Affinity Designer vs. Inkscape

Best suited: Creating on the go. The app is the same on desktop as it is on mobile. All the tools and shortcuts exist on both platforms, no need to learn more than one workflow to get my work done

Incentivized

I would 100% recommend Inkscape to anyone starting out with graphic design or illustration, as it isn't that difficult to get the hang of on the first day of using it. I am not recommending Inkscape for beginners alone, even experts in the field can use Inkscape professionally as it cuts of the expense of needing to buy a paid graphic design software which provides almost the same features. Inkscape is also great for beginners because it can be treated like a stepping stone to move onto a paid graphic designing software like Adobe Illustrator, so Inkscape can be used to test the waters before making the leap. Inkscape and Illustrator are almost the same so there wont be any difficulty in switching later on.

Incentivized

• its is helpful in creating vector designs
• it offers wide variety of brushes making it perfect for illustrations.
• it provides us varies options for exports like eps, svg, png and jpeg and many more making it versatile.
• we use to export our design with press ready pdf for print production where all the internal design and export done with Affinity Designer.

Incentivized

• Creating mockups using all kinds of graphic elements together.
• Creating Video thumbnails and thumbnail templates.
• Online 'how to' resources help a great deal.

Incentivized

• the new Affinity Designer suite lacks the original compatibility.
• the brushes and spray tools needs improvement
• Sometimes when we are dealing with big files say more than 10mbs it crashes often or slow down.
• One of the major weak point is export time it takes quite longer time if compared to illustrator but for big files only.

Incentivized

• Can be tricky to get the hang of at first
• UI is not always naturally intuitive but generally it is good
• May require reading documentation and watching tutorials to skill up before using it efficiently

Incentivized

Because the software is great. I have forced myself to learn it. I highly recommend to others. This is a game changer. Adobe is evil for going all subscription and not giving anyone the option to purchase lifetime versions of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign it is CRIMINAL

Incentivized

It is very good in general, but there are steps that I wish could be eliminated as they seem to be "duplicative".

Incentivized

I have not had much opportunity to go directly to support, but the training modules that are employed by the company are fantastic. I also find that if I need to understand something, there is always another user ready and willing to share their secrets. As this tool becomes more accepted local communities will also start to organize

Incentivized

First, Affinity has a much more attractive licensing model for users: Buy it once, use it forever. That's great and means one less recurring cost for a company. But I can go further, and as I've mentioned in other questions, Affinity has a very refined and polished interface, as well as superior performance, especially compared to Adobe's tools. On our team, we use Figma as the main tool focused on Product Design, and where it falls short, we complement it with Affinity. Price and product quality are the factors that make this choice happen.

Incentivized

It is free. Easy to install Easy and simple to use and master. I find it as the best solution to do simple things without spending much time loading the API and trying to find the menu necessary to do the job. It produces vector graphics which is very well suited to illustrate research papers.

• Perfect for professionals. The price is insane for a professional tool.
• I am able to fit the price of Affinity Designer into our business budget.

Incentivized

• fast, efficient illustrations
• inexpensive (donation based) enough for a tiny business
• now can make custom labels for test products using our in-house printer

Incentivized