Canva
NOMINEE OVERVIEW
The Canva developer portal is the front door to building with Canva - one of the worlds most loved visual communication platforms. Our developer portal empowers creators, startups, global tech companies and enterprises to build rich integrations and publish apps direction to Canva's 220M+ users.
With beautifully designed API docs, intuitive onboarding, analytics and performance dashboards and all the tools you'll need to efficiently build with Canva (UI kits, CLI's, MCP servers and dev toolkits), we're enabling every developer to feel like a designer and build high quality apps and integrations, fast.
NOMINATION RATIONALE
1) BEST AI-ENABLED DEVELOPER PORTAL
Over 200 AI powered apps have been built on the Canva developers platform - the developer portal and its supporting tooling have been developed to not only help developers build these AI apps, but also to allow them to use AI to build apps. We have considered how AI can be leveraged from the onboarding experience, build experience, right through to assisting with the marketing and promotion of apps.
The Canva Dev MCP server enables you to vibe code/use coding assistants with ease, there are AI app templates that give a 'batteries included' experience - all you need to do is add your AI model and away you go. To ensure your app gets traction, the AI listing support will help generate an app name, tagline and description - all that meet our marketplace guidelines and trained for optimal app listing performance.
2) BEST API AND PARTNER APPS MARKETPLACE
Millions of people come to the Canva apps marketplace to discover and use apps to help them create beautiful designs. Ranging from those looking to create birthday cards, to enterprise customers looking to streamline their sales workflow, to teachers building education content and everything in-between, with 220M active Canva users across the globe, Canva's apps marketplace is the perfect place to launch your app and grow your business.
Canva is committed to helping developers succeed in the marketplace, we're always looking for opportunities to showcase new apps and help developers turn their ideas into businesses. We provide support from the build, to app review, to launch and beyond. Apps can be monetized through one of several programs offered by Canva, or BYO payments infrastructure and subscriptions - unlike other marketplaces there are no fee's taken on any payments or requirements to use specific billing systems.
Canva's apps marketplace is deeply integrated into users workflows, ensuring that they can find the right app at the right time - text apps are surfaced alongside Canva's native text functionality, image editing apps are surfaced within the image editing panel and export apps can be discovered in the export menu.
3) BEST ONBOARDING EXPERIENCE IN A DEVELOPER PORTAL
Build apps that run within the Canva platform using the Canva Apps SDK. With our React based starter-kit, dev MCP server, CLI and dev portal you'll be up and running in no time.
All APIs are extensively documented, including API references, API guidelines, design guidelines and examples. To support app building we also provide app templates and allow use of our app UI kit - each component selected and refined so that they can be used to support apps the use-cases enabled by our APIs.
Check out the Type Viewer on all reference documentation pages to see a familiar IDE-like experience to explore the TypeScript types and access detailed information.
