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New Affinity App - free for all and forever????

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Jam-on-toast

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Have you seen it??? I've just got the email and watched the video... downloaded the app and had a look... LOVE LOVE LOVE the fact that the interface is NOT that different from what it was... I never upgraded to the V2 - second generation - so am not familiar with the new features available to Affinity2 users, but this new app promises all of them and more... for free... forever. All you need is a free Canva account and you are good to go...

This sounds like a deal too good to be true... somebody pinch me!

And the sceptic in me softly whispers "What's the catch???"
 
They're calling it "Affinity Studio" and it **IS** free for everyone, forever!
(EXCEPT it's apparently not available in China according to their FAQs.)

Here's a video that talks about this newest release at YouTube

The people who created Affinity always intended to blend Affinity Photo (their version of Adobe Photoshop), Affinity Designer (their version of Adobe Illustrator), and Affinity Publisher (their version of Adobe InDesign) into a single app. And now they've done it! The desktop version is already available and the iPad version is coming soon.

I :beatingheart: LOVE:beatingheart: that they're making creative software available to everyone for free!
 
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I watched the Canva call yesterday and was just astounded at all of the new features, include the Affinity announcement. Pretty amazing stuff. So far, the only two things that have occurred to me that are/might be "catches" are:

(1) Most of the AI tools within the Affinity app will not be available unless you have a paid Canva account. That may or may not may not be important to you.

(2) Unlike the desktop apps, you'll need to be connected to the internet to use Affinity—which makes sense because of the integration with Canva and its AI tools. You can continue to use the desktop apps and you can edit docs created with the old Affinity in the new Affinity. But once you do so, those files are no longer backwards compatible — meaning you won't be able to the edited version in the desktop apps.
 
Vicki Robinson said:
(2) Unlike the desktop apps, you'll need to be connected to the internet to use Affinity—which makes sense because of the integration with Canva and its AI tools. You can continue to use the desktop apps and you can edit docs created with the old Affinity in the new Affinity. But once you do so, those files are no longer backwards compatible — meaning you won't be able to the edited version in the desktop apps.
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It is a desktop app. In the video he said that after the initial activation you would be able to work entirely offline in Affinity. I don't know if that also applies to the Canva AI extension - AI is pretty resource hungry.
 
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