Accessing Affinity for free with a Canva account

Affinity gives you professional-grade tools for photo editing, vector design, and publishing. Everyone, even Canva Free users, can use Affinity, but Canva paid plans can unlock incredibly powerful Canva AI tools such as Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Generate Image/Vector, and more directly in Affinity.

Already have Canva Education, but can’t access Affinity? Contact your school admin.

For K–12 schools: If your school doesn’t want to use Affinity, contact your assigned Customer Success Manager (CSM) to opt out.

For higher education institutions: Contact your assigned Customer Success Manager (CSM) to turn on Affinity for your school.

Already have Canva for Nonprofits, but can’t access Affinity? Contact your organization admin.

Already using Canva for Enterprise, but can’t access Affinity?

If you're a team member: Contact your company admin or IT team to get access to Affinity.

If you're an admin: Contact your assigned Customer Success Manager (CSM) to turn on Affinity for your organization.

Not yet using Canva Enterprise? Get in touch with our Sales team to learn more about tailored setups for your organization.

Follow the steps below to access Affinity by Canva.

To access Affinity for free, you must log in with your verified Canva account. Follow these steps:

1. Install the Affinity app.
2. Once you’ve installed Affinity, you’ll be prompted to sign in. Select Sign in with Canva to continue.
3. Select Sign in with Canva again. You’ll be redirected to a page where you can authorize Affinity to access your Canva account.
4. Select Allow.
5. Select Allow or Open if prompted by your web browser. You should see a welcome message on the Affinity app.
6. Select Launch.

If your organization uses SSO, select Sign in with Canva to start your authentication. After launching the Affinity app, follow the steps in: Log in using Single Sign-On (SSO).

If you have a Canva premium plan, you’ll be able to unlock Canva’s AI tools within Affinity and add them to any of your studios, including options like Generative Fill and Image Generation.

Canva Education accounts: Only administrators and teachers currently have access to Canva AI tools inside Affinity.  We’ll be working to provide more controls for admins to turn AI access on or off for their students in the future.

Check out these resources:

• Login issues
• Reset password

When you log in to Affinity with your Canva account, you agree to the Affinity Additional Terms and Canva’s Privacy Policy.

If you have other questions or concerns, please contact us.