At Canva Create 2025, held at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, the Australian design giant unveiled Visual Suite 2.0 — its biggest product update since launching in 2012. With 230 million monthly active users, Canva is now pushing the boundaries of creativity and productivity like never before.
Visual Suite in One Design: A New Era of Unified Projects
Traditionally, different design formats like presentations, documents, and social media assets were managed in separate files. Now, with Visual Suite in One Design, Canva users can combine everything — brainstorming notes, briefs, social posts, print designs, websites — into a single, streamlined file.
Melanie Perkins, Canva’s CEO, emphasized the significance of this shift:
“Your brief, brainstorming, budget, and pitch can now live together in one unified space.”
No more switching between multiple files. Whether you’re launching a marketing campaign or preparing financial statements, teams can collaborate seamlessly — all inside a single Canva project.
Introducing Canva Sheets: The Future of Visual Data
One of the standout announcements was Canva Sheets, a groundbreaking tool that merges data management with visual storytelling — an area even tech giants like Google and Microsoft haven’t fully nailed.
Cameron Adams, Canva’s co-founder and CPO, described Canva Sheets as the “missing piece” of the visual puzzle. Recognizing that many users find spreadsheets overwhelming, Canva Sheets takes a visual-first approach, allowing users to embed images, designs, and custom visuals directly inside spreadsheet cells.
Key Features of Canva Sheets:
- Magic Write: AI-powered data generation.
- Magic Insights: Automated analysis and smart chart suggestions.
- Magic Formulas: Converts plain-language requests into spreadsheet functions.
- Data Connectors: Seamless integration with platforms like Google Analytics, HubSpot, Snowflake, and Statista.
With this, Canva Sheets isn’t just another spreadsheet tool — it’s an engine powering smarter, faster, and more collaborative visual projects.
Taking on Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe Express
While Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets have recently added AI features, Canva Sheets takes a unique, design-driven path. Unlike Adobe Express, which offers basic graph and chart tools but lacks true spreadsheet capabilities, Canva Sheets fully embraces both data depth and visual creativity.
By deeply embedding Flourish (acquired in 2022) into the platform, Canva enables users to create interactive charts directly tied to their live Sheets data, which can then be embedded across any Canva design — from pitch decks to social posts.
Magic Studio at Scale: Supercharging Content Production
Leveraging Canva Sheets, the new Magic Studio at Scale allows users to apply Canva’s AI tools — like auto-translation, content resizing, and formatting — across large batches of content in one go. This dramatically reduces repetitive tasks and speeds up the content creation process.
Final Thoughts: Is Canva Sheets a Game-Changer?
Absolutely.
Canva isn’t just expanding into spreadsheets — it’s reinventing them. By merging visual storytelling with intelligent data handling, Canva Sheets positions itself as a serious competitor to Excel and Google Sheets — and a game-changer for marketers, creators, and businesses worldwide.
Whether you’re building dashboards, crafting marketing reports, or managing full campaigns — now you can do it all in Canva. Visually. Intuitively. Seamlessly.