Comparison

Microsoft Designer vs ChartStudio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Microsoft Designer

Visually create and edit anything imaginable with AI. Generate unique images from text, design personalized cards and wallpapers, and enhance photos by removing distractions or backgrounds.

Highlights
  • AI image generation
  • Custom sticker creation
  • Generative erase tool
  • Background removal
  • Custom wallpaper design
  • Greeting card creation
  • Photo restyling
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Unleash your creativity — visually create, design, and edit just about anything you can imagine with AI. Use the power of generative AI to create eye-catching images with your words, craft next-level designs that pop like personalized birthday cards, holiday cards, wallpapers for your phone, and even use AI to edit photos like an expert - removing backgrounds and erasing distractions from photos. Create what you want, when and where you need it. Key capabilities: • Images: Create any image you can imagine. Sci-fi art, surreal scenes, funny images? Dream it, describe it, and create it with AI. Your imagination is limitless! • Stickers: Create something that sticks. Make custom stickers that help you stick out on messaging apps, social, and more. • Edit with AI: make your photos and images picture perfect with AI. o Generative erase: Erase distractions to make objects you don’t want in your image disappear. o Remove background: Say bye-bye to bad backgrounds. Easily remove unwanted image backgrounds in one step. o Blur background: Bring what’s most important into focus. Blur the background of any image to make your subject pop. o Add filters, adjust brightness, resize: Customize to fit your creative vision, including resizing to turn your creations into a square or custom size that fits just right. • Wallpapers/Backgrounds: Put it all on display. Create custom wallpaper or background to fit your current mood, make a statement, or to keep a special occasion front and center on your phone screen. • Greeting cards: Craft the perfect greeting for any occasion. From birthday cards to holiday cards and beyond, create a thoughtful greeting card with personalized messages and images even if you’re at a loss for words. • Restyle image: Transform photos into a work of art—like turning portraits, landscapes, and pet photos into artwork. • Monograms: Make your mark. Add some personal pop to your everyday life or for a special occasion like a wedding with custom crafted monograms that use letters and more to define your mark. • Invitations: Create invitations that wow. Customize your invitations for every occasion and any event like birthdays, weddings, and anything else big or small. • Social posts: Stand out online. Elevate and craft your next social post with Designer to create the perfect image and text to share online. • Icons: Express yourself visually. Create icons to easily communicate your vision and decorate your designs. • Emojis: Express yourself! Have the perfect reaction on hand with custom crafted emojis to fit any mood. • Coloring book pages: Color it in and get in your flow. Create custom coloring book pages to make coloring more exciting. Great for all ages. • Frame image: Turn your photos into a customized framed memory that you can share everywhere. • Collages: Bring your favorite photos, styles, and descriptions together create a custom collage from your favorite memories. • Banners: Create banners for newsletter headers, social profiles, and more to grab attention and stand out. Microsoft Designer is available for free with a Microsoft account. Your Microsoft account provides 5 GB of free cloud storage that you can use to save your designs, files, and photos across your devices. Additional information about terms of use can be found here: https://designer.microsoft.com/consumerTermsOfUse/en-US/consumerTermsOfUse.pdf Download Designer and create something new today!

About

ChartStudio

Create a wide range of professional charts and diagrams with dynamic data syncing and high-quality exports. Customize every aspect of your visualizations for business intelligence, academic research, and professional reports. Seamlessly sync your work across multiple Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Versatile chart creation (bar, line, pie, Sankey, etc.)
  • High-quality export options
  • Dynamic data syncing with live updates
  • Interactive elements (tooltips, drilldowns)
  • Advanced customization options
  • Cross-platform sync across Apple devices
Features
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Create a variety of charts—bar charts, line charts, pie charts, radar charts, Sankey diagrams, bubble charts, heatmaps, and more—along with dynamic data syncing, real-time updates, and high-quality exports. Key Features • Versatile Chart Creation: Design a wide range of charts including bar charts, line charts, pie charts, radar charts, Sankey diagrams, bubble charts, heatmaps, tree maps, calendars, funnel charts, box plots, 3D charts, and many more. Regular updates bring new chart types to meet evolving needs. • High-Quality Export: Export charts in high resolution for print, reports, and presentations. • Dynamic Data Updates: Automatically sync charts with live data from CSV, Excel, ensuring your visualizations stay accurate and up-to-date. • Interactive Elements: Add tooltips, drilldowns, and clickable features for a more engaging and interactive experience. • Advanced Customization: Customize every aspect of your charts—colors, labels, fonts, layouts—to match your branding or personal preferences. • Cross-Platform Sync: Seamlessly sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and VisionPro, ensuring a consistent workflow across devices. Perfect For • Business Intelligence: Visualize KPIs, track financial performance, and create insightful reports to drive data-driven decisions. • Academic Research: Present research data and statistical findings with clear, professional charts. • Professional Reports: Design eye-catching visuals for annual reports, business proposals, and presentations. • Marketing Campaigns: Create stunning visuals for advertising, social media, and product launches. • Educational Materials: Craft engaging charts for lessons, classroom presentations, and projects. • Nonprofit Organizations: Communicate your organization’s impact through visualized data for fundraising, donor contributions, and campaign results. • Financial Analysis: Visualize investment portfolios, market trends, and financial reports for budgeting and decision-making. • Event Planning: Organize schedules, guest lists, and resource management with clear, easy-to-read charts. Supported Chart Types • Bar Charts: Basic bar charts, waterfall charts, negative bar charts, and more. • Line Charts: Basic line charts, smoothed lines, stacked lines, gradient areas, and more. • Pie Charts: Simple pie charts, rounded corner pies, and rose charts. • Radar Charts: Basic radar charts, circular radar charts, and more. • Sankey Charts: Flow charts and flow diagrams. • Bubble Charts: Basic bubble charts, bubble gradient charts. • Heatmap Charts: Basic heatmaps for visualizing data density. • Tree Charts: Basic tree charts and radial tree charts. • Calendar Charts: Calendar visualizations to track date-related data. • Funnel Charts: Funnel flow diagrams for visualizing processes. • Box Plot Charts: Basic box plots and velocity charts. • Parallel Coordinates: Charts to visualize relationships between multiple variables. • 3D Charts: 3D bar charts, 3D bubble charts, and more. • Other Charts: Word clouds, mind maps, Markdown mind maps, and more. Why Choose ChartStudio? • Seamless Integration & Export: Import data easily from CSV, Excel, and export high-quality charts for use in reports, presentations, and marketing materials. • Cross-Device Compatibility: Work across all Apple devices—iPhone, iPad, Mac, and VisionPro—with complete synchronization for a consistent experience. • Regular Updates: Continuous improvements with new chart types, features, and integrations. Stay ahead with cutting-edge tools and functionality. Terms of Use:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Microsoft Designer4 screens
ChartStudio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Microsoft Designer at 4.5 against ChartStudio's 2.7. Microsoft Designer also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 44%) and ratings volume (552 vs 3). ChartStudio's advantage is device support (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Microsoft Designer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ChartStudio sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Microsoft Designer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Designer has 552 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Microsoft Designer's written reviews are positive against 44% of ChartStudio's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Microsoft Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, ChartStudio monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Microsoft Designer versus ChartStudio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMicrosoft DesignerChartStudio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (552 ratings) — better2.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews — better44.4% of reviews
Number of ratings552 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#129 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB100 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperMicrosoft Corporation辉章 何

Customer experience

Microsoft Designer

All ratings552 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews362 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral5.8%
Negative17.7%

ChartStudio

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%

Bugs and requests

Microsoft Designer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inconsistent performance and loading issues
  • Inability to view or manage past designs on mobile
  • Unexpected content restrictions and rejections

Requested features

4 requests
  • AI-powered video editing capabilities
  • More advanced image editing tools
  • Improved handling of diverse character designs
  • Better organization and navigation of past projects

ChartStudio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Microsoft Designer

Subscriptions7
  • Microsoft 365 Basic Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Family Monthly1 Month trial$12.991 Month
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  • Microsoft 365 Premium Monthly1 Month trial$19.991 Month
  • Microsoft Copilot Pro$20.001 Month
  • Microsoft 365 Personal Yearly1 Month trial$99.991 Year
  • Microsoft 365 Family Yearly1 Month trial$129.991 Year
5 purchases

ChartStudio

Subscriptions3
  • ChartStudio Pro Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • ChartStudio Pro Quarterly3 Months trial$5.993 Months
  • ChartStudio Pro Annual1 Year trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • ConsumableDailyPlan$0.29
  • ChartStudio LifeTime Member$29.99

Questions

Is Microsoft Designer free?
Microsoft Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChartStudio free?
ChartStudio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Microsoft Designer or ChartStudio?
Microsoft Designer is rated higher. Microsoft Designer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 552 ratings, while ChartStudio averages 2.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Microsoft Designer or ChartStudio have ads?
Neither Microsoft Designer nor ChartStudio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Microsoft Designer or ChartStudio?
Microsoft Designer ships an update every 3 weeks, and ChartStudio monthly. Most recently, Microsoft Designer was updated on September 25, 2026 and ChartStudio on September 15, 2026.

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