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
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
Filmora
Adobe Creative Cloud
CorelDRAW
QuarkXPress
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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 13/4/2022
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 20/3/2022
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: Telecommunications
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
An indispensable all-in-one design shop
Reviewed on 8/3/2023
Streamlined and pleasant to use even for communication professionals (as opposed to a creative...
Streamlined and pleasant to use even for communication professionals (as opposed to a creative designers)
Pros
It allows my team to quickly produce both digital and print creative, including company magazine, has a clear no-nonsense interface, is tightly integrated with Affinity Designer and Photo, allowing to use both programs without having to switch to another app window, and is much more affordable than alternatives
Cons
My positive review is based on Affinity Publisher v1. We have already purchased a business version of v2 suite but have not been able to activate it so far due to a software glitch.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Alternative to other publiishing softwares
Reviewed on 8/3/2023
Pros
Used it as an alternative to adobe products. worked fine, especially if you know what you are doing.
Cons
Photo editing needs some expertise for sure. After the trial we decided the price point is not worth it as we could also use the original for around the same price.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Yet another amazing product from Affinity
Reviewed on 17/2/2023
Pros
The integration of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo is just superb. It provides a 3-in-1-functionality for the whole program and makes the suite just perfect.
Cons
Export for inDesign-Files, which is the industry standard is sadly still missing. Other than that, i am not missing any Features for my use
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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