How to install Microsoft Designer as an app on Windows 11

Microsoft Designer is a web-based image-editing tool that uses AI to help you create many types of graphics, posters, presentations, and more on Windows 11, 10, macOS, or Linux. You can use it for virtually anything, but the company designed it to help content creators quickly create images that they can share on social media and other channels.

You can design your images manually using the available tools and images. However, the Designer app shines with the DALL-E 2 integration, which is an AI technology from OpenAI that translate text into an image. This means that similar to the Bing Image Creator app, you can ask the AI to generate an image automatically. In addition, the Designer app can also provide suggestions, generate captions and hashtags, create animated visuals, backgrounds, text transitions, and more.

Although this is a web app doesn’t have a dedicated desktop application, you can always install the Microsoft Designer experience as a Progressive Web App (PWA) on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

A progressive web app (PWA) is a technology that enables you to install a website as a native app on your computer. This approach offers numerous benefits, such as offline functionality, notifications, automatic updates, easy installation and uninstallation, and other features. However, it’s the developer’s decision to incorporate these functionalities into the PWA.

In this guide, you will learn how to install (and uninstall) the Designer app as a PWA on Windows 11.

Install Microsoft Designer on Windows 11 from Chrome
Install Microsoft Designer on Windows 11 from Edge

Install Microsoft Designer on Windows 11 from Chrome

To install Microsoft Designer as a web app with Chrome, use these steps:

Open Google Chrome.
Open Microsoft Designer (web).
Click the Customize and Control (three-dotted) button in the top-right corner.
Select the More tools menu and choose the Create shortcut option.
Check the “Open as a window” option.
Click the Create button.

Once you complete the steps, Google Chrome will install the progressive web app (PWA) version of Microsoft Designer on Windows 11. Also, the app will be available from the Start menu.

Uninstall Microsoft Designer from Google Chrome

To uninstall Microsoft Designer from Chrome, use these steps:

Open Google Chrome.
Open this settings page:
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chrome://apps
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Right-click the Microsoft Designer and select the “Remove from Chrome” option.

You can also uninstall the Microsoft Designer from Settings > Apps > Apps & features, selecting the app and clicking the “Uninstall” button. Or, from the Start menu, right-click the app, and select the “Uninstall” button.

Install Microsoft Designer on Windows 11 from Edge

To install Microsoft Designer on Windows 11, use these steps:

Open Microsoft Edge.
Open Microsoft Designer website.
Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button in the top-right corner.
Select the Apps submenu.
Click the “Install this site as an app” option.
Click the Install button.

Once you complete the steps, the progressive web app (PWA) version of Microsoft Designer will install and will be available from the Start menu.

Uninstall Microsoft Designer from Microsoft Edge

To remove Microsoft Designer from Windows 11, use these steps:

Open Microsoft Edge.
Click the Settings and more (three-dotted) button in the top-right corner.
Select the Apps submenu and choose the View apps option.
Click the More settings (three-dotted) button in the top-right corner and select the “Manage apps” option.
Under the “Installed apps” section, click the Details button for the app.
Click the Uninstall button.
(Optional) Check the “Also clear data from Microsoft Edge” option.
Click the Remove button.

You can also uninstall the Bing app from Settings > Apps > Install apps, selecting the app and clicking the “Uninstall” button. Alternatively, from the Start menu, right-click the app, and select the “Uninstall” button.