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Affinity Studio now free

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1199 points dagmx | 4 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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skwee357 ◴[30 Oct 25 16:11 UTC] No.45761626[source]▶
Kind of a bummer. I paid for Affinity tools some time ago, but I guess my license is now worth trash, and if I want to use the new Affinity tools, I need to have "Canva account".

I mean, free tools are good. But I smell a road to enshittification (for example, by offering Affinity for free so you create Canva account, then they push Canva AI or whatever BS to you little by little, and in the end deprecate affinity so you would move to Canva web Pro Ultra Version with 90% off for the first 3 months). Could be wrong, will see I guess.

[Edit] Just to clarify something. It's not like I expect to pay for a license and get updates forever, but from what it seems like from other comments, the original apps are being removed from the App Store, meaning that the "free Affinity" is "Canva Flavored" Affinity, rather than the original tools.

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carlosjobim ◴[30 Oct 25 16:26 UTC] No.45761823[source]▶
The complaining is off the charts! Nothing in your life would have changed if you hadn't heard about this free product. Now you rest sleepless and grind your teeth because other people get to enjoy free high quality software.
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1. mns ◴[30 Oct 25 17:28 UTC] No.45762615[source]▶
Yes, it did change: I want to use the old apps and I don't want to use a Canva account. I can still use them, but will never get any updates any more.
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2. carlosjobim ◴[30 Oct 25 18:00 UTC] No.45763015[source]▶
What you can or cannot get in the future is purely hypothetical and nobody owes you anything at all.
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3. RestartKernel ◴[30 Oct 25 20:04 UTC] No.45764666[source]▶
What? How is selling a product with the promise of future updates under the same terms not owing us something? This is not some FOSS project we're taking about here.
4. ezfe ◴[30 Oct 25 20:28 UTC] No.45764930[source]▶
Nothing changed: you can still use the apps you purchased, as they were when you purchased them? That's the whole point of one time purchases.