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popularNervousMeerkat posted Yesterday 10:25 PM
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Affinity Design Suite Now Free Forever—Pro Tools at $0

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Affinity just went free—forever! All-in-one design suite now available at no cost

If you've ever wanted pro-level design tools without the Adobe price tag, this is your moment. Affinity (now owned by Canva) just dropped a bombshell: their entire suite is now a single, unified app—and it's completely free, forever

Here's the scoop:

What's included?

Vector design (formerly Affinity Designer)

Photo editing (formerly Affinity Photo)

Page layout (formerly Affinity Publisher)

All merged into one seamless app with tabs for Vector, Pixel, and Layout modes

Platforms supported:

Windows and macOS desktop

iPad version coming soon

Features:

Fully customizable UI

Native Canva integration

No stripped-down version—this is the full pro suite

AI tools are optional and gated behind Canva's paid plans, but the core app is free

Price:

$0.00. No subscription. No catch.

https://www.affinity.studio/download
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Affinity just went free—forever! All-in-one design suite now available at no cost

If you've ever wanted pro-level design tools without the Adobe price tag, this is your moment. Affinity (now owned by Canva) just dropped a bombshell: their entire suite is now a single, unified app—and it's completely free, forever

Here's the scoop:

What's included?

Vector design (formerly Affinity Designer)

Photo editing (formerly Affinity Photo)

Page layout (formerly Affinity Publisher)

All merged into one seamless app with tabs for Vector, Pixel, and Layout modes

Platforms supported:

Windows and macOS desktop

iPad version coming soon

Features:

Fully customizable UI

Native Canva integration

No stripped-down version—this is the full pro suite

AI tools are optional and gated behind Canva's paid plans, but the core app is free

Price:

$0.00. No subscription. No catch.

https://www.affinity.studio/download

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Today 12:58 AM
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ben_r_Today 12:58 AM
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Nothing is free... forever. Whats their angle here?
You do have to have a Canva account. Which I guess is also free to setup.
The AI tools are only available if you pay for a Canva Premium account.
Today 01:28 AM
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Jeffrey99Today 01:28 AM
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Wonder how the compared to Affiinity Designer 2. Was looking to upgraded on Black Friday if they have a sale.

Free sounds too good to be true.
Today 01:36 AM
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AG1802Today 01:36 AM
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Quote from ben_r_ :
Nothing is free... forever. Whats their angle here?
You do have to have a Canva account. Which I guess is also free to setup.
The AI tools are only available if you pay for a Canva Premium account.

I've been active on Canva since 2016. Close to when they started. Made 100+ projects at this point on their site. Cloud storage and project storage are genuinely free but agree good things don't last forever and I worry the direction they heard especially if bought out by Adobe, Google, or Microsoft. Just a scary trend in the industry but if somehow Canva can keep this up I'm all for it. The few times I contacted them in their early years got in touch with their executive team in Australia and they were a great company. With size things change though as we know
Today 01:59 AM
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GanglorToday 01:59 AM
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Quote from Jeffrey99 :
Wonder how the compared to Affiinity Designer 2. Was looking to upgraded on Black Friday if they have a sale.

Free sounds too good to be true.
They're not selling the previous versions anymore so you don't have much of a choice in the upgrade department.
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NervousMeerkat
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Today 04:23 AM
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Quote from ben_r_ :
Nothing is free... forever. Whats their angle here?
You do have to have a Canva account. Which I guess is also free to setup.
The AI tools are only available if you pay for a Canva Premium account.
I also smell something sus about it being free forever. But if its free now I can't complain
Today 05:01 AM
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tannersarmsToday 05:01 AM
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Quote from ben_r_ :
Nothing is free... forever. Whats their angle here?
You do have to have a Canva account. Which I guess is also free to setup.
The AI tools are only available if you pay for a Canva Premium account.
Are you suggesting a corporation would lie to us?
Today 07:28 AM
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CitizenToday 07:28 AM
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Quote from NervousMeerkat :
I also smell something sus about it being free forever. But if its free now I can't complain
Not necessarily. A lot of these graphics tools aren't ground-breaking anymore and open-source & free competitors already exist (GIMP, etc).

Plus, AFFINITY wasn't really profitable selling their software or anything.

I think a graphics AI company like CANVA really just needs freeware to onboard graphics users. And as long as ADOBE is hella expensive for most people who expect to pay $20/month for AI, not $60/mo for a design suite FOREVER ---- and yet ADOBE ALSO offers AI upgrades ---- then AFFINITY represents a good opportunity for CANVA to skim some users away from ADOBE while still offering effectively similar AI upgrades and upsells.

Most of ADOBES key benefits are really in the intelligence of its software. The bones of Photoshop etc arent really important, but they are all some users need. And they are all that new users and students look for.

This means that AFFINITY is a gateway to CANVA services.

Its actually a beautiful relationship. Its not like CANVA isn't profitable. Therefore, it can easily service AFFINITY updates (which lets face it, even Photoshop is basically the same from 20 years ago). While offering advanced functions for a price (which so does Adobe, in the form of credits for purchase).

I strongly appreciate CANVA/AFFINITY's model bc it gives the user a choice to buy AI use.

Whereas ADOBE Photoshop just locks people into subscriptions with forced AI credits even if you never use them. I actually hope this eventually forces ADOBE to make Photoshop free. Bc CANVA is extremely popular right now and the synergy of CANVA and AFFINITY if done correctly can strip away many Photoshop users.

Would love to see a similar partnership with Da Vinci Resolve & some of these newer video AI models.
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