Canva Acquires Design Platform Affinity

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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240325965656/en/

Canva, the world’s only all-in-one visual communication platform, today announced the acquisition of Affinity, the award-winning creative software suite for professional photo editing, illustration, graphic design and page layout.

The acquisition significantly bolsters Canva’s vision to build the world’s most comprehensive suite of visual communication tools. While the last decade has seen rapid growth for Canva amongst the 99% of knowledge workers without design training, the integration of Affinity’s professional design software now unlocks the full spectrum of designers at every level and stage of the design journey…

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Affinity V2 Suite, 2.4.1 Updates on All Platforms

We are pleased to announce version 2.4.1 updates for the Affinity Suite on all platforms.

Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher (on macOS, Windows, and iOS) have been updated to add some lessons (where the samples are found) for beginners to Photo and Designer on all OSs. Lessons for Publisher will follow soon. Apart from adding “Lessons” there have been some minor help and translations improvements, and 2.4.2 will follow shortly including fixes. The more comprehensive release notes for 2.4.0 can be found in this thread, which I recommend you follow to be notified of all V2 patches…

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That is sad to see another cost effective no subscription required graphic software choice being absorbed and waiting to find out what happens next.

Admittedly Canva is really great for just designing a project you envisioned with little help and their documentation is great, but as with everything read the license agreement before use.

(Note: Canva actually includes standard language EULA summaries after the clauses and also has acquired Pixabay to use as the source stock photography some time ago.)

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I received another e-mail from Serif/Affinity this morning. They appear to be on the reassurance foot. In the e-mail they state:

“We share a commitment to making design fairer and more accessible. For Canva, this has meant making our core product available for free to millions of people across the globe, and for Affinity, this has meant a fairly priced perpetual license model. We know this model has been a key part of the Affinity offering and we are committed to continue to offer perpetual licenses in the future.

If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. This fits with enabling Canva users to start adopting Affinity. It could also allow us to offer Affinity users a way to scale their workflows using Canva as a platform to share and collaborate on their Affinity assets, if they choose to.”

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DPReview has a related thread with similar info here:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4753398

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