Canva has launched a Connected App for Google Gemini, making it the only design platform currently partnered with Gemini.
The integration lets Gemini users generate and edit Canva designs inside Google's AI assistant, search Canva content, and convert images created with Google's Nano Banana model into editable layered designs for further work in Canva.
The launch extends Canva's push to place its design tools inside the main AI assistants used for work and content creation. It already offers integrations with Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot.
Designs started in Gemini remain linked to a user's Canva account and Brand Kit, allowing teams to draw on logos, colours, fonts, and other brand assets stored in Canva when creating material from a prompt.
Editing AI images
A central part of the rollout is the connection between Nano Banana and Canva's Magic Layers tool. The feature breaks an AI-generated image into separate editable elements, allowing users to adjust parts of the design without generating an entirely new image each time.
That addresses a common problem with image generation systems, which often produce static outputs that are difficult to revise manually. In practice, the feature is aimed at users who want to turn an image from an AI prompt into material that can be resized, refined, and published through Canva.
The Connected App is rolling out gradually across Gemini tiers and Canva plans in selected English-language markets. Users can enable Canva through Gemini settings and begin a prompt with @Canva.
Brand context
Canva is framing the Gemini launch around the idea that AI-generated outputs often need substantial work before they are ready for marketing, internal communications, or other business use. By linking Gemini to Canva's existing store of brand assets, it aims to reduce that gap.
Canva says 98% of Fortune 500 brands use its platform as a hub for visual identity assets. It also says it now serves more than 265 million people each month across 190 countries.
According to Canva, research group Andreessen Horowitz has previously ranked it as the world's third most-used AI platform and the fastest-growing in customer spend on AI products among leading software companies.
The Gemini agreement also gives Canva another route into Google's AI ecosystem at a time when software groups are competing to become part of users' everyday prompt-based workflows rather than standalone destinations.
For Canva, the strategy appears to be meeting users where ideas are first generated, whether in its own software or an external assistant. For Google, adding a design platform gives users a way to move beyond text and image generation into editable visual work.
Canva Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Cameron Adams said the link between general AI tools and brand-aware design systems would determine how useful those tools become in day-to-day work.
"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. 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," Adams said.