SWITCH FROM CANVA
Canva to Calisto Studio
Design posts, flyers, menus and screens in your brand, resize them and fill them from a spreadsheet, and hand them to your screens, campaigns and website with no file to export.
Feature by feature
Calisto Studio beside Canva
- 16 In both
- 7 Only in Canva
| 23 features | Calisto Studio | Canva |
|---|---|---|
| Layout | ||
| Resize to Other FormatsCalisto: Copy & Resize lays every page out again at the new size and saves it as a new design beside the original.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk CreateCalisto: Bulk Create fills a design's {{placeholders}} from a CSV or pasted rows, up to 200 designs per run, and exports them all as one ZIP.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| MockupsCalisto: the page on screen is placed on a T-shirt, mug, phone case, business card, poster frame, laptop, tote bag or billboard and downloaded.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| ChartsCanva adds charts to a design, including animated bar chart races, with data typed in or imported from a spreadsheet.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Brand | ||
| Brand KitCalisto: the business's colors, typefaces and logo live in its brand kit, edited in Studio's Settings and read by every editor.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Upload Brand FontsCalisto: a TrueType, OpenType or WOFF file added to the brand kit is read for its family, weight and slant, and its face is offered in the typeface picker.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Brand Kit From a WebsiteCanva builds a brand kit automatically from a company website or a PDF of brand guidelines.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| AI Tools | ||
| Background RemoverCalisto: Remove Background runs on the person's own device, so the picture is never uploaded.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Erase Objects From a PhotoCalisto: brush over part of a photo and AI fills the area in, as one undo step.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Expand a PhotoCalisto: AI extends a photo past its edges, and the frame grows so the new margins show.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| AI Image GenerationCalisto: Generate makes a picture from a description, square, portrait or landscape, and places it on the page as the business's own file.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| AI CopywritingCalisto: Generate drafts copy from a brief and an optional tone, dressed in the design's Theme.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Translate DesignsCanva translates the text in a design into more than 100 languages and keeps a copy of the original page.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Animation and Video | ||
| AnimationCalisto: In, Loop and Out presets write real keyframes, and the Animate workspace keys position, scale, rotation, opacity, color and more on a timeline.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Collaboration | ||
| Real-Time Co-EditingCalisto: several people work in one design at once and see who else is in it, and each person's changed pages are merged when they save.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Comments on DesignsCanva lets collaborators comment on a design and tag teammates, with replies shown to everyone at once.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Design ApprovalsCanva sends a design to an approver, who approves it or gives feedback, and an unapproved design cannot be published.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Print Bleed and Crop MarksCalisto: Print Setup sets the trim size with bleed and safe-zone guides, and the print-ready PDF adds crop marks, registration marks and color bars.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Printing and DeliveryCanva prints business cards, flyers, marketing materials and promotional products from a design and delivers them.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| CMYK Print PDFCanva's print PDF download can use a CMYK color profile.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Import and Export | ||
| PDF ImportCalisto: a PDF of up to 100 pages becomes an editable design, each page at its own size with its words kept as text.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Whiteboards | ||
| WhiteboardsCalisto: a whiteboard holds sticky notes, shapes, text, pen strokes and connectors, and starts blank or from a brainstorm, mind map, flowchart or retrospective.Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Publishing | ||
| Content PlannerCalisto: posts are planned on a calendar and go out to the business's connected channels from a queue (with Impreta).Checked Nov 1, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Canva
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Canva and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Canva can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Moving from Canva
Questions about switching
Can I bring my Canva designs?
Not as Canva files. Download a design from Canva as a PDF or an SVG and drop it into Studio: each page becomes an editable design, its words stay text and its pictures are stored as your own files.
Can my team edit a design at the same time?
Yes. Several people can work in one design at once and see who else is in it, and each person's changed pages are merged when they save. A design has no comments, so feedback is not left on the design itself.
Can a design go out on social media?
Yes, with Impreta. Export the design as a PNG or JPG, add it to a post, and the post goes out to your connected channels from the queue and the calendar.
Does Studio print and deliver my designs?
No. Studio exports a print-ready PDF with bleed, crop marks, registration marks and color bars for the printer you already use. It does not take print orders.
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