Canva Brings Free All-in-One Affinity App to iPad

Canva contiguous released Affinity for iPad, bringing its escaped all-in-one plan app to Apple's tablet, on with a caller Sketch Studio built for interaction and Apple Pencil.


The merchandise follows past year's desktop app relaunch, which combined the antecedently abstracted Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher apps into a azygous app for Mac and Windows. Canva had promised an iPad mentation successful 2026, and says the desktop app has since attracted much than 7 cardinal sign-ups.

The iPad app brings sketching, vector graphics, photograph editing, and leafage layout unneurotic successful 1 interface. Users tin power betwixt Sketch, Vector, Pixel, and Layout studios portion moving successful the aforesaid .af file, which tin besides beryllium opened connected desktop.

Sketch Studio adds freehand drafting with a customizable brushwood library, portion Sketch to Shapes turns hand-drawn forms into editable vector shapes. Photo tools see RAW editing, non-destructive adjustments, and a Mask Tool designed to assistance hint hard edges specified arsenic hairsbreadth and fur with Apple Pencil. Elsewhere, layout tools enactment multi-page documents, maestro pages, and print-ready output.

Canva says the interface has been designed specifically for iPad alternatively than scaled down from the desktop app. As for Apple Pencil Pro support, it includes tube roll, squeeze, and hover, alongside unit and tilt controls.


The halfway sketching, vector, photo, and layout tools are escaped for individuals, but a escaped Canva relationship is required to usage the app. The lone paid-for features are the AI tools, which are locked down a Canva premium program – continuing the attack introduced with 2025's desktop relaunch.

The paid features are disposable done Canva AI Studio and see Generative Expand, representation upscaling, sound reduction, and Decompose Layer, which splits a level representation into editable layers.

Despite the shared record format, immoderate desktop features are missing from the iPad mentation astatine launch. Affinity's website lists Books, Batch, Data Merge, Quick Adjustments, Info and Scope panels, macro recording, and Astrophotography Studio among the omissions, with much features planned implicit time.

Affinity by Canva is available connected the App Store arsenic a escaped download with in-app purchases and requires iPadOS 18.0 oregon later.
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