Affinity Designer
The complete graphic design solution
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Our users have written 19 comments and reviews about Affinity Designer, and it has gotten 306 likes
- Developed by Serif Ltd
- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $20 and $50.
- Average rating of 4.2
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I've used adobe CS6 suite for the longest time, needed a new replacement program for handling vector files and doing light editing that I would normally do in paint.net. Mostly for creating simple graphics as well for webdesign.
I wanted something similar to Apple's Sketch since windows unfortunately didn't have any close equivalents. This is the closest thing to it
I would describe Affinity Designer as a mix of Apple Sketch and Illustrator, with Photoshop (Raster image tools) baked in. There's also a seperate program specifically for working with photos, that's called affinityphotos
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The problem with using illustrator is I didn't use it everyday, so sometimes I would forget all these quirky workflows when working with it, and it'd take far too long to get something done.
I was able to create simple graphics without looking at tutorials, its very intuitive.
It's lightning fast and a lot more simple than illustrator. It's loaded with tons a features. At this price you don't need to think twice!
Easy to use, almost as powerful as Adobe Illustrator but very cheap in comparison.
It's OK, has some features that are harder to achieve in Inscape, but Inscape has more features, Affinity Designer just looks great and is easier to use.
I don't like that when I used it, gradients were done using non-vector markup, a bitmap was embedded and that can create problems.
Also, I had some problems generating SVGs that Android Studio accepted as valid.
A fellow reviewer described it as Illustrator+Sketch, and I think this is right.
It has plenty of creative features, good typography controls and symbols and sketch-like constraints.
What I miss is an easier to use, sync and overwrite symbols for UI design (as e.g. in figma) and numerical controls for points (as e.g. in Corel Draw and Inkscape).
It is much cheaper than the products from Adobe with all the functionality needed for graphic design.
One-time payment.
Increasing community.