Design posters, flyers, social media graphics, and cards. Add text, images, and shapes on a drag-and-drop canvas. Export as PNG or JPG. Free, no watermark, 100% private.
Last updated: March 2026
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This free online poster maker gives you a full visual design editor right in your browser. Choose a canvas size — Letter, A4, Instagram Post, Instagram Story, Twitter Banner, or any custom dimensions — and start designing immediately. No account required, no downloads, no watermarks. Everything runs client-side using the Canvas 2D API, so your images and designs stay completely private.
Add text blocks and customize them with 15 web-safe fonts including Arial, Georgia, Impact, Verdana, Courier, Comic Sans, Trebuchet, Palatino, Garamond, and more. Control font size, color, bold, italic, underline, and text alignment. Upload images and position them anywhere on the canvas with drag-and-drop. Add shapes — rectangles, circles, lines, and triangles — with customizable fill colors and borders. Every element can be moved, resized with corner handles, and layered precisely.
Set your background to a solid color with the color picker, choose from 10 gradient presets (Sunset, Ocean, Purple, Forest, Fire, Night, Peach, Berry, Sky, Slate), or upload your own background image. To get started quickly, pick from 10 pre-built templates: Party Invite, Sale Flyer, Birthday Card, Business Card, Resume Header, Social Post, Event Poster, Menu, Quote Card, and Announcement. Each template sets up canvas size, background, and placeholder elements that you can fully customize.
The Layers panel shows every element on your canvas in stacking order. Reorder elements by moving them up or down, toggle visibility to temporarily hide elements, or delete items you no longer need. Click any layer to select it and jump directly to its properties. This makes managing complex designs with many overlapping elements straightforward.
Every action is tracked in a history stack of up to 50 steps. Use Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on Mac) to undo and Ctrl+Y (Cmd+Shift+Z) to redo. Save your current design to localStorage so you can close the browser and pick up exactly where you left off. Load your saved draft anytime — all elements, positions, backgrounds, and images are restored.
Download your finished design as a PNG at 1x resolution for web use, or at 2x resolution for print-quality output and Retina displays. Choose JPG for smaller file sizes with excellent quality. The export captures every visible element at full canvas resolution with no watermarks or branding of any kind.