Microsoft releases iOS and Android apps for Designer, its AI-powered Canva competitor

Microsoft has officially its platform for AI image generation. After a long preview phase, Designer is now available to most people with a Microsoft account. Designer can be used on the web in more than 80 languages, as a mobile app for iOS and Android, and as a Windows app. You can create a brand new visual from the ground up with AI, or use Designer to edit and tweak a picture you’ve already made. There are plenty of templates available to guide the creation of common image types, like a greeting card, smartphone wallpaper or a profile avatar. More experienced artists can also build everything from scratch, developing their own templates and using their own art.

While Designer can be used on its own, Microsoft is promoting its integration with the company’s other services. Thanks to the company’s , Designer images can be easily linked up to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint projects. Of course, taking full advantage of that will require a .

If you’ve used Canva, then Designer will feel very familiar. The service takes a very similar approach to its user experience and now also has some AI options. According to from when Microsoft first announced the app back in 2022, Designer is integrated with OpenAI’s image generator DALL-E. Copilot DALL-E 3 integration, as well as ChatGPT 4 Turbo, so it makes sense that Designer will sync up with those existing services.