Free apps for your Mac
Sensational software that doesn’t cost a thing
Affinity
> FROM www.affinity.studio Available for Intel and Apple silicon Macs, Canva’s Affinity is a direct rival to Adobe’s Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign apps. It’s a heavyweight photo editor, vector illustration, and page layout app that’s perfect for beginners and pros alike. For now it’s just for Macs, but an iPad version of Affinity is coming soon.
Given the high price of rival apps, there must be a catch, right? Nope: Affinity is free and ad–free, and Canva says it isn’t doing anything sneaky in the background, such as using your images to train AI. Quite the opposite; Affinity is AI–free unless you subscribe to one of Canva’s premium plans, which unlocks additional tools, enabling you to access AI–powered features such as generative fills, or isolating subjects, as well as generative AI image creation.