What open-source alternative is there for Canva?

Not necessarily like Canva, but more similar to Figma is Penpot, if it may interest you:

https://penpot.app/

So, you want something that is equivalent to paid Canva. Not just free Canva.

I suppose that would depend on how you use Canva.

I use it for rapid iterating. I haven't found anything that matches Canva for that. If you just need an editor then there are a variety of alternatives, like Inkscape.

I only found it necessary to pay for Canva once I needed to upload fonts.

Id say Inkscape and Penpot are the closest but none of these (by design) include a big template gallery which is maybe part of your consideration.

On the template gallery you could use an open source chat-gpt like tool to create svgs for you and then load them into the above. Eg “Make an SVG of a smiley face”

The biggest selling point with Canva is it's myriad of templates. I doubt you're going to find that in a open-source alternative.

For drawing arrows, I use drawing toolbar of LibreOffice Writer.

For vector graphics, and converting bitmap to vectors, I use Inkscape.

For flowcharts, I use Dia.

For bitmap graphics, I use Gimp, use it for crop and prettifying old photos.

I use OpenClipart SVG images, when I need some image that is already made.

I am always looking non-subscription options for similar..

playing with affinty designer, similar.. eyeing luminero neo?

Appreciating self hosting AI gen..

Microsoft Designer is really making me happy - but I worry they will subscription paywall it eventually - I would pay a one time fee.

Someone has to have list non-subscription alternatives to all the things.. like photoshop alternatives you can own..

Not sure about open source, but there are alternatives out there:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+alternatives+to+canva