Automate Your Creative Designs with a Canva-like Editor

CraftMyPDF’s Canva-like template editor empowers users to seamlessly automate their design processes, enabling the creation of dynamic, personalized PDFs and images at scale.

By integrating with CraftMyPDF’s API or using no-code platforms like Zapier and Make, users can efficiently generate bulk designs from a template, such as marketing materials, social media graphics, and personalized documents.
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Why Use Canva Alternative for PDF and Image Automation?

While Canva is popular for its user-friendly interface, it lacks critical automation features,  API access, and the flexibility required to produce bulk PDFs and images on demand.

That’s where CraftMyPDF comes in — a powerful Canva alternative engineered to streamline production, integrate seamlessly with your favorite no-code tools, and free you from repetitive design tasks.

To illustrate the difference, we’ve prepared a direct comparison below:

Feature Canva CraftMyPDF
Bulk Generation No support for bulk image and PDF generation through API Easily generate thousands of images with our REST API integration
API Access Canva API is designed for plug-ins that enhance Canva’s editor. Canva doesn’t provide an API for automating content creation or generation from reusable templates. It offers a free plan to start with
Automation Features Minimal automation features available Automation with no-code tools such as Zapier, Make.com, Bubble.io, REST API and others
Design Effort Each variation requires manual design efforts Create once, automate multiple variations based on the template

 

By choosing CraftMyPDF, you unlock a new level of efficiency—automating complex workflows, generating documents and images at scale, and integrating effortlessly with your existing toolkit.

Click here to learn more about the Canva API

Tutorial: How to Create Dynamic PDFs or Images With Canva’s Designs

 

We offer PDF Generation API and Image Generation API

CraftMyPDF integrates effortlessly with tools like Zapier, Make.com, Bubble.io, and our REST API to provide a seamless document automation experience for your business.

Features of CraftMyPDF

Easy to Use Drag-and-Drop Template Editor

Design professional PDF templates visually with our easy-to-use editor. Add text, images, QR codes, barcodes, shapes, tables, charts, and more.
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Importing Existing PDF Files as Templates

Reuse your current PDFs by importing them directly as editable templates. Overlay text, images, QR codes, and dynamic data while preserving the original layout.

Powerful Expressions & Formatting Support

Format dates, currencies, numbers, and text with built-in expressions. Need more advanced logic? Extend your templates with custom JavaScript functions.
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Generate PDF Documents Within Your Region

Generate and store PDFs closer to your users with regional endpoints. Available in the US, EU, Singapore, and Australia to support data residency and lower latency.
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PDF Generation & Image Generation API

Our cloud-based API helps you to generate PDF documents or images. We support synchronously or asynchronously PDF generation scale without the costs of maintenance.

Automate with Nocode or Lowcode Platforms

Automate document workflows with Zapier, Make, Bubble, Coda, and REST API integrations. Connect CraftMyPDF to the tools your team already uses.
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Support of Fillable Components

Create interactive PDF forms with fillable components in the drag-and-drop editor. Add text fields, checkboxes, dropdowns, radio buttons, and signature fields with ease.
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Embed the Editor in Your App

Bring the CraftMyPDF template editor into your own product or internal tool. Let your users create and manage templates without building a PDF editor from scratch.
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An Intuitive Template Editor for Automation and Content Creation

Advanced Drag & Drop Editor

No code required!

Our advanced editor allows you to easily create new PDFs by dragging and dropping the elements into your PDF templates.

You can create PDF documents easily such as invoices, reports, delivery notes that reflect your brand.

If you are still converting HTML code to PDFs and looking for an easy way to create PDF documents – Our PDF template editor does not require HTML or CSS knowledge.

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Support of Expressions & Advanced Formatting

An expression is essentially a javascript syntax enclosed in {{ and }}. The expression is any valid set of variables, operators, and expressions that evaluates to a single value. The value may be a number, a string, an array or a logical value.

You may also use any of the standard built-in objects such as Math, String, Array or methods in the expressions.

Advanced Formatting with Expressions

Our template editor supports advanced formatting.  You can easily format number, currency and date time with CraftMyPDF’s expressions.

The following is an example to format a currency field:

{{ format(data.total_amount, "number", "$0,0.0000") }}

Integrations

				
					
curl -X POST \
--header "Content-Type: application/json"  \
--header 'X-API-KEY: 7832MjA6MTE6UjlkM3h4emxpTExzeFR0aQ=' \
--data '{"template_id": "05f77b2b18ad809a", "export_type":"json", "expiration": 10, "output_file":"my_new.pdf", "data":  "{ \"invoice_number\": \"INV38379\", \"date\": \"2021-09-30\",  \"currency\": \"USD\", \"total_amount\": 82542.56   }", "output_file": "output.pdf"}' \
  "https://api.craftmypdf.com/v1/create"

Automate Your PDF Content Creation Workflow with No-code, Low-code Platforms or REST API

Streamline your workflow and save time on repetitive PDF document creation with our easy integrations with Zapier, Integromat, Bubble.io and REST API.

We support regional API-endpoints. A regional API endpoint is intended for customers in the same region. The data for the request and generated PDFs are processed and stored within the region.

With our integration with Zapier, Make.com, Coda.io, Bubble.io, FlutterFlow, Backendless, and REST API,
Your PDF generation has never been so easy!

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Zapier

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Bubble.io

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Backendless

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Flutterflow

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Coda.io

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REST API

Sample Templates and CraftMyPDF's Template Editor

Click on the Launch Editor button to see CraftMyPDF’s template editor in action

Packing List

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A packing list with images and barcodes

Complex invoice

Launch Editor | View PDF

Complex Invoice with multiple-level JSON(using sub-section)

QRCodes

Launch Editor | View PDF

3 QRCode columns in a row

Certificate Sample 1

Launch Editor

Modern and Geometric Purple Certificate

Certificate Sample 2

Launch Editor

Bold and Dynamic Certificate

Certificate Sample 3

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Colourful, Fun & Celebratory Pink Certificate

Customer Reviews

Trusted by individual developers and businesses, we have generated over 10 millions of high-quality PDFs!

See what our customers have to say about us

I'm beyond amazed at the capabilities of CraftMyPDF and even more so with the staff. Very prompt with support and beyond helpful.

They've helped me with certain capabilities that help to automate key aspects of my business which in turn will help me grow.
Derrick Hayworth
Derrick Hayworth Owner
After exploring many options, we chose CraftMyPDF for its unmatched flexibility and integration ease. What truly stands out is the exceptional support from Jacky, whose dedication and customer care greatly impressed us. He played a key role in adapting the software for a German interface and custom features, offering value we rarely see.

Additionally, its affordable pricing allows for scalable growth. CraftMyPDF stands as a top software investment for us, enhancing our ability to capture life stories in books with beautiful covers.
Albert Brückmann
Albert BrückmannFounder
We've been using CraftMyPDF for a while now, and it's been a brilliant choice. The platform's user-friendly nature allowed us to get started immediately, bypassing the complexities and time consumption of developing our own templates and integrating with a PDF generation library. The time savings are huge for us, cutting down about 5 minutes per document.

Additionally, their exceptional and quick support stands out, always ready to assist.
Vincent Buccarello
Vincent BuccarelloCo-founder
We absolutely love CraftMyPDF! The editor is easy to use and extremely versatile - we were able to customize it to fit our specific needs.

The support is top-notch. They were able to help us solve many problems and were also willing to implement new solutions to improve the functionality of the tool and meet our needs.

I would highly recommend this software to anyone!
Mirco Manara
Mirco ManaraProject Manager
CraftMyPDF made creating professional PDFs incredibly simple! The drag-and-drop interface allows easy template design without coding, though you can still use CSS or JS if needed.

The API integration is fantastic, letting me connect CraftMyPDF to other apps for automatic data filling. It saves so much time and eliminates manual entry! 🙌

Their support is excellent—Jacky was super helpful and patient in setting everything up.

If you’re looking for customizable PDF generation, CraftMyPDF is a must-try!
FG Laroze
FG Laroze Project Manager
Craftmypdf is a fantastic piece of software! It saves us a lot of time, as we're able to automatically generate invoices, receipts, order lists, etc.

The customer support is also excellent; The founder was able to get on a zoom call with us and help us navigate the software, recommend a solution for what we were looking to do

5/5 would highly recommend!
Sherif
Sherif
We've been using CraftMyPDF for a while now, and we couldn't be more pleased with the results. The platform is incredibly user-friendly, making it easy to integrate into our solutions.

Their team is responsive and quick to address our requests, which has been invaluable in saving us considerable development time.

We highly recommend CraftMyPDF to anyone looking for an efficient, reliable solution!
Kampol
KampolCEO
Thanks to CraftmyPDF SlimPensioneren is capable of sending thousands of PDF's to all of our clients effortlessly and within seconds. The platform is easy to work with,very reliable and contains all the functionalities which you should expect.

The support is remarkable and personal with Zoom calls whenever issues require further clarification to get resolved.

We highly recommend CraftmyPDF and give it a 5 star rating.
Martijn Crajé
Martijn Crajé Founder
I found CraftMyPDF to be extremely user-friendly. The template editor is very straightforward and easy to navigate.

I had a few questions while I was using the services and the support was responsive and very helpful.

Overall, I was very pleased with my experience using CraftMyPDF.
Iskender Emre Gül
Iskender Emre Gül Civil Engineer
The tools from CraftMyPDF are extensive and feature complete, making my day easier and my product more accessible in the marketplace.

I'm really impressed with the support I've received from this company. They are quick to respond and actually answer the question I asked.
E. Martin
E. MartinFounder
CraftMyPDF is a perfect tool to plug into our other no-code tools. It's easy to use and provide good results.

The main takeaway for us was the support, cheerful, fast, and dedicated. Really makes a difference. Thanks!
Victor N
Victor N CTO
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