Canva plugs into Google Gemini alongside Adobe, CapCut

Google said Canva, Adobe and CapCut would connect editing tools to the Gemini app, letting users send a text prompt into design or video software without leaving chat. For Sydney-founded Canva, the announcement puts an Australian software company inside a Google product that, according to the company, reaches 900 million monthly users across 230 countries and 70 languages.

That gives the story a local edge and shows where Google wants Gemini to sit in the software stack.

In its announcement, Google said it was expanding Gemini’s connected apps through new Model Context Protocol connections, with Canva joining OpenTable and Instacart. The company said the broader goal was to make Gemini more agentic, able to take a request, call another service and continue the task without sending people across several tabs.

Canva used similar language in a newsroom post, saying the connector was aimed at “making it easier to move from idea to finished design in a single, connected flow”. If that works as promised, users start in Gemini and then hand the job to Canva at the point where they need a design tool rather than a chatbot.

That is as much a distribution play as a product update.

Adobe made much the same case in its blog post. The company said its connector would let Gemini users describe what they want before routing the work into Adobe’s imaging, design and video tools, keeping Adobe in the workflow even when the user begins in Google’s app.

Google wants Gemini to stay in the workflow

CapCut appears to occupy the video-editing slot in the same rollout. 9to5Google reported that CapCut’s image and video tools are also coming to Gemini, which suggests Google wants the app to cover the practical work that follows an AI prompt, not just the prompt itself.

For Canva, that matters because Gemini’s reach is far wider than any single design app’s installed base. A user could ask for a social post or a short clip, then move straight into Canva or CapCut without rebuilding the job elsewhere.

Google and its partners have not disclosed every commercial detail. They did not give timing for each feature, and Google did not say how partner ranking or revenue-sharing inside Gemini will work.

Even with those gaps, the first batch of partners offers a clear signal. Google is turning Gemini into an interface that calls outside tools, while specialist software groups compete to be the service it chooses. For Canva, being included in the first wave shows an Australian platform has won a place in that early line-up.