2024
Canva Developers 2024 Wrapped
Another exciting year for Canva Developers is coming to a close. Learn about all the amazing growth our ecosystem has seen this year.
Another year for Canva Developers(opens in a new tab or window) has come and gone. When we launched our first developer offering to GA last year, we dreamed that our program would grow to be a flourishing marketplace, but we never imagined how explosive the growth would be. Our developer community is the cornerstone of this success, so as we look to build bigger and better next year, let’s take some time to reflect on everything we’ve accomplished together this year.
At the end of 2023, we had just released our 100th app. Fast-forward to now: We're officially closing 2024 with 430 apps, marking a 300% growth in our marketplace offering. Not only is our Apps marketplace growing; our developer offering expanded to include external integrations supported with the Connect APIs, which launched to GA this year. In just 6 months, we already have 90 integrations released.
We launched our Apps SDK in mid-2023, and in just these 18 months, apps have been used over 1.3 billion (yes, billion with a B) times. This is huge! It shows our Canva users love apps as much as we do. This love inspired us to find new ways to embed apps in their workflows — like the photo editing panel, text tab, element search, and Canva Docs, all launched this year. And did you know only 41% of Canva users are English speaking? We wanted to make sure apps could reach even more users and enable truly local design experiences. So this year, we decided to include free translation services to our top 8 languages for apps in our marketplace, helping reach our global audience.
Our developers are thriving this year, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Teams seeking to improve user adoption of their product are finding Canva Apps has accelerated their growth, like the folks at Patterned.AI whose “... user base doubled within two months of launching [their] app on Canva, which allowed [them] to direct our resources towards innovation instead of marketing.” Ads platforms like Amazon(opens in a new tab or window), Google(opens in a new tab or window), and Meta(opens in a new tab or window) are improving the quality of ads with our Apps SDK, while real estate agents at eXp Realty(opens in a new tab or window) are improving thier property marketing.
And our Connect APIs have empowered teams like ChatGPT(opens in a new tab or window), Slack(opens in a new tab or window), Make(opens in a new tab or window), Mailchimp(opens in a new tab or window), Adium(opens in a new tab or window), Salesforce(opens in a new tab or window), and more to embed access to Canva designs directly in their platforms. Our friends at Slack shared that "with the Canva app for Slack, we’re bringing an enhanced collaboration and design experience to our joint customers. We’re thrilled to bring such a seamless experience to our customers."
From massive growth in our marketplace offering, user love, and teams success, 2024 has been an amazing year for Canva Developers. We can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store. If you haven’t built an app or integration, there’s no better time than right now. Clone our starter kits and join our community(opens in a new tab or window) to be part of the future of Canva Developers.
Happy holidays!
