Launch a Canva-like editor in weeks without hiring more engineers

60 days free trial on dev server

Why build your own creative editor? Focus on your core product's value, save >$100k, and stand out from the rest of AI pack.

Retain and win more users

Offer a built-in design editor that increases engagement, improves retention, and expands your market.

Save 6+ months of dev work

Skip the massive development effort of building an editor – cut engineering time and costs significantly.

Launch in a month or faster

Go to market faster with a seamless editing experience that enhances your product’s value.

Why do fast-growing SaaS startups integrate in-app editing?

LTV

Churn

Keep users hooked and stop losing them to third-party tools

Every time a user leaves your platform to edit visuals elsewhere, you risk losing them for good. A built-in editor keeps them engaged, creating, and coming back—driving retention and boosting LTV.

CAC

Conversion rate

Stand out. Offer what others are missing

Most platforms skip built-in design tools, leaving users to fend for themselves. Adding an editor makes your product more powerful, more complete, and an easy choice over the competition.

MRR

TAM

Expand your audience and unlock new markets

Marketing teams, e-commerce sellers, content creators—they all need fast, built-in design tools. Add an editor, and suddenly your platform is a content hub, not just a utility. More users, more use cases, more growth.

Building an editor in-house is an option. Buying Polotno is a much smarter one.

“If I was to do one to one of Polotno editor in my app we're talking at least six to 12 months, bare minimum.”

Michael Carrillo

Founder @ StrengthPals

What startup founders say on their build vs buy journey

A complete set of creative tools to get work done

Canvas editor

Offer time-tested, familiar design experience for smooth workflows.

Design automation

Automate design workflows with API-powered control.

Template management

Save, reuse, and control design templates manually or programmatically.

Deeply customizable

Configure the editor your way and extend it with your own features.

Mobile-optimized

Enjoy the same full & smooth experiences on tablets and phones.

Cross-browser compatible

Chrome, Safari, Firefox? Polotno runs seamlessly in any modern browser.

100% white label

Make the editor look and feel like your product.

Fast and helpful support

Get your issues quickly resolved via community or email support.

AI belongs inside the editor, not next to it

Your users came for what your model does. Polotno gives that output somewhere to land: a canvas where a generated design stays editable, and an API surface your own models can drive.

Generate a design from a prompt

The Polotno AI API turns a text prompt into a complete design and returns it as editable JSON, not a flat image. Drop it on the canvas and the user keeps editing. Experimental and in active development.

AI text and background removal

Generate or rewrite copy in place with AI write, and cut subjects out of uploads with one-call background removal. Both are opt-in, so you decide what your users see.

A schema your models can write

Every design is documented JSON. An LLM can emit it, patch one field of it, or read it back for validation, which is what makes generated output reviewable instead of a black box.

Your coding agent already knows Polotno

Official skills, a live documentation MCP server, and machine-readable docs mean Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor write correct Polotno code from day one instead of hallucinating an API.

Go beyond the editor and automate design creation at scale

Scale design workflows with the API. Add, edit, and organize elements through code, handle bulk changes, and build templates from data or AI. Use the Cloud Render API for server-side rendering to deliver large volumes of production-ready files automatically.

Programmatically create elements

Programmatically fill designs with data

Programmatically generate designs in bulk

Programmatically update styles

Programmatically position elements

Create templates from data via API

Render designs via API

Automate design workflows via API