Affinity Photo is now Affinity
After nearly a month of hype on Facebook, Affinity has announced that all three of its apps, Photo, Designer, and Publisher will now be incorporated into a single, completely free app.
The new Affinity app will be free to use, but requires a free Canva account to get started. If you want access to AI-powered features within Affinity, you’ll need a Canva Pro subscription, currently priced at $15 per month or $120 per year. Initial reactions on the Affinity Facebook page were mostly positive. However, around 12 hours later, I noticed a shift towards more negative opinions. Several posters commented and raised concerns about the Canva End User License Agreement (EULA), which you can review yourself on the Canva website.
It was also interesting to learn that the app requires a 3.5 Gb install, and there have already been several reports of crashes, freezing, and repeated installation attempts.
I'm now retired officially but still work for Church, Charity and voluntary organisations on a pro bono basis, the one thing I can't afford is to have subscriptions going out each month, so I won’t be switching to the new Affinity app. I already own a current Version 2 (which I purchased for just £33 during an Affinity deal last year, see this blog post). For background removal, one of the new AI features in Affinity which would require the Pro account, I use Pixelmator Pro and Luminar Neo. For other creative tasks, I rely on Apple Pages, Laughingbird Software, and Swift Publisher for my design and publishing needs.
The new Affinity app will be free to use, but requires a free Canva account to get started. If you want access to AI-powered features within Affinity, you’ll need a Canva Pro subscription, currently priced at $15 per month or $120 per year. Initial reactions on the Affinity Facebook page were mostly positive. However, around 12 hours later, I noticed a shift towards more negative opinions. Several posters commented and raised concerns about the Canva End User License Agreement (EULA), which you can review yourself on the Canva website.
It was also interesting to learn that the app requires a 3.5 Gb install, and there have already been several reports of crashes, freezing, and repeated installation attempts.
I'm now retired officially but still work for Church, Charity and voluntary organisations on a pro bono basis, the one thing I can't afford is to have subscriptions going out each month, so I won’t be switching to the new Affinity app. I already own a current Version 2 (which I purchased for just £33 during an Affinity deal last year, see this blog post). For background removal, one of the new AI features in Affinity which would require the Pro account, I use Pixelmator Pro and Luminar Neo. For other creative tasks, I rely on Apple Pages, Laughingbird Software, and Swift Publisher for my design and publishing needs.
