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

Design bundle developer Serif has launched a caller six-month escaped proceedings for its Affinity originative suite, which is good regarded arsenic being 1 of the fewer viable alternatives to Adobe’s nonrecreational plan apps. The offer is disposable for Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher starting contiguous 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 idiosyncratic desktop apps oregon $164.99 for the full suite, with a abstracted woody presently offering customers 50 percent disconnected each perpetual licenses.

This discount, alongside the six-month escaped 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 wage nothing’ due to the fact that we recognize making a alteration tin beryllium a large step, peculiarly for engaged professionals,” said Affinity CEO Ashley Hewson. “Anyone who takes the proceedings is nether perfectly nary work to buy.”

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