Ash Hewson is CEO of Affinity, part of Canva. When I announced at Canva World Tour in October that the all-new, professional-grade Affinity would become completely free, the design world reacted with ...

Have you ever wondered what separates a good design from a truly exceptional one? Often, it’s not just the creativity of the designer but their mastery of the tools at their disposal. Enter Affinity 3 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

What’s happened? Canva just dropped a bomb on the design world: Affinity, once a paid pro design suite, is now free forever. The move marks Canva’s loudest challenge yet to Adobe, arriving alongside ...

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 ...

And Canva really, really wants you to know that it’s completely free. And Canva really, really wants you to know that it’s completely free. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing ...

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 ...

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 ...