These include the staple Pen tool plus a useful vector brush that lets you create custom paths. Opening the Vector Persona, Illustrator and desktop Affinity Designer users will be treated to an instantly familiar set of tools and options.

The feature set on offer is seriously impressive.

Unlike BMP/raster images, which are built of individual pixels, they’re infinitely scalable and don’t lose quality when you blow them up or zoom in on specific areas. Vector graphics are made of individual paths and objects, composed of a variety of different shapes.

For non-creatives, vector art is very different to the BMP file formats and projects you’ll work on in software such as Photoshop. The addition of vector tools is a particular bonus for iPad users. The setup makes the app feel like a halfway house between Photoshop and Illustrator at first, but after a while it grew on me. The first grants you access to the Vector Persona, while the second opens its pixel-editing tools.ĭownload: Affinity Designer (iOS) from the App Store You can switch between them using controls that are conveniently located at the top of the UI. The Affinity Designer UI is fairly simple compared to Adobe Illustrator, but is markedly more in-depth than competing iOS creative suites such as Procreate. A few niggling issues and missing features stop it from being an Illustrator killer on the desktop, however. With an excellent feature set and wonderfully optimised support for the Apple iPad Pro and Apple iPad Pencil, if you’re a vector artist who often works on the go, Affinity Designer is a no-brainer purchase.

It aims to entice creative professionals such as vector artists and logo designers away from Adobe’s ruling Illustrator, with an insanely low RRP and advanced cross-platform functionality that lets you easily work on projects across iOS and macOS. Serif’s Affinity Designer is a vector art app with high aspirations.

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