Brandbook vs
Canva
Canva is where you design. Brandbook is where your brand lives — the rules, voice and approved assets every person and AI tool follows, including inside Canva through our plugin. Canva’s Brand Kit keeps Canva designs on-brand. Brandbook keeps everything on-brand.
Designing fast. Social posts, decks and flyers from templates, with a Brand Kit for your logos, colours and fonts inside Canva.
Your brand’s system of record. Rules, voice and approved assets that people and AI tools follow, with every draft checked before it goes out.
The short version.
Canva is a design editor. Brandbook is the brand book, library and checker that sits behind every editor you use.
A Brand Kit governs Canva designs. Brandbook’s rules reach Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Figma and Canva.
The Brandbook plugin brings approved assets into Canva and checks designs before they’re exported.
Side by side.
An honest look at what each tool is built to do. Plenty of teams use both.
Where Canva is great.
Anyone on the team can make a polished design in minutes, no design training needed.
A huge range of ready-made formats for social, print, presentations and video.
Teams design together, comment and share in one familiar place.
Use them together.
Keep designing in Canva. Brandbook makes sure what you make there matches the brand everywhere else.
Your team designs posts, flyers and decks, using approved assets pulled in by the plugin.
Every design is checked before export, then the final is saved to the Library with its version.
The same rules and assets reach every channel and every AI tool.
Questions.
Do I still need Canva?
Probably, yes. Canva is a great design editor and Brandbook isn’t trying to replace it. Brandbook replaces the PDF guidelines and scattered brand folders, and gives Canva something reliable to follow.
Does Brandbook replace our Canva Brand Kit?
As the source of truth, yes. The Brand Kit can stay for convenience inside Canva, while Brandbook holds the full rules, voice and approved assets for every other tool too.
Can Brandbook check designs made in Canva?
Yes. Check them through the plugin before you export, or drop the finished file into Check. You get On-brand, Needs a look or Off-brand, with the reason.
Keep designing in Canva. Keep it on-brand everywhere.
Paste your website. Get a living brand system your whole team and every AI tool can follow.
Comparison based on publicly available information, checked October 2026. Features change — tell us if something’s out of date.