Affinity

Why r/BuyItForLife recommends Affinity

6 mentions from real owners

• #1Sep 3, 2025

  What is the best application you have purchased with a one-time payment?

  Microsoft office suite. I think my copy is like 2018 or something like that. I absolutely love excel. Kind of odd, but it makes it really easy for me to track finances, can build whatever formulas I want to track anything Like one of my jobs is tree planting, pay by the tree. I need to keep track of production to verify my pay. Simply inputting numbers into every day calculates my weekly average, shift running total, season running total, career running total (was gunning for a million trees, seeing that number creeping up was motivating.) Adding in the price does all of those things, but calculated hourly wage, weeks wages, contract earnings, etc. Can go back season to season and see how my earnings changed. Took a few hours to set up, but 15 seconds a day to input those numbers. More actual fun ones would be affinity photo. Just a solid photo editor. Not quite on par with lightroom/photoshop, but pretty close. Sadly they did make a version 2.0, so while I could have kept the old version I did buy the new one (still, one paid update in almost a decade or so)

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• #2Sep 2, 2025

  What is the best application you have purchased with a one-time payment?

  Affinity Designer

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• #3Sep 2, 2025

  What is the best application you have purchased with a one-time payment?

  Affinity Designer/Photo. Not 100% up to Illustrator level, but REALLY good for the price. I got the original two on sale for $49 for the pair. I don't remember what I paid for the upgrade, but I didn't think twice about it.

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• #4Sep 2, 2025

  What is the best application you have purchased with a one-time payment?

  DaVinci Resolve - free, pro level video production (they make their money on hardware) Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher. $70 each (look out for sales as well). One off payment, and Adobe is no longer needed for graphic design.

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• #5May 6, 2025

  [Request] What was the last version of Adobe Acrobat that DIDN'T require a subscription?

  Try PDF gear- it's a bit slow sometimes but works for the occasional time I need to use it. If you're looking for graphic design alternatives for Adobe software, I use Affinity Designer / Photo / whatevertheirepub software is called.

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• #6May 6, 2025

  [Request] What was the last version of Adobe Acrobat that DIDN'T require a subscription?

  Check out Affinity Publisher, it works well for my use case

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