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Affinity Studio is now free (www.affinity.studio)
submitted 1 day ago by simple@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Yes, Affinity really is free. You can use every tool in the Pixel, Vector, and Layout studios, plus all of the customization and export features, as much as you want, with no restrictions or payment needed. If you’re on a Canva premium plan, you’ll also be able to unlock Canva’s powerful AI tools within Affinity.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve been a paying affinity customer for years, and I’m not signing up for Canva.

I get it’s “free”, but I’m sketched out.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not buying that it's free unless it's FOSS almost ever. Maybe it's just a "create an account so we can collect data on you" deal, but that still isn't free.

[–] BismuthYellow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yes, you have to create an account in Canva and turn off a bunch of tracking that is set on by default. There's even a record setting that is off at the time of me discovering it, but that just made me nervous.

I recently downloaded it to try it out but i'm thinking of just torrenting adobe tbh.