Affinity Designer 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Affinity Designer

4.7

(454)

Pricing

Starting at $1,949.00 one time

About Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer is a graphic designing and UX solution that helps businesses create concept art, logos, icons, UI designs, print projects and mock-ups, among other illustrations. It enables web designers to build and preview gradients, adjustments, effects, transformations and curve edits in real-time.

Affinity Designer allows staff members to utilize keyboard shortcuts, track version history and save designs in multiple file formats, such as PSD, PDF, SVG and JPG. The built-in vector tools let employees use custom pens, nodes, brushes and pencils to add contours, create abstract shapes and design offset paths. It enables team members to build grid patterns, create isometric planes, manage pixel snapping and handle alignments. Additionally, it lets users handle multiple objects, organize layer groups, tag colors and utilize live outline views.

Affinity Designer allows organizations to create linked symbols with detached attributes and manage multiple versions. It is available on a perpetual license and support is extended via email, forums, documentation and other online measures.

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Affinity Designer Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,949.00 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$4,999.00

flat rate, one time

Plan includes:

16 and 32-Bit RGB
Advanced Grids
AI
CMYK
Continuous Slice Export
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
EXR
ICC Profiles
JPG
Linked Symbols and Constraints

Plan 2

$1,949.00

flat rate, one time

Plan includes:

Advanced Grids and Guides
Boolean Operations
CMYK
Combining Vector and Raster Graphics
Grayscale
LAB and Rgb32
Multiple Artboards
Multiple Professional Formats (EPS
PSD and PDF X)
Rgb16

Popular features found in Graphic Design
Collaboration Tools
Content Library
Custom Fonts
Design Management
Pattern, Color & Art Storage
More features of Affinity Designer
2D Drawing
CAD Tools
Data Import/Export
Document Storage
Drag & Drop
For Websites
Image Editing
Image Library
Multiple Format Support
Preview Functionality
Search/Filter
Templates
Text Editing

Affinity Designer Integrations

Affinity Photo

Integration rated 4.9 from 36 reviews

Affinity Publisher

Integration rated 4.9 from 24 reviews

Adobe Photoshop

Affinity Designer User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

76%

22%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Stephen E.

Verified reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Affinity Designer Review

The software makes graphic desight effortless for me.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its user-friendly features and its a affordability.

Cons:

Its a great software, I love everything about it.

Frank S.

Verified reviewer

Public Relations and Communications

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Perfect for a wide range of graphic tasks in a marketing agency environment

I was looking for a tool to do my entire design - from print materials to social media URL preview images. It covers it all and is easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Pricing for what you actually get on functionality.

Cons:

Some minor issues on figuring out how to set up the studio.

Reasons for switching to Affinity Designer

No vector capability at that time and a pricing incentive.

Chris D.

Verified reviewer

Design

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Excellent replacement to Adobe Illustrator

This app has become an invaluable tool in my workflow.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 5

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Previously 5

Pros:

This app is great for creating graphics, logos, icons, and shapes. It has a great type tool that can be used for artistic text or blocks of text. It offers graphics creation for vectors as well as raster graphics.

Cons:

The way that layers are arranged or not arranged can be frustrating. It is merely a learning curve, though.

Marcus S.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2024

Breath of fresh air for design products

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Full-featured suite that reminds me of the way Adobe products used to work prior to subscriptions and feature bloat.

Cons:

Some features are still missing, but I’m hopeful they will arrive with the Canva merger.

Reasons for switching to Affinity Designer

Cost, ongoing frustration, feature requirements.

Drijen S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

A perfect replacement for Adobe

I was looking for an alternative to the Adobe suite, which have been great, but obviously expensive as I needed to pay each month. I heard about Affinity range (Photo, Designer and Publisher) and thought I should try them out. Of course, as with anything there were concerns about moving to a new platform, compatability etc, so I stayed with Adobe for a few more months which I became more familiar with Affinity. After a few years of using Designer, I am not missing Illustrator The layouts are almost identical, the tools are almost the same. The one thing I miss is the vector tracing, but apart from that I'm happy to have made the switch

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Feature rich, One time payment (vs subscription), easy to use (coming from Adobe Illustrator)

Cons:

Missing integration with Adobe fonts, text distortion tools, vector tracing

Reasons for switching to Affinity Designer

One-time payment vs Monthly cost, recommended by others

Kade M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Games

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Affinity Designer is an Excellent Must-Have Design Toolkit for any Designer/Artist/Developer

So far I really love it, very easy to use and very fun to play with despite the confusion of trying to understand and learn this new design software which I feel is worth its value.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really love how easy it is to just jump right in and start using it with a lot of useful creation tools, profiles, and more. There is a lot of useful functions, brushes, text, designs, shapes and such crammed into it.

Cons:

Not very friendly to 3d Artists and Game Developers in my opinion. The software is somewhat confusing compared to others so I am stuck having to learn something new since it doesn't follow traditional methods which might not be such a bad thing aside from the confusion of trying to use it more due to the different toolset profiles. It also appears to lack filters and affects so that means I would have to use, create, or go get another software to use alongside it and I was really hoping to have an all-in-one tool. This has left me with a design of getting Affinity Photo or going back to Krita.

Reasons for switching to Affinity Designer

Krita is good but I kept running into random crashing/lagging issues which left me with no choice but to use other software at times and I found it to be rather annoying for that reason after dealing with it constantly.

Steve K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Great alternative the Adobe Illustrator

I use a lot, especially when designing stuff for softball t-shirts or for laser engraving.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great set of features and sensible pricing, updated regularly

Cons:

Sometimes doesn't export how you'd expect in all formats

Reasons for choosing Affinity Designer

It works and got used to the workflow, works in the same fashion for all Affinity products (Photo, Publisher)

Reasons for switching to Affinity Designer

When they went cloud and subscription based, Affinity products are a one off fee

Abraham C.

Verified reviewer

Mining & Metals

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Best Alternative for Adobe Illustrator

Overall, I am very happy with this app because I can finally work on vectors and graphic designs without worrying about monthly fees. It is so cheap and powerful. This is definitely the best alternative for Adobe Illustrator.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I was an avid user of Adobe Illustrator before they changed into a subscription model. When I learned about Affinity Designer, I grabbed it immediately without second thoughts. It works great and has all the features and tools I need for my work and business. You just have to pay once and you get all future updates for life! Also, their mobile app comes free after your purchase. How cool is that? The app can be used on desktops and/or tablets. I have tried it on my iPad Pro and it's really fun to use, though I'd still prefer working on a computer. The price is so cheap and hard to beat. I will never look back after using this software for almost 5 years. I am now a fan and I highly recommend this app.

Cons:

There is nothing to dislike with this software. I never had any issues or crashes so far. I love it!

Reasons for switching to Affinity Designer

I made the switch because of pricing. Adobe charges monthly while in Affinity Designer, you just have to pay once and it is yours for life! Also, everything is pretty the same, the functionality and tools. Switching to this app is pretty straightforward.

Alexandre T.

Verified reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2021

The best design software ever

- Fast development for my customers - For any visit card design or else, it's very immersive

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've been using affinity for about 3 years. It's soooo easy so great and mostly, SO QUICK ! I love designing with this software ! User experience is very cool, the customization is amazing. And the price it's like we give it to you ! I can only recommend that software !

Cons:

Sometimes, I need to go to Illustrator for some specific features such as color overall management or width modification. Anyway, there are a lot of innovative feature on Illustrator that i'd love to see on affinity.

Reasons for choosing Affinity Designer

Better UX Less expensive User friendly Immersive Beautiful Ease of use Very quick

Reasons for switching to Affinity Designer

For the features listed above

Tossoukpe J.

Verified reviewer

Events Services

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Great tool

Great tool, price is excellent and very competitive regarding the market and everything the software can do

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a powerful tool. I wa sinterested abut it because there was an offer for the entire Affinity Suite, and i really like this tool. I don't create that much design with edit but i edit a lot of them with it and it'es an excelelnt tool

Cons:

Pretty hard to assimilate but as it shares a lot in common with Affinity Photo which is great when learning.

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