Affinity Designer
Cross-platform design application for vector and raster graphics
- Also known as
- affinity-designer
Available worldwide
What is Affinity Designer?
Software for creating vector illustrations, editing photographs, and arranging layouts. Available free on macOS, Windows, and iOS.
Affinity Designer pricing
We don't have Affinity Designer's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Affinity Designer does
The capabilities that matter for design & creative software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Raster / photo editing
- ✓
- Vector illustration
- ✓
- DTP / page layout
- ✓
- Digital painting
- ✓
- Platform breadth
- Desktop (macOS, Windows) and mobile (iOS)
- CMYK / print production
- -
- PSD / AI import
- -
- Real-time collaboration / cloud
- -
- Generative AI features
- -
- Plugin / template ecosystem
- -
- Pricing model
- -
- Free / open-source available
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- iOS
- macOS
- Windows
Affinity Designer alternatives
Other design & creative software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Affinity PhotoProfessional photo editing without subscription costslow · 38%
- Affinity PublisherPage layout application combining typography, image editing, and vector graphics capabilitieslow · 4%
- CanvaAn online tool for creating and publishing visual designs without requiring specialized design skillsmedium · 73%
- darktablemedium · 60%
- PhotopeaBrowser-based image editor that processes files locally without uploadsmedium · 52%
- KritaFree and open-source digital painting software designed for professional and amateur artistshigh · 76%
Compare Affinity Designer
Side by side against other design & creative software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Affinity Designer, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price level | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.04 | 3.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Dtp layout: Yes · Free available: Yes · Raster editing: Yes · Digital painting: Yes · Platform breadth: Desktop (macOS, Windows) and mobile (iOS) · Vector illustration: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-16 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: GB · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-16 · 75% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-16 · 75% |