Affinity by Canva remains free for astrophotography after Serif acquisition

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Peter Nielsen avatar

Hello Affinity users,

Affinity by Canva,

the British company Serif has very recently sold Affinity Photo to the Australian (large) company Cava (30. Oct. 2025).

Everybody was afraid that Affinity would get more expensive and/or switched over to an Abo model similar to other programms.

But … so far nothing bad happend. Affinty by Canva has a very similar design and looks like o 3rd version of Affinity Photo with some optical changes. Also the fine astro macros by James Ritson can fully be use.

So far, Affinity by Canva is completely free of charge and can be downloaded via Canva after registration.

In November, all my new pictures (see my galerie, I m new in Astrobin) are finalized using Affinity by Canva.

Greetings Peter

Tareq Abdulla avatar

Peter Nielsen · Nov 25, 2025, 01:58 PM

Hello Affinity users,

Affinity by Canva,

the British company Serif has very recently sold Affinity Photo to the Australian (large) company Cava (30. Oct. 2025).

Everybody was afraid that Affinity would get more expensive and/or switched over to an Abo model similar to other programms.

But … so far nothing bad happend. Affinty by Canva has a very similar design and looks like o 3rd version of Affinity Photo with some optical changes. Also the fine astro macros by James Ritson can fully be use.

So far, Affinity by Canva is completely free of charge and can be downloaded via Canva after registration.

In November, all my new pictures (see my galerie, I m new in Astrobin) are finalized using Affinity by Canva.

Greetings Peter

How easy or how good to use Affinity compared to Photoshop for example?

So what happened to those who ordered Affinity Photo previously?

David Jones avatar

@Tareq Abdulla On YouTube, Nico Carver (Nebula Photos) recently went over his impressions of the software. I’ll try giving the link https://youtu.be/NbQq19ycVZU?si=LQEFLe7OROvNO2yB

Dave