Canva not working? Check out these 5 apps you can use meanwhile

It’s a designer’s worst nightmare — you’re racing against a deadline, and your go-to design platform suddenly stops working. That’s exactly what happened on June 21, 2025, when Canva faced a sudden outage, leaving users around the world stranded mid-project. According to Downdetector, over 400 outage reports had been logged by Saturday evening, and frustrated users wasted no time heading to X (formerly Twitter) to voice their concerns — and, of course, drop some memes.

One user expressed their frustration over being unable to meet…