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Canva
by Canva
The design app most people already know, now with AI woven throughout. Familiar, friendly, and quietly very capable.
Free + Paidimage
Last checked: 17 August 2026
The details
- What it does
- A friendly design app for posters, social posts, presentations and more, now with AI built in for generating images, writing text, and editing.
- Cost
- Free tier available · Paid plan for premium features.
- Open Source?
- No — proprietary
- Input / Output
- TextImages in · DesignsImages out
Best for
- Easy graphic design
- AI without a learning curve
- Social posts and cards
- Non-designers
Kevin’s take
“You probably know Canva already — the friendly design app for making posters, cards, and social posts without being a designer. What's changed is the AI: it can now write copy, generate images, remove backgrounds, and tidy up your designs for you. If you want AI without learning anything new, Canva is a soft landing. The free tier does plenty.”
— Kevin, formerly of IT Support
Privacy snapshot
Use With CautionPrivacy risk: Medium
A friendly design app for posters, social posts, and presentations, with AI features (Magic Studio) for generating images, writing text, and editing photos.
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From the AI Glossary
- DeepfakeA fake image, video, or audio clip made by AI to convincingly show a real person saying or doing something they never did. The technology has improved fast, and the best examples are hard to spot. Not all of it is malicious. Some is used for film and satire. But the same tools can be used to deceive, and that's the part worth paying attention to.
- Diffusion ModelThe kind of AI behind most image generators. It learns by taking real images, adding visual static until they're pure noise, then learning to reverse the process. To make a new picture, it starts from random noise and gradually cleans it into an image that matches your description. Tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion work this way. It sounds backwards, and in a sense it is, but it produces remarkable results.
- LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)An efficient way to adapt an existing AI model to a specific style or task without retraining the whole thing. Instead of rebuilding a model from scratch, LoRA adds a small, lightweight layer of adjustments on top. It's popular in image generation, where people use it to teach a model a particular character, art style, or look, cheaply and quickly. A small file does what would otherwise take enormous resources.
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