Affinity Goes Free, but “Free” Comes at a Price

Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial rock, you have undoubtedly seen the news about the Affinity suite of applications. Having being bought by Canva, the applications were just relaunched as a single super app featuring all three of the previous programmes: Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity publisher. Not only that, but Canva has decided to give this suite away for free. Needless to say, this has sparked a lot of … let’s call it “conversation” online, with some people welcoming the move and others suspicious about it. as there is a lot of commentary out there, much of it overly hyperbolic, I wanted to address two main areas of the discussions. The first that this is going to “Kill” Adobe, and the second, what it means that Affinity is now “Free”.

I have a fairly lengthy article about this over on my designtography blog because it’s only tangentially photography related (due to the former Affinity Photo). While this is paywalled on Medium, I will publish the full version here in a little while. For now, to read the full story click on the link below