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Affinity Studio now free

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1203 points dagmx | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mns ◴[30 Oct 25 17:21 UTC] No.45762506[source]▶
Devastated about this. Good for them for making money on the sale to Canva, but still, this is a sad day. Studio is now freemium, in the future probably more and more features (outside of AI) will be added in the subscription, and you will end up with an app full of disabled features and pop-ups encouraging you to subscribe and unlock the new and shiny thing.

There is absolutely nothing in the world that anyone can say to convince me that this is not the end for Affinity. Every single product that went through this ended up being an ad data gathering subscription pushing unusable app for anything useful.

I have both a V1 and V2 license. V2 is probably now useless considering that it will never get any updates. This marks the death of one of the last popular pay once and use forever apps (in the sense that a V3 with new features will never exist).

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t-writescode ◴[30 Oct 25 17:23 UTC] No.45762554[source]▶
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mns ◴[30 Oct 25 17:33 UTC] No.45762687[source]▶
Any type of updates (bugs, security, OS support) will go only to the Canva version, no part of my comment was about the new hotness or that being the reason I bought any of the licenses.
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1. t-writescode ◴[30 Oct 25 17:43 UTC] No.45762814[source]▶
I admit I’m not that worried about a virus or exploit in a jpeg that specifically targets the less-popular image editing application, when I have a solid virus scanner.

And I’ll be switching to Proton for this soon enough, so OS support stops mattering for the most part.

And most bugs you just work around when they’re in a large and stable enough product like Affinity Photo