Switchboard Canvas Reviews

Switchboard Canvas is API driven, enabling you to connect it to your preferred no-code automation platform. This makes it easy to automate your image creation processes and workflows without needing to write any code.

You can anchor your image elements (background, product photos, CTA, etc.) within your image template and then programmatically scale images up and down while retaining your design layout (keeping every element in place and viewable).

Once you've got the basics down, you can dynamically generate images, translate any text into over 70 languages, add captions, change colors, and any data you want to be displayed.

And since it's API driven, you can output large quantities of images, saving a ton of time and effort by automating the image generation process. This has been an unfair advantage for my marketing agency.

So whether you need to create images that target different audiences, images for social media posts, product catalogs, websites, or even print materials, Switchboard Canvas is ready to help you.

As HypeLifeMedia said, "The Tool I Never Knew I Wanted !!!"

Switchboard Canvas is a great platform for creating visual content efficiently using API or no-code tools like Zapier.

It has a simple but easy-to-use UI, the quality of the outputs is amazing and I especially enjoy making images from my blog posts. I can't wait to try out images from Tweet and Canva implementation feature!

I just got tier 3 and I'm still playing around with it and Insomnia. So far, I'm impressed!

The only thing I'm concerned about is that I can't locate the remaining API requests per month. Even though I know for sure I will not need 1000 per month, it would keep me informed as it should. Also, please consider adding more tutorial posts on your blog that show Switchboard's flexibility, concepts, etc. similar to alternative BannerBear.

Thank you for providing the tool and the offer to the AppoSumo community!

It turns our that Switchboard does more that I thought. Like a lot more.

I thought "I can do more images at scale" and yes, Switchboard can help with that. But it does a lot of other things. With the API you can hook it up to anything to spit out images. But they already have integrations with Pabbly, Zapier, Airtable, and now they are even connected with Google Sheets!!! Two things that kind of standout that I think are possibly underrated/undernoticed, are the ability to resize without ruining the image, and thanks to the API functions you can do 70 different languages....like it is really easy. English>German>French? Just en/de/fr That easy. No more Google translate for you :-)

So all of that is awesome but there is at least one more thing that got me excited for it. You can make dynamic images. If you go check out Adams Twitter at @_adam_barker you can see that each day it updates and adds the avatars of the last 5 accts who followed him. Kind of cool right? Well you can do that with any on a website as well...check out his youtube video showing sports scores. You can make infographics with data that you can update from a G Sheet, you can update grpahic tables, etc. The possibilities go on and on, and some of them are really awesome.

Anyways I think Switchboard is a great product, the limits are awesome (5k-100kx the image sizes/month=a LOT of image generation), and the learning curve is not very steep. I mean I am an idiot and I am figuring it out, so clearly anyone can do it.

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I'm just getting into Switchboard Canvas and figuring it out, but my mind is spinning by the use case possibilities for this tool. For me, it's one of those inspirational AppSumo tools that you want to use just to see what you can create with it. In fact, I'd love to see more suggestions from the SBC team and other users on what they are using the tool for and maybe even a list of free / premium data sources that could be used with switchboard.

For inspiration alone I give it 5 Tacos! However, there is room for improvement on the canvas creator. Being a Photoshop based designer, here are a few things I'd like to see so far.

1. I'd like to see Crello, Deposit Photos, and Wave.Video (all previous AS deals) added as graphical input sources.
2. I'd like to see support for transparent PNG and GIF files from the graphic sources above along with Canva added to achieve more photoshop like layers.
3. There's only a rectangle tool. Please also add a line, circle, triangle / polygon creation tool.
4. When you round the corners of a rectangle, the stroke does not seem to follow the rounding. So, if you make a rectangle into a circle, the stroke is not a circle but instead a rectangle with slight rounding and the sides cut off.
5. Add drop shadow and outer glow.
6. Allow us to specify which area of photo will be shown no matter how the template is modified for the different layouts. For instance, if the subject is on the far right of a rectangular layout, and we make a square Instagram post they should still be in view slightly on the right side if they are selected to be locked on.
6. Please add a directory of dynamic data sources / API that can be used with this ( like the sports scores you mentioned in one of your videos )
7. Add a place for users to share their use cases or even post their templates.

The founder seems to be very active with this tool and I hope they keep it up. Even if nothing else is added, this is a very powerful tool, but I'm certain some suggestions above are already under consideration. You should get it no matter what...and be inspired by what you could do.

Most people who have blogs want to scale them to different languages at some point.

But there's a problem...

How are you going to get custom images made for your blog posts, in every language?!

You could hire a designer...

A translator...

And whoever else is needed...

Or, you could just get this!

I know what I'd prefer.