Canva Relaunches Affinity as Free All-in-One Design App

After acquiring Serif past year, Canva has overhauled its Affinity plan suite, consolidating 3 originative tools into a azygous escaped app for Mac and Windows.


The recently launched Affinity by Canva unifies vector, photo, and layout capabilities that were antecedently dispersed crossed abstracted Designer, Photo, and Publisher apps. So alternatively of juggling aggregate apps, users tin present power betwixt the 3 modes done dedicated Vector, Pixel, and Layout tabs wrong 1 interface.

The redesigned app includes a customizable workspace wherever creators tin premix tools from antithetic studios, rearrange panels, and prevention aggregate setups for circumstantial task types. Custom configurations tin besides beryllium shared with teams and communities for standardizing workflows.

Following Canva's 2024 acquisition of Serif, the integration brings immoderate different changes that mightiness springiness longtime Affinity users pause. Everyone present needs a Canva relationship to entree the software, but signing up is free. Canva premium subscribers besides get AI tools straight wrong Affinity, including Generative Fill, Expand & Edit, and Remove Background features.

In a wide bid to rival Adobe, Canva's determination to vessel the app for escaped is apt to beryllium a invited astonishment for users who feared a subscription exemplary was looming. "There's nary catch, nary stripped-back version, and nary gotchas," said Ash Hewson, CEO of Affinity, commenting connected the launch. But portion Affinity insists the halfway app volition stay escaped without restrictions, the relationship request and AI upsells awesome a freemium approach. Whether longtime users volition admit trading a one-time acquisition for ongoing Canva integration remains to beryllium seen.

An iPad mentation is planned for merchandise adjacent year, and existing Affinity V2 licence holders tin proceed utilizing their purchased bundle if they similar to instrumentality with the older exemplary without the Canva integrations. Affinity tin beryllium downloaded from the Affinity Studio website.
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