Canva quietly dropped a bombshell at the launch of the company’s Johannesburg office on Tuesday: the design giant is seriously considering porting its Affinity creative software to Linux. There’s no ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graphic design platform Canva has reconfigured Affinity as a professional design app that combines photo editing, vector design, and page layout tools in one platform, and is now “completely free for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...