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I decided to try Affinity Designer after several foreign colleagues told me that they had completely switched from Creative Cloud to Affinity for a simple reason: all the basic features that are used in 2D design and photography are available in Affinity for a one-time fee, not a subscription like in Creative Cloud. That is, a lifetime license to Affinity costs the same as a month's use of Adobe CC. It's a great savings in the long run. Affinity has a full suite of tools for creating graphic illustrations, logos, banners, and even UX elements. It can be used with a graphics tablet and even on an iPad. You can find a huge number of templates or brushes on the Internet, not as many as for Photoshop, but enough.

The main feature of Affinity is that it allows you to create vector and raster images, all in one.

Affinity Designer is compatible with Illustrator, Photoshop, SVG, Portable Document Format (PDF), and several other formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

From what I noticed, complex files can cause the software to become sluggish, even on high-end laptops. The transition from Adobe products can be tricky. Affinity also lacks some useful features like gradient maps, 3D effects, mockups, etc. There aren't too many tutorials available, and the customer service is not very responsive, so you have to rely on the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that there is no subscription and that you can just buy it and use it forever. It also has some polish to it that free competitors such as Inkscape lack. I like their focus on "non destructive" editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few powerful features that I have run into that are missing in Affinity Designer that are present in other similar software. The first is the inset/outset that is in Inkscape. It is also in Illustrator by some different name but basically lets you take a shape and "dilate" it outwards or inwards. There is a workaround for Affinity Designer, but it has been years, and at this point I don't think it will ever be included. The other is the ability to "flatten" a stack of shapes. This is something that illustrator can do that allows you to make sure you don't have any overlapping geometry or redundant lines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've created logos, website graphics, icons and more, and happily gave up the costly subscription to Adobe. It's very intuitive to use and export files of all sort, and we can open files from other editors like Illustrator and Photoshop when a designer sends them to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some things that were simple to do in Adobe products are not quite as simple in Designer. An example would be removing a background from a photo. Technically that should be done in Affinity Photo, but it's the same problem. Exporting isn't an exact science either. If you are sharing a file with someone who doesn't have Designer, you'll need to make sure what file type they need so you can export it properly. Importing and exporting can leave some strange artifacts from time to time. But they're pretty easy to fix. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Way less expensive than Illustrator with most of the same features. If you're currently using Inkscape like I was, it's more than worth the one-time price to move up to Affinity Designer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Controls are small, and there doesn't seem to be a way to increase their size. I've had some trouble working with vector shapes that seemed easier in Illustrator, but there's a steep learning curve so maybe I just need to spend more time in the tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After years of using Adobe products, Affinity Designer's modern take on the user interface and tool functions is a breath of fresh air. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one thing that I dislike most about Affinity Designer is that I did not know about it and start using it sooner! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adobe products are good but expensive and on a subscription-based model. Affinity is just as good, is a fraction of the cost, with a perpetual license. I use it for book covers, graphics design, and other ad pieces, nothing terribly demanding, but it works well, is as intuitive as it complex software can be, and is every bit as good as Adobe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really, nothing. It's like buying a car for $100 that works as well as a Nissan for $20,000. Each Affinity product is around $50 dollars. I can buy the whole suite for a perpetual license as I can for a single year of Adobe Cloud subscription and still have enough left over to buy a new refrigerator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are tired to pay monthly subscriptions to be able to illustrate this is for you, because you only pay once and unlok everything you need to make your designs with the same tools of adobe illustrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you are vey used to illustrator it will make some time to adapt to the interface, and maybe you will feel a little bit limited by the features, but only if you are very very used to illustrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I searched for a replacement of Intaglio, that has gone out of business. Adobe Illustrator is overkill for my needs, Affinity Designer has just the right combination of ease of use and functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No way to select objects based on characteristics (like all objects of the same color, or same stroke width). This is a major time saving functionality when editing plots, and it's unfortunate that Affinity Designer lacks it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the way it works with the other 2 Affinty apps. Not a subscription, like Adobe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not good enough compared to other people! ;) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Analogous to Illustrator with some excellent features that I feel work better at a much lower price point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some actions/commands could be made simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.