

It’s not a mere port of the Mac version (on sale for $34.99), but a feature-complete illustration app that’s built from the ground up with touch in mind. Serif has taken full advantage of the iPad’s multi touch gestures in a way that allows users to pull off all sorts of quick shortcuts without delving deep into the app’s deep menu set. After using it, I can say that it is unequivocally one of the most impressive iOS apps I’ve ever used. Like Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer brings desktop-class high-level capabilities to iPad users. To celebrate, developer Serif is launching the app at a special $13.99 introductory price, a 30% discount off the full price. There's even a way to stitch multiple documents into a single book, although that's only available in desktop versions for now.With the resounding success and universal praise heaped upon last year’s launch of Affinity Photo for the iPad, it was only a matter of time before its companion app, the popular vector illustration tool, Affinity Designer, was brought to the platform.Īfter publishing a teaser almost a year ago to the day, Affinity Designer is making its iOS App Store debut. You can also create automatically repeating layouts and use a style picker. Affinity Publisher 2 now helps you add academia-friendly footnotes, endnotes and sidenotes.

Affinity Designer 2, meanwhile, adds non-destructive vector warping, a "knife" cutting tool, a shape builder and even tools for measuring lengths and areas.

Affinity Photo 2 now includes non-destructive RAW development, saved layer states, compound masks (that is, joining multiple masks together), live warping and live masks for elements like hue and luminosity ranges. Regardless of platform, you should see some meaningful upgrades. You now have all of the Affinity bundle on your tablet, and won't have to split your attention between your computer and iPad when it's time to design a page layout. The developer has released Affinity Version 2 apps that not only include major new features (more on those shortly), but the first edition of Publisher for the iPad. Serif is determined to make its Affinity suite a more practical alternative for creatives who'd rather not pay for an Adobe subscription - or use a conventional PC, for that matter.
