Banners are among the earliest marketing tools; they were initially used offline, but with the widespread of digitalization and its application, they have gone online, and even their importance for marketing campaigns has increased.

A well-designed banner is essential because it displays company information visually in a compelling and eye-catching format, including photos and sentences. Although the designing process can be challenging for those without design expertise, technology has found a solution in the form of online banner-making tools. This article compiles the best online tools for creating banner ads from different service providers. 

Banner-making hasn’t been easier with the following online banner-making tools:

Fotor is an online platform for a banner design that supports a variety of banner sizes to select from, such as  728×90, 550×450, 160×160, 180×150, 728×360, and 500×500. The intuitive interface and drag-and-drop editor makes it easy to use.

It offers a built-in library with customizable templates, hundreds of fonts, a wide range of icons, and clip art in different themes and styles. The user can add images from the web, computer, and Facebook, or go with a simple color background, then add elements and adjust the color, size, light, and other attributes in the design, and finally save the results to his computer or share it on social media. The platform can be used online or on a mobile device.

Snappa is a design tool that helps even beginners to create stunning illustrations for ads, blogs, websites, and social media platforms. It provides an easy-to-use editor with a huge library. The free plan offers more than 5000free templates, fonts, icons, and thousands of free graphics and photos.

However, for free plan users, the downloads are limited to three downloads per month with no team collaboration, social media sharing, or integration with buffers. To unlock those features, the user has to subscribe to one of the paid plans.

FootJoy is an online banner maker tool with topic-oriented templates. The user has to select the banner’s template for his specific requests. Its easy-to-use editing options allow the creation of amazing banners for social media and websites in only three steps:

The basic plan is free and has a limitation, but the paid plan “Plus” gives access to more than 800 templates, 300 clipart images, 30 fonts, template overlays, and 20 photo effects.

Although Adobe provides mega-design software for professionals, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, the new web-based suite is made for non-professionals to help them develop stunning designs by themselves. The suite provides multiple free online design tools, including Free Banner Maker. 

The tool provides an intuitive drag-and-drop editor that allows users to create amazing banner designs for all online platforms effortlessly. It also saves searching time for the specific design requirements for each online platform by providing preset image sizes for almost all the popular banner formats. The user has complete control over the design, and he can bring together unique text fonts and images of choice to make high-quality professional banners.

Placeit is a powerful template-based banner-creating software. Although it looks overwhelming as it provides many tools and templates, it’s easy to use and a pretty straightforward banner maker.

The seamless banner design process includes choosing a template from over 130 incredible templates, editing it using the built-in editor, and generating the banners in many sizes. Unfortunately, there are no free download options, but it provides a “Single Design Buy” option to Subscribe to a monthly plan.

Creatopy is a visual production platform for making unique banners. The platform uses the same drag-and-drop editor and provides a huge library of stock photos, videos, and professional templates. The free plan is basic and can help test the website as it offers limited features, and the downloaded design will have a watermark. However, the paid plan gives access to unlimited resources that help even beginners to come out with fascinating banners.

The created banners can be saved in multiple formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, Flash, HTML5, and MP4. Additionally, it allows embedding a banner on a website.

Stocked with well-designed templates for many requirements, Venngage is one of the best online banner-creating tools. It allows users to create banners for ads, and social media with the simple yet professional editor and unlimited infographics, icons, charts, and a vast array of fonts. The Free plan allows banner exporting in many formats such as PNG, PDF, and interactive PDF. However, it gives access to create only five templates for free.

Whatever your motivation to design a banner, whether for social media, website, or youtube channel, the new advanced online banner-making tools have simplified the process allowing even non-professionals to create fascinating banners. Many tools are available online, and the provided above are among the best tools to use.

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