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Canva alternatives for a UGC portfolio and media kit

Canva is where most creators make their first media kit and portfolio. It’s a design tool, so the page looks how you make it look, and the numbers are whatever you typed. These alternatives keep the stats current, take bookings or get you paid.

By the UGC Creator Portfolio team · Updated 2026-10-29

What Canva gives you

Templates: its media kit page lists 430 templates "that you can customize and download"; the free plan has 1.6+ million templates in all, Pro 3.6+ million.
A website: Canva Websites publish free on a xyz.my.canva.site address, up to five live sites on the free plan. Buying a domain through Canva or connecting your own needs Pro.
Downloads: PDF, JPG and PNG on every plan.
Price: free, or Pro at CA$142 a year for one person (Canva showed us CAD prices from Canada; yours may be in your currency).

Reasons you might look elsewhere

Stats go stale. A Canva media kit holds the follower and view counts you typed the day you made it.
No booking or payments. A brand still has to email you, and you still send the invoice yourself.
A custom domain needs Pro or a domain bought through Canva.

The alternatives

Alternative	What it adds over Canva	Price	Fee when a brand pays
Beacons	A media kit that pulls stats from your accounts daily, rate cards, invoices	Free plan; paid from $10/mo	9% seller fee on Free and Creator, 0% from Creator Plus
Passionfroot	Live stats storefront, booking forms, messaging, invoices and payouts	Free for creators	None on deals you bring; 5% paid by the brand on storefront bookings
Notion	A portfolio page from a template, edited like a doc; free publishing	Free; Plus $10/seat/mo	n/a
Collabstr	A profile brands can buy your packages from, payment held until the work is done	No up-front cost	15% of each sale

If you like designing in Canva, keep it for the look and fix the content: our media kit template is the one-page outline (what to put in, in the order brands read it) that you lay out in Canva or anywhere else, and the UGC rate calculator gives you the rate line. The trade-offs are side by side in UGC Creator Portfolio vs Canva.

What we don't have yet: a hosted portfolio or media kit page, live follower stats, invoicing or payments. Those are the next build; the early-access list below gets an email when they open.

Who should stay on Canva

You want full control of the design and are happy to update numbers by hand.
You send the media kit as a PDF attachment more than as a link.
You already pay for Canva Pro for your content and want one tool.

More options in best media kit makers for influencers and best UGC portfolio websites.

Where these facts come from

1.Canva: Media kit templates
2.Canva: Plans and pricing (prices shown in CAD to a visitor in Canada)
3.Canva: Website builder (FAQ: Are Canva Websites really free?)
4.Beacons: Pricing
5.Beacons Help Center: Media kit
6.Passionfroot: Creator pricing
7.Passionfroot Help Center: Pricing (updated July 17, 2026)
8.Passionfroot Help Center: Storefront (updated August 21, 2026)
9.Notion: Pricing
10.Notion: Template gallery: "ugc portfolio"
11.Collabstr: Frequently asked questions

Checked 2026-10-29. Spot something out of date? Tell us on the contact page and we'll update it.

Questions creators ask

+Can I make a UGC portfolio website in Canva for free?

Yes. Canva says its websites are free to publish on a xyz.my.canva.site address, with up to five live websites on the free plan. A custom domain needs Canva Pro or a domain bought through Canva.

+What is better than Canva for a media kit?

If you want the numbers to stay current, a tool that pulls stats from your accounts: Beacons updates its media kit daily and Passionfroot refreshes live stats about every two weeks. Canva is better if you want full design control.

Keep going

Coming next

Your portfolio, media kit and deals in one place

A portfolio page brands can browse, a media kit with live stats, a rate card that turns into a quote, and a tracker that takes each deal from pitch to paid invoice. Free to start.