Melanie Perkins
Co-founder
Free online design platform for creating presentations, social media graphics, videos, websites, and print materials with thousands of templates.
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What is Canva?
Canva is a free online graphic design platform used by over 190 million people worldwide. It makes professional design accessible to everyone, whether you're creating social media posts, presentations, marketing materials, or entire brand kits. The drag-and-drop editor requires no design experience and comes with over 250,000 templates, millions of stock photos, videos, and graphics, plus a built-in AI suite for generating images, writing copy, and editing videos.
Canva offers real-time collaboration so teams can work together on designs, leave comments, and maintain brand consistency with shared templates and style guides. The free plan covers most use cases, while Canva Pro unlocks premium templates, background remover, Magic Resize for adapting designs across formats, and priority support.
Features
- Drag-and-drop editor with 250,000+ templates
- AI-powered image generation, text writing, and video editing
- Real-time team collaboration with comments and shared brand kits
- Magic Resize to adapt one design to any format instantly
- Built-in stock library with millions of photos, videos, and graphics
- Website builder, presentation mode, and print-on-demand
FAQs
Common questions about Canva
What is Canva for?
Canva is a free online graphic design platform used by over 190 million people worldwide.
Is Canva free?
There's a free tier to start with, and paid plans unlock the rest. Current pricing is on canva.com.
What does it include?
Highlights include Drag-and-drop editor with 250,000+ templates and AI-powered image generation, text writing, and video editing, among other things.
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What are alternatives to Canva?
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Unlock Canva AI tools directly inside Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher — Canva Premium subscribers get a supercharged Affinity workflow with cross-app generation and editing.
Inkscape
Free, open-source vector graphics editor — create SVGs, logos, icons, and illustrations.
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