←back to thread

Affinity Studio now free

(www.affinity.studio)
1199 points dagmx | 2 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
Show context
microtonal ◴[30 Oct 25 16:12 UTC] No.45761649[source]▶
It seems that the Affinity apps are removed from the Mac App Store? That would be a shame, because they are sandboxed. I don't want yet another app with unfettered access. Of course, I can still download them from my purchases, but I think there will be no updates anymore?
replies(1): >>45762056 #
dunham ◴[30 Oct 25 16:44 UTC] No.45762056[source]▶
Yeah, I used to use the app store version of Slack because it was sandboxed. (I later switched to having Safari run it as a web application.) Even if I trusted them, the sandbox would be a layer of protection against bugs.

I'd love to have an an easy way to wrap that sandbox around non-app-store applications.

replies(1): >>45763995 #
1. liuliu ◴[30 Oct 25 19:08 UTC] No.45763995[source]▶
Developers can still choose to enable sandbox for apps delivered outside of App Store. Some of them simply choose to not do so: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/hardened-...
replies(1): >>45764375 #
2. microtonal ◴[30 Oct 25 19:38 UTC] No.45764375[source]▶
s/some/most/

Sadly.

For those that don't know, an easy way to check is to right-click a column in Activity Monitor and enable the Sandbox column.