Canva has unveiled its Creative Operating System, marking the biggest evolution of its product to date. This major release integrates more than a decade of innovation, introducing a unified platform powered by cutting-edge AI, professional-grade tools, and an enhanced Visual Suite to empower creativity at scale.
With this launch, Canva is reimagining how individuals, teams, and enterprises create, collaborate, and communicate visually. The new Creative Operating System seamlessly connects design, data, and marketing, making it faster, smarter, and more connected than ever where human creativity leads and AI amplifies what’s possible.
Built on Canva’s World-First Design Model
At the core of the Creative Operating System lies the Canva Design Model, the world’s first AI trained to truly understand the principles and complexities of design. This breakthrough enables Canva to generate context-aware, editable designs in seconds simplifying workflows for millions of users globally.
Today, Canva serves over 260 million monthly active users, generates $3.5 billion in annualized revenue, and holds a valuation of $42 billion. Trusted by 95% of the Fortune 500, Canva counts industry leaders like Stripe, LinkedIn, Snowflake, and Pinterest among its Enterprise customers.
“As knowledge becomes more and more accessible, we believe we’re moving from the Information Era to the Imagination Era, a time when creativity has never been more critical. We’ve been thinking about how we can empower our community to succeed in this era, which is why we’re incredibly excited to unveil our biggest launch yet with the all-in-one Creative Operating System. From major upgrades to our Visual Suite with Video, Email, and Forms, to a powerful new AI layer and tools to grow your brand and business, we can’t wait to see how people use all of these new products to bring their ideas to life.”
– Melanie Perkins, Canva Co-Founder and CEO
Supercharged Visual Suite: A Smarter Way to Create
The new Visual Suite sits at the heart of Canva’s Creative Operating System, expanding what’s possible across every format from video and email to forms and interactive data visualization.
Video 2.0
A completely reimagined video editor that combines professional-grade tools with Canva’s signature simplicity. With Magic Video, creators can generate polished, on-trend content from a single prompt. The new timeline interface makes trimming, syncing, and layering footage intuitive, while built-in AI automates edits and effects for seamless storytelling.
Email Design
One of Canva’s most requested features, Email Design allows teams to create and export fully branded, customizable marketing emails without coding. Designs can be exported as HTML files for use across any email marketing platform.
Forms
The new Forms tool lets users design interactive and branded forms directly within Canva perfect for surveys, RSVPs, feedback, or data collection. All responses are automatically synced with Canva Sheets, centralizing data in one place.
Canva Code Meets Sheets
By connecting Canva Sheets to Canva Code, users can now build dynamic, data-powered widgets such as dashboards, calculators, or live visualizations that update in real-time as data changes.
World-First Design AI: Creativity Meets Intelligence
Canva’s AI ecosystem introduces a new layer of intelligence that deeply integrates across every step of the design process.
Canva Design Model
A first-of-its-kind AI trained specifically to understand design structure, layout, and composition empowering creators to design smarter and faster.
AI Everywhere You Work
Canva’s upgraded AI allows users to generate visuals, 3D graphics, videos, and textures directly within the editor. With style-matching technology, every AI-generated element automatically aligns with the user’s brand and aesthetic.
Ask @Canva
The new built-in design assistant offers real-time feedback, creative suggestions, and smart edits. Simply tag @Canva to receive instant recommendations without leaving your design canvas.
Canva Grow: Marketing and Brand Tools for the Imagination Era
Canva’s evolution into a full-fledged marketing engine begins with the launch of Canva Grow, a powerful platform designed to ideate, publish, and optimize marketing campaigns.
Canva Grow
This all-in-one marketing solution lets teams design, distribute, and analyze ad campaigns across major platforms like Meta. With brand-aware AI and real-time insights, Canva Grow helps businesses refine performance and improve ROI over time.
Brand System
Canva’s new Brand System embeds logos, fonts, templates, and color palettes directly within the editor, ensuring design consistency across all projects. It eliminates the need for manual brand checks and streamlines team collaboration across departments and regions.
Additionally, Canva introduces Canva Business, a new subscription tier bridging the gap between Canva Pro and Canva Enterprise. It provides advanced AI tools, analytics, brand management capabilities, and enhanced storage for growing teams and small businesses.
All-New Affinity: Professional Design, Now Forever Free
In a major move for professional creators, Canva has launched the all-new Affinity, combining advanced tools for vector design, photo editing, and layout into a single, unified platform.
This integration allows users to seamlessly create professional assets in Affinity and transition them to Canva for collaboration and publishing, removing workflow barriers for designers.
For the first time ever, Affinity is completely free, forever, democratizing access to world-class creative tools and bridging the gap between professional design and everyday creativity.