Canva`s acquisition of Affinity brings free, professional-grade design software to everyone. Explore powerful, customizable tools for creators and designers. When Canva announced its acquisition of ...

The popular Affinity app from Canva is now free forever, combining its photo editing, vector design and page layout tools into one powerful, professional-looking app. Announced on October 30th, 2025, ...

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 ...

Canva today unveiled the all-new Affinity, a single, high-performance creative studio combining photo editing, vector design, and page layout. For the first time, Affinity is completely free, giving ...

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 ...

Serif’s Affinity suite was already an audacious land-grab. It challenged Adobe’s increasingly spendy Creative Cloud subscription by making pro-grade photo editing and design tools more accessible ...

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 ...

Affinity is now free for all One app for Photo, Designer, and Publisher Canva's premium subscribers also get AI tools inside Affinity Affinity is now free. You read that right. No catch, no charge - ...

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 ...

Three Affinity apps now free on the App Store There's no official announcement and might not last Removing prices comes ahead of a secret announcement on October 30 Affinity Designer, Photo, and ...