I noticed this app had only 3 stars at honestly, I don't know how. This is a professional grade image editing software, and while it has quite a bit of a learning curve in many regions, that's not necessarily a bad thing. For all of my time using Affinity Photo 1 and 2, I've loved every second of it. All of my best logos and designs have all been made using Affinity Photo, so if you need an alternative to whatever Adobe thinks they at, I highly recommend Affinity Photo, and Affinity's other apps.
- PF
I regret buying version 2, and hate the UI, so I only use version 1, and my version 2 files had to be exported in Adobe format because v1 cant open v2 files, or copy and paste from one app to the other.
V2 maybe has some useful features over V1, but cant stand the UI make.
Next time Affinity redesign a UI try talking with real users, that use the product for hours, not simply users doing a quick fix on a photo.
I’ve been using affinity photo since the original version years ago. It is a fantastic photoshop alternative, especially without a subscription plan. I’ve used it on windows tablets, but the interface was always made for a mouse, and not set up for a stylus.
I tried a friends iPad, and even though he didn’t have a pencil, editing with fingers alone on the iPad is such a smoother experience on the iPad than on windows. It won me over. Even though I was never an Apple fan by any means, I edit enough to make the switch worth it.
Only problem I’ve encountered is the sharpening creates strong black lines and artifacts in the iPad version that never show up in the windows version.
Serif,
I've supported you since your iOS debut in 2017, purchased all your apps and many of your online store assets.
Unfortunately, Affinity 2 very bad & underwhelming!
• No auto subject select
• Horrendous Help
• No generative Ai festures
• Takes too long to do things on here
• and too many others to list
AP lacks MANY automated (Ai) quality of life features (how can you drop that ball) in this age Ai?
The new features add more complexity to workflows and injure time efficiency. (You need automated systems)
Sorry Serif,
but my life & time is more important than trying to master unnecessary stuff to get your app to create my vision, doing things.. is too slow on here, due to lack of Ai automated tools.
Please introduce Ai generative features like those in Photoshop. If Photoshop brings this to the rumored - iPad Pro M3 in 2024, you'll lose a loyal customer like me.
In the last version you made some minor fixes that really really help affinity photo on iPad shine more than ever. I use this app more than 6 or 8 hours per day for more than 3 years; this version is the best photo editor app on the world for iPad.
Overall it’s a moderately decent knockoff photoshop. Major bonus is no monthly subscription fee. Most of the content you’ll see online is for the v1 iPad app, so it will take some time finding where all necessary tools are.
My biggest complaint, above all else… you cannot see the outline of the brush when you’re using a brush or eraser. This makes everything kind of a gamble if you’ll erase too much or too little. That is a VERY basic feature that appears in every other raster or vector editor I’ve ever seen. Without this, workflow is severely hindered.
I’ve searched everywhere for a solution, but there isn’t one. They just left it out for some reason. People have been asking for this feature on the forums for over two years, even for the original affinity photo. Why this wouldn’t be added makes zero sense to me. As a result, I find myself having to rely on photoshop and procreate for important projects much more than Affinity Photo.
After my last review, Affinity reached out to me and asked me to contact their support team. I provided five videos documenting my problems. Affinity’s team suggested, dispassionately, that I make two settings adjustments and otherwise not touch the glass at all with my hand. I did those things. For a day, everything seemed a little better, but now it’s worse than ever. I’ve been working for a couple of days, and Affinity Photo is littering my canvas with garbage marks I can’t be the culprit of causing because my gloved hand is not touching the glass. I am utterly disappointed with this software. It cost me $100 for the year and I have not been able to generate a single finished image with this ridiculously buggy software. I am over it.
Developer Response
Thank you for your updated review.
We've read through Nathan's very thorough response to your queries and sensible suggestions.
Your last response to Nathan read "Just changing the touch setting has fixed so much. Thanks for your help!!!!", and we have not had any further correspondence from you.
Along with changing the touch settings, we'd also suggest reading though Nathan's other suggestions, and if you continue to have issues, reply to Nathan so that he can continue to assist you.
In reference to paying $100 for the year, that is not the case, our apps are bought to own without any annual costs.The entire enticement of the first version was a one time payment. At this point, we need laws preventing companies from using legal jargon and 2 hours worth of reading/researching ToS agreements for everything on our lives, so they’re legally able to take advantage of customers. It’s physically impossible to do that when you’re living your own life with other responsibilities.
You may as well go ahead and subscribe to a more advanced option like Photoshop, or use something free, like Gimp/Apple editors. How long until we don’t outright own anything we’ve already paid for? You don’t own the first version because it’s removed. Blizzard did the same with Overreach.
Developer Response
Our V1 apps purchases have not been removed and can still be downloaded from your App Store order history. If you need help accessing or locating them, please contact affinity@serif.com or visit https://support.apple.com/HT211841.
We completely agree that companies should not use legal jargon or 2 hours worth of reading/researching ToS agreements, and is exactly why we just put the following lines of text on our site whilst V1 was available to keep it simple.
"For a single, one-off price you will own the current version (v1) of the app (on your chosen operating system). It is yours to keep and you'll receive free updates of the software until version 2 becomes available. You can then simply continue using the version you have or choose to upgrade to version 2 for an additional cost."
𝑰❜𝒎 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 Adobe 𝒕𝒐 Affinity users 𝒘𝒉𝒐❜𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒏❜𝒕 had 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝐟 𝐚 good 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 converting 𝐦𝐲 workflows at all. I’ve 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 the criticisms about the UI 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆! The help files especially are wildly, poorly designed for 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 use, 𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 happens 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 blessed 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 an eidetic memory. Are we peons supposed 𝒕𝒐 quickly scratch down notes on 𝒐𝒖𝒓 shopping lists‽ lol - link 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝐲 tool 𝒂𝒏𝒅 option 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒆 proud❢
Masks are unintelligible messes compared 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝑺, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 yes 𝑰 know how 𝒕𝒐 ❝Solo❞ 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝑩𝑼𝑻 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝐚 𝑻𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 alternative 𝒕𝒐 how well Adobe developed masking…
𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 go on but 𝐦𝐲 wife’s calling 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 dinner, 𝐚 far better way 𝒕𝒐 spend 𝐦𝐲 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆.
I cannot believe this app is so completely unintuitive and unnecessary complicated to use. I just wanted to adjust colors and contrast on a tiff picture and I could not achieve anything, where is the undo? Everything was going « fine » until I hit an option on the right, touched a setting and my picture turned green with no visible way to undo this. I gave up and did my things with Lightroom 3 minutes top.
Developer Response
We are sorry to hear that the app did not meet your expectations. We'd love for you to contact affinity@serif.com so that we can hopefully help with the issues you encountered and improve this experience.
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