Canva vs Dust

Professional desktop suite for vector drawing, photo editing and page layout, acquired by Canva in 2024.

Removes image backgrounds automatically inside the Canva editor.

Browser design tool with generative image, video and text features built in, spanning Docs, Sheets, Whiteboards, Presentations, Websites and Video and Photo editors, with one-click tools such as Magic Resize, AI video, music and voice generators and a PDF Editor, and an Apps Marketplace for third-party apps.

Canva's conversational AI assistant, which generates text, images, videos, code and editable designs from chat prompts inside Canva and connects to external tools such as Slack, Gmail, Google Drive and Notion.

Canva's AI code generator, which turns prompts into responsive, interactive designs — landing pages, dashboards, quizzes, calculators and charts — that can be edited in the Canva editor and published as websites.

Canva Docs is Canva's document editor, which drafts a first version of a document from a prompt with Magic Write and lays it out with banners, visuals and templates in the same workspace as Canva designs.

Canva's ad management platform, which generates ad creative with AI, publishes campaigns to Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn, and reports on performance in one place.

Canva Photo Editor is Canva's browser photo editor, which detects subjects with a click and offers AI edits such as Magic Eraser and background removal alongside filters, effects and a mobile app.

Canva Presentations is Canva's slide editor, which turns a prompt into a personalized, editable deck with Canva AI's Guided Presentations and adds data storytelling and presenter controls.

Canva Sheets is Canva's spreadsheet editor, which pairs visual data with AI: Magic Formulas and Magic Insights for analysis, and Magic Write and Magic Resize for turning rows of data into copy and design variants.

Canva Video Editor is Canva's drag-and-drop browser video editor, whose Magic Video turns dropped-in clips and a short prompt into a social-ready cut, with transitions, animations and an audio library.

Canva Websites is Canva's website builder, which publishes one-page and multi-page sites on a custom domain from templates, with AI tools that generate visuals, copy and interactive widgets.

Canva's AI image generator, launched from the Canva homepage, which produces up to four images per text prompt and supports reference images, follow-up refinement and resolution boosting.

Chooses animations and transitions for a design using its own visual context.

Removes unwanted objects from photographs inside the Canva editor.

Generates spreadsheet formulas from a plain-language description inside Canva Sheets.

Analyses spreadsheet data inside Canva and generates visual insights and charts.

Turns a flat, AI-generated design into an editable layout: select, move and edit individual design elements after the fact.

Canva's AI text generator, which drafts and rewrites copy inside Canva designs and Canva Docs from a prompt.

Translates the text inside a Canva design while preserving layout.

Turns what a Dust agent produces, from CSV, JSON, plain text or screenshots, into an interactive dashboard, report or memo that can be pinned in a Pod, exported, or shared with workspace members or anyone through a public link.

Pods are shared workspaces in Dust where humans and agents collaborate through conversations, tasks, and files.