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.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So they’re planning to hook people in with freebies then boil the frogs a little slower.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      So they’re planning to hook people in with freebies then boil the frogs a little slower.

      If you never pay a dime anyway, it’s kinda irrelevant how much the AI features cost, no?

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Sometimes companies gradually reduce the usefulness of the free product to incentivize people to pay. They may do this.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Sometimes companies gradually reduce the usefulness of the free product to incentivize people to pay.

          If they’ll at some point revert to the old Affinity business model, there is really not a downside, isn’t it? Pay for Affinity and get to use Affinity is what V1 and V2 already did. But the comment by Neon Nova was about the pricing of Canva’s AI service and the cost of that is completely irrelevant to “traditional” Affinity users because we’re not interested in that feature anyway and – at least right now – they rule out any subscription model for Affinity itself.

          They may do this.

          Well, that’s speculation and reduction of the Affinity feature set is a completely different matter anyway. While I’m not fully on board with the GUI changes – changing canvas size has been moved to a weird sub menu, for example – but in my view I got a major upgrade for free that also reduced the disk footprint from 9GB to 3GB (Mac version, didn’t look at the size on Windows before uninstalling V2). So at this very moment it’s a useful upgrade for people who used V2 anyway.