AFFINITY BY CANVA REVIEW: FREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Affinity by Canva is now a single, completely free app that merges Designer, Photo, and Publisher into one interface with Vector, Pixel, and Layout modes, plus optional Canva AI tools for paid users. Setup is simple and the software retains its strong tutorial support, robust vector and photo-editing features, non-destructive workflows, and comprehensive PDF export, while adding downloadable on-device ML models for tasks like object selection. Despite its refreshed packaging, it's largely the same Affinity suite users know, with no major losses, though it still lacks photo cataloguing tools and older Affinity files convert to a new .af format that legacy apps can't open.