It says 1.10.8……so that’s the version.
Also if you ‘get info’ in finder it should show you.
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Affinity Suite no longer for sale...Is this the end?
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Also if you ‘get info’ in finder it should show you.
thanks, so far that program does what I need just add a white layers under 4 layers of cartooning on an M1!
I think I upgraded to V2 (meaning bought it again on the App Store… 🤪) when there where issues with ‘recent files’ not showing, and some other issues.
Its worthless once a company stops supporting it. You can use it as long as an OS upgrade doesn't break the app, or there's features that you need that are in the newer version.
I think people view the lifetime license with an attitude of 100% patching forever and I don't think that will ever happen. 1Password did that, i.e., no longer patching the old version. People were pissed, but I can see the logic from the company side.
This is very true… 👍
My cMP is stuck in time on Mojave (not interested in OC), so all perpetual software on it should keep working forever…😁
It's just 'fancy' naming for what used to be a regular old license like everybody used to offer. I think they didn't call it that in the Affinity V1 days either, it seems like something coined to separate it from subscriptions.
I guess I have an Adobe CS lifetime license too, come to think of it. Trying to make use of it however requires running a museum piece.
Affinity is announcing the next stage in their suite today. Think everyone will be pleasantly surprised by the announcement.
New Product Site
So haven't dug much in yet but:
Photo, Designer, & Publisher have been merged into 1 app with separate "studio" tabs for each.
Free (have to have a Canva account).
AI features require a Canva Premium subscription:
So haven't dug much in yet but:
Photo, Designer, & Publisher have been merged into 1 app with separate "studio" tabs for each.
Free (have to have a Canva account).
AI features require a Canva Premium subscription:
- Generative Fill, Expand, and Edit
- Generate Images and Vectors
- Remove Background and Subject Selection
- Colorize, Depth Selection, and Super Resolution
- Portrait Blur and Portrait Lighting
- Full AI generation history
Ding ding.
Now hope those folks with rose tinted glasses understand that last year’s campaign of cheap, “no subscription” and “no AI” were just marketing slogans.
$15 a month for the paid version is hot garbage considering you can get a few dozen much more professional and mature Adobe apps for around $30 a month if you catch the discount season like Black Friday sales.
I've purchased V1 and V2, will probably lay off upgrading to the new Affinity until I see further info. They did say that, while you had to create a new, free Canva account, "...you don't need to be online to use Affinity", my suspicion is that that "free" account might surreptitiously farm everyone's work to train their own AI.
On the other hand, if their new business model is to charge the pros for AI use and development/upkeep (which makes sense) and provide everything else to everyone else (some companies do this, like Sketchup, iirc, and SolidWORX) that would be a good thing.
I still haven't learned how to use V2 all that smoothly yet, and I may be under the sod before I see a need to upgrade (its possible they'll stop upgrading V2 to work with future OS's, but hopefully I'm good for a few more years at least.)
On the other hand, if their new business model is to charge the pros for AI use and development/upkeep (which makes sense) and provide everything else to everyone else (some companies do this, like Sketchup, iirc, and SolidWORX) that would be a good thing.
I still haven't learned how to use V2 all that smoothly yet, and I may be under the sod before I see a need to upgrade (its possible they'll stop upgrading V2 to work with future OS's, but hopefully I'm good for a few more years at least.)
PetaPixel just released an article about the release, and it eased a lot of my concerns.
https://petapixel.com/2025/10/30/af...olve-route-is-brilliant-and-a-proven-success/
https://petapixel.com/2025/10/30/af...olve-route-is-brilliant-and-a-proven-success/
There is always a catch with ‘free’ software, if you can’t use it without creating an account…..🤨
I downloaded the ‘free’ iPad Affinity Photo, only to find you need a Canva account to open it (so deleted).
I will continue with my V2 software (no login required).
I downloaded the ‘free’ iPad Affinity Photo, only to find you need a Canva account to open it (so deleted).
I will continue with my V2 software (no login required).
the pay is only to have AI, everything else that was paid for before is free. So you can use the affinity apps as you were before, just for free now
you make an account for everything, music, movies, forums, discord, almost everything needs an account, but it is too much for a free app? You could literally use a junk email account and continue using it.
They're going the Blackmagic route. Introduce great software, amazing out of the box, but with more gas in the tank if you want to pay a little more.
I downloaded it, having not used it before (Always been an Adobe or Pixelmator guy), and it runs smoothly, and is feature rich, with nothing locked away.
This is a bold strategy, but I can see it working well for them if they stay the course.
I downloaded it, having not used it before (Always been an Adobe or Pixelmator guy), and it runs smoothly, and is feature rich, with nothing locked away.
This is a bold strategy, but I can see it working well for them if they stay the course.
This is going to be huge for onboarding in-house marketing/advertising departments to the Canva ecosystem. And once the marcom teams go all-in, ad agencies and design firms will almost be forced to follow in some capacity.
This isn't going to kill Adobe, but I suspect it's going to put a rather large dent in the bottom line.
Aside from the Affinity app, some of the other announcements they made today were quite impressive... though I could have done without the stupid showmanship/presentation style.
This isn't going to kill Adobe, but I suspect it's going to put a rather large dent in the bottom line.
Aside from the Affinity app, some of the other announcements they made today were quite impressive... though I could have done without the stupid showmanship/presentation style.
It’s not going to touch Adobe. There’s no single feature in the Affinity app that matches what Adobe does especially when it comes to ease of use, speed, file compatibility and integration with video editing and compositing apps. Adobe’s software is probably the most pirated software of all time and pirates will hack even cheap software that costs nothing but needs a log in.
That’s coming from someone who is always vexed at Adobe bugs and bought Affinity 2. I seriously detest every time I tried Affinity’s apps. Everything feels like a wheel reinvented into a square but they were good at marketing towards people who believed Affinity was a “people’s revolution” who were never going to charge them a subscription.
Blackmagic is a primarily hardware company. It’s a futile comparison. Affinity can’t even work out what a right click is.
It is even clearly market on the download page that you need an account to use it.
yeah I can see a lot of non profits switching over to this. The software can easily handle what they do from data merge mailers and then your straightforward designs.
This is how I see them keeping the software free and not dropping things behind a paywall outside of AI. AI makes sense as it takes a lot of power to generate with AI so that can't be free. They will make their money through their eco system, getting people on board with that then the software is just icing on the cake. A lot of people do not see the bigger picture here but those are generally your hobbyists not making a living with the software.
Personally it is not an Adobe killer for me. We spend around $3K a month on our Adobe subscriptions and I love the software. I will be adding the Affinity software to our designers tool box though if they want to use it or find in some things it works better for them.