Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now for six months

Design package developer Serif has launched a caller six-month free proceedings for its Affinity imaginative suite, which is good regarded arsenic being 1 of nan fewer viable alternatives to Adobe’s master creation apps. The offer is disposable for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher starting coming connected Mac, Windows PC, and iPad.

Affinity uses a one-time acquisition pricing exemplary that has earned it a loyal fanbase among creatives who are sick of paying for recurring subscriptions. Prices commencement astatine $69.99 for Affinity’s individual desktop apps aliases $164.99 for nan full suite, pinch a abstracted woody presently offering customers 50 percent disconnected each perpetual licenses.

This discount, alongside nan six-month free trial, is perchance geared astatine soothing concerns that Affinity would alteration its pricing exemplary aft being acquired by Canva earlier this year. “We’re saying ‘try everything and salary nothing’ because we understand making a alteration tin beryllium a large step, peculiarly for engaged professionals,” said Affinity CEO Ashley Hewson. “Anyone who takes nan proceedings is nether perfectly nary responsibility to buy.”

In a Decoder interview published today, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins declined to picture its offering arsenic a afloat replacement to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. However, she said nan creation marketplace “has been a small spot of a one-horse race, and I don’t deliberation that useful retired good for anyone...I deliberation that being capable to person different replacement successful nan marketplace for master designers benefits everyone.”