I'm a power Canva user but I have a passion for open-source and just like buying local, I try to use open-source whenever I can.<p>Is there anything out there that stands up to Canva as an alternative?<p>Thanks in advance!
Not necessarily like Canva, but more similar to Figma is Penpot, if it may interest you:<p><a href="https://penpot.app/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://penpot.app/</a>
So, you want something that is equivalent to paid Canva. Not just free Canva.<p>I suppose that would depend on how you use Canva.<p>I use it for rapid iterating. I haven't found anything that matches Canva for that. If you just need an editor then there are a variety of alternatives, like Inkscape.<p>I only found it necessary to pay for Canva once I needed to upload fonts.
Id say Inkscape and Penpot are the closest but none of these (by design) include a big template gallery which is maybe part of your consideration.<p>On the template gallery you could use an open source chat-gpt like tool to create svgs for you and then load them into the above. Eg “Make an SVG of a smiley face”
For drawing arrows, I use drawing toolbar of LibreOffice Writer.<p>For vector graphics, and converting bitmap to vectors, I use Inkscape.<p>For flowcharts, I use Dia.<p>For bitmap graphics, I use Gimp, use it for crop and prettifying old photos.<p>I use OpenClipart SVG images, when I need some image that is already made.
I am always looking non-subscription options for similar..<p>playing with affinty designer, similar.. eyeing luminero neo?<p>Appreciating self hosting AI gen..<p>Microsoft Designer is really making me happy - but I worry they will subscription paywall it eventually - I would pay a one time fee.<p>Someone has to have list non-subscription alternatives to all the things.. like photoshop alternatives you can own..
Not sure about open source, but there are alternatives out there:<p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+alternatives+to+canva" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+alternatives+to+canva</a>