Canva has released its free Affinity design app for iPad, with sketching, vector art, photo editing and page layout in one place. AI extras cost money.
Canva has released Affinity for iPad, a free design app that handles drawing, vector art, photo editing and page layout in one place. It also adds a new Sketch Studio made for touch and Apple Pencil. The app is a free download from the App Store, but you need a free Canva account to use it.
Affinity combines tools that used to live in three separate apps: Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher. Canva merged them into one app for Mac and Windows last year. The iPad version follows that approach. You can switch between Sketch, Vector, Pixel and Layout studios while working on the same file.
A Mask Tool is meant to help trace tricky edges, such as hair and fur, with Apple Pencil. Canva says the interface was designed for iPad, not shrunk down from the desktop app. Apple Pencil Pro features such as barrel roll, squeeze and hover are supported, along with pressure and tilt.
The core sketching, vector, photo and layout tools are free for individuals. The only paid features are the AI tools, which need a Canva premium plan. They run through Canva AI Studio.
The files use the same .af format as the desktop app, so you can open an iPad project on a computer. Still, some desktop features are not in the iPad version yet. Affinity's website lists Books, Batch, Data Merge, Quick Adjustments, macro recording and Astrophotography Studio among them. Canva plans to add more features over time.
Anyone who makes flyers, edits photos or builds social posts and owns an iPad now has a free option. The app requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. Canva says the desktop app has drawn more than seven million sign-ups since its relaunch.
If you have an iPad running iPadOS 18 or later, you can try Affinity free with a Canva account, and only the AI tools cost extra.
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