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Canva for Desktop — Every design ingredient you need, now available on desktop.
Your secret superpower for creating beautiful designs is now available from the convenience of your desktop with millions of design ingredients, thousands of templates and everything you need for creating beautiful designs all in one place.
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Lachlan Andrews
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Hey Product Hunt!
We're really excited to be launching the first version of Canva for Desktop! Forget about scanning through multiple browser tabs and minimize distractions with the new personalized and convenient desktop experience.
The desktop app includes everything you know and love about Canva, including our library of more than 60 million design assets from videos to images, GIFs, animations, stickers, sounds and so much more.
If you have any questions, let us know and we'll get back to you!
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@canvalachlan This is a great way to focus on the design tasks at hand! Are there any desktop specific features on the roadmap like comment desktop notifications?
@canvalachlan Woww...
I will definitely use it 😊
Well is it build using electron???
Hunter
@moeamaya Thanks Moe! We're looking forward to rolling out a number of new features in the coming months to continually improve the native desktop experience. Stay tuned!
@canvalachlan Hi Lachlan, congratulations.
I wonder if you plan to reply to some of the questions placed in this thread, like -what's the main difference / positioning comparing to web version, whether it is a native app, does it work offline or is there a plan?
I also noticed couple of social media connectors are absent in the desktop version - is it a temporary glitch or will Canva Desktop be always bit different? thx
Hunter
@dsvoboda Hi David,
Thanks for your comment! We're looking forward to continually updating the desktop experience to bring even more native features to life. Right now, you'll be able to do everything that you can do with the web version of Canva.
All of this valuable feedback will help us continue building out the product roadmap and prioritising various features.
In terms of the social media connectors, I've passed your feedback onto the team for more info.
How is it different from the existing canva I am a big lover of Canva so I want to know how is it different?
Hunter
@anjuligo Hi Anjuli!
Right now, Canva for Desktop has the same functionality as the web version. The desktop app is a great way to focus on your designs without any distractions or navigating between too many tabs.
We're looking forward to continually rolling out new features to build on the native desktop experience. Stay tuned!
I've been using it for at least a month now and so far, so good.
Is spell check (desktop version) on the horizon?
I highly recommend Canva as a must have part of the design toolkit for website and social media graphics creation.
I use Canva actively, but if this is just a PWA, I am not really excited with it. (e.g. will I still be required to upload my files or can I work with local files natively?)
And how is its runtime performance compared to the web version? Sometimes it's consuming too much memory on the web.
This is really helpful! I use a mix of Sketch and Canva when designing, so having them a click away from each other and not having to scan through my (often many) open browser tabs will make design work so much smoother. Will definitely be checking this out
I love Canva online and use it every day. Looking forward to seeing how this differs or changes the design experience. Congrats!
Upp, I like it. It's so easy for me to make some cute pictures that I can use to make them as my destop wallpapers. I really like to collect destop wallpapers :D
@mrdntlxla Good luck getting an answer on this.
Lachlan Andrews seems to be specifically dodging this question. :)
@mrdntlxla Yup - It's built on Electron, not sure where the "native experience" bit comes from. Still pretty decent, even if a bit heavy on RAM.
Hunter
@mrdntlxla Hi Michael!
The desktop app is built on web technologies. Being a native app, we're also able to build features and integrations that aren't currently possible with Canva in the browser. We're really excited to continue building on these now that the first phase of Canva's desktop experience has been launched!
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Congrats @melaniecanva,
I hope Canva for Desktop will have better synch when you open the account on different devices and we definitely need a search bar on uploaded photos.
Hunter
Hi @dardan_thaci!
Thanks for the feedback, I've passed it on to the team. We're looking forward to continually updating the desktop experience!
Whoa, didn't see that coming. Kind of an amazing surprise amidst all the things happening around us!
