Canva is expanding well beyond its familiar drag-and-drop design experience. The company has officially introduced Canva ProSuite, a connected collection of professional creative tools that brings Affinity, Cavalry, Flourish, and Leonardo.Ai together with Canva under one broader creative workflow.

The idea is straightforward: designers can use the specialized application they need for a particular job, then move that work through the rest of the Canva ecosystem without having to stitch together disconnected tools and workflows. Affinity handles professional design, photo editing, and page layout; Cavalry focuses on motion design; Flourish turns data into interactive visualizations; and Leonardo.Ai provides AI-powered image and video generation.

Canva says the ProSuite is designed to give professional creatives an end-to-end workflow while preserving control over the craft itself. A project could, for example, start as a detailed design in Affinity, move into Cavalry for animation, use Flourish to create a data visualization, and then use Leonardo to generate variations before the finished work is shared and scaled through Canva.

That broader connection is the real story behind ProSuite. Rather than turning every professional workflow into a Canva editor, the company is connecting specialized tools while allowing each application to retain its particular purpose.

Affinity gets a major professional upgrade

Affinity is receiving one of the largest updates as part of the launch.

The design and photo-editing application now supports native InDesign file imports, allowing legacy INDD projects to be brought directly into Affinity. Canva says support now spans the major file types used in professional creative workflows.

Affinity is also gaining integration with Canva Brand Kits, along with Data Merge connecting Affinity with Canva Sheets. Native Affinity files can now open directly in Cavalry with their layers intact, removing another manual export step between design and motion work. Canva also highlights integrations involving Capture One and DaVinci Resolve.

The feature list goes considerably deeper. Affinity’s latest update adds node corner editing, Shape Recognition, Diffusion Curves, Warp presets, an EMA brush stabilizer, improved brush workflows, better text handling, Noise Reduction, SDR-to-HDR conversion, Generative Upscale, Wavelet Denoise, HDR merge improvements, expanded lens support, OCIO display emulation, export matching, and accessibility improvements for ePub.

One particularly notable addition is the long-awaited Blend Tool, which allows designers to create transitions between shapes and objects rather than manually constructing every intermediate step.

Affinity is also getting deeper AI-assisted capabilities, including Scene Decomposition, Mixed Light Correction, Motion Blur Reduction, Image to 3D, Generative Upscale, and SDR-to-HDR processing.

Canva says creative files remain stored locally on the device and aren’t used to train these Affinity AI features.

Cavalry connects motion design to Canva

Cavalry is the other major piece of the professional workflow.

The motion-design application is getting more than 50 updates, including a new Metaballs shape, Lighting, Twist, Ripple and Curves filters, richer SVG importing, an enhanced Isolines shape, Canva Sheets importing, and a major Graph Editor upgrade. Canva also says AI-powered features such as Remove Background, Generate Vector, and Image to Layers are coming to Cavalry.

The more interesting change, however, is the upcoming connection between Cavalry and Canva.

Motion designers will be able to define specific elements of a Cavalry animation—such as text or colors—that can later be edited directly in Canva. The core animation remains locked, allowing other team members to make controlled changes without rebuilding or modifying the underlying scene.

For larger teams, that could make handing motion projects from specialists to marketers, content teams, or other collaborators considerably easier.

Flourish and Leonardo complete the creative workflow

Flourish brings data visualization into the same ecosystem. Its role is to turn complex datasets into interactive charts, maps, animations, and scrollytelling experiences that can then be incorporated into broader Canva projects.

Leonardo.Ai adds the generative side of the workflow. Canva positions it around high-volume image and video generation, allowing teams to create variations from an established concept while keeping those assets within the broader creative pipeline. Generated content can then be refined in Canva or Affinity.

That distinction matters because ProSuite isn’t simply a collection of four separate products. Canva is trying to make the connections between them part of the product itself.

AI is being positioned as an assistant, not the creator

Canva is also taking a clear position on how AI should fit into professional creative work.

Across ProSuite, the company says AI is intended to handle repetitive tasks rather than replace the creative decisions behind a project. Examples include applying changes across multiple files, renaming large numbers of layers, automating batches of animations, writing custom scripts, and generating charts in Flourish.

That philosophy is particularly notable given Canva’s emphasis on professional design. The company says the rise of generic AI-generated content makes human craft more valuable, rather than less important.

In practice, ProSuite is therefore being framed as a combination of specialized creative tools and automation: let AI deal with tedious work while designers retain control over the details that define the finished result.

Affinity and Cavalry remain free

Perhaps the most significant part of the announcement for individual creatives is what Canva isn’t charging for.

Canva says the core Affinity and Cavalry platforms will remain free to use. Premium Canva plans unlock additional capabilities, including the Canva AI Studio inside Affinity, but the fundamental professional applications themselves remain available without a traditional subscription requirement.

For Canva, that continues a strategy of lowering the barrier to professional creative software while building a larger ecosystem around its main platform.

For users, the practical difference is that Affinity and Cavalry can serve as standalone professional tools while also gaining access to a broader set of connected workflows.

Canva is extending that strategy to businesses as well. Its ProSuite offering includes enterprise-focused security and governance features such as single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, administrative controls, and permissions.

The company says the ProSuite represents a complete professional experience that connects specialist creative work with the much larger teams already using Canva.

And that may be the most important part of the launch. Canva isn’t trying to turn Affinity into another Canva editor or Cavalry into another generic animation tool. Instead, it is attempting to connect professional-grade applications while making it easier for the work produced in those applications to move into the rest of an organization.

Canva ProSuite is effectively Canva’s attempt to build a creative stack around its platform—one that stretches from pixel-level design and photography to motion, data visualization, generative AI, collaboration, and final delivery.

The company also says Affinity for iPad is scheduled to arrive in November, giving the newly expanded ecosystem another major platform to grow into.