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Affinity Studio now free

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1200 points dagmx | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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mung ◴[30 Oct 25 21:20 UTC] No.45765513[source]▶
I feel like everyone is very negative about something that hasn't happened yet. This gives a desktop environment to Canva users, where the revenue actually is. It's both a trojan horse and a usable product. Will everyone's worse fears come true? Maybe, maybe not. Mean time you have an excellent app, for free, and very few software products, free, open source, closed source, perpetual, subscription.... last "forever". They are often obsoleted by some new product, new workflow or just a new OS. Take it for what it is right now.
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1. InsideOutSanta ◴[30 Oct 25 21:28 UTC] No.45765603[source]▶
The new version is a nice update over v2, with some great new features.

The downside is that some useful features like background removal will never come to the non-subscription version. OTOH, the subscription is cheap if you think of it as license cost for an Adobe alternative.