Shortcut Canvas
Create images with Shortcuts
$0.99
Shortcut Canvas turns actions in the Shortcuts app into reusable image-building blocks.
Create a canvas, add rectangles and styled text, then render the result as a PNG or PDF file. Canvas-building actions return the Canvas used by the next action, keeping even multi-step workflows readable and composable. Pass the finished file directly to Quick Look, Save File, Share, Send Message, or another compatible action.
START WITH A TEMPLATE
Choose from 14 built-in designs: birthday and thank-you cards; calendar event, announcement, sale, and countdown cards; diplomas and certificates; quote cards and status badges; event tickets, business cards, recipe cards, and meeting agendas.
Customize templates inside Shortcuts instead of manually positioning every text item. Change meaningful text fields, choose one of six coordinated palettes, override individual background, surface, accent, and text colors with validated hex values or semantic colors, and disable the canvas background for transparent PNG output.
COMPOSE YOUR OWN
Choose the canvas dimensions, scale, background, persistence, and appearance. Add rectangles with fill, border, corner radius, opacity, rotation, and shadow. Add text with system font size, weight and design, color, alignment, wrapping, line limits, padding, background, opacity, and rotation.
PREVIEW THE REAL DOCUMENT
Every canvas created by a Shortcut appears in the companion app’s unified register with a real rendered thumbnail. Open it to inspect the same canvas rendering used for export, zoom from 25% to 600%, and export or share PNG and single-page PDF files.
LEARN BY EXAMPLE
Explore workflows for every built-in template plus step-by-step canvas compositions. The in-app Help reference explains action chaining, coordinates, colors, transparency, storage, and privacy.
LOCAL BY DESIGN
Shortcut Canvas requires no account and contains no analytics, advertising, networking, or third-party SDKs. Canvas documents and exports are handled in app-controlled storage. Files leave Shortcut Canvas only when you explicitly share them or pass them to another action.
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1.0.2
- Size presets in Create Canvas: social story, square post, portrait post,
landscape, YouTube thumbnail, or custom dimensions.
- Document management actions: Clear Canvas removes every node from a
canvas, Remove Last Node undoes the most recent addition, and Duplicate
Canvas copies a document with its complete artwork.
- New node actions: Add Ellipse draws circles and ellipses with fill,
gradient, border, and shadow; Add Line places straight dividers;
Add Progress Bar draws a bar for a 0–100 value; Add QR Code places a
scannable code encoding a text or URL value with foreground and
background colors; and Update Text replaces the content of a text node,
with optional new color or font size.
- Add Image places an image imported into the companion app — a new Import
Image button and imported-images list in the Canvases tab — with fit,
corner radius, tint, and opacity.
- Batch Render Canvases renders every saved canvas and bundles the PNG or
PDF exports into a single ZIP archive.
- Four new social-format templates with matching size presets — Story Post,
Portrait Post, Landscape Banner, and Video Thumbnail — bringing the
catalog to 18 templates and 21 bundled, editable Shortcut files.
- Share any canvas from its detail screen as a portable `.canvas.json`
document and re-import it from the Canvases tab to move artwork between
devices or installs without re-running the shortcut.
- Name search in the Canvases tab filters the register as you type and
matches untitled canvases by their fallback name.
- A light/dark preview switch in canvas detail to check both appearances
without changing the device.
The developer, Pawel Karpinski, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Pawel Karpinski
- Size
- 7.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paweł Karpiński
