InDesign is part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of software and comes with a monthly fee, which is based on your plan.

Affinity Publisher comes with a one-time fee when you download it, 49.99. It’s not a mere port of the Mac version (on sale for $34.99), but a feature-complete illustration app that’s built from the ground up with touch in mind. The most obvious difference between Publisher and InDesign is probably price and pricing structure. Serif has taken full advantage of the iPad’s multi touch gestures in a way that allows users to pull off all sorts of quick shortcuts without delving deep into the app’s deep menu set. After using it, I can say that it is unequivocally one of the most impressive iOS apps I’ve ever used. Available for both Mac and PC, although not for Linux, Affinity Publisher can be used as part of the Affinity suite of interoperable apps, which includes the vector editor Affinity Designer (see our Affinity Designer review) and the image editor Affinity Photo), or simply on its own. Like Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer brings desktop-class high-level capabilities to iPad users.

To celebrate, developer Serif is launching the app at a special $13.99 introductory price, a 30% discount off the full price. With the resounding success and universal praise heaped upon last year’s launch of Affinity Photo for the iPad, it was only a matter of time before its companion app, the popular vector illustration tool, Affinity Designer, was brought to the platform.Īfter publishing a teaser almost a year ago to the day, Affinity Designer is making its iOS App Store debut.

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