Affinity
Affinity is a professional creative software suite for macOS that helps you edit photos, create vector artwork, and design page layouts.
What is Affinity?
Affinity is a professional design suite for macOS focused on photo editing, vector illustration, and page layout work. It is used by photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, publishers, and other creative professionals who want desktop tools for producing visual content. The Affinity family includes apps for raster image editing, vector design, and document publishing, making it suitable for workflows such as retouching images, building logos and UI graphics, preparing marketing materials, and laying out books or magazines. The software is designed as native desktop applications rather than browser-based editors, so users work directly in installed apps on their Mac. Canva Pty Ltd publishes Affinity as part of its professional creative product lineup.
Key features
- Edit and retouch raster images for photography and digital artwork
- Create vector illustrations, logos, icons, and interface graphics
- Design page layouts for brochures, books, magazines, and other publications
- Work across related creative apps for photo, illustration, and publishing tasks
- Export finished work for print, digital sharing, and other common design outputs
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Affinity is a mainstream professional creative suite used for design and publishing work. For a graphics application, access to files, fonts, documents, and user-selected folders is consistent with its purpose. Use normal caution when opening third-party project files, templates, fonts, or add-ons, since creative assets can come from untrusted sources. If a local app on your Mac uses the bundle ID com.canva.affinity, confirm in Finder that it is the Affinity software you intended to install and that it was obtained from the official Affinity site or a trusted app source.
Recommendation: Keep Affinity if you use it for design, photo editing, or publishing projects on your Mac. If you no longer use the suite, you can remove it to recover storage space, but doing so may also remove access to Affinity-specific workflows and project editing on this device.
Common paths
/Applications/Affinity Designer 2.app/Applications/Affinity Photo 2.app/Applications/Affinity Publisher 2.app
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