Ash Hewson is CEO of Affinity, part of Canva. When I announced at Canva World Tour in October that the all-new, professional-grade Affinity would become completely free, the design world reacted with ...

Canva quietly dropped a bombshell at the launch of the company’s Johannesburg office on Tuesday: the design giant is seriously considering porting its Affinity creative software to Linux. There’s no ...

Affinity is a powerful creative application that offers photo and image editing capabilities, vector design, and page layout features, all in a single app, and feature-wise it’s easily able to compete ...

What if you could transform your entire creative workflow with just one update? That’s exactly what Affinity promises with its biggest update ever, a bold leap forward that’s turning heads across the ...

Creatives and brand marketers now have a new option for their design toolkits, with the launch of the all-new Affinity: a professional design app that combines photo editing, vector design, and page ...

The popular Affinity app from Canva is now free forever, combining its photo editing, vector design and page layout tools into one powerful, professional-looking app. Announced on October 30th, 2025, ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

After acquiring Serif last year, Canva has overhauled its Affinity design suite, consolidating three creative tools into a single free app for Mac and Windows. The newly launched Affinity by Canva ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Serif’s Affinity suite – a powerful rival to Adobe’s ...

What’s happened? Canva just dropped a bomb on the design world: Affinity, once a paid pro design suite, is now free forever. The move marks Canva’s loudest challenge yet to Adobe, arriving alongside ...

The market for high-end graphic design software just got weirder. Several years ago, I wrote “Consider Switching from Creative Cloud to Affinity V2” (5 December 2022) to encourage those who were ...