Affinity Designer 4+

Professional graphic design

Serif Labs

    • 4.0 • 248 Ratings
    • £19.49

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Description

** Affinity Designer supports iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, 3 & 4, iPad Mini 5 and iPad (early 2017 onwards). Please note that older iPads are not supported. **

Built with input from some of the world’s leading designers and based on Apple Design award-winning technology, Affinity Designer for iPad takes all the power and precision of our outstanding professional graphic design desktop app and converts it into an incredible immersive experience. It has everything you need to create stunning illustrations, branding, icons, UI/UX designs, print projects, typography, concept art and much more – all completely free from the confines of your desk.

Optimised for iPad
• Metal-accelerated to achieve blazing-fast performance
• Sensitive to pressure, tilt and angle, Affinity Designer harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil
• Full iCloud drive integration allows for seamless file management, storage and sharing
• External display support with separate configuration options

Real-time performance
• Pan and zoom at 120fps
• Live gradients, transforms, effects and adjustments
• Optimised for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision
• Live pixel and retina view of vector artwork, wireframe view and split screen mode
• Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design
• Incredibly accurate results with minimal nodes

Precise vector tools
• Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to
• The best pen tool, node tool, curve editing and smart shape tools available
• Powerful contour tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves
• Pencil and brush stabilisation for drawing super-smooth curves freehand
• Non-destructive Boolean operations
• Live effects, blend modes and image adjustments
• Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls

Raster or vector, you decide
• Switch between vector and raster workspaces with a single tap
• Use the strengths of vector and raster behaviours for the best of both worlds
• High quality raster tools for texturing, masking and finishing artwork – you can even create your own brushes
• True creative freedom not found in other apps

Sophisticated typography
• Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType
• Artistic text and text frames
• Full control over character and paragraph styles
• Flow text along any drawn path

Built for your workflow
• Unlimited artboards
• Saveable history with alternate futures
• Customisable shortcuts using keyboard attachment
• PSD, AI, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, TIFF and EXR file support
• Advanced grids, snapping and alignment
• Linked symbols and constraints
• Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again
• Quickly access royalty free images through the Stock panel
• Select Same and Select Object functions allow you to efficiently match attributes or select all objects of a certain type for easy editing

Perfect colour and output
• Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB, PANTONE© and Greyscale colour models
• Full 16-bit per channel editing
• End-to-end ICC colour management
• Slice export for exporting multiple elements in a single tap
• Live pixel preview to see exactly how your design will export

What’s New

Version 1.10.5

Various stability and performance improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.0 out of 5
248 Ratings

248 Ratings

Editors’ Notes

From the makers of Affinity Photo comes this pro-grade graphic-design tool, reinvented for iPad. Whether it’s your job to create the artwork for blockbuster movie posters or you’re considering a side gig making greeting cards, Affinity Designer is a one-stop shop for creative work.

AntUK ,

Powerful app but some tool palettes feel unfinished

Initially I was very impressed with this software, but the more I delve the more frustrated I'm getting. Selecting, saving and copying colours feels cumbersome (must use the eyedropper tool). The main toolbars look good but some tool pallets seem unfinished, are cryptic (just numbers), some lead you to odd results with no easy way to return to defaults. Some things like on screen calculators look disproportionally small compared with the rest of the UI, context lists will often only show two or three options at a time even if there's only five options! Saving files to iCloud is unclear.
This app has huge potential and is paving the way for professional level apps on iPad, the canvas is fluid and responsive (apart from the Pen tool which hugely offsets node placement for no reason, hence 4 stars instead of 5), the multitouch gestures work well, it seems stable so far, is very likely the most powerful vector graphics app on iPad, but the app doesn't feel fully cooked yet.

TheAngelDragon ,

Fantastic Vector graphics on iPad

I’ve used Illustrator long time ago in the past but I refuse to subscribe for the Adobe Cloud nonsense which amounts to daylight robbery. Affinity Designer is powerful, a ton of features, which intimidating at first but thankfully the helpful quick tutorials are linked and you can quickly search what you need to do or where the tools are located easily, makes the transition a breeze. There is no .AI export which I unfortunately still need, but thankfully, you can export to CS6 using .SVG and then convert it using your old illustrator program. My experience is that it mostly works, about 80% and it groups the layers up which is nice, but there are some weird occasional glitches that you have to fix manually in Illustrator that happens after exporting, which is usually if you have the two angle handles on a node crossing paths with each other. As long as you don’t make your paths cross into a loop you should be good.
Best of all, this app is a one time payment and yours forever. None of that pay-us-forever-to-use-it nonsense.

App Privacy

The developer, Serif Labs, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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