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Flow with Canva: the words and numbers in Flow, the design in Canva

Canva makes things look good. Flow makes sure the words and numbers are right, with a source on every figure and your yes before anything changes. Use both.

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What it is for Canva is a design tool with more than 1,000 design types and 1.6 million templates on the free plan. Canva Docs is its visual document editor.Source: Canva pricing, checked 2026-09-30 Flow is a Mac app for the words and numbers: briefs, launch posts, updates. Each one is a Markdown file in a folder you choose, with a review step and a History.Shown in: Campaign with proof
Writing with AI Magic Write writes copy from a prompt. It can also rewrite, shorten, fix spelling or change the voice of text you already have.Source: Canva Help: Use Magic Write to generate text, checked 2026-09-30 Expand with Sources drafts from your own files and puts a footnote on every figure. In our campaign walk, 25 of 25 figures matched their sources, and the draft waited for our approval.Shown in: Campaign with proof
Where your work lives Canva keeps your designs in its cloud: 5 GB of storage on the free plan and 100 GB on Pro. Canva Offline makes designs available without a connection.Source: Canva pricing, checked 2026-09-30 Each document is a plain Markdown file in a folder on your Mac. Other apps can open the same files.Shown in: The recurring client brief
What it costs Canva Free is $0 with up to 20 AI uses. Canva Pro is US$144 a year for one person, with 10 times the AI of Free. Canva Business is US$250 a year per person.Source: Canva pricing, checked 2026-09-30 Flow Pro adds the AI for $10 a month or $96 a year. A run on your Mac adds no model cost: our campaign walk cost $0.00. Import and Publish are add-ons to Pro, at $10 a month or $96 a year each.Shown in: Campaign with proof
Moving work between them Canva imports PowerPoint files in the desktop browser, as a beta. Its help page says charts, SmartArt, 3D objects and WordArt are ignored on import.Source: Canva Help: Import PowerPoint presentations, checked 2026-09-30 Flow Publish writes PowerPoint, Word, PDF and web pages. In our investor update walk, Flow published a PowerPoint deck. We have not yet opened a Flow file in Canva.Shown in: The investor update and the watch
Where you can use it Canva runs in the browser and has apps for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chromebook.Source: Canva for Mac, checked 2026-09-30 Flow is a Mac app only. There is no Windows, phone or web version.

Why pair them

Canva is where a launch post, a one-pager or a deck gets its look. It has templates for more than 1,000 kinds of design, and Magic Write can write or rewrite the text inside them.

What Canva does not do is check the words against your own files. When a post gives a number, nothing in the design shows where that number came from.

Flow is for that part. It drafts from your own files, puts a footnote on every figure, and waits for your yes before anything changes. Canva still does the design. Flow is where the words and numbers get checked first.

How they could work together

We have not walked a Flow to Canva handoff yet. This is the split we suggest, and where each step’s proof is.

  1. Write and check in Flow. Draft the copy with Expand with Sources. Every figure gets a footnote to the file it came from. In our campaign walk, all 25 figures matched their sources.
  2. Approve it. Nothing enters the document until you tick I accept changes. The History keeps each version and the run that made it.
  3. Take the text to Canva. Copy the approved text into your Canva design, or publish from Flow. Canva can import a PowerPoint file, but its help page says charts are ignored on import, so plan to make charts again in Canva.

The path to start with

Start with campaign with proof. It is a launch post where every number points at its source, in two languages, with every screen shown. That is the text you would then design in Canva.

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Campaign with proof

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A brief and a results workbook in. A cited launch post out, in two languages, as a Word file and a web page.

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15 sSpanish version, footnotes kept

What Flow is not

  • Flow is not a design tool. It has none of Canva's templates, photos or layout tools, and it does not replace them.
  • We have not moved a Flow file into Canva yet. Canva's help page says its PowerPoint import ignores charts, so a chart from Flow may need to be made again in Canva.
  • Flow is built for one person reviewing AI work. Canva Docs lets many people edit together at once.
  • Flow is a Mac app only, and its AI features need Flow Pro once your 10 Pro Days are used.

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