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Free, by design

We’re sharing why we made Affinity completely free, how our sustainable model makes professional design tools accessible to everyone, and why creative freedom is at the heart of it all.

When we announced⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) that Affinity⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) – our professional-grade suite for designers, illustrators, and photo editors – was now completely free, the creative world lit up. In just four days, Affinity has been downloaded more than 630,000 times – the equivalent of filling Wembley Stadium seven times over. It’s a launch rate faster than most new creative apps on the App Store, and a remarkable signal of how ready the professional design community was for change.

Among the excitement and first impressions, we also saw fair questions: How is this possible? What’s the catch? Is my data safe?

We understand the curiosity, so let’s take a closer look at why Affinity is free, how it works, and what it really means for the future of creative tools.

A new era for creative professionals

Affinity has long been the choice of designers who care deeply about craft – the ones who notice the smallest details, stay up late perfecting the final pixel, and expect their tools to keep up with their creativity.

By making Affinity free, we’re opening professional-grade design software to everyone. There are no hidden conditions, just an upgraded Affinity experience bringing together vector, photo and layout tools in one place for the first time ever, available to all.

This shift removes one of the biggest barriers in the creative industry. For too long, professional tools have been locked behind expensive paywalls, putting them out of reach for students, emerging creatives, and talented people around the world. By making Affinity free, we’re helping more people design, explore, and build their careers with world-class tools.

When professional designers choose Affinity, they set the tone for how creativity flows through their teams, clients, and organisations. Their craft shapes design systems, influences workflows, and drives how creativity scales. As we continue to build more seamless integrations between what professionals create in Affinity and how those creations can be scaled and deployed in Canva, the entire creative ecosystem benefits, from individual designers to the world’s largest brands.

Your creativity stays yours

We also know that when something is free, people naturally wonder about their data. So let’s be clear: your creativity is, and always will be, yours.

Affinity stores your work locally on your device. Canva does not use any of your Affinity content to train or develop AI features, and that includes anything you create using Canva AI tools within Affinity.

If you choose to export or upload your work to Canva, you stay in control. You can review or change your data preferences at any time in your Canva settings.

What comes next

Making Affinity free is about more than software. It’s part of our bigger mission: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and use it to do the most good we can.

That mission guides everything we do. It’s why we’ve given more than $1 billion worth of premium Canva products⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) to schools and nonprofits, and why we’ve committed another $100 million⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) to help end extreme poverty in partnership with GiveDirectly.

Now, we’re bringing that same spirit of accessibility to the professional design world, empowering more people to create, learn, and grow with tools that were once out of reach.

This is just the beginning. We’re continuing to invest deeply in both Canva and Affinity, expanding features, strengthening integrations, and supporting the global creative community that’s at the heart of it all.

We believe creative freedom shouldn’t come with a cost. If you’re curious or even skeptical, that’s okay. Stick around. We think you’ll like where this is headed

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Our biggest product launch

Our biggest product launch to date, the Creative Operating System, brings together a supercharged Visual Suite, world-first design AI, plus powerful ways to grow your business and scale your brand.

Every big idea that’s shaped our world started as a spark of imagination. From rockets that reach other planets to the supercomputers we carry in our pockets to the power of generating anything with a single prompt, every breakthrough once seemed impossible until someone imagined it into being.

Today, knowledge is everywhere, AI is accelerating everything, and technology is evolving faster than ever. But the real breakthrough isn’t in how much we know, it’s in what we can imagine.

While the last few decades have been defined by the Information Era, we believe we’re now entering the Imagination Era: a time when technology amplifies creativity instead of replacing it, when imagination empowers brands to stand out, and where technology bends to our creativity, not the other way around.

At Canva, we’ve always believed everyone carries a powerful spark of imagination, but bringing that spark to life hasn’t always been easy. More than a decade ago, we set out to make design accessible to everyone, empowering people to create and share their ideas with the world. Today, we’re taking that even further with the biggest product launch in Canva’s history.

Introducing: Your Creative Operating System.

At the heart of our new Creative Operating System is a reimagined Visual Suite⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), supercharging what’s possible with powerful new additions and upgrades to the products you know and love.

Video 2.0: Built for creators

Every creator knows the feeling: you’ve got a great idea for a video, but you’re stuck jumping between tabs, losing momentum, and settling for less.

That’s why we’ve reimagined the entire video editing experience with Video 2.0: a faster, more intuitive editor that blends professional-grade tools with Canva’s simplicity, keeping you in the creative flow from first cut to final export.

The new timeline makes complex edits feel effortless, so you can sync, trim, and layer your footage in seconds.

Or let Magic Video do the heavy lifting. Simply upload your clips, describe your vision, and watch it transform into a polished, social-ready cut.

And with a library of on-trend templates inspired by today’s top TikTok, Reels, and Shorts styles, along with AI tools that automate edits and effects, you’ll never start from scratch again. Finally, because it’s all built in Canva, your videos stay fully yours, watermark-free, brand-aligned, and ready to post anywhere.

Canva Forms: A smarter way to collect and connect

Canva Forms brings rich interactivity to any design. They’re especially great for Canva Websites⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), making data collection effortless without any extra tools or integrations.

Simply drag and drop a form, customized the style to match your brand, then publish and start collecting responses. From RSVPs to feedback, surveys to sign-ups, every form feels consistent, polished, and purpose-built. Responses go straight to Canva Sheets⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), where you can organize feedback, visualize results, and turn insight into action, all without switching tools.

Data in Canva Code: Interactivity with real impact

We introduced Canva Sheets and Canva Code at Canva Create⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), reimagining how data and interactivity come to life. Now, they connect, making it even easier to build interactive, data-powered experiences inside Canva.

This means every form entry, booking request, or data input can be captured and instantly organized in Canva Sheets for easy access and action. Plus, your Canva Code creations are now customizable in the Canva editor. Change colors, fonts, layouts, and style every element to match your brand. When you’re ready to share, your Canva Code creation can go live as its own website, instantly published with a unique URL and ready to use, no embedding required.

Canva Email Design: Personal, polished, and ready to send

We’re incredibly excited to welcome one of the most requested additions to the Visual Suite!

Canva Email Design makes it faster and easier to create beautiful, branded campaigns inside the Visual Suite. Start with a beautiful, industry-specific template, or use AI to generate something uniquely yours. Then, drag in buttons, banners, and visuals to bring every detail to life.

All of Canva's AI tools are at your fingertips, so you can generate images, refine copy, or tag @Canva AI to collaborate on suggestions or for a second opinion. When you’re ready, preview your design on desktop or mobile, send a test email, and export clean, ready-to-send HTML to use in any platform.

A world-first for design AI

For the past few years, we’ve been building a new generation of AI: powerful, intuitive, and purpose-built creativity itself. Today, that vision comes to life.

Introducing the Canva Design Model: the world’s first AI model trained to understand the full complexity of design. Unlike models that generate static images, it understands every aspect of design from structure and layering to hierarchy, branding, and visual logic, creating fully editable content in seconds.

This model now powers the next generation of Canva AI features across the Visual Suite, helping you move from idea to finished design in no time. Plus, it’s available inside platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, setting a new standard for design generation across the web.

AI where you work: AI-Powered Designs and AI-Powered Elements

With AI-Powered Designs, you can generate a complete, editable design right inside the editor. Whether you’re working on a social post, a presentation, a website, a video, or even a doc, your design is ready to go in seconds.

Next, AI-Powered Elements puts the full spectrum of visual creativity at your fingertips. Using the elements tab in the editor, you can generate anything you need to complete a design, including photos, videos, custom code, icons, shapes, and even 3D elements.

The new 3D Content Generator brings depth and dimension to any project, and Shape Generator creates unique shapes, alongside an expanded library of ready-made options.

When it comes to tying everything together, Style Match and Magic Background do the heavy lifting. With Style Match, you can instantly unify your design by matching the look and feel of other elements. Magic Background helps you complete any layout by generating a backdrop that seamlessly fits your design, adapting to the subject, layout, and style already in place.

Ask @Canva: Your creative teammate, just a comment away

Great design is rarely linear. We’ve all been second-guessing a layout, stuck on a headline, or wondering if a color choice is really working. With Ask @Canva, you don’t have to leave your design to get feedback, generate new visuals, or sharpen your thinking. Just tag @Canva in a comment and get real-time design support, right where you’re working.

Ask @Canva is also design-aware, applying contextually relevant fonts, colors, and tone to your creations without extra prompts.

Even more power from the Canva AI homepage

Canva AI⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) doesn’t just show up inside your designs, it also helps you get started smarter. From the homepage, you can now access Guided Presentations, a conversational flow that helps you define your goals, shape your story, and structure your slides before you even pick a layout.

For Enterprise teams, Team Context surfaces brand-relevant content from your Canva files, while integrations like Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive bring in even more context to help you design smarter.

For growing teams and global brands, scaling creativity shouldn’t mean losing speed or consistency. With today’s launches, Canva is now a fully connected marketing platform with tools for brand management, campaign creation, and performance tracking.

Canva Grow: A powerful creative marketing engine

Marketing teams have spent years juggling disconnected tools – one for creating content, another for tracking it, and endless tabs in between. Canva Grow brings the process together with a powerful new creative marketing engine designed to help create on-brand campaigns, publish directly to platforms like Meta, and track performance with AI, all without leaving Canva.

Start with inspiration. Browse a library of high-performing ads from brands in your industry. See what’s working, spot trends, and remix what resonates into ideas of your own.

Then create at speed. Canva Grow scans your website to learn your brand – your colors, tone, and messaging – and uses AI to generate multiple ad variants tailored to your voice and goals. You can use the designs as-is, or jump into the editor to customize until it’s just right.

Next, publish your content directly to Meta, with more platforms coming soon. Skip the downloads, uploads, and endless tabs: it’s now all available straight from Canva.

And finally, close the loop. Connect your ad account to access real-time insights and AI-powered recommendations that help you understand what’s working, what’s not, and how to make your next ad even better.

Brand system: Consistency without compromise

As organizations grow, keeping a brand consistent gets harder. Our new Canva Brand system is a smarter, more flexible way to manage your brand at scale.

The new Brand Kit homepage is your team’s creative hub. It’s a flexible, visual space to organize logos, templates, colors, and guidelines in a way that fits how they work. From tone of voice to product photography, everything is clearly structured and fully customizable. Brand guidance also appears contextually in the editor, surfacing tips and approved assets right when your team needs them.

Canva AI can also design with your brand in mind from the start. Once your Brand Kit is connected, Canva can generate designs that reflect your colors, fonts, tone, and style automatically. Every AI-powered design starts on-brand, so your team can move from idea to impact with confidence.

All-new Affinity: Creative power, free for everyone

The all-new Affinity⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) brings professional photo editing, vector design, and page layout tools together in one fast, responsive platform that’s built for precision, speed, and complete creative control.

Every part of the experience has been refined for performance and craft. You can design, edit, and lay out everything in a single app, with real-time responsiveness that keeps up with your ideas. Work non-destructively across photos, illustrations, and publications, customize your workspace to suit your process, and move between creative tasks without ever breaking flow.

Affinity now also connects with Canva, so you can design and refine in Affinity, then bring them straight into Canva to collaborate, publish, and scale. And, for everyone with a Canva premium account, Canva AI’s tools are now included directly inside Affinity through the new Canva AI Studio.

Best of all? Affinity is now completely free, for everyone, forever. This is our commitment to creative freedom, making professional-grade tools accessible to every creative, everywhere.

The beginning of the Imagination Era

Everything we’ve launched today is designed to help you bring your imagination to life – because we all carry that creative spark within us. This is just the beginning of a new chapter, one where imagination and technology work together to make creativity more accessible to everyone.

We can’t wait to see what you imagine, design, and bring into the world.

💙 The Canva Team

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Introducing the all-new Affinity

Introducing the all-new Affinity – a fully reimagined professional design app that combines photo editing, vector design, and page layout tools in one fast, responsive platform, now completely free for everyone.

The all-new Affinity is here. A fully reimagined professional design app that unites photo editing, vector design, and layout tools in one powerful platform.
Designed for ultimate flexibility, creatives can personalize their workspace, mix and match tools, and share custom studios for a workflow that adapts to the way they work best.
Affinity is now free for everyone. Professional-grade design software, available at no cost to all users.
The launch introduces a bold new Affinity brand and visual identity, marking the next evolution in professional design and its new chapter as part of Canva.

When Affinity joined the Canva family⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) last year, we made a promise to preserve its power while expanding what’s possible. Today, that vision comes to life with the all-new Affinity: a studio-grade creative app that brings vector, photo, and layout tools together in one high-performance platform. Fully featured. Lightning-fast. And completely free.

For too long, professional designers have had almost no choice in the tools they use, from bloated software that slows them down, to subscriptions that stack up, and workflows that interrupt creativity. Across the creative community, we’ve heard the same frustrations: a call for speed, for power, for freedom. Designers have been asking for the tools they love, so we listened, and we built something better.

A new era for Affinity: For creatives, by creatives

For ten years, Affinity has been the tool of choice for professionals who care deeply about craft. Designers who value precision, speed, and control, and who expect their tools to keep up.

Now, that legacy enters a new chapter. The all-new Affinity was built in close collaboration with its community of creators, shaped by thousands of conversations, feature requests, and shared ideas. Guided by Canva’s Designer Advisory Board⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), this release reflects what professionals told us matters most: performance, reliability, and creative freedom.

From the smallest details to the biggest design systems, every feature has been built with respect for the people who use it.

One app to craft it all

The all new Affinity app brings professional vector, photo, and layout tools together in one powerful space, featuring everything you need to design, edit, and publish without switching apps or breaking flow.

For designers who think in lines, curves, and grids, Affinity’s vector tools deliver precision and speed in perfect balance. Every adjustment happens in real time: paths adjust instantly, shapes snap into place, and even large files pan and zoom smoothly. From comprehensive brand systems to complex illustrations, everything feels responsive and effortless.

Affinity’s award-winning photo editing tools give you the freedom to experiment without limits. Every adjustment, from RAW development to retouching and compositing, is non-destructive, so you can refine endlessly without losing your original work. Plus, GPU acceleration keeps even the most complex files fast and fluid, while intelligent tools like Smart Selections, live filters, and batch processing help speed up repetitive edits.

With Affinity’s layout tools, structure and creativity work side by side. From short brochures to multi-page reports, you can edit images, graphics, and text directly within your document and see every change update live. Smart Master Pages, shared text styles, and advanced typographic controls keep everything consistent while giving you the freedom to experiment.

Whether you’re editing a portrait, building a brand identity, or designing a publication, the all new Affinity keeps you in flow, combining power, precision, and speed in a single studio-grade environment.

Design your workspace, your way

Every designer works differently, and now, Affinity does too. The updated app introduces a new level of personalization with fully customizable studios.

Creatives can mix and match tools from Vector, Pixel, and Layout to build a workspace that fits their unique process. Rearrange panels, choose the tools you need, remove the ones you don’t, and save multiple setups for different projects or tasks. Custom studios can also be shared and downloaded, opening new ways for teams and creative communities to exchange workflows and learn from one another.

It’s flexibility built for focus, with professional tools that adapt to you and the way you work best. And no matter how you work, Affinity keeps up. Built on a high-performance engine, every adjustment updates in real time, from instant previews and detailed edits at 10,000,000% zoom to projects with thousands of layers. It’s ultra-fast, super-smooth, and precise down to the last pixel.

While the all-new Affinity has been reimagined, it still feels instantly familiar to those who know it best. The tools, workflows, and precision you rely on are all here – refined but not replaced. Every update builds on what professionals already love, so you can pick up where you left off and feel right at home.

Free for everyone

From the beginning, Affinity set out to challenge the idea that powerful design tools should come with a hefty price tag. Today, we’re taking that even further.

Affinity is now completely free, forever. The full, professional-grade Affinity experience, available to everyone.

There’s no catch, no stripped-back version, and no gotchas. The same precise, high-performance tools that professionals rely on every day are now open to all, because creative freedom shouldn’t come with a cost.

Whether you’re an independent designer, a creative studio, or a team building your brand, we believe everyone should have access to the tools they need to create their best work.

Affinity and Canva: Stronger together

Affinity has always been built for people who care deeply about design. Professionals who notice the details others might miss, who stay up late perfecting the final pixel, and who take pride in their craft. That hasn’t changed. But we couldn’t launch the all-new Affinity without something special for the Canva community.

For everyone with a Canva premium account, Canva AI’s tools are now included directly inside Affinity through the new Canva AI Studio. This includes familiar favorites like Generative Fill, Expand & Edit, and Remove Background – powerful features that speed up repetitive steps while keeping designers in full control of every detail.

Everything that makes Affinity a precision tool for creative professionals remains at its core: the speed, the control, the depth. Now, those same qualities are enhanced by Canva’s technology, giving you new ways to work faster, experiment more freely, and know that your tools will always keep up. Whether you’re refining a complex composite or extending parts of an image, these features work quietly in the background, supporting your process without ever getting in the way of craft.

We know that transparency around AI use and data handling is essential, and your creative work will always remain yours. Canva AI features are built with privacy and control in mind, ensuring that your creative work in Affinity stays secure and is not used to train AI features.

And when you’re ready to collaborate, scale or publish, you can export your Affinity projects into Canva in just a few clicks. It’s the first of many steps toward connecting professional design with everyday creation.

Try for yourself

This is a new chapter for professional design. We know some of our community may be curious about what this means for Affinity’s identity. It remains exactly what it’s always been: a professional design suite built for people who care deeply about their craft, now strengthened by Canva’s support and resources to take it even further.

The all-new Affinity is available today for Mac and Windows, with iPad coming soon. The Canva community can activate Affinity with their existing account, and new users can create a free Canva account to download it directly.

You can also bring your existing work with you. Affinity supports PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, TIFF, IDML, and more, making it easy to open, edit, and collaborate without starting from scratch.

Today is just the beginning. We’re continuing to invest in both Affinity’s professional design tools and Canva’s all-in-one platform, building a future where everyone can design at the highest level, without barriers.

Try Affinity today

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• Canva Business is a new value-packed subscription for individuals, marketers, and small teams looking to grow their brand or take their business to the next level with more advanced tools.
• Canva Business bridges the gap between Canva Pro for individuals, and Canva Enterprise for large organizations, while existing Teams subscribers remain on their current plan with no changes to features or pricing.
• The plan includes everything currently in Canva Pro, plus collaboration and team capabilities, Canva Grow Insights, higher usage of premium AI tools, access to Leonardo.Ai Apprentice plan and Flourish Presenter plan, and a 10% discount on print orders*.

At Canva, our mission has always been to empower the world to design, from individuals creating their first logo, to businesses building entire brands. Over time, we’ve evolved into a complete visual communication platform, helping teams of every size design, market, and accelerate growth with complete confidence.

Today, we’re excited to take the next step in that journey with the introduction of Canva Business, a new plan designed to help small businesses and teams create faster, market smarter, and compete with much bigger organizations, all with the simplicity, flexibility, and creativity Canva is known for.

A plan built for growth

Canva Business exists to empower individuals, marketers, and small to medium-sized businesses to grow, whether that means building their brand, reaching new customers, or taking their business to the next level. It gives small teams and solo users the kind of big-brand power that helps them show up professionally, stand out creatively, and scale their impact, without the complexity or cost of enterprise tools.

Built on everything you get with Canva Pro, Canva Business adds advanced tools and functionality so teams can collaborate, analyze, and scale their impact with ease. One of the most powerful is Canva Grow Insights, an AI creative analytics tool that lets you track the performance of your Meta ads, see what’s resonating, and create new high-performing variants with confidence. It gives clear, actionable guidance on how to improve your creative assets so every campaign has more impact, shortening the path from concept to results, and increasing ROI.

Businesses also get expanded access to premium AI tools, unlocking more creative power across Canva. To help teams produce impactful, top-quality content, Canva Business subscribers receive premium access to Leonardo.Ai (Apprentice plan) for production-grade image and video generation, and Flourish (Presenter plan) for interactive, data visualizations – both available as inclusions later this year. Together, these tools help small businesses elevate their marketing, turning ideas into content that looks as polished and professional as the world’s biggest brands.

And because small businesses juggle so many tools and channels, Canva Business helps connect them all in one place. With integrations and data connector apps like Google Analytics, Salesforce and HubSpot, teams can integrate performance or CRM data directly into their creative workflow, saving time, reducing manual steps, and making it easier to create content that drives real results. Subscribers also receive a 10% discount on Canva Print orders*, making it simple to take their business from screen to print, beautifully and affordably.

Canva Business combines the simplicity of Canva with the sophistication of professional-grade tools, giving growing businesses everything they need to create, collaborate, scale, and show up in the world like much bigger brands.

Our commitment to transparency and value

We know affordability matters, especially for small businesses. That’s why our approach to pricing will always stay transparent, fair, and focused on delivering real value.

Canva Business is available for US$20 per person per month, with no seat minimum, making it accessible for solo users, marketers, and small teams alike. Starting today, it becomes the new plan available for new team sign-ups and upgrades (including teams of one!), bringing our most powerful creative and marketing tools together in one simple, flexible, and value-packed plan.

Although Canva Teams is no longer available for new sign-ups or upgrades, nothing is changing for existing subscribers. If you’re already on Canva Teams, you’ll keep everything you love: your current pricing (even when adding new members), all your existing features, and continued access to new product updates as they roll out to Canva Pro. Canva Business simply adds more choice for growing teams who want to unlock higher AI limits, deeper insights, and advanced creative tools as their needs evolve.

This launch is all about building on what our community already loves about Canva, and ensuring that every business, no matter its size, can access the tools it needs to scale with confidence. It bridges the gap between Canva Pro, our plan for individuals and creators, and Canva Enterprise, built for large organizations.

Looking ahead

Canva Business marks the start of a new chapter for small businesses. One where every team, no matter its size, has the tools to dream bigger, design smarter, and move faster. It’s designed to turn great ideas into growth, giving you everything you need to create with confidence, market with impact, and scale with ease.

We can’t wait to see how you bring your ideas to life, and how you use Canva Business to take your business to the next level.

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Now live

Canva now enables full design creation directly in ChatGPT – generate, edit, and preview designs without leaving the conversation. This follows the earlier launch of our deep research connector, which empowers users to search and summarize existing Canva content inside ChatGPT.

At Canva, we believe design should flow as naturally as conversation. Earlier this year, we introduced Canva's deep research connector with ChatGPT, and AI Connector, which brings Canva into your favorite AI assistants via the Canva MCP Server.

Today, our AI connector expands even further: you can now create, preview, and edit designs directly in ChatGPT.

Now live: Create, preview and edit designs directly inside ChatGPT

While deep research in ChatGPT helps you access and analyze your Canva content, the new Canva app in ChatGPT unlocks the next step: design creation and editing from inside the chat. That means you can generate context-aware designs, translate assets, edit text, and more – all by simply asking ChatGPT. Enter a prompt, and a new Canva design will appear ready to go.

The Canva app in ChatGPT delivers the most visual experience in an AI chat yet, featuring full-screen design preview directly within the main interface. For the first time, you can kick start designs based on your chat, refine and then take them into Canva, without losing creative momentum.

Share your vision, such as “Create an Instagram post for our upcoming sale”, and ChatGPT immediately returns an editable Canva design for you to preview and refine.

Here’s where it gets really exciting: you can now edit text across entire Canva designs just by chatting with ChatGPT. Imagine telling it to ‘remove all the jargon from this deck’ or ‘make this presentation more conversational’, and watching 50 slides transform instantly. Every headline, every bullet point, every caption updates simultaneously while your design and formatting remain untouched. What used to take hours of copying and pasting now happens in a single conversation.

Translation capabilities also make global expansion effortless. Simply ask ChatGPT to translate your presentation into Spanish, Japanese, or any language, and watch as every piece of text transforms while maintaining your design's visual impact.

➡️ Ready to try for yourself? Type Canva in your prompt to ChatGPT. For example, “Canva, create a presentation from this outline,” and ChatGPT can automatically surface the app in the chat and use relevant context to help.

Already live: Search and summarize your work with ChatGPT

In June we launched our deep research integration with ChatGPT, which offers a smart new way to explore and reference your Canva content in flow. With this launch, Canva became the first design platform to integrate directly into ChatGPT, turning static files into thoughtful, contextual insights.

Let’s say you’re prepping for a client call and want to revisit last quarter’s campaigns. Instead of digging through folders or switching apps, just ask: “Summarize our last three campaign strategy decks.” The deep research connector in ChatGPT will traverse your decks, strategy docs, and more to surface your content, unpack the key points, and help you move forward with confidence – all in one seamless flow.

If you're a marketer pulling insights from multiple product launch decks, a sales rep referencing case study content mid-chat, or a teacher summarizing lesson plans, deep research helps you uncover what matters. It gives smarter, more relevant responses because it's grounded in your actual work. No more digging through folders or searching for the latest version. Just click deep research in the chat, ask, and get exactly what you need.

Built for today’s workflows

These launches are designed to help you work where you already are. Whether you’re ideating your next big idea, generating on-brand posts for your next campaign, or building strategy decks for global audiences, you can now bring Canva into the conversation – literally. No extra tools, and no copy-paste. Just better design, right where you’re already thinking.

For example, a marketer planning a campaign can generate assets using branded social templates, while taking into account their previous conversations. A salesperson can quickly prep for a meeting by summarizing a proposal deck and translating it for a different global audience. Creatives can draft ideas based on real-time feedback, while small businesses can build presentations from chat transcripts or planning notes.

And because all content stays private and permissioned, you can work with confidence. Only the assets you own are surfaced, and nothing is shared or edited unless you choose to act on it.

A first for design in the age of AI

These launches represent a fundamental shift in creative workflows. As design becomes native to AI conversations, Canva is establishing the visual layer of the AI era – powering creativity wherever ideas emerge, ensuring teams can transform thoughts into visuals instantly, consistently, and beautifully.

While others have brought CRM data or cloud documents into AI agents and assistants, Canva is one of the first visual design platforms to offer native, action-based integration inside tools like ChatGPT.

The Canva app in ChatGPT with full design capabilities is now rolling out to ChatGPT users on Free, Plus, and Pro plans outside the EU. Developers looking to shape the future of AI-assisted design can now start building with the Canva MCP Server by visiting our Canva Developers community⁠ (opens in a new tab or window).

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• Canva launches five new certification courses available in nine languages, targeting specific professional roles from educators to marketers, as part of its global Canva World Tour education initiative.
• Free, self-paced courses address real workplace challenges, including AI-powered workflows, campaign scaling, student engagement, and content creation, with official certifications that professionals can add to LinkedIn and CVs.

As the Canva World Tour (opens in a new tab or window) makes its way across the globe, we’re launching five all-new certification courses designed to meet you exactly where your creative journey needs support.

Whether you're a teacher making lessons more engaging, a marketer racing to launch campaigns, or someone who just wants their ideas to look as good as they sound in your head, these free courses are built around real challenges that real people face every day. From AI-powered workflows to scroll-stopping content, there's a path that fits your world, and a global community learning right alongside you.

Our latest Design School (opens in a new tab or window) courses are now live, with new lessons and content dropping later this month. You can dive in and start learning right away, with full certifications becoming available as more course materials are released, perfectly timed with some exciting new product announcements arriving October 30 🎉 (psst… if you want to be the first to see what’s next, you can register for the keynote (opens in a new tab or window)).

And because creativity shouldn’t be limited by language, these courses are also available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Indonesian, Turkish, and Polish. No matter where you’re learning from, you can experience the content in the language that feels most natural to you, because the best learning happens when the barrier of translation disappears.

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Course 1: Work smarter with AI

We’ve all been there: drowning in repetitive tasks, jumping between platforms, and starting from scratch every single time. This course is for anyone ready to let AI handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on the creative stuff that actually matters.
Whether you’re a marketer trying to maintain brand consistency across dozens of campaigns, a project manager keeping everyone aligned, or someone who just wants to create professional content without the usual headache, this course shows you how Canva’s AI tools can cut your workload in half while making everything look twice as good.
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Course 2: Scale creative campaigns

Ready to move fast? This course is built for marketers and business owners who need to create scroll-stopping content at speed, while keeping it looking professional every single time.
You’ll learn how to turn one great idea into a full campaign that works across every platform, build templates that actually save you time, and create workflows that let your whole team contribute without compromising your brand. Because great marketing shouldn't require starting over from scratch every Monday morning.
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Course 3: Meet the Visual Suite

What if you could stop juggling a dozen different tools and do everything in one place? This course introduces you to Canva’s complete Visual Suite – from Docs (opens in a new tab or window) and Presentations (opens in a new tab or window) to Whiteboards (opens in a new tab or window) and Websites (opens in a new tab or window) – so you can bring any idea to life without switching platforms.
Whether you’re a small business owner trying to look professional on every touchpoint, an enterprise team keeping everyone on-brand at scale, or an educator making lessons more engaging, you’ll discover how the right tools can make complex projects feel surprisingly simple.
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Course 4: Engage students with Canva

Teaching is already hard enough without wrestling with technology that doesn't work the same way as your students’ minds. This course is for educators who want to make learning visible, interactive, and genuinely engaging, not just digitally decorated.
From creating differentiated activities that meet every student where they are to building custom classroom tools with Canva Code, you’ll learn how to turn your teaching vision into reality. Because when students can express their thinking in ways that make sense to them, learning becomes something they’re genuinely excited about.
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Course 5: Create scroll-stopping content

In a world where everyone’s competing for attention, being "pretty good" at content creation is no longer enough. This course is for creators who are ready to make people actually stop scrolling and remember what they saw.
You’ll master the art of hooking your audience in the first three seconds, learn how to remix one piece of content across every platform without losing its punch, and discover how to maintain your unique style even when you’re creating at lightning speed.
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Celebrate your achievements

As you progress, you’ll unlock beautifully designed badges that celebrate your journey, milestones that actually mean something and can travel with you anywhere. From your very first course completion to limited-edition rewards like the ‘Global Graduate’ badge, these moments mark real skills worth celebrating. You’ll even find community-focused badges like ‘LinkedIn Official,’ perfect for showcasing your achievements across your professional networks. Every badge isn’t just a marker of progress, it’s a story you get to share.

While you can start collecting badges today, full certifications will unlock once all modules drop on October 30. That means the learning you start now becomes your head start, and by the time our biggest product announcements land, you’ll already be ahead of the curve.

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Enza Lacherdis
Enza is a Design Education Lead at Canva.

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TL;DR:

• Canva AI now speaks 16 languages beyond English, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, and more across 31 locales.
• This development goes beyond basic translation by considering cultural context and regional design preferences.
• Canva AI is now available for our international community to create designs through simple conversation in native language with the same intuitive interface.

When we launched Canva AI (opens in a new tab or window) in April, we were so excited about the creativity this would unlock. We also knew that to truly empower everyone to design, we’d need to overcome the complex technical challenges of bringing conversational AI to international markets, because creativity shouldn’t be limited by language.

Whether you’re a small business owner in Bangkok looking to create a marketing campaign, or you’re a teacher in São Paulo needing creative classroom materials that engage your students, we’re excited to share that you’ll no longer have to prompt in English to generate designs with Canva AI.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Canva AI now “speaks” 16 languages beyond English: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

This launch represents something bigger than new language support; it’s about ensuring that as AI reshapes creative work, no one gets left behind because of language barriers. Our community of 240 million people come from every corner of the globe, and our goal is to offer AI that works as naturally in their language as it does in English.

Speaking your language, understanding your culture

Over the past few months, we’ve watched Canva AI become one of our fastest-growing products. We’ve seen how you love being able to simply tell Canva what you want to create, whether through text or voice, and then watch your ideas come to life instantly.

Here’s what makes this truly exciting for our international community: it’s not just about translation. Canva AI doesn’t just understand what you’re asking for; it understands how various cultures prefer to communicate visually.

This cultural intelligence comes from months of sophisticated localization work, including integrating hundreds of templates and design assets from our diverse content library. As we continue developing these capabilities, someone in Tokyo asking for a professional presentation will see Canva AI consider Japanese design sensibilities, or someone in Mumbai requesting a festive poster will see Canva AI draw from culturally-relevant visual elements.

These everyday requests now work seamlessly in 16 new languages across 31 new locales.

A creative partner, built for your workflow

What sets Canva AI apart is how deeply integrated it is with the entire Canva experience. Instead of jumping between different AI tools, you can tell Canva AI what you want to create using text or voice, from brainstorming ideas to mapping out campaigns, or designing materials – all in your native language.

While other creative AI tools often require technical expertise or force users through complex, disconnected processes, Canva AI keeps everything conversational and accessible. You’re not just getting a translated interface; you’re getting a creative partner that understands both your language and your creative goals. It’s directly connected with Canva’s easy-to-use design editor and Visual Suite, making it simple for anyone to take their AI outputs through the last mile of adding a personal touch and publishing on any platform, all without leaving Canva.

Try Canva AI for yourself

Moments like this remind us why localization isn’t just a feature, it’s fundamental to who we are. When creativity has no language barriers, our mission to empower everyone to design becomes reality, and amazing things happen.

Ready to try Canva AI in your language? Jump into Canva AI (opens in a new tab or window) and start a conversation. Whether you’re brainstorming in French or designing in Dutch, your next great idea is just a conversation away.

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We’ve released 5 new features, including voiceover recording, AI code downloads, and enhanced bulk creation tools to help teams create and scale visual content faster.

Visual communication is how modern teams work. It’s how ideas spread, how alignment happens, and how organizations scale. Our latest features recognize that reality and remove the friction that gets in the way. From professional voiceovers to AI-generated code you can actually download, this month’s updates help you express ideas as fast as you can think them.

🎬 Make your content dynamic

Static designs are so yesterday. These features add personality and functionality to make your content more engaging and useful.

• Create your own recorded voiceover:
  Level up your content with professional voiceovers! Perfect for explaining complex ideas or how-to guides, creating vlogs that connect with viewers, or adding that personal touch to social media content. Just hit record and your voice syncs seamlessly with your visuals.

• Download code in Canva Code:
  AI builds it, you own it. After Canva Code⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) generates your custom app or tool, you can now view and copy the actual code. This closes the loop for developers and tech-savvy teams who want to customize further or integrate AI-generated solutions into their existing workflows.

🚀 Work smarter at scale

When you’re creating for teams, classrooms, or large audiences, efficiency matters. These tools help you maintain quality while working at scale.

• Brand Templates in core workflows:
  Your brand templates now appear right where you work, making it effortless for everyone to stay on-brand. No more hunting through folders or switching contexts – approved templates surface automatically in your team’s everyday workflows.

• Custom page naming in Bulk Create:
  Finding and organizing bulk-created content just got a whole lot easier. When bulk creating, you can now use any data column to automatically name your pages, so instead of scrolling through generic numbered pages, you’ll see meaningful names like employee names, product SKUs, or campaign titles.

• More data fields for Bulk Create & Data Autofill:
  Level up your data-driven designs with support for up to 150 fields. Create richer, more detailed personalized content at scale, from complex reports that pull from multiple data sources to hyper-personalized marketing materials that truly speak to each recipient.

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These features are available now, ready to transform how you move from idea to impact.

Whether you’re adding your voice to videos, downloading AI-generated code, or scaling personalized content across your organization, our latest product updates help you work visually without limits.

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Canva Video’s latest features make professional-quality, on-trend video creation accessible to everyone – designed to help every creator and team bring their stories to life from anywhere.

Creating compelling video content can often feel overwhelming, but Canva Video⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) ’s latest updates make it simple and accessible. With AI-powered tools, intuitive editing features, and secure cloud storage, Canva Video is built for everyone, from social media creators to collaborative teams. Every feature is designed to make video creation easy – even if you’re new to video editing.

From trend-inspired, ready-made video templates with audio already overlaid to a library of 1.5 million popular music tracks, it’s never been simpler to create engaging content for your brand. Here’s a look at the latest ways Canva Video can bring your ideas to life.

Turn any photo or video into a captivating animation

Adding movement to photos and videos has never been simpler. With our latest animation effects, you can easily bring static images to life or make video elements pop – no professional animation⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) skills needed! Whether you want to add a bold wow factor or a subtle pan or trendy effect, you’ll have dynamic, polished visuals in seconds.

Drive engagement and accessibility with branded captions

For any creator or business, your videos should always feel like “you.” With our Captions tool, staying true to your brand is a breeze. Editable and customizable captions let you add your brand’s fonts and colors in just a few clicks, making your videos more inclusive and accessible. This saves you time and keeps everything on-brand.

Take your video production to new heights with Artlist’s professional library

Need high-quality music and video assets? Artlist⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) ’s library is now available directly in Canva, so you can easily add professional-level cinematic footage, curated royalty-free music, and on-trend templates to your projects. From promotional videos to corporate presentations, Artlist gives you the tools to tell stories that resonate.

Remove backgrounds in a click

Our Video Background Remover⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) is a game-changer for anyone wanting clean, professional video footage. With this tool, isolating your subject is simple – no green screen required! E-commerce brands can showcase products in different settings, or content creators can make the most of a clutter-free background. By clicking to remove the background, you’re free to replace it with any visual that best fits your story – including one of our thousands of video templates.

Turn text into video with Magic Media

Sometimes, the perfect video asset doesn’t exist – yet. Magic Media⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) ’s text-to-video feature transforms written prompts into high-quality video assets, helping creators skip lengthy search and production times. It’s perfect for marketing teams that need to create storyboards or mood boards without extensive design work, while social media influencers can quickly generate engaging videos to keep up with fast-paced posting schedules.

Highlight the best moments, instantly

Creating short, impactful video clips can be time-consuming, but our AI-powered Highlights tool does the heavy lifting to let you get content out faster. It analyzes your footage, identifies key moments, and generates concise clips ideal for social sharing. Vloggers, event coordinators, and marketers can quickly pull together highlight reels or promotional snippets from longer videos, while still retaining the ability to trim, splice, and split manually for more precise editing control.

Get studio-quality sound with Enhance Voice

Clear audio makes a significant difference in video quality, and our Enhance Voice feature helps you achieve this with ease. By removing background noise, your video’s sound stays professional, even if recorded in noisy environments. This tool is ideal for outdoor shoots, interviews, or any scenario where crisp, clear audio is essential, ensuring your voice and message are the focal points.

Explore music for every mood

Music⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) can make your video unforgettable. Canva Pro’s music library now offers over 1.5 million tracks, making it easy to find the right soundtrack for any project. Whether you’re creating a playful travel vlog, a product demo, or an educational presentation, you’ll have access to diverse genres to set the perfect tone, from chart-toppers to golden oldies and fresh finds.

Perfect your timing with Beat Sync

Once you’ve got the perfect track, never miss a beat. Syncing video clips to music can be challenging, but Beat Sync⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) takes care of the timing automatically. This feature analyzes beats in any chosen song and aligns your footage accordingly, creating a seamless, engaging rhythm for whoever’s watching. Whether you’re crafting a high-energy product promo or a travel reel, Beat Sync helps achieve a polished result with minimal effort, while still giving you control if you want to make adjustments.

Add instant impact with Magic Animate

Magic Animate is your go-to tool for quickly adding animations and transitions across your entire video, enhancing the flow with just one click. Any content creators on tight schedules can create visually engaging videos without hours of editing. Magic Animate instantly adds polish to videos, perfect for presentations, social posts, or ad campaigns where the impact is everything.

Create, share, and collaborate with free cloud storage

With 5Gb of free cloud storage, all your video projects are secure and accessible from any device. Whether you’re working on a team presentation or a personal project, you can edit, share, and collaborate from anywhere, across mobile, web and desktop app. By centralizing your files, Canva empowers you to work efficiently, no matter where your creativity takes you.

Ready to get your imagination moving? Get started with Canva Video⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) today.

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By streamlining workflows and incorporating engaging visuals into outreach, pitch decks, and enablement materials, Sales teams can now make the most of the Sales Work Kit to capture attention, build trust, and accelerate deal cycles.

From hitting quotas to keeping prospects engaged amid information overload and juggling client demands, the stakes, and challenges for sales teams have never been higher. With time and attention at an all-time premium in today’s increasingly visual world, sales teams now need to deliver impactful, visual, and engaging content to make an impression and meet their goals.

That’s why we’re introducing Canva’s Sales Work Kit⁠ (opens in a new tab or window): designed and expertly curated to empower sales teams to connect with prospects, build relationships, and close deals faster with the help of world-class visual content.

The Sales Work Kit includes hundreds of professionally designed and customizable templates, educational resources, and apps, all purposefully curated and consolidated in one place. According to our Visual Economy Report⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), 88% of business leaders agree visual communication accelerates sales cycles. From pitch decks⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) to playbooks, Work Kits have been designed to take creativity and productivity in sales teams to new heights while helping to fortify the bottom line.

A template for sales success

Creating collateral for customers and prospects that's on-brand both visually and contextually is time-consuming and one size no longer fits all. Design teams in every organization are strapped for resources, yet outbound, inbound, and field sales representatives all have different and rapidly evolving needs when it comes to sales collateral. But not just any design will do. Brand consistency is paramount: every touchpoint a customer has with your company needs to be recognizable, credible, and beautifully produced. In the Sales Work Kit, we’re giving sales reps access to a library of professionally designed templates to create beautiful and engaging content in just seconds. Think pitch decks, proposals⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), sales reports, discovery docs⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), funnel charts⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), and more.

Everyone can benefit from working with templates that can be pre-approved and quickly made brand-ready. They’re particularly useful when facing tight RFP deadlines and internal designers may not be able to turn around requests in time. A templated approach means there’s no need to rely on designers every time you need to update the details of a prospect or resize logos. Designers can focus on designing, and reps can focus on selling.

Streamline workflows

Today’s reps have limited time to invest in learning new tools and already operate across a myriad of systems to complete day-to-day sales workflows. From CRMs to email marketing, prospecting, and analytics – the list goes on. The Sales Work Kit includes a bespoke range of apps and integrations⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) to make workflows even smoother. From easily accessing files with Sharepoint and Hubspot to making presentations dynamic with D-ID AO Presenters or Murf AI, our collection of business-critical apps makes reps more agile and responsive to customer needs.

Besides creating sales collateral, salespeople need to collaborate with other teams in areas such as marketing, product development, and customer service. With hybrid work⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) now the status quo, simple and effective collaboration has never been more important. Our integrations with apps like Slack and Teams eliminate bottlenecks and keep deals moving at pace thanks to real-time notifications and easy design sharing.

Learn on the job

The sales landscape is constantly evolving with changes in customer preferences, market trends, and competitor strategies. In a dynamic environment, staying relevant is crucial for sales success. The Work Kit for Sales unlocks access to a library of educational resources, allowing reps to stay one step ahead with the latest visual communication trends, technologies, and best practices. From tutorials to webinars and case studies, the Sales Work Kit is jam-packed with helpful and easily digestible content.

We’ve built the Sales Work Kit based on how our own global Sales team uses Canva as well as feedback from many of our customers. They’re empowered to effortlessly create and collaborate on pitch decks, presentations, video demos⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), brochures, social media posts, and more, while Canva’s brand management tools ensure our brand identity consistently shines at every step. Branded templates and our extensive app ecosystem have been incredibly powerful for unlocking efficiencies and uplifting productivity as we’ve scaled as a global team and surpassed the milestone of $2 billion in annualized revenue.

“The introduction of the Sales Work Kit underpins a new era of organizational empowerment, equipping salespeople with the tools and expertise they need to enhance their visual communication at scale.”

By streamlining workflows and incorporating engaging visuals into outreach, pitch decks, and enablement materials, every sales team can now make the most of the Sales Work Kit to capture attention, build trust, and accelerate deal cycles.

Alongside Sales, Work Kits⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) are also available for HR⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), Marketing⁠ (opens in a new tab or window), and Creative⁠ (opens in a new tab or window) teams to enable even more collaboration.

Ready to dive in? Explore everything the Sales Work Kit has to offer here⁠ (opens in a new tab or window).

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