Alternatives to Microsoft Designer
A graphic design app from Microsoft for making social posts, invitations and graphics with AI. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Microsoft Designer
A graphic design app from Microsoft for making social posts, invitations and graphics with AI.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Microsoft Designer.
Playground
A web-based AI design studio for logos, t-shirts, stickers, posters and social media graphics.
Playground is a freemium design studio with thousands of templates across 24 categories, several image models and layered non-destructive edits, available on web and iOS.
Designs.ai
An online AI workspace where agents produce images, video, copy, slides and audio from one brief.
Designs.ai is a freemium workspace producing images, video, copy, slides and audio from one brief with brand settings, aimed at marketers rather than quick invitations.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's generative AI app for creating and editing images, video, audio and designs.
Adobe Firefly is a freemium Adobe app covering images, video, audio and designs with web, iOS and Android apps, instead of a free Microsoft web service.
Gamma
An AI design tool that generates presentations, documents, websites, social posts and graphics from ideas.
Gamma is a freemium tool that generates presentations, documents, websites, social posts and graphics from a prompt, with PPT and PDF export and mobile apps.
Visme AI
AI tools inside the Visme design platform for generating presentations, documents and graphics from prompts.
Visme AI generates slides, documents, print materials and graphics inside a freemium Visme account, with a brand kit for consistent output.
Adobe Express
Adobe's web and mobile app for making quick graphics, photo edits and short videos from templates.
Adobe Express offers templates for social posts, flyers and logos plus quick photo and video edits. It runs on web, Android and iOS, and premium features need a subscription.
Fotor
An online photo editor and design tool with many AI tools for enhancement and background removal.
Fotor is a freemium online photo editor and design tool with AI retouching and background tools. It adds Android and iOS apps, with some features behind paid plans.
Picsart
A web-based creative platform for editing photos and generating images, video and audio with AI models.
Picsart is a freemium web platform with many image and video AI models, templates and a large asset library. Fuller use requires a subscription.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Microsoft Designer as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Canva
An online design platform with templates and photo editing tools for making graphics in the browser.
Microsoft Designer is free and browser-based, generating designs from a text description with templates for social posts and invitations, aimed at quick graphics.
Kittl
Browser-based graphic design platform with vector tools, templates, mockups and AI image generation.
Microsoft Designer is a free browser app that generates social posts and invitations from text descriptions, aimed at quick graphics rather than detailed vector or merch design.
Looka
An AI logo maker that also builds a brand kit of matching marketing materials.
Microsoft Designer is free and generates social posts, invitations and graphics from text, aimed at quick graphics rather than a full brand kit.
Piktochart AI
An online generator that turns prompts, notes or uploaded content into editable infographics.
Microsoft Designer is free and generates social posts, invitations and graphics from text, but is aimed at quick graphics rather than infographics.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Bing Image Creator
Microsoft's free AI image generator in Bing, with image remixing and short video generation.
Ideogram
An AI image generator and editor known for rendering readable text inside images.
Brandmark
A browser-based logo maker that uses generative AI to create logos and matching brand assets.
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI chat assistant for conversation, answers from the web and creative tasks.
