Microsoft has let its AI-powered Designer app out of preview mode [Video]

Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer app has been unleashed from preview mode, with the Canva rival now available for free to everyone with a Microsoft account. And though it’s an impressive productivity tool for those without major creative skills, it’s not likely to be super welcome news for designers, artists, creatives, and those concerned about AI-generated artwork.

Announced in a post on Microsoft’s blog and available on its website, the tech giant’s design platform has officially launched on iOS and Android, for mobile and desktop. Designer is a template-based editing app that lets users create and edit images, make greeting cards, invitations, posters, and other basic design work, and spruce up Word documents with AI, using Microsoft Copilot.

The app channels a similar offering to Australian unicorn Canva, which launched Magic Studio, a suite of AI-powered tools, last year.

Designer notably has a feature called Restyle Image, which can turn your …