Overview
- Canva released Affinity for iPad on Monday, delivering a single, touch-first app that replaces the separate Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher iPad apps.
- Core sketch, vector, photo editing and layout tools are free for individual users but require a free Canva account to use.
- The app is optimized for Apple Pencil and Apple Pencil Pro capabilities such as pressure, tilt, barrel roll, squeeze and hover and includes a new Sketch Studio for sketch-to-vector workflows.
- Affinity for iPad uses the unified .af file format and brings professional features to iPad including non-destructive real-time edits, raw image processing, a customizable brush library and print-ready multi-page documents.
- Canva integrated its AI Studio into the app for generative expand, denoising, upscaling and layer decomposition, but those AI tools are optional and require a Canva Pro subscription that starts at about $18 per month.