←back to thread

Affinity Studio now free

(www.affinity.studio)
1203 points dagmx | 2 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
Show context
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).

replies(9): >>45762554 #>>45762840 #>>45762843 #>>45762916 #>>45762953 #>>45763112 #>>45763260 #>>45763287 #>>45766527 #
1. reaperducer ◴[30 Oct 25 18:20 UTC] No.45763287[source]▶
V2 is probably now useless considering that it will never get any updates.

Is it really?

People on HN are always talking about how they use pre-Creative Cloud versions of Adobe products years and years later.

My firewall already blocks Affinity programs from accessing the internet without my permission. I guess I'll set it to an automatic deny so I don't lose any features, or have to deal with any nagging.

replies(1): >>45764301 #
2. tredre3 ◴[30 Oct 25 19:32 UTC] No.45764301[source]▶
People on HN also tend to use Apple hardware so it's no surprise that for them unmaintained software is dead software, because it will likely break 2 or 3 macOS versions from now.