Affinity Photo

“Affinity is a great alternative to Photoshop that is free, although the new version 3 now checks your license when you run the app.”

“Affinity 2 was software you buy and install.”

“Affinity is in many ways even better version of Adobe suite, faster, more stable, allowing to be more creative.”

“a group of people sitting down to build a replacement for Illustrator (like e.g. Affinity)”

“They basically use it as funnel for people to buy Canva subscription (online sharing, ai features).”

“the best we've ever gotten is Affinity allowing some shortcut editing and it partially working under Wine”

“Happily paying Affinity user here. It took a little getting used to but I haven’t used Photoshop in YEARS.”

“it took me no time to adapt from Photoshop + Wacom tablet to Affinity Photo + Wacom tablet”

“most of the time I reach for Affinity Photo V1 just because it will launch faster”

“V3 is just so much slower than V2, nevermind V1, and it's using a lot more system resources now”

“i personally like affinity better than the FOSS photoshop alternatives, mostly for UX reasons”

“Affinity lets you customize each Studio and the overall UI to your heart's content”

“the whole point of me buying Affinity was that I could open the same project on iPad and Windows”

“They made everything that already existed in Affinity free without any catches.”

“Just download Affinity for free, find a nice font and color palate, and put text on the page.”

“I do agree that Affinity seems to get some traction, but they're practically funded by an AI company”

“Wine does support Affinity now, if your Adobe muscle memory isn't a personal law of physics.”

“I enjoy using Affinity, especially the updated version after it was acquired by Canva.”

“Let's do it in a way that it will make no sense to someone who has used PS for decades”

“There have been some good alternatives mentioned in the comments here, like Affinity or Photopea.”

“Photoshop alternatives already exist and are cheap or free, like Affinity.”

“magazine or newspaper or leaflets or brochures layout that can be profesionally made with Affinity or InDesign”

“It is a massive SDK though (thousands of functions; feel free to poke around with it; Affinity is free)”

“I happily paid for their software as it's worth what they were charging for and not subscription based.”

“I bought Affinity Photo at one point, when it was $50. Then I tried to use it for a work project where I needed to do a minor edit to 150 photos.”

“I don’t exactly love them, but they’re better than the unending nightmare you suffer with Adobe.”

“Their workflow, for my needs, would have made me take ~6hrs more time than the similar workflow in Photoshop.”

“I'm attached to my iPad and won't switch to Android in part because Affinity is not available there”

“Affinity just tried to copy Photoshop, positioning it as a worse but cheaper Photoshop”

“The Affinity team with Apple's resources could have made an amazing Adobe CC alternative for Mac users.”

“closest the Linux world ever was to get something decent in the design department”

“Professional awesome native tools (Office, Affinity series, Directory Opus, Visual Studio, AutoHotkey,...)”

“no way for me to have access to most creative apps (e.g. Adobe, Affinity) with GPU acceleration”

“They're roughly at the same level of functionality, and in some cases even better.”

“Works flawlessly and they recently upgraded the script to install Affinity 3.0.”

“Affinity's offerings might be 100x better, but they will never be "THE Photoshop"”

“Now that Affinity is free, you will have many more clients and small studios sending you material in their formats.”

“Something like for example Affinity should in a rational market eat at least half of Adobes customer base with their current offerings.”

“now it has to connect to the internet and take many seconds each time to "verify my license"”

“You can do great magazine design in Affinity, brochures, flyers, logos all that stuff.”