencil has met all our needs from day one. Good customer service quickly and easily resolves the very few issues/questions we've had. ### 7. Very slick- Great tool for media creation. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Major H. | Product Development Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Stencil?** It is without a doubt the very best and most convenient software I have skilled to this day to produce blog site featured images and images for social media sharing. I am certain it can do more, but these are the main points I was looking for, and it handles them well. It is easy to switch to a various canvas dimension (HD 1920x1080, Instagram Tale 1080x1920, Twitter and google Cover 820x360, custom dimension, whatever) and after that change your sentence and video to fit that style. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** I use Stencil every day and it works in my best interest. No issues at all to dislike it. Amazing and fast media creator. **Recommendations to others considering Stencil:** If you are someone who needs a media creator for websites, blogs or social media stencil is certainly a great choice. I would recommend it to any user looking for an easy to work with media creator app at affordable price. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stencil is my best solution for social media posts creation. Huge resource library and fast editor save me a lot of my time. ### 8. Good For quick desings **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah R. | Virtual Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Stencil?** The ability to easily resize your template is probably the best feature. You can customize the size exactly, which is SUPER nice. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** There aren't a ton of fonts to choose from when you want to add text to an image. The templates aren't very diverse either. **Recommendations to others considering Stencil:** Stencil is an excellent tool for your basic design needs. You can easily upload photos and add text. The logo feature is great when considering branding and staying consistent. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stencil helps us design photos that we can use in design projects or on social media or on our website. ### 9. Great software for all my marketing content **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sara Y. | Executive, Leadership, Career and Business Coach, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Stencil?** I like the sizes, templates, stickers, logos. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** Stencil is not accessible on the mobile phone. Only on PC. **Recommendations to others considering Stencil:** Get ready to have fun with the website. There are so many features and templates to use. **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** I create content to all my social media cchannels. I don't need to worry the size. The templates are easy to use. ### 10. A really easy to use, affordable app. I've tested it thoroughly and recommend. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darren H. | Owner of Think Twice Marketing. Challenging the way you do marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Stencil?** Easy of use, ability to search for saved images based on keywords. Integration with icons as well as free to use images. **What do you dislike about Stencil?** Could do with the content scale aware feature that Adobe has, although Adobe is a lot more expensive. **Recommendations to others considering Stencil:** Use it **What problems is Stencil solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating images for social media. 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