Infographics are a very effective method to display data visually. We at Buffer have certainly utilized them to exchange information on several occasions.

I often enjoy looking at them, but I used to think there’s no way to make one myself.

Is that the same with you?

New technologies are coming every now and then, making it easier to generate better and better image content, including infographics to share across social media and use in your campaigns.

Even the people (like me!) who never imagined would be able to make one!

I had a lot of fun experience studying and trying out a few different infographic builders, and I’d like to share my favorite 10 sites in this article. I hope this is the one resource list you’ll ever need for generating stunning infographics!

Price: Free of charge

Optional fees:

Notable feature: The free plan will get you a long way!

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 30 minutes.

Canva is a renowned online graphic designing tool (and a helpful infographic generator) that lets you prepare a wide range of designs without any professional expertise.

Canva has a vast collection of templates to choose from, depending on your specific design needs, such as birthday cards, social media banners, lesson plans for a class, marketing templates, and more. Of course, their infographics are a big part of it.

Let’s quickly view the features Canva offers because we will make infographics. You can select from various templates (some templates are absolutely free to use, and some of them include elements like icons and pictures that you can get with the premium subscription or replace with your own elements).

Here are some examples of Canva’s templates (all of which are fully customizable):

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Canva provides a wide range of possibilities, including an extensive library of graphical elements, shapes, templates, once you’ve chosen your template (you can always start with a blank canvas to design your own) (some are free and some you can purchase with Premium subscription). You can also add your own resources to your image by uploading it.

And there you have it! You’ve created your own infographic!

Students are free, while everyone else must pay.

Optional fees:

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 30 minutes.

Venngage, just like Canva, gives you various alternatives to choose from when it comes to what you want to create. Multiple templates are available for marketing, reports, posters, and yes! Infographics too!

You can also discover more alternatives in the infographic area that tend to deal with specific topics and kinds of infographics, such as:

You’ll find a selection of templates (some free, some expensive) to choose from below:

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The next step is to customize and repurpose the template once you’ve found a suitable one for yourself you like. Venngage lets you add different “Widgets” to your infographic design; this might include things like charts and maps based on the unique information and data you have.

Price: Free or $4/month for a Pro Account

Optional fees: “Pro Accounts” are what they’re called.

Notable feature: A free design sandbox where you can experiment without registering for the site.

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 30 minutes.

Easel.ly helps you create infographics really simply. All you need to do is, once you go to the home page, you can choose one theme option among the available ones. They also provide a category search option for their template library. Here’s an example of some of the templates available on easel.ly:

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Elements like shapes, Backgrounds, text, charts and other tools are available on easel.ly.

Plans are available for free and for a fee.

Optional fees:

Make interactive infographics with links, animations, and more, which is noteworthy.

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 30 minutes.

Visme is a multi-faceted design tool that was created exclusively for digital marketers. You can make infographics, animations, presentations, device mock-ups, social media banners, and more.

Once you log in with your account, you’ll be able to get a visual representation of all your projects. To begin, just click the Create button in there.

Choose the type of project you desire to create. Few of the templates are available for free, while others require a premium subscription. Here’s an example of a Visme template (some are free, while others need a paid account):

Plans are available for free and for a fee.

Optional fees:

SQL connections, data analytics, link monitoring, and engagement analytics are all available in the paid edition of the platform — almost no other rival gives such in-depth measurements.

Intermediate ease of usage

The time it takes to make an infographic is 45 minutes.

Infogram is a design tool for people who are fascinated by statistics and numbers. Its robust data visualization capabilities make it easy to create simple infographics from large data sets. However, the templates appear to be relatively limited from an artistic perspective. You’ll have even more limited options if you’re a free user.

Here are a few examples from their portfolio:

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After you’ve finalized a template, you can manually customize the page’s elements. While dealing with statistics, Infogram is really a suitable choice. This tool is useful when assigning numbers to maps and graphs.

Free of charge

There are no paid choices. It is entirely free!

Specializes in creating visual resumes, which is a noteworthy feature.

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 10 minutes.

Vizualize.me is one of a  kind infographic creator. It can help you build an “infographic resume.” Simply log in and start creating your resume in the same way you would do in a Word template. You can also connect to your LinkedIn account to automatically collect your work and educational information.

You can enter your additional information and choose an infographic resume topic on the left.

Free of charge

Optional fees:

Pro: $15 per month per user

Team: $30 per month for 5 users

Notable feature: Surprisingly comprehensive feature set, especially for free users.

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 15 minutes.

Snappa is a user-friendly design tool that I got into by accident. For their free accounts, most design tools provide the bare-bones capability. Snappa, very unlike. The free plan includes almost all of the features of paying accounts, except a monthly download limitation for free account users.

With lots of built-in templates to select from, the program lets inexperienced designers to build everything from social media posts to infographics to unique multipurpose designs. Here is a handful that I enjoyed:

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This program delivers an enormous punch in minimal packaging, thanks to its vast, free library of fonts, images, and icons (both black and white and color).

Plans are available for free and for a fee.

Optional fees:

Build highly animated infographics without the help of a digital video expert.

Intermediate ease of usage

The time it takes to make an infographic is 45 minutes.

Animaker is mainly software for preparing animated videos, allowing you to create animated infographics. Users can always pick and use story pieces from a library collection of some scenarios, animated characters, photos, and icons to create an animated infographic step by step.

Animaker, like other applications, provides several animated templates to utilize as the basis for your infographic. Here’s an example of how they appear.

Every template is simply a film that is then altered for your needs in their graphic editor.

The infographic itself is simple to create; however, it does take some work. However, this is definitely to be expected for a fully animated video infographic.

There is a slight learning curve for someone who has never generated a video before, which is not usually present with non-animated infographic tools. It’s also worth noting that you’ll need Flash Player to use the tool.

Plans are available for free and for a fee.

Biteable Premium, which costs $29 per month, is one of the paid choices (includes video maker)

A video infographic maker that is simple to use is a noteworthy feature.

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 30 minutes.

Biteable is a robust video editor that allows you to make HD-quality videos for free. And, because we’re talking about infographics today, rest assured that you can use this tool to create convincing-looking video infographics.

You can choose from various infographic video templates and alter them to your heart’s content.

Designing a video infographic on Biteable is quick and easy for even a newbie, with loads of stock footage, icons, typefaces, and more.

Free users can share their unique infographic videos straight to YouTube and Facebook, while paid customers can download them, save them to their Biteable account, or share them to their preferred social channel.

Plans are available for free and for a fee.

Optional fees:

A one-of-a-kind scientific infographic maker is a noteworthy feature.

Ease of use: It’s simple to use.

The time it takes to make an infographic is 30 minutes.

Mind the Graph was designed with the research community in mind, but it is available to anyone. It has over 3,000 fantastic scientific graphics and infographic layouts that may be customized.

(Can you think of another infographic builder that can create such detailed visuals of bacteria, amoeba, and molecules?)

This relatively inexpensive tool offers increasingly more significant customization and design options with subscription plans, starting with a basic free plan with limited access.

Infographics are a fantastic visual asset for sharing on social media, which is one of their many advantages. The only downside is that they aren’t quite the right size for sharing.

Horizontal or square images are preferred on Twitter and Facebook, and infographics are highly vertical! (It’s also great for Pinterest.)

To work around this, we’ve tried all these above-mentioned tools and sites to get the optimum designs and infographics.