G2 Vendor Directory

Xara Designer Pro + vs. Shorthand

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricXara Designer Pro +

by Xara Cloud Limited

Shorthand

by Shorthand

Overall rating4.24.7
Review count20131
Ease of use8.99.4
Ease of setup10.09.2
Quality of support8.29.7
Meets requirements8.89.1
NPS4586.153846
Small Business65.0%48.8%
Mid-Market15.0%27.2%
Enterprise20.0%24.0%
Total page views127965
Total LLM citations3374,355

Xara Designer Pro +

Xara Designer Pro+ is a type of all-in-one graphic design, photo editing, desktop publishing, and web design software solution that helps users create, edit, and publish visual content for print, web, and digital use within a single desktop application. The product belongs to the graphic design and creative software category and is designed to support complex visual content creation workflows that combine raster images, vector graphics, text, page layouts, and website design.

Pros

  • Tools
  • Ease of Use
  • Intuitive
  • Library Extensiveness
  • Easy Editing
  • Ease of Learning

Shorthand

Shorthand is the beautifully simple visual storytelling platform that helps the world's iconic brands tell their most important stories. Shorthand empowers content creators, designers, and developers to publish visual stories with up to 10x higher audience engagement, in a fraction of the time. Global organisations such as Honda, the BBC, TripAdvisor, and Sky Sports use Shorthand to engage their high-value audiences on their owned properties. Creating premium digital stories is often slow, fragmented, and resource-intensive.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Easy Creation
  • Storytelling
  • Ease of Creation
  • Quality
  • Features