Affinity Designer 2 for iPad 4+

Vector Design & Illustration

Serif Labs

    • 4.2 • 382 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Affinity Designer 2 for iPad takes the power and precision of the Apple Design Award-winning desktop app and converts it into an incredible touch-focused creative experience. Packed with tons of new features and hundreds of enhancements to optimize your workflow, the graphic design app has everything you need to seamlessly create stunning illustrations, branding, logos, icons, UI/UX designs, print projects, typography, posters, labels, flyers, stickers, concept art, digital art, and much more – all completely free from the confines of your desk.

OPTIMIZED FOR IPAD
• Fully integrated and optimized iPad gesture controls to speed up your workflow
• iOS16 ready, including optimization for virtual memory swap, dramatically increasing performance on large documents.
• Sensitive to pressure, tilt, and angle, the app harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil
• Command controller hosting on-screen modifiers
• Quick Menu for context-sensitive access to commands
• Use as your very own digital sketchbook, canvas, logo maker, sticker maker, flyer maker, and more

POWERFUL TOOLS & FUNCTIONALITY
• Vector Warp
• Shape Builder Tool
• Knife Tool
• DXF/DWF import
• Measure & Area tools
• Drawing scale – including ability for different scales set per artboard
• X-ray, hide effects, and greyscale view modes
• Multiple shadow, outline, and overlay layer effects per object
• Powerful grids and guides
• Transform Tool
• Vector Flood Fill
• Spiral Tool

REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE
• Pan and zoom at 120fps
• Live gradients, transforms, effects, and adjustments
• Optimized for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision
• Live pixel, retina, wireframe, and x-ray views of vector artwork in and out of split screen mode
• Live Pattern Preview
• Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design
• Incredibly accurate results with minimal nodes

PRECISE VECTOR TOOLS
• Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to
• The best Pen Tool, Node Tool, curve editing, and smart shape tools available
• Powerful Contour Tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves
• Pencil and brush stabilization for drawing super-smooth curves freehand
• Non-destructive Boolean operations
• Live effects, blend modes, and image adjustments
• Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls

RASTER OR VECTOR, YOU DECIDE
• Switch between fully-featured vector and raster workspaces with a single tap – paint, draw, or sketch in raster and then create cool, custom vector art
• High quality raster tools for painting, texturing, masking, finishing artwork, or even creating tattoo designs
• Use raster brushes, edit single pixels on icons, mask and add grain to your crisp vectors, enclose and clip pixel layers – it’s true creative freedom not found in other software or drawing apps

SOPHISTICATED TYPOGRAPHY
• Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType
• Artistic text and text frames
• Full control over character and paragraph styles
• Flow text and type along any drawn path
• Extensive library of free fonts

BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW
• Unlimited artboards
• Savable history with alternate futures
• Customizable shortcuts with attached keyboard or new quick menu
• Adobe Illustrator ® (Ai files), PSD, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, JPEG XL, TIFF, EXR, DXF, and DWG file support
• Linked symbols and constraints
• Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again
• Quickly access royalty free images through the Stock Panel or import files from Affinity Photo or other photo editor
• Select Same and Select Object functions

PERFECT COLOR & OUTPUT
• Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB, PANTONE© and Greyscale color models
• Full 16-bit per channel editing
• End-to-end ICC color management
• Slice export for exporting multiple elements in a single tap
• Live pixel preview to see exactly how your design will export

What’s New

Version 2.4

2.4 is here! Free for all V2 customers, the latest update to Affinity Designer brings some key new features and improvements, including:

• DWG and DXF export – outlines created in Affinity can now be easily exported for use in various CAD applications as well as utilities for things such as vinyl cutters, plotters and CNC tools
• Set selection box – choose default selection box from the ‘cycle selection box’ choices
• Double-tap an object while in Node Tool to switch to the Move Tool
• Ability to lock ‘Behind’, ‘Inside’ and ‘On Top’ insertion targets
• Spacebar modifier allows you to toggle ‘Lock Children’ behavior on/off while moving an object
• Space Horizontal / Vertical now considers key object – using even space distribution on a multiple selection will now behave differently if you have a key object nominated
• Size / Rotate objects to same – three new choices have been added in Alignment Options to make all items in your current selection adopt the same width, height or rotation
• 32-bit HDR PNG support added
• Many more improvements and bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5
382 Ratings

382 Ratings

Editors’ Choice

From the makers of Affinity Photo comes this pro-grade graphic-design tool, reinvented for iPad. Whether it’s your job to create the artwork for blockbuster movie posters or you’re considering a side gig making greeting cards, Affinity Designer is a one-stop shop for creative work.

MikeO345 ,

Great Replacement

I started vector illustration using Macromedia's Fireworks beta and used it as long as i could along with Adobe's photoshop and Illustrator.
I started using Affinity Photo on the iPad with 1.0, it was such a great deal at $10. And when Affinity Designer was released at $10 i could not pass it up. I have not been disappointed. There were features that i wished it had, but the steady stream of enhancements to continued to keep me using it. As an Instructional Designer in the public sector we have to be frugal. When the version 2.0's came available for both products I was more than willing to pay for the upgrade fee's. The addition of Warp Layers has been fantastic to Designer and allowed me to do all the things that i wished I could. The only limitations are my limited creativity and skills, that i am always trying to expand and improve.

Norris Lurker ,

All right, I’m in

It’s taken me a long time to decide how I feel about Designer 2 after using the first version. The giant change between the two is that it is now a near-exact replica of the desktop app; they replaced dialog boxes with a UI system that suits the iPad better (it would have been a travesty if they hadn’t), and you still have to think a bit laterally to figure out where to find features. But that’s not new. What held me up for a long time was the Command Controller. That’s the thing that substitutes for the keyboard: command, control, option, shift keys. The desktop version can’t work without them, and neither can this. That means my habit of holding the iPad in one hand and drawing with the other keeps tripping and falling down. It’s most annoying when it _almost_ works, then hits a snag. So I regret the loss of some workarounds that they’ve removed, like the ability to select multiple layers by tapping one then sliding on the others. Constant annoyance: to get to Help, you have to exit the current document, find it on the main menu, then close it and go back to the document. Despite complaints, one huge accolade: this is an iPad app that does almost everything its desktop cousin does, and its cousin is first rate. I may be about to copy and paste this to Photo 2, as everything here applies identically there.

In-App Purchases

Designer 2 for iPad Licence
Designer 2 for iPad Licence
Single Payment, No Subscription.
$12.99
Affinity V2 Universal License
Affinity V2 Universal License
All apps. All platforms. No subscription.
$114.99

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The developer, Serif Labs, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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