Affinity/Serif acquired by Canva ➹

I am so, but so sorry to see this happen. I paid my way through college doing design, but decided I would never again use Adobe software after Creative Cloud became the mess it is today.

Even though I don’t do graphical design as part of my profession (well, not explicitly at least), I willingly paid for Affinity to sponsor them as a viable alternative to Adobe.

And it sort of worked (until it backfired today): The Affinity suite is (for the moment) good quality native Mac software that does not rely on cloud features nor has a subscription model.

As much as their FAQ claims that will not change, I think we’ve all seen this before–in short, I don’t trust Canva one whit and fully expect to revisit this post in a year when Serif/Affinity breaks one of those three tenets above and forces me to move away from their software.