Affinity, which offers great alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, is popular for its one-time payment for a lifetime, as opposed to monthly recurring payments for Adobe ...

Microsoft is undergoing major shifts as the tech giant looks to redesign its suite of products by adding premium features and incorporating AI in existing tools like the Paint app. The evolution has ...

What if you could transform your entire creative workflow with just one update? That’s exactly what Affinity promises with its biggest update ever, a bold leap forward that’s turning heads across the ...

After acquiring Serif last year, Canva has overhauled its Affinity design suite, consolidating three creative tools into a single free app for Mac and Windows. The newly launched Affinity by Canva ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Serif’s Affinity suite – a powerful rival to Adobe’s ...

The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...

The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps' developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a ...

The popular three Affinity design apps on Mac and Windows both have been scrapped, as Canva combines all previous functions into a single and completely free Mac app. Now that announcement and the ...

When graphic design platform-provider Canva bought the Affinity image-editing and publishing apps early last year, we had some major questions about how the companies’ priorities and products would ...

Last year Canva reworked its user experience and tools in a full-frontal attack on the productivity and enterprise markets now dominated by Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. Now the Australian ...

October 30, 2025 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Adobe just wrapped up its Max keynote, which means its time for its biggest free competitor to announce its own ...

If you’ve ever wanted to use Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, and Affinity Designer 2 on your iPad, but never got around to buying them, now’s your chance. These three apps are now free, but ...