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Are Canva's new AI tools worth adding to your stack?

Breaking down the most important features for content creators.

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Alex McFarland
Apr 17, 2025
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Canva Create 2025, themed "Uncharted," introduced Canva's most significant product launches to date, unveiling Visual Suite 2.0 - a big enhancement that brings together productivity and creativity in one platform.

As I always try to bring you the latest AI tools that are useful for content creation and writing, I had to cover this one. Canva plays a pretty big role in creating my visuals for AI Disruptor. I use it mostly for thumbnails.

This guide is a breakdown of the major new tools released, their features, and how to use them effectively.

Note: most of these features are “coming soon,” so make sure to keep checking back for when they are finally available.


Visual Suite 2.0 is the foundation of Canva's new ecosystem

Visual Suite 2.0 allows users to seamlessly work across different design types (presentations, videos, whiteboards, websites) all in one new format, eliminating the need to switch between tools or lose context.

  • Unified workspace: Create across all formats in one design

  • Streamlined workflow: No more jumping between tools or files

  • Improved collaboration: Work with team members in a single space


Canva Sheets reimagines spreadsheets for the AI era

Canva Sheets is a powerful, visual, and creative way to bring data to life and create content at scale. Built for the AI era, it makes complex data tasks simple and intuitive.

Bulk create multiple versions of one design in Canva Sheets

It offers quite a few interesting features:

  • Magic Insights: AI-powered data analysis that identifies trends and patterns automatically

  • Magic Formulas: Create formulas by describing what you want in plain language

  • Magic Charts: Turn data into visualizations with one click

  • Visual cell content: Add videos, images, and other media directly to cells

  • Bulk Create: Generate multiple designs at once from your spreadsheet data

  • Translate: Localize content in bulk across 100+ languages

  • Magic Resize: Transform sets of designs into different dimensions without reworking layouts

I can see this tool being used by a lot of:

  • Marketers to manage campaigns, create content in bulk, track progress

  • Creatives to scale content, track expenses, plan content calendars

  • Business Owners to manage budgets, visualize profits, create content engines

  • Sales Teams to track leads, generate reports, streamline CRM


Canva Code jumps on the vibe-coding bandwagon

Canva Code allows you to create interactive experiences without writing code (vibe-coding). Simply describe your idea, and the AI generates functional, interactive elements that can be embedded in your designs.


The new Photo Editor

The new Photo Editor integrates directly into the Canva workflow, allowing you to enhance images without switching tools.

It includes AI capabilities for transforming photos quickly and easily:

  • Background Generator: Create new backgrounds with better lighting and detail

  • Point-and-click editing: Reposition, replace, remove, recolor, or resize any element in your image

  • Direct integration: Edit images right where you're designing without switching tools

  • AI-powered enhancements: One-click tools to enhance photos for social media


Canva AI is a creative companion

Canva AI serves as a creative assistant to help you brainstorm, create, and refine designs.

It works across all Canva tools to accelerate the creative process and includes:

  • Natural input options: Use text, voice, or media inputs

  • Design generation: Create full designs from simple prompts

  • Content creation: Generate text, visuals, and layouts together

  • Brand integration: Apply your Brand Kit to AI-generated content


Should writers and content creators include this in their AI stack?

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