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Creative Software News 7 August 2025 - 3 November 2025

Adobe on Alert: Affinity’s Free Design Suite Rocks the Creative World

Adobe on Alert: Affinity’s Free Design Suite Rocks the Creative World

Affinity Goes Free Forever – An All-in-One Adobe Alternative In a move shaking the creative software landscape, Affinity’s suite of professional design apps just went 100% free. Canva – the Australian design platform – acquired Affinity’s developer (Serif) last year, sparking speculation about its plans creativebloq.com. Few expected Canva to relaunch Affinity as a unified app that costs nothing. But on October 30, Canva dropped the news: instead of three separate $70 apps (Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher), there’s now one Affinity application combining vector illustration, photo editing, and page layout tools – and it’s free for everyone, forever creativebloq.com fastcompany.com.
Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Canva serves 180+ million users, is used by about 95% of Fortune 500 companies, and acquired Leonardo in 2024. Leonardo AI has 19 million+ users, features a Phoenix model for photorealism, and includes a Real-time Canvas for sketch-to-image editing and AI-assisted refinements. Simplified claims over 15 million creators and positions itself as an all-in-one marketing platform combining design, AI writing, video editing, and social scheduling with Multi-Agent Workflows. Canva incorporated Leonardo’s technology behind the scenes after the 2024 acquisition, including use of the Phoenix image model in its Magic Studio. Leonardo’s collaboration features include Leonardo for Teams and private cloud
7 August 2025
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