Canva launches Visual Suite 2 with new Canva Code tool, AI assistant, Canva Sheets & more
Canva has unveiled Visual Suite 2.0, marking its largest product launch to date. This suite introduces several new tools like Canva AI, an AI assistant capable of generating images from text prompts, creating documents, and suggesting design ideas using assets from the platform that users can later edit. Another big standout feature is Canva Code, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, which allows users to develop mini-apps such as food plans, maps, and games using AI agents, and can be shared via link or embedded in websites and presentations. This tool positions Canva within dynamic prototyping, aligning with trends seen in platforms like Lovable or Readdy.
Additionally, Canva Sheets emerges as a competitor to traditional spreadsheet platforms like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, incorporating AI tools like Magic Insights, Magic Write, and Magic Formulas. These features enable text generation, automatic translation, and AI-powered data visualization. The suite also includes Magic Resize for adjusting design dimensions and Bulk Create for producing multiple design versions efficiently.
There's also a new Photo Editor, leveraging Canva's acquisition of Leonardo.Ai, offers a background generator and a foreground editor for advanced image manipulation. All these features are comprehensively outlined in Canva's official Visual Suite 2.0 announcement.
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To be clear on this one, there is not a single functionality that cannot be found elsewhere, for free and with better results. But Canvas offer a 1-in-all solution that non-techies people seem to like. It can generate pretty okay results when the input data is very good if not perfect, and waste otherwise. But at least, it keeps the product owner busy fiddling every option and so doesn't bother devs every minute. As for its "mini-apps", it's one-time use widgets that look good and that clients hate because it doesn't work correctly, and the code is impossible to fix. (So, don't switch to Canvas if you're not forced to, but it's pretty okay to keep using it since it keep offering the same functionalities years after years.)