The Affinity Apps are now free?! Graphic design software for content creators

From Build A Presentation Muscle : Showcase Your Expertise Through Content Creation by John Lacey

November 2, 2025 · 2 min

About this episode

John Lacey discusses the exciting news that the Affinity suite of apps is now free and highlights their functionality for content creators.

Free is one of my favourite price points and, boy, do I have some exciting news for you! Hi, I'm John Lacey and this is Build A Presentation Muscle, the podcast about showcasing your expertise through content creation. I don't know if you're familiar with the Affinity suite of Apps but they consisted of: Affinity Designer - for vector image creation Affinity Photo - for raster image editing Affinity Publisher - for desktop publishing They were available to purchase for a one time fee. In a world where so much software now requires a monthly subscription, this was HUGE, and this software is genuinely super powerful and useful. Affinity actually removed the ability to purchase the apps from their website and a lot of people feared the worst. But much to my surprise, they've returned with a single app that combines all of this functionality and they have made it completely free. You will need a Canva account to use the software —Affinity were acquired by Canva some time ago— but you can use a free Canva account. Paid Canva users will get some additional AI functionality but as someone who doesn't love AI, I can definitely live without this. I purchased the version 2 suite back in…

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Host: John Lacey

Topics covered

graphic design
content creation
software
Affinity apps
Canva
free tools

Keywords

Affinity
Canva
graphic design software
content creation
free apps
Affinity Designer
Affinity Photo
Affinity Publisher

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Organizations: Affinity, Canva

Products: Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, Affinity suite of Apps, Affinity app