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Affinity Studio now free

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1199 points dagmx | 2 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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indiantinker ◴[30 Oct 25 16:39 UTC] No.45761999[source]▶
So did they buy Affinity and all their tools and gave it for free?

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/about/

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alt227 ◴[30 Oct 25 18:21 UTC] No.45763304[source]▶
Yep, but dont expect the level of quality development that was there before. These'free' tools are to attract you to buy ai. They are now only selling tools. Serif were pushing to beat Adobe at their own game and make the best designer tools available. Canva are just trying to sell you ai.
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blackqueeriroh ◴[30 Oct 25 20:34 UTC] No.45764988[source]▶
So why has Canva been giving massive amounts of their quality development away for free for over 10 years?
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1. trinix912 ◴[31 Oct 25 07:58 UTC] No.45769387{3}[source]▶
It's never been free, they've always been developing stuff to push you to Canva Pro.
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2. CodeShmode ◴[31 Oct 25 08:23 UTC] No.45769532[source]▶
The issue being they don’t give everything away for free?