Frustratingly hard work.
I have considerable experience with various publishing software but recently bought this for personal home use. I am finding it hit and miss as to whether I can place pictures, and having spent time setting the font speciations, I start typing and it just seems to do want it wants. And where is the undo?
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Ugh!
You guys are taking foreeeever to release the new iPad update! I’m melting here guys!!
Affinity Publisher
Having previously been a professional graphic artist for 16 years and in need of a professional suite of graphic design and publishing Apps I discovered Affinity Suite. All three Apps are excellent, packed with features, great support and community, a wealth of official andthird party filters, textures etc.
The user interface is excellent too and very easy to transition to from the likes of Ad**e (which is my background). The one off payment licence option is incredible value and allows you to download all the versions you want (Mac, iPad, PC etc).
I use mostly Designer for vector illustrating and Publisher for (no surprise here) publishing illustrated books. Photo is also excellent but I’ve yet to properly delve into it. I’m still learning the Apps using the excellent Workbooks as reference when I get stuck.
I can’t recommend this suite enough.
The user interface is excellent too and very easy to transition to from the likes of Ad**e (which is my background). The one off payment licence option is incredible value and allows you to download all the versions you want (Mac, iPad, PC etc).
I use mostly Designer for vector illustrating and Publisher for (no surprise here) publishing illustrated books. Photo is also excellent but I’ve yet to properly delve into it. I’m still learning the Apps using the excellent Workbooks as reference when I get stuck.
I can’t recommend this suite enough.
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Affinity is Perfect Intergration
The tool set is unbelievably extensive. The integration of publisher, design and photo is the best feature. Being able to move in and out of these modes without leaving the file is so productive. Looking forward to the upcoming Canva version for iPad.
Diseño editorial profesional en iPad, sin limites
Affinity Publisher 2 en iPad es increíble. Tiene todo lo necesario para trabajar diagramación profesional sin depender de una computadora. El control de tipografía, grids y estilos es muy completo, y el rendimiento es excelente.
Perfecta para diseñadores, creadores de contenido y cualquier persona que quiera llevar sus ideas a un nivel más profesional desde el iPad.
Perfecta para diseñadores, creadores de contenido y cualquier persona que quiera llevar sus ideas a un nivel más profesional desde el iPad.
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I can still access my paid version
Update:
I found a notice in my account button saying “your license is active and will never expire”, so despite the ‘get’ button for in-app purchases being active, the app DOES recognize my previous purchases, yay. I bought the entire suite of apps when they were on sale. I am not happy that these apps appear to have since moved to a subscription model, but I am happy that as of now they are recognizing I bought an earlier version with no need to buy in-app purchases. Thank you for that.
I found a notice in my account button saying “your license is active and will never expire”, so despite the ‘get’ button for in-app purchases being active, the app DOES recognize my previous purchases, yay. I bought the entire suite of apps when they were on sale. I am not happy that these apps appear to have since moved to a subscription model, but I am happy that as of now they are recognizing I bought an earlier version with no need to buy in-app purchases. Thank you for that.
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iPad OS 26 is here… time for real software now
Over the years I have purchased the entire Affinity suite for my Mac, Windows PC, and my iPad Pros. For some reason, with the exception of ArtPro, art software developers like Serif feel that the iPad Pro is some lesser or unworthy tool unable to support a full set of functionality and abilities, such as pull down menus and the full feature set of the Mac and Windows versions. I don’t know why that is… the first iPad Pro I bought was more powerful than the Mac G5 dualie I was using in the 2000’s to make a living with Adobe Creative Suite and QuarkXPress, and it was its own Wacom tablet. The idea that you need to dumb down your software for iPad Pros is erroneous. If I could do something in Indesign in 2005 on my Mac G5 but not on my iPad Pro, its because of poor programming and lack of vision of the developer, not the device. (See ArtPro above.) The current one I have now is an iPad Pro M5 with iPadOS 26. Full multitasking support, pull down menus at the OS level, and it has a third-party keyboard/trackpad case I bought for $60 along with its Apple Pencil Pro and that wonderful touch screen. It has 16 gigs of RAM and 1 TB of internal space. And, Publisher 2 for iPad Pro has no easily discoverable way to create column guides on a master page, something I was doing in Aldus PageMaker on a Mac Plus in the late ‘80’s. In fact it was a struggle to dig deep and find where the Master Pages panel was. Why? Why such litttle belief in the iPad Pro? The hardware is better than a comparable MacBook Pro… where is the touch screen and stylus on one of those? This thing is great! Quit treating the iPad like a toy. I now own a high end MacMini and an iPad Pro instead of a laptop trying to do both insufficiently. Those two work together better than a single laptop, and it only costs a little more for big gains. All we need now is the software. Please fix. Lead the change. I’ll buy it.
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Pretty good, but buggy.
Definitely better than InDesign in terms of value, but the UI is buggy. It’s not as smooth or intuitive as it should be. I work on my iPad, so there are some touch gestures and stuff but I’d much rather work it like a laptop.
Good but buggy
Can be frustrating as its not stable. Quite often i have to re start the app. On Two occasions ive had to delete and re install. Even scrolling through the font list on an M4 ipad Pro is laggy and quite often the names get corrupted. Still probably the best for iOS but i also get issue’s desktop.
Crashes
It’s a great program but seems to crash a lot
I was loving it until this month…
Last year I purchased the bundle with the 3 apps (Designer, Publisher and Photo) and started to learn to use them. My main is Designer. And I loved it until this month when they announced they are launching a free version with the three apps in one. And it’s with a Canva account, which I stopped using because if you don’t pay the subscription, you can’t use the designs you need. As of right now, I’m having problems with my files. So, why did I pay for the one-time payment bundle if it was gonna launch for free this year?? And the iPad version of the new app isn’t out yet. Which meand my projects are being delayed. So, be careful and research the apps beforehand.
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Esencial para mi iPad
Sin este software me sería imposible sacar el máximo potencial a mi iPad. Gracias.
Sold out to canva
This is a fantastic piece of software, but be careful, it may not be around for much longer. Obviously Shareholder ROI is more important than fostering creativity. I hope the founders are enjoying their paychecks because clearly a respectable vocation wasn’t working for them. Version 3 is a joke.
Link up get all three apps cause this one is the last one you’ll need to complete the suite
Wow, this app is amazing First of all. All three apps are free now which is absolutely outstanding at least for the rest of this month so hurry up you don’t want to miss this completely free trial forever and ever I would like to mention so go go go right now before have to pay again please don’t miss this opportunity. This app is great as well as all three other apps that affinity has published get it so go go go it while you’re at it. You should probably download a 50 follower Designer 2 cause all three of them are $0.00 tax included and for the apps interface epic it’s pretty good. I like it if you have all three apps, unless you use all through the apps features without even having to go to the other app, so download it please it’s awesome.
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Arabic and Persian typing
awsome desktop class app, the only thing I need is the ability to type arabic, persian, middle eastern languages
thank you
thank you
Way too hard to use
Menu isn't the same on an iPad
Keeps Crashing
Making a digital planner, got 8 months worth of pages and hyperlinks before it decided it couldn’t handle the file anymore. It just crashes whenever I try to do anything now. It’s only 5 mb worth of a file. I kind of want my money back tbh, since that was the reason I got it, if there’s no way to make planners with it.
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Useful but
The app is good, but adding Arabic support would make it better.
im so sad for not supporting arabic
i purchased the 1st version and i did purchase this ver hoping to support arabic
After two years use
For 99% of us, 98% of the time, the iPad version of Affinity Publisher will be adequate. It does almost everything the desktop version does. Both do almost everything InDesign does, and usually better—faster and with fewer steps.
I'd say the biggest drawback is the learning curve. The UI is initially confusing—everything's hidden behind a mystery icon, and there are more menus hidden within. The Affinity apps are monstrously powerful and it takes some time to learn all they can do.
Where the iPad version will disappoint most users, I think, is it lacks data merge. So you can't automate, say, mailing labels or name badges. This means nothing to me but it might ruin it for you.
Neither version, to my knowledge, can properly handle long tables. InDesign treats a table like a text frame and you just link your overflowing frame to another to continue the table flow. Publisher requires cumbrous workarounds.
Nor does the iPad version work well for large or complex publications. There is no Book Panel. More importantly, say for publishing an indexed paper, there are only limited indexing functions.
Any one of these flaws might make Publisher unusable for you. For most of us most of the time it's no big deal.
To me it's a life changer. I can do layout on my iPad.
I'd say the biggest drawback is the learning curve. The UI is initially confusing—everything's hidden behind a mystery icon, and there are more menus hidden within. The Affinity apps are monstrously powerful and it takes some time to learn all they can do.
Where the iPad version will disappoint most users, I think, is it lacks data merge. So you can't automate, say, mailing labels or name badges. This means nothing to me but it might ruin it for you.
Neither version, to my knowledge, can properly handle long tables. InDesign treats a table like a text frame and you just link your overflowing frame to another to continue the table flow. Publisher requires cumbrous workarounds.
Nor does the iPad version work well for large or complex publications. There is no Book Panel. More importantly, say for publishing an indexed paper, there are only limited indexing functions.
Any one of these flaws might make Publisher unusable for you. For most of us most of the time it's no big deal.
To me it's a life changer. I can do layout on my iPad.
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