Affinity Designer
Affinity Designer
About Affinity Designer
Affinity Designer is a graphic design software, which helps creative professionals manage documents, create vector designs with gradients, blend modes, adjustments and effects, edit images, build artboards, and more using various built-in tools. The platform allows organizations to customize text topography and supports multiple image and vector file formats including EPS, PNG, TIFF, GIP, JPEG, PDF, SVG, and PSD.
Affinity Designer enables creative teams to add paragraph or character styles, frames, and ligatures to text, preview designs in standard or retina resolution, and create artboards of any size with screens, menus, and pages. Managers can set up column guides, isometric grids, and planes by defining spacing, sub-divisions, gutters, and angles, among other specifications. The application lets designers convert imported vectors, text, or primitives to editable curves, export artboards, and save stroke styles for future references. Organizations can also store design elements or assets to custom subcategories and utilize the corner tool to soften or round shapes and lines.
Affinity Designer helps users create customizable vector or raster brushes, configure tool behavior, and user interface (UI) settings according to requirements. Designers can also isolate, hide, rename, lock and merge layers, replicate symbols, and position objects based on specific values.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A perfect replacement for Adobe
Reviewed on 14/11/2023
I was looking for an alternative to the Adobe suite, which have been great, but obviously expensive...
I was looking for an alternative to the Adobe suite, which have been great, but obviously expensive as I needed to pay each month. I heard about Affinity range (Photo, Designer and Publisher) and thought I should try them out.
Of course, as with anything there were concerns about moving to a new platform, compatability etc, so I stayed with Adobe for a few more months which I became more familiar with Affinity.
After a few years of using Designer, I am not missing Illustrator The layouts are almost identical, the tools are almost the same.
The one thing I miss is the vector tracing, but apart from that I'm happy to have made the switch
Pros
Feature rich, One time payment (vs subscription), easy to use (coming from Adobe Illustrator)
Cons
Missing integration with Adobe fonts, text distortion tools, vector tracing
- Industry: Arts & Crafts
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Affinity Designer is an amazing program
Reviewed on 08/02/2024
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I love that you only have to pay for it once and you own it. No subscriptions, no hassles, I can learn at my own pace because there are no timelines. I love how much I’m learning I’m this program and how much it has helped me to design products I can then sell.
Cons
There is nothing I dislike about the program except the amount of time I need to have to invest in actually learning it. There are a lot of videos that even Affinity has put out to help you learn the program on all the different platforms.
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ProcreateReasons for Switching to Affinity Designer
I actually bought both Affinity Designer and Procreate. Procreate is kind of like Affinity lite. It can do a lot, but not as much. I do like owning both programs and there are no ongoing subscription costs.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A really great alternative
Reviewed on 17/09/2023
Pros
I really like the fact that Affinity is a one-time payment software. Unlike Adobe, it doesn't come with an annual subscription, and this factor plays a decisive role in my choice of software. Another of Affinity's strengths is their proximity to users. They attach a great deal of importance to user feedback.And of course, the software's functions are really intuitive and efficient.
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On the other hand, what I don't like is the performance, which is really low on Windows, even with a good configuration. The software is not optimised for Windows and you can feel it. That's one of the software's only faults for me, the performance. Version 2 of Affinity has added a huge number of new features. I hope that this point will be improved in the future.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Affinity Designer's a lifesaver!
Reviewed on 10/11/2024
Used to use Illustrator, but that was a right pain in the neck with the subscription fees. Much...
Used to use Illustrator, but that was a right pain in the neck with the subscription fees. Much more straightforward, this.
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Love how easy it is to use and how smoothly it runs. Affinity Designer's a lifesaver!
Cons
Had a bit of a kerfuffle finding tutorials and resources for it. Reckon the community could be a bit bigger.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great app for creating nice designs
Reviewed on 09/02/2024
It’s very economic and it does everything that a design needs so I really recommend it, especially...
It’s very economic and it does everything that a design needs so I really recommend it, especially to small businesses
Pros
I like the fact that it’s not a subscription but you pay it once and then have access forever. Also it has a lot of tools so you can create and personalize your design!
Cons
It a professional app so it’s not that intuitive, you have to look to a lot of tutorials and guides to fully use it
Affinity Designer FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Affinity Designer.Q. What type of pricing plans does Affinity Designer offer?
Affinity Designer offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: USD 4,999.00/one-time
- Free Trial: Not Available
Affinity Designer is offered across three pricing plans, outlined below. A free trial is available. Mac: $60.54 Windows: $60.54 iPad: $24.21 Licenses for businesses and educational institutions are also available on request.
Q. Who are the typical users of Affinity Designer?
Affinity Designer has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Affinity Designer support?
Affinity Designer supports the following languages:
English, German
Q. Does Affinity Designer support mobile devices?
Affinity Designer supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Affinity Designer integrate with?
Affinity Designer integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Photoshop
Q. What level of support does Affinity Designer offer?
Affinity Designer offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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