If you’ve ever tried using ChatGPT or Midjourney to whip up a presentation slide or social media post, you know the pain. The output looks great — until you realize you can’t move a single text box, swap a color, or resize anything without starting over. It’s a pretty picture trapped in a PNG jail.
That’s exactly the problem [Moda](https://moda.app/) is going after, and honestly, the approach feels like a breath of fresh air. Instead of spitting out flat images, Moda generates fully editable designs — slides, posters, ads, social posts, diagrams — where every element lives on its own layer. Text is real text. Shapes are actual shapes. You can drag things around, recolor them, resize them, just like you would in Figma or Canva. The difference is that an AI designed the whole thing for you in seconds.
Under the hood, the team built a custom WebGPU-powered canvas from scratch, which explains why it feels snappy rather than laggy. And the export options are solid: PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, PDF, PNG, JPG — basically whatever your workflow needs.
Moda [launched on Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/moda-2) on February 18 and quickly climbed to #2 Product of the Day with over 500 upvotes and nearly 80 comments. That kind of traction makes sense when you consider the founder — [Anvisha Pai](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anvisha/) previously built Slab (which hit #1 Product of the Week) and co-founded Dover, so she clearly knows how to ship products people want.
What I appreciate most is that Moda doesn’t try to replace your existing tools. You can generate something, tweak it to your liking, then export it straight into your slide deck or design pipeline. It’s free to start with 1,000 AI credits, which is enough to create a decent number of assets before you have to think about paying.
Is it perfect? Probably not yet — it’s still early. But the core idea of “AI-generated designs that are actually editable” is so obviously right that I’m surprised it took this long for someone to nail it. Worth keeping an eye on.
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