My recommendation was always the Affinity suite. One-time reasonable purchase and it was great. Definitely not the engineer-designed UI this post complains about. One problem: Mac only. I have been corrected, it was cross-platform too!
But now, it’s free! And available for PC! Except it was acquired by the Canva people so they’re probably gonna fill it with subscriptions and slop soon. Bummer.
Supposedly their plan for affinity studio (the new free app) is to make money with the canva AI subscription and other canva things. If that stays true and affinity studio stays a free, fully featured app (aside from AI features), I’d be ok with that. I’d also be surprised.
My recommendation was always the Affinity suite. One-time reasonable purchase and it was great. Definitely not the engineer-designed UI this post complains about.
One problem: Mac only.I have been corrected, it was cross-platform too!But now, it’s free! And available for PC! Except it was acquired by the Canva people so they’re probably gonna fill it with subscriptions and slop soon. Bummer.
Affinity 1 and 2 were also on windows.
Supposedly their plan for affinity studio (the new free app) is to make money with the canva AI subscription and other canva things. If that stays true and affinity studio stays a free, fully featured app (aside from AI features), I’d be ok with that. I’d also be surprised.
I knew version 2 was on both platforms, but I don’t know the original one was too. TIL!