Affinity Designer vs. Procreate

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

We are using Procreate less and less as Adobe tools catch up with more iPad applications and sketching styles, but Procreate is still superior in flexibility and online tutorials. We are using other, more formal tools more, just because the changing nature of work is less illustrative.

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

• Easy-To-Understand Interface
• Wide Range of Brushes
• Custom Asset Sizes
• Animation Options
• Intuitive Design

• 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

• It would be nice to make it easier to turn drawing processes into animations.

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

Procreate is easy to use and easy to learn for new users.

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

We broadly use the Adobe suite for other applications, so as Adobe tools have advanced, it is difficult to have an outlier in the toolkit, but Procreate still offers a lot of ease of use and competes with more formal Illustrator tools. We use Illustrator a lot for general design work once they pass initial concepting.

Incentivized

• 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

• Positive impact on delivery times
• Positive impact on creative to designer communication
• Positive impact on team to client communication through detailed mockups