
Made For
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
5 out of 5 stars
Best graphic design app out there, full stop. I recently purchased an Affinity V2 Universal License and I was happily surprised to find that my license also includes support for the iPad apps. My iPad is a travel device for me: I use a Mac for all the heavy stuff but when I need them, the iPad apps have every feature from the desktop app (save for the AI powered stuff, but that’s processor dependent) and I find that I actually gravitate more to using the iPad apps more. Apple Pencil support is excellent, and the command controller provides access to all the modifier keys when my keyboard isn’t attached. The fact that the license for this is a one time purchase and not a monthly subscription is highly appealing, and was actually what made the decision to go Affinity and not Adobe. Most everything I’ve said here also applies to Photo and Publisher - those apps were held to the same standard for quality, functionality, and overall experience compared to Designer. This is easily the best design software out there for any platform, and it’s miles ahead of any other option on the iPad App Store. I would highly recommend it.