Comparison

Templates for MS Office Suite vs Microsoft Designer

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

Head to head
About

Templates for MS Office Suite

Access a vast library of over 30,000 premium templates for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Create professional documents, presentations, and spreadsheets quickly and easily, even without design experience. Includes icons, infographics, and more.

Highlights
  • 30,000+ premium templates
  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint designs
  • Icons, infographics, and charts
  • Compatible with Pages, Numbers, Keynote
  • Export to PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX
  • No design skills required
Features
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Templates for MS Office Suite is the complete creative toolkit for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. With over 30,000 professionally designed templates covering documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and more, transform every Microsoft Office project into a polished, professional deliverable for business, school, career, and personal use. WORD: RESUME & CV TEMPLATES Modern resume templates, professional CV designs, cover letter layouts, reference page templates, portfolio designs, and interview preparation documents. Resume builder for job seekers, students, recent graduates, executives. CV designs for every industry - tech, healthcare, finance, marketing, design, education. WORD: FLYER, POSTER & BROCHURE TEMPLATES Promotional flyers, event posters, sale announcements, business flyers, real estate flyers, restaurant menus, concert posters, party flyers, tri-fold brochures, bi-fold brochures, product brochures, and educational posters. Flyer maker designs for every campaign. WORD: NEWSLETTER & INVITATION TEMPLATES Email newsletters, company newsletters, school newsletters, family newsletters, wedding invitations, birthday invitations, baby shower invitations, graduation invitations, anniversary cards, holiday cards, and save-the-date cards. Invitation maker designs for every life moment. POWERPOINT: PRESENTATION TEMPLATES Pitch deck templates, business presentation templates, sales decks, marketing presentations, company profile slides, product launch decks, quarterly reports, annual reports, strategy presentations, and executive summary slides. POWERPOINT: PITCH DECK TEMPLATES Investor pitch deck templates, startup pitch decks, fundraising presentations, business plan slides, demo day decks, accelerator pitch decks, and Series A pitch templates. POWERPOINT: INFOGRAPHIC & CHART TEMPLATES Statistical infographics, process infographics, comparison infographics, timeline infographics, organizational charts, flowcharts, mind maps, bar charts, line charts, pie charts, donut charts, and Gantt charts. Editable chart templates with built-in data visualization. EXCEL: SPREADSHEET TEMPLATES Budget spreadsheets, expense trackers, financial dashboards, project trackers, inventory lists, employee timesheets, sales reports, invoice templates, balance sheets, profit and loss statements, cash flow templates, and accounting workbooks. EXCEL: BUDGET & FINANCIAL TEMPLATES Personal budget templates, household budget worksheets, business budget planners, project budget trackers, monthly expense trackers, savings trackers, debt payoff trackers, and net worth calculators. Budget templates for every financial goal. EXCEL: TRACKER & PLANNER TEMPLATES Habit trackers, fitness trackers, weight loss trackers, meal planners, workout planners, mood trackers, goal trackers, project planners, content calendars, and editorial calendars. WORD: CALENDAR & PLANNER TEMPLATES Monthly calendars, weekly calendars, daily planners, academic planners, year-at-a-glance calendars, and printable planners. WORD: WORKSHEET & EDUCATION TEMPLATES School worksheets, lesson plans, flashcards, quiz templates, certificate templates, diploma designs, attendance sheets, grade trackers, and study guides. BUSINESS DOCUMENTS Letterheads, invoices, business reports, proposals, contracts, agreements, meeting agendas, business plans, company profiles, and professional correspondence across Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. ICONS, GRAPHICS & DESIGN ELEMENTS Thousands of icons, illustrations, vectors, shapes, frames, borders, patterns, textures, backgrounds, decorative elements, pictograms, and symbols compatible with Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. WHY CHOOSE - Over 30,000 templates across Word, PowerPoint, Excel - One-tap open in Microsoft Office - Fully editable - Works on iPhone, iPad, Mac Download Templates for MS Office Suite today!

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!

Screenshots

Templates for MS Office Suite4 screens
Microsoft Designer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Microsoft Designer at Free against Templates for MS Office Suite's $29.99. Microsoft Designer also leads on ratings volume (557 vs 17) and review sentiment (76% vs 59%). Templates for MS Office Suite's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On rating, 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

Microsoft Designer is free to download; Templates for MS Office Suite costs $29.99 up front. Templates for MS Office Suite sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Microsoft Designer sells 7 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Templates for MS Office Suite against 4.5 for Microsoft Designer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Microsoft Designer has 557 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 59% of Templates for MS Office Suite's written reviews are positive against 76% of Microsoft Designer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Templates for MS Office Suite versus Microsoft Designer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTemplates for MS Office SuiteMicrosoft Designer
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (17 ratings) — better4.5 (557 ratings)
Positive reviews59.3% of reviews76.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17557 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#154 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB76 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJumsoftMicrosoft Corporation

Customer experience

Templates for MS Office Suite

All ratings17 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive59.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative37.0%

Microsoft Designer

All ratings556 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.0%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews364 reviews
Positive76.1%
Neutral5.8%
Negative18.1%

Bugs and requests

Templates for MS Office Suite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Templates for MS Office Suite

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time8
  • Family Tree$0.99
  • MS Office Toolbox bundle$8.99
  • Diagrams$9.99
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  • Clipart Prime$24.99
  • Business Mix Set$24.99
  • Layouts for PowerPoint$24.99
  • Templates for Excel$24.99
  • Infographics$24.99
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

Questions

Is Templates for MS Office Suite free?
Templates for MS Office Suite costs $29.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Microsoft Designer free?
Microsoft Designer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Templates for MS Office Suite or Microsoft Designer?
Templates for MS Office Suite is rated higher. Templates for MS Office Suite averages 4.6 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Microsoft Designer averages 4.5 from 557 ratings.
Do Templates for MS Office Suite or Microsoft Designer have ads?
Neither Templates for MS Office Suite nor Microsoft Designer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Templates for MS Office Suite or Microsoft Designer?
Templates for MS Office Suite ships an update every 3 weeks, and Microsoft Designer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Templates for MS Office Suite was updated on October 29, 2026 and Microsoft Designer on October 30, 2026.

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