The open-source Canva alternative
Describe it, and Desyn builds it as real, editable layers. Keep talking and every change lands on the canvas, not in a new picture.
Live demo
Watch it build. Then talk to it.
Type anything, or pick a suggestion. Watch it build, then ask for changes.
A scripted demo running in your browser. In Desyn, an AI agent makes these edits on your real document.
Not a picture. Layers.
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It looks like a picture.
A finished poster. Most AI tools stop here: a flat image you can only regenerate.
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It is made of layers.
Every element is a real layer with a name, a role and properties. The AI reads them the way a designer does.
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So edits stay precise.
“Make the headline warmer” changes the headline. The cup, the sun and the button do not move.
Slow mornings.
What the AI does
A designer that listens.
Whole designs from one sentence.
Ask for a menu, a deck or a launch campaign. Desyn plans the layout, writes the copy, picks type and colour, generates the images and builds it all as editable layers.
- Posters, posts, stories, decks, menus, résumés and more
- Real text, shapes and images, never a flattened picture
- Starts from a template when one fits
Say it. Done.
“Make it more premium.” “Move the product right.” “Warmer.” The agent changes exactly what you asked and leaves everything else alone. Every edit is one undo step.
- Touches only the layers you meant
- Live on the canvas, visible to collaborators
- Undo any AI step like your own
Fri · 9 pm
Late light jazz.
Make the title warmer
It sees what you see.
Desyn reads the whole page: structure, hierarchy, type sizes, spacing, alignment and what each element is for. It notices low contrast, cramped margins and orphaned lines, and offers to fix them.
- Knows a headline from a caption
- Finds alignment and spacing problems
- Works on your selection or the whole page
margins 48 px
rhythm 8 px
Images that fit the layout.
Generate photos, illustrations and SVG artwork. Remove backgrounds, extend a photo past its edges, fix a detail, upscale for print or place a design in a mockup, all without leaving the canvas.
- Image and SVG generation
- Background removal, inpaint, outpaint, upscale
- Stock photos with attribution, icons and fonts built in
It remembers your brand.
Save your logo, colours, fonts and tone of voice once. Every design after that starts on brand, and “make this match my brand” restyles anything in one step.
- Brand kits with logos, palettes, type and voice
- Applies brand rules to new and existing designs
- Several kits for several clients
Fraunces headlines
Inter body
Voice: warm, plain, unhurried
One design, every size.
Turn one design into a whole campaign: resize it for every platform with smart reflow, translate it into other languages, make A/B variants or fill it from a spreadsheet.
- Campaigns, variants and magic resize
- Localisation with right-to-left support
- Bulk create from CSV, export in bundles
Templates
Start from something good.
Every platform
Wherever you work.
Desktop
A native app for macOS, Windows and Linux, written in Rust. Fast, and it keeps working offline.
Web
Open app.desyn.app in any modern browser. Nothing to install.
iPhone & iPad
A native SwiftUI app with touch and Apple Pencil, synced with everything else.
Bring your own AI
Your models, your keys.
- OpenRouterDefault, hosted
- AnthropicYour key
- OpenAIYour key
- GoogleYour key
- FalImages & video
- OllamaLocal
- MistralYour key
- GroqYour key
- ReplicateYour key
- LM StudioLocal
- vLLMSelf-hosted
- llama.cppLocal
- Any OpenAI-compatible APIBring a URL
Hosted
Pro includes 600 AI credits a month on our models. Run out and requests slow down; you are never charged extra.
Your keys
Add keys for the providers you already pay for. Requests with your own key do not use credits.
Local
Point Desyn at Ollama, LM Studio or any OpenAI-compatible server. Your prompts go to your own hardware.
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Pricing
Simple, and fair.
Free
The full editor for personal projects. No AI.
No card needed
- Included: 20 designs
- Included: 10 pages per design
- Included: 1 GB storage
- Included: 15 MB per upload
- Included: 300 exports a month
- Included: PNG, JPG, PDF export
- Included: Basic templates
- Included: The full Google Fonts library
- Included: View-only share links
- and 11 more
Pro
ProEverything Desyn can do, with AI credits included.
or $80 a year
- Included: 600 AI credits every month
- Included: Unlimited designs
- Included: 200 pages per design
- Included: 100 GB storage
- Included: 200 MB per upload
- Included: 5,000 exports a month
- Included: 25 collaborators per design
- Included: 10 brand kits
- Included: 90 days of version history
- and 11 more
Self-hosted
Every feature on your own servers, for non-commercial use.
Non-commercial licence
- Included: Every feature, no limits
- Included: Your own servers, your own data
- Included: Your own AI providers and keys
- Included: Uploads up to 1 GB per file
- Included: Non-commercial use only
Prices in US dollars. Fair use applies to AI credits. Compare every feature
Open source
Open to read.
Yours to run.
Desyn is open source, free for non-commercial use. Every line is public under the Desyn Non-Commercial Source License. Commercial use needs a licence from us, and that is what pays for the work.
- You can: Read, run and modify every line of the source
- You can: Self-host it with every feature, free, for personal, educational and non-profit use
- You can: Contribute improvements back
- You cannot: Use it commercially, host it as a service or sell it without a commercial licence
Questions
Asked, answered.
The Free plan costs nothing and has no time limit. It includes the editor, 20 designs, basic templates, Google Fonts and PNG, JPG and PDF export. It does not include AI features; those come with Pro or with a self-hosted install.
Make something beautiful before sunset.
Start free in the browser, no card needed. Add the AI with Pro, or run all of it on your own server.