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Awh fuck. I bought a lifetime thing for the whole Affinity studio like two years ago when it was on sale. Is there a decent alternative to Affinity? I would rather not go back to GIMP for images, just cos the UI/UX isn't so smooth!
One of their pledges when they were bought was to always have a standalone product to buy so people don't have to do subscriptions.
That's good of them. We'll see what their Canva overlords think of those nice intentions 🫡
The current version of Affinity is great and will continue to work forever—there’s no need to switch to an alternative if you’re already using it. I just don’t have much hope for its future development.