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All Affinity apps are now free for the iPad – for now

Ahead of a mysterious announcement on October 30 iPad versions of Affinity’s suite of apps — Affinity Photo, Affinity Publisher, and Affinity Designer — have been made entirely free. We think you need to move quickly to get this, though.

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Affinity’s suite of apps has been made free for the iPad

After Serif, the publisher of the Affinity apps, was acquired by Canva in 2024, it launched an extended free trial of all of its apps, across iPad and Mac. But this new offer, exclusive to the iPad editions, looks to be permanent — or a mistake.

Affinity has been promoting a big announcement, now scheduled for October 30, and describes it as “true creative freedom.” But there are as yet no further details, and there has been no formal announcement of the free iPad apps.

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