Desktop Publishing
Top Affinity Alternatives and Competitors

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Optimised for the latest tech on Windows and Mac – and chosen by Apple as its Mac App of the Year – Affinity Publisher is the next generation of professional publishing software. From books, magazines and marketing materials, to social media templates, website mock-ups and more, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.

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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Affinity

Compare how Affinity stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Canva

Canva Enterprise

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+95

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Compared to Affinity, Canva Enterprise is:

More Inspiring

Better at Support

Worse at Integrating

Less Caring

Worse at Training

Less Innovative

Adobe

Adobe InDesign

8.7

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+89

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Compared to Affinity, Adobe InDesign is:

More Inspiring

Less Efficient

Less Caring

Less Transparent

Worse at Integrating

Less Innovative

Alludo

CorelDRAW

8.1

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+91

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Compared to Affinity, CorelDRAW is:

More Inspiring

Less Innovative

Worse at Training

Worse at Integrating

Less Transparent

Less Caring

VistaCreate

VistaCreate

8.0

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+98

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Compared to Affinity, VistaCreate is:

More Inspiring

Better at Support

More Transparent

Harder to Implement

Less Reliable

Harder to Use

Wondershare Technology

PDFelement

7.7

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+90

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35

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Compared to Affinity, PDFelement is:

More Inspiring

Better at Support

Less Efficient

Less Caring

Worse at Integrating

Harder to Implement

Apple

Pages

7.3

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+87

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Compared to Affinity, Pages is:

More Inspiring

Better at Support

Less Caring

Less Innovative

Harder to Implement

Worse at Integrating

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Publisher

7.3

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+77

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Compared to Affinity, Microsoft Publisher is:

Less Innovative

Less Efficient

Less Reliable

Less Transparent

Less Respectful

Harder to Customize

Adobe

Adobe FrameMaker

7.2

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+87

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11

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Compared to Affinity, Adobe FrameMaker is:

More Inspiring

Less Caring

Less Reliable

Harder to Implement

Less Transparent

Harder to Customize

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