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Affinity is the only creative suite to include full-featured apps on macOS, Windows and iPad without compromize. All apps use exactly the same file format, providing you with a seamless workflow and everything you need to create, no matter where you are.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Affinity just sent out another email. Amongst other things, this includes a pledge to continue offering a perpetual licence.

Hmm, I hope so, but the temptation will be to price in a way that disincentives buying the product and pushes people into a subscription.

I will not be subscribing if they do.

Time will tell. Anyhow, here is what they have said:


The Affinity and Canva Pledge

By the Affinity and Canva Teams

We are committed to fair, transparent and affordable pricing, including the perpetual licenses that have made Affinity special.

We share a commitment to making design fairer and more accessible. For Canva, this has meant making our core product available for free to millions of people across the globe, and for Affinity, this has meant a fairly priced perpetual license model. We know this model has been a key part of the Affinity offering and we are committed to continue to offer perpetual licenses in the future.

If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. This fits with enabling Canva users to start adopting Affinity. It could also allow us to offer Affinity users a way to scale their workflows using Canva as a platform to share and collaborate on their Affinity assets, if they choose to.


[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Given the backlash I have seen in news comments sections, on the CEOs youtube message etc they pretty much has to add this. Companies as a rule always say nothing will change post acquisition, so largely meaningless.

Happy to keep using my purchased apps until such a point as a I need an alternative, but won't go the subscription route either and will probably not recommend them as an (at least not without caveats) as an alternative suite going forward.

Canva exists, Serif do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I ordered Designer for the first time last week. Love it so far but I really hope this doesn't lead to a live service model like their competitors. Seems like that is the way every company is going, hopefully Canva/Affinity can resist that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

hat the one time purchases of the software conti

Given how canva made their money you can pretty much guarantee they will. Because of Serif's point of difference (low price, non sub) it's ripe for them to enshittify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i guess i hope that the one time purchases of the software continues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If Affinity goes subscription I'm going to have to force myself to adapt to Gimp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Inkscape has been shaping up a lot recently, have you looked at it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

no I haven't but I will, thank you