Skip to content
Canva

Canva

Design platform with templates and AI tools for images, video and writing.

Ready to get started?

Launch Canva and start using it right away

About Canva

Canva is an online design platform used for presentations, social posts, documents, video and print. Its AI tools sit inside the editor, so you can generate images and video from text, write copy with Magic Write, edit photos with Magic Edit, Magic Eraser and Magic Expand, and resize a design for other formats.

Canva also offers an AI assistant for design tasks in plain language, text to speech voiceover, an AI music generator, translation and Canva Code for building small interactive apps. Leonardo.Ai, an image and video platform, is owned by Canva and its models feed into these tools.

There is a free plan, and Pro and Business plans add premium content, brand controls and a larger AI allowance. Enterprise is priced on request. Pricing on the Australian site is shown for annual billing per person, and an add-on called AI Pass raises the AI allowance on Pro and Business.

Our take

Good for
making designs quickly from templates, with AI tools for images, video and writing.
Skip it if
you need heavy image generation on the free plan.
The catch
all the AI tools draw from one shared monthly allowance, so heavy use can run it out fast, and plan details differ between sources.

Checked . Plans and limits change, so confirm them on the vendor's site before you buy.

Key Features

Text to image and text to video generation inside the design editor.
Magic Write for drafting copy, and Magic Edit, Eraser and Expand for photos.
An AI assistant that handles design tasks from plain language requests.
Text to speech voiceover and an AI music generator.
Magic Resize and bulk design for adapting work to many formats.
Brand Kits and team tools on the Business plan.
Apps for web, desktop and mobile, with offline use.

Use Cases

Make social media posts and ads from a template and a short prompt.
Build a presentation with generated images and drafted text.
Create a short video with voiceover and music for a campaign.
Clean up product photos by removing objects or extending the background.
Keep a team's designs on brand with shared kits.

Industries

Marketing & AdvertisingMedia & EntertainmentEducation