The short answer
Pick SendNow if
You need to send a deck or document with an email gate, NDA or watermark and see page-by-page reading. From $6.25/mo.
Pick Canva if
You need to design the deck or document itself.
Price, plan by plan
Each row matches a need with the cheapest plan that covers it on each side. Bars show the cost of one year.
Share a deck
SendNow costs $69 less a yearCanva Pro is US$144 a year for one person; Business is US$250 a year per person, from canva.com/pricing. SendNow prices are per month, billed yearly.
Made your deck in Canva? Send it through SendNow.
Export to PDF or PowerPoint and see which slides each person read, from $6.25/mo.
Feature table
A dot marks the side that is clearly ahead. Out of 7 rows, SendNow leads on 6, Canva leads on 1, and the rest are even.
Watch SendNow in action
A short video from our YouTube channel. It shows the real product, not a mock-up.
How to Know If Investors Opened Your Pitch Deck
Share your pitch deck as a tracked link instead of a PDF attachment and see when investors opened it, how long they spent and which slides they read.
Where each one wins
Where SendNow is better
Control after you hit send
Email gate, NDA, dynamic watermark, screenshot blocker and download control.
Page-level reading data
See who opened it, time on each slide and return visits.
Data rooms
Deck, model and cap table behind one branded link from $12.40/mo.
Where Canva is better
Design
Templates, brand kits and design tools for every format.
What is Canva?
Canva is a design tool used for presentations, social posts and documents. Canva Pro is US$144 a year for one person; Business is US$250 a year per person, from canva.com/pricing.
Can I use Canva and SendNow together?
Yes. Design in Canva, export to PDF or PowerPoint, and upload to SendNow when you send it to investors, clients or buyers.
Who should pick which
Choose SendNow when
- You send confidential decks
- You want page-by-page data
- You need a data room
Choose Canva when
- You need to design the deck
- Your team already works in Canva
How to switch from Canva
- 01
Start the free trial
Sign up for SendNow. The trial lasts 24 hours and needs no card, so you can test it on a real document first.
- 02
Upload your files
Upload the documents you currently share through Canva. PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, PowerPoint, images and MP4 video all work.
- 03
Set the protection you need
Turn on an email gate, password, NDA, screenshot blocker, expiry date or watermark, link by link.
- 04
Share and watch
Send the new links and watch opens arrive page by page. Keep your Canva setup running until open conversations finish.
Questions people ask
Can I track who viewed my Canva deck?
Canva's pricing page doesn't list per-viewer reading analytics. For page-by-page reading data and security controls, export it and share it through SendNow.
Does SendNow make presentations?
No. SendNow shares and tracks files you made elsewhere.
Written by
Rifana Hameem
Founder of SendNow
Rifana is the founder of SendNow. She leads the team in building secure, compliant, and analytics-rich document sharing tools for finance and professional teams worldwide.
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Prices were read on each vendor's own pricing page on 21 Oct 2026 and are re-checked every month. SendNow features come from the plan settings the app itself uses. SendNow wrote this page, so we list where Canva is better too. Spot something out of date? Write to contact@sendnow.live.