A free Canva alternative with nothing held back

OpenTempl is free in the plain sense: no trial, no watermark, no locked exports and no account. The licence is MIT. It is not affiliated with Canva.

Updated November 2026

What free means here

• No paid plan, now or inside the app. There is nothing to unlock.
• No watermark on anything you export.
• No ads and no sign up.
• The one thing that costs money is optional. If you use the Generate tab, you paste your own OpenAI key and OpenAI bills you for the images. Skip it and you pay nothing.

Exports you do not pay for

PNG, with a transparent background and up to 4x size. JPG and WebP. SVG. PDF for screen, or for print with bleed and crop marks. PowerPoint with editable text. MP4 video of your pages and animations. GIF. A ZIP of all pages. The editable OpenTempl file.

How a free project pays for itself

OpenTempl is a project by one person, Noah, and there is no paid plan behind it. The MIT licence means the version you download stays free and open even if the project changes direction.

Free options compared

Canva has a free plan, and it is generous. It also has paid plans that add some exports and tools, and it needs an account. Browser tools such as Polotno Studio are free and need no sign up, but they run online. Desktop editors such as Inkscape and GIMP are free and open source, but they are not built around templates. OpenTempl sits between them: templates and a simple editor, installed and offline, free and open.

See how it compares in detail, or read about the Canva Pro features it includes.

Limits

There are no team workspaces, no phone app and 337 templates, not millions. The desktop installers are not code signed yet.

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