![]() ![]() You’re not going to get high-end desktop publishing software for £50, so it’s perhaps unfair to view Affinity Publisher as a direct rival for InDesign. And, of course, those fees continue year after year, and mean that you’ll lose access to your apps – and possibly all your work files as well – as soon as you cancel the subscription. In contrast, Adobe’s ‘single app’ subscription for InDesign costs around £20 per month on an annual contract for an individual license (with higher rates for businesses that require multiple licenses). Like its two companion apps, Affinity Publisher offers an impressive array of design tools for a modest fee of just £48.99/ $49.99. Serif also offers Illustrator alternative Affinity Designer for vector graphics work, and the company has recently completed its trinity of design tools with the release of Affinity Publisher for desktop publishing. There are, of course, several rivals to Photoshop that still allow you to pay a one-off fee to buy the software, including Serif’s popular Affinity Photo, as included in our Best Alternatives to Photoshop rundown. For creative users, of course, the key culprit as such here is Adobe and its Creative Cloud service, which charges a considerable monthly fee for users of InDesign, Photoshop and other Adobe software tools. ![]() Speaking as someone who still has a copy of Photoshop 1.0 – on a single floppy disk, believe it or not – I resent the increasing trend of treating software as a subscription service that you have to pay for every month, rather than a simple product that you can buy and own for as long as you choose. Serif's new member of the Affinity family may be ideal for anyone hunting a subscription-free InDesign. ![]()
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