Canva vs Figma
Canva and Figma are both design and whiteboard software. Canva is a commercial product from Canva. Figma is a commercial product from Figma, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Canva when
- Non-designers in a small business or marketing team need to produce on-brand graphics quickly.
- Pick Figma when
- A product team designs apps or websites together and wants designers and developers working from one shared file.
Side by side
Template-based design for social posts, presentations, documents, print and video, with brand kits and AI image tools.
A browser-based design tool for interfaces, prototypes and design systems, with real-time multiplayer editing, Dev Mode for handoff and FigJam whiteboards.
Designs are hard to move out of Canva in editable form, and team pricing has risen sharply.
Per-seat prices have risen, Dev Mode and full seats are billed separately, and files live only in Figma's cloud.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Cloud service and desktop app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Canva
Closed source, sold by Figma, Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
18k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
5.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
More design and whiteboard tools
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.