Canva Launches Connected App for Google Gemini at Google I/O
With the addition of the Canva Connected App for Gemini, the Canva Design Engine now enables seamless creation in every major AI Assistant.
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Canva, the all-in-one visual communication platform, has announced the launch of its Connected App for Google Gemini at Google I/O. Gemini users can now generate and edit Canva designs, search their Canva content, and turn Nano Banana images into layered, editable designs to refine and publish in Canva.
Building on previous collaborations with Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot, the Connected App in Gemini represents a milestone in Canva’s strategy to every surface where work and ideas begin.
As AI accelerates the pace of content creation, millions of people are looking for ways to move beyond ideas and siloed outputs and turn AI content into real, usable work.
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The Canva Connected App for Gemini helps close that gap, uniting the power of Gemini with Canva’s brand management, drag-and-drop editing, real-time collaboration, and powerful publishing platform.
Rolling out gradually to all Gemini tiers and all Canva plans in select markets in English starting May 19, the Canva Connected App for Gemini brings Canva’s proprietary design AI into one of the world’s most popular AI systems.
Bringing Canva Everywhere Work Begins
Powered by Canva’s proprietary foundation model for design, the Canva Design Model, Canva designs created in the Gemini app are fully editable and connected to your Canva Brand Kit.
To get started, type @Canva or connect Canva in Gemini app settings, then typing @Canva to kick off an idea. Users can generate designs based on the context of their Gemini chat, and take it into Canva to refine, collaborate with their team and publish across platforms.
“You can only experience the true potential of AI when it’s connected to your brand and your context. Millions of people turn to Gemini for ideation and research, but they miss that brand, context & design that only Canva brings,” said Cameron Adams, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva.
“Having the full power of Canva’s platform right in Gemini makes it seamless to turn AI-generated content into polished work that’s ready to scale. I’m especially excited to see what our community creates by pairing Nano Banana with Magic Layers: from campaign assets, to surreal storybooks, to eye-popping product imagery.”
“They’re all great examples of how the Canva Design Model is opening up a new dimension of AI-powered design
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Nano Banana Images Become Editable Canva Designs
The launch connects one of Canva’s most popular AI capabilities, Magic Layers, with Google’s Nano Banana image model. Magic Layers solves a persistent frustration with AI-generated content: flat, static image outputs that can’t be manually edited.
Where generative AI has traditionally produced locked files that require re-prompting for every small change, Magic Layers analyses the structure of an image and separates it into individual, movable elements.
Gemini users can now create high-fidelity images with Nano Banana and ask Canva to turn those images into fully editable, layered designs that can be refined, resized, and published from Canva.
Rather than re-prompting, Magic Layers unlocks true creative control over every idea – from marketing teams storyboarding campaigns, to small businesses updating promotional materials, and creators remixing content.
On-Brand From the Start
Even when AI helps teams move faster, they often spend significant time bringing outputs back on brand. 98% of Fortune 500 brands use Canva, which acts as a hub for brand content, logos, colours, fonts and overall visual identity.
That brand intelligence now travels into Gemini. The Canva Connected App for Gemini connects directly to each user’s Canva Brand Kit. Every AI-generated asset carries the right visual context, making Canva the foundation that keeps AI workflows on-brand.
Canva: The Visual Layer for AI
The launch completes Canva’s expansion into every major AI assistant. As large language models scale what is possible, Canva has become a critical engine for editable, on-brand design and analysis inside AI conversations.
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Canva apps, skills and more are now available across Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini.
Whether work begins inside Canva or inside an AI assistant, Canva is the creative layer that turns AI-generated ideas into work that makes an impact.
