Canva has introduced its new Creative Operating System, marking the company’s largest platform update to date. The rollout expands Canva’s visual communication tools with advanced AI-powered design capabilities, upgraded editing features, and a fully integrated creative workflow. Alongside the update, Canva has launched the all-new Affinity, a professional-grade design suite now available free for everyone.
With more than 260 million monthly active users, $3.5 billion in annualized revenue, and a $42 billion valuation, Canva continues to expand its presence across enterprises and individual creators. The platform now serves 95% of the Fortune 500, including global brands such as LinkedIn, Snowflake, and Pinterest.
Creative Operating System
The launch marks Canva’s transition into the Imagination Era, where technology supports and scales creativity instead of replacing it. The new system builds on Canva’s long-term goal of making design accessible to everyone, offering a unified creative platform that merges AI, collaboration, and brand management.
Key components
At the center of Canva’s new platform is a reimagined Visual Suite, which introduces multiple upgrades and new tools designed to streamline content creation across all formats.
Highlights include:
- Video 2.0: A redesigned editor offering professional-grade tools with Canva’s simplicity. Users can trim, sync, and layer clips quickly, or let Magic Video automatically assemble content from uploaded clips.
- Canva Forms: Interactive form elements for websites, surveys, and feedback collection, with automatic response syncing to Canva Sheets.
- Data in Canva Code: Integration between Canva Sheets and Canva Code to build interactive, data-driven web experiences.
- Canva Email Design: A new format for building responsive, branded campaigns with drag-and-drop templates and AI assistance for images and copy.
- Ask @Canva: An integrated assistant that provides real-time feedback and contextual design support within the editor.
- Guided Presentations: Conversational setup for creating presentations, helping users define goals and structure slides before layout selection.
- Canva Grow: A marketing engine that enables campaign creation, direct publishing to platforms like Meta, and real-time performance tracking with AI-based insights.
- Brand System: A centralized Brand Kit homepage that manages logos, templates, and visual guidelines.
Canva is also introducing a Canva Business plan, positioned between the Pro and Enterprise tiers. It offers advanced AI tools, analytics, expanded storage, higher AI credit limits, and print discounts aimed at individuals and small teams.
AI-Powered Design Tools
- Canva Design Model: An AI system trained to understand design structure, hierarchy, and branding.
- AI-Powered Designs and Elements: Tools for generating full templates, images, videos, icons, and 3D content directly in the editor.
- Style Match and Magic Background: Features that align visual themes and automatically generate complementary backdrops.
All-new Affinity: professional design, now free for everyone
The all-new Affinity introduces a unified, high-performance platform for vector, photo, and layout design. Developed for professional creators, it combines precision tools and real-time responsiveness with customizable workspace options.
Core features include:
- Unified vector, photo, and layout tools within a single environment.
- Real-time vector precision and non-destructive photo editing with GPU acceleration.
- Customizable studios that allow users to arrange tools or share setups with teams.
- High-performance rendering supporting edits at up to 10,000,000% zoom and multi-layer projects.
- Familiar workflows refined for better performance and consistency.
Integration with Canva AI Studio
Affinity now connects with Canva’s AI Studio, integrating tools such as Generative Fill, Expand & Edit, and Remove Background. These features streamline repetitive edits while maintaining user control and privacy. Creative data from Affinity projects is not used for AI training.
Designers can export projects from Affinity directly into Canva for collaboration, scaling, and publishing, creating a link between professional and everyday creative workflows.
Outlook
The launch of the Creative Operating System and the all-new Affinity marks Canva’s shift toward a unified creative ecosystem that connects professional design, AI-assisted creation, and enterprise collaboration.
The company aims to merge advanced design tools with accessible workflows for individuals, teams, and businesses, positioning Canva as a single platform for design, marketing, and brand management.
With ongoing investment in Affinity and its AI infrastructure, Canva plans to expand accessibility, simplify creative processes, and support large-scale content creation within one connected system.
Availability and access
The all-new Affinity is available now for macOS and Windows, with an iPad version coming soon.
- Canva Premium users can activate Affinity through their accounts, while new users can create a free Canva account to download it directly.
- Affinity supports multiple professional formats, including PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, TIFF, and IDML, ensuring compatibility with existing workflows.