Microsoft has officially moved its AI-powered Designer app out of preview, making the Canva competitor available to iOS and Android users. The app uses text prompts to generate images and designs for items such as logos, greeting cards, stickers and invitations. Powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image model, Designer is available as an app in Windows and as a free mobile app. New capabilities include the ability to edit existing designs and the addition of “prompt templates” to help users who are starting the design process with a blank canvas. “Just describe what you want to see, and Designer can create it for you,” explains Microsoft.

The Designer mobile launch “will allow anyone with a personal Microsoft account to create a variety of styles of images and designs on the go,” writes VentureBeat, describing Designer as “Microsoft’s go-to platform for creating different types of graphics — right from illustrations to social media posts, backgrounds and brand kits.”

As of now, it comes with “15 free daily boosts that can be used to create or edit,” The Verge explains, adding that those who upgrade to a Copilot Pro subscription for $20 per month are allotted 100 boosts per day. The Copilot subscription also provides integration with Microsoft apps like Word and PowerPoint.

“Windows Insiders will also get access to Designer within the Microsoft Photos app on Windows 11, with features like erasing objects, removing backgrounds, auto-cropping, and filters all available directly in Photos,” reports The Verge.

Microsoft Designer is available in more than 80 languages on the web. With the mobile launch, its homepage has been redesigned to feature categories for different types of content, including avatars, emoji, greeting cards, stickers and invitations.

Designer can also edit images with AI, adding decorative generative borders, people or objects, including logos. Photos can be transformed into artworks with restyle image, Microsoft says in a product announcement, adding that “soon, we will be rolling out Replace background in preview in select markets.”

Microsoft “hopes the new capabilities and expanded access will boost the usage of the tool, propelling it ahead of competing AI image generators from Midjourney, Adobe, Ideogram and others,” writes VentureBeat.

This fall, Designer will have additional competition when Apple’s new iOS 18 mobile operating system is released in the U.S. with “access to Apple Intelligence and image generation models baked right into the OS, accessible in popular native apps such as Messages.”