Canva vs Superhuman

Canva — Application · Private · $42B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Superhuman — Application · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Magic Write and Grammarly do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; Superhuman's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 12 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 12 capabilities — Shares summarization, text generation and workflow automation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldCanvaSuperhuman
Size$42B valuationnot disclosed
Employees5,500—
Founded20132009 4 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationApplication match
Stack layerApplicationApplication, Platform
HeadquartersSydney, AustraliaSan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

SummarizationText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Superhuman · 9

Code generationData analysisImage editingImage generationMarketing contentPresentation generationTranslationVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for Canva. Superhuman’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Canva · 2

Agent orchestrationEmail assistance

Recorded for Superhuman. Canva’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Canva

Application

AffinityApplication

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

Background RemoverApplication

Removes image backgrounds automatically inside the Canva editor.

CanvaApplication

Browser design tool with generative image, video and text features built in.

Canva AIApplication

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 CodeApplication

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 GrowApplication

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.

Dream LabApplication

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.

Magic AnimateApplication

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

Magic EraserApplication

Removes unwanted objects from photographs inside the Canva editor.

Magic FormulasApplication

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

Magic InsightsApplication

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

Magic LayersApplication

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

Magic WriteApplication

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

TranslateApplication

Translates the text inside a Canva design while preserving layout.

Superhuman

Application

GrammarlyApplication

The writing assistant that gave the company its old name: spelling, grammar and tone correction across a million apps and websites, with generative rewrites, plagiarism and AI-text detection on the paid tier.

Superhuman DocsApplication

A collaborative-docs surface where a team's data and AI meet, the renamed successor to the acquired Coda.

Superhuman GoApplication

An AI assistant that works across the applications a person already uses, rather than living in its own chat window.

Superhuman MailApplication

An AI-assisted email client, the product the company was originally named for, now sold as one app inside the Superhuman Platform.

No counterpart

Superhuman sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Canva yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

Superhuman PlatformPlatform

The umbrella under which Superhuman now sells Mail, Docs and Go as one subscription, plus a marketplace of third-party agents and connectors.