About Affinity Publisher
Affinity Publisher is a graphic designing software that helps creative professionals and publishers combine images, texts, and graphics to create personalized layouts for books, website mock-ups, and marketing materials. Administrators can unify text style across multiple pages, add lines or borders, and manage the baseline grid.
The platform enables managers to embed images, pin graphics, add drop caps, and type along curves to visualize text on a unified interface. Affinity Publisher allows teams to place files in PSD, PDF, AI, JPG, PNG, and TIFF formats on customizable layouts. Operators can also edit hues, saturation, opacity, and luminosity shifts, facilitating crucial image corrections across documents.
Affinity Publisher lets businesses control gradients, add shadows, bevels, glows, and other layer effects, and use bitmap fills to create and edit vector graphics. Designers can also add, subtract, divide, and combine shapes to streamline Boolean operations on a centralized dashboard.
Pricing starting from:
US$29.79/one-time
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Brazil, China, Germany, Spain, France , United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Russia and 4 others
Supported Languages
Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, French, German , Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and 4 others
Pricing starting from:
US$29.79/one-time
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Top 5 alternatives to Affinity Publisher
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Features
Total features of Affinity Publisher: 8
Alternatives
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
PhotoScape X
Affinity Designer
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- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Perfect choice for books and magazines design
Reviewed on 13/04/2022
I use this to design books and, as I am also the artist, I can switch easily and draw something...
I use this to design books and, as I am also the artist, I can switch easily and draw something related to the story and then jump back to my book and keep working.
This allows me to offer more services to my clients who are always consuming services on-demand, and also allows me to create a product on record time.
Pros
Affinity Publisher allows you to create a whole set of text styles you can switch from master to master. So, on a single file you can have all different sections of a Magazine and all the different styles and you don't need to work them separately.
If you have a one-man-army designer who does it all, this is the best tool as you can switch easily between Photo editing, to vector editing and back to document editing on a mouse-click.
You also have the flexibility of a text processor like Word where you can create the table of contents, for example, but you can now add different styles to this so you can have an attractive table of contents.
If you buy a set of brushes for Photo or Designer, you have them available also here.
Cons
Basically nothing. But this isn't a software meant to be used alone without it's companions Photo and Designer.
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Proffesional DTP solution on the market, with the best Price-Value ratio
Reviewed on 20/03/2022
After a many years of Adobe Indesign QuarkXpress using, we switch to Affinity Suite. Our main...
After a many years of Adobe Indesign QuarkXpress using, we switch to Affinity Suite. Our main products are magazines and catalogues, and other predominantly graphical creations. And we are absolutely happy with our Affinity solution for now. Excellent merge of DTP, photo and vector is came to you with full Affinity suite: Affinit Publisher + Affinity Photo + Affinity Designer. One must have trio.
Pros
It is fast - build on game engine in core. You can work with one page document or hundreds of pages with a lot of images and different text styles, but speed will never drop down. It is stabile software and with excellent colour reproduction.
Cons
Affinity Publisher lack of some usefull but not mandatory features. There are no classical character and paragraph styles, but there are no combined styles like QuarkXpress have. The are no good indexing and footnote/endnote manipulation.
Reasons for Choosing Affinity Publisher
First reason is subscription. Second is price. Third is speed. Fourth is creativity....Reasons for Switching to Affinity Publisher
We try and feel every solution. Indesign is to heavy, and for full DTP solution - price is to high, same story with Quark. Speed is problem with Quark and Corel. Ragtime is solid. but retro solution with high price, but excellent table data management. All in all, Affinity suite do our job with the most style of all of them.- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
If you need data merge, this product isn't for you.
Reviewed on 09/06/2022
Disappointed.
Disappointed.
Pros
It's inexpensive. If all you are doing is designing flyers or other static publications, it's fine.
Cons
If you need mail or data merge, don't get this product. I've been using it for over a year and I still can't make it work. It mysteriously skips creating left or right side pages of two page layouts, and/or skips data records for no apparent reason. I've spent my entire career figuring out software, and this just doesn't work.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Publisher review
Reviewed on 13/11/2022
Pros
The Affinity Plublisher software is very easy to use and allows you to edit text and more on the touch screen.
Cons
No drawbacks noticed on this software, everything pleases me, I recommend
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Exception Replacement for similar Adobe software.
Reviewed on 08/03/2022
The devs are great about helping with anything at all! They also promote addons (created by other...
The devs are great about helping with anything at all! They also promote addons (created by other users/contributors) at reasonable prices. So, if we need to add new brushes (for example) there are a lot to choose from.
I've primarily used Adobe and GIMP before finding Affinity. I still use GIMP for quick or online graphics. But for Print I always use Affinity.
Pros
Being a small office (Just myself) it was increasingly a concern that I was paying a monthly subscription fee and some months it wasn't worth the time at all. With Affinity I can work daily or skip a month and I've already paid for the software.
Cons
The only inconvenience, is that Affinity software is separated. Publisher (is great for anything, especially Hard Print Quality, Pre-Flight tests, and even online publishing). But, because they are separate products most of us will need to buy all three (Photo, Publisher, and Designer). That said, it is still worth the value compared to the alternatives available.
Affinity Publisher FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Affinity Publisher.Q. What type of pricing plans does Affinity Publisher offer?
Affinity Publisher offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$29.79/one-time
- Free Trial: Not Available
Affinity Publisher is available on a one-time license basis.
Q. Who are the typical users of Affinity Publisher?
Affinity Publisher has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Affinity Publisher support?
Affinity Publisher supports the following languages:
Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
Q. Does Affinity Publisher support mobile devices?
Affinity Publisher supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Affinity Publisher integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Affinity Publisher has
Q. What level of support does Affinity Publisher offer?
Affinity Publisher offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum
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