Affinity Designer 2 for iPad

Affinity Designer 2 for iPad takes the power and precision of the Apple Design Award-winning desktop app and converts it into an incredible touch-focused creative experience. Packed with tons of new features and hundreds of enhancements to optimise your workflow, the graphic design app has everything you need to seamlessly create stunning illustrations, branding, logos, icons, UI/UX designs, print projects, typography, posters, labels, flyers, stickers, concept art, digital art and much more – all completely free from the confines of your desk.

OPTIMISED FOR IPAD

• Fully integrated and optimised iPad gesture controls to speed up your workflow

• iOS16 ready, including optimisation for virtual memory swap, dramatically increasing performance on large documents.

• Sensitive to pressure, tilt and angle, the app harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil

• Command controller hosting on-screen modifiers

• Quick Menu for context-sensitive access to commands

• Use as your very own digital sketchbook, canvas, logo maker, sticker maker, flyer maker and more

POWERFUL TOOLS & FUNCTIONALITY

• Vector Warp

• Shape Builder Tool

• Knife Tool

• DXF/DWF import

• Measure & Area tools

• Drawing scale – including ability for different scales set per artboard

• X-ray, hide effects and greyscale view modes

• Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per object

• Powerful grids and guides

• Transform Tool

• Vector Flood Fill

• Spiral Tool

REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE

• Pan and zoom at 120fps

• Live gradients, transforms, effects and adjustments

• Optimised for documents of any complexity, zoom to over 1,000,000% for absolute precision

• Live pixel, retina, wireframe and x-ray views of vector artwork in and out of split screen mode

• Live Pattern Preview

• Seamless switching between tools and editing modes for frustration-free design

• Incredibly accurate results with minimal nodes

PRECISE VECTOR TOOLS

• Rock solid vector tools that work just the way you want them to

• The best Pen Tool, Node Tool, curve editing and smart shape tools available

• Powerful Contour Tool to create abstract objects or increase the width of single open curves

• Pencil and brush stabilisation for drawing super-smooth curves freehand

• Non-destructive Boolean operations

• Live effects, blend modes and image adjustments

• Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls

RASTER OR VECTOR, YOU DECIDE

• Switch between fully-featured vector and raster workspaces with a single tap – paint, draw or sketch in raster and then create cool, custom vector art

• High quality raster tools for painting, texturing, masking, finishing artwork or even creating tattoo designs

• Use raster brushes, edit single pixels on icons, mask and add grain to your crisp vectors, enclose and clip pixel layers – it’s true creative freedom not found in other software or drawing apps

SOPHISTICATED TYPOGRAPHY

• Flexible text handling including comprehensive support for OpenType

• Artistic text and text frames

• Full control over character and paragraph styles

• Flow text and type along any drawn path

• Extensive library of free fonts

BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW

• Unlimited artboards

• Saveable history with alternate futures

• Customisable shortcuts with attached keyboard or new quick menu

• Adobe Illustrator ® (Ai files), PSD, PDF, EPS, SVG, JPG, JPEG XL, TIFF, EXR, DXF and DWG file support

• Linked symbols and constraints

• Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again

• Quickly access royalty free images through the Stock Panel or import files from Affinity Photo or other photo editor

• Select Same and Select Object functions

PERFECT COLOUR & OUTPUT

• Professional CMYK, LAB, RGB, PANTONE© and Greyscale colour models

• Full 16-bit per channel editing

• End-to-end ICC colour management

• Slice export for exporting multiple elements in a single tap

• Live pixel preview to see exactly how your design will export