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Affinity Publisher
Affinity Publisher
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Affinity Publisher free download for Mac

Affinity Publisher

Version 1.10.6

Professional Desktop Publishing.

4.5
Based on 16 user ratesRead reviews & comments
$40.99
One-Time Purchase

Affinity Publisher overview

Bring your vision to life with Affinity Publisher, the most advanced professional publishing software from the developers of the award-winning Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo apps.

This incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout.

Also featuring the game-changing ability to fully integrate with other Affinity apps, this next generation software is completely revolutionising the way publishing professionals work.

Professional layout tools
  • Facing page spreads
  • Live master pages, including nested master pages
  • Image frames with intelligent scaling options
  • Advanced guides, grids and snapping
  • Tables and custom table formats
  • Wrap text around any object or image with fine padding control
  • Create text frames of any shape
  • Link multiple text frames together across your document
Advanced Typography
  • Full control over character and paragraph styles
  • Comprehensive OpenType support
  • Text decorations, drop caps and initial words
  • Flow text along any path
  • Advanced flow options and hyphenation
  • Baseline grid and text frame rulers
Perfect images and graphics
  • Link or embed images in your document
  • Place PSD, AI, PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG or Affinity files
  • Correct and enhance images with non-destructive adjustment layers
  • Precision engineered pen and node tools for creating vector curves and shapes
  • Boolean operations to add, subtract, combine and divide shapes
  • Incredibly smooth gradient and transparency controls
  • Live preview of all effects, blend modes and image adjustments
Built for your workflow
  • Automatically generate indexes and table of contents
  • Section manager to organise your documents
  • Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps
  • RegEx search and replace
  • Saveable undo history with alternate futures
  • Customisable keyboard shortcuts
Professional output
  • End-to-end CMYK and spot colour
  • Pantone library included
  • Crop, bleed and registration
  • PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 output for professional print
Full integration with other Affinity apps
  • Link to your other Affinity apps directly from Affinity Publisher with StudioLink
  • Revolutionary feature allows you to instantly switch to the advanced photo editing features of Affinity Photo and precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without leaving the app
  • The most fluid workflow ever conceived in a creative suite of applications

What’s new in version 1.10.6

Updated on Dec 09 2022

  • Various stability and performance improvements

Information

License

Commercial

Size

763.6 MB

Downloads

511

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • Apple Silicon
  • macOS 10.15 or later
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What needs improvements

Social media integration

Affinity Publisher qualities

Value
5.0
Ease of use
5.0
Features
5.0
Reliability
5.0
Customer support
5.0
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Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Dec 9 2022
1.10.5
5.0
Dec 9 2022
5.0
Version: 1.10.5
Seriously, MacUpdate! The current version is 1.10.6 (six, not five). OK?
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Dec 3 2022
1.10.5
5.0
Dec 3 2022
5.0
Version: 1.10.5
V1.10.6 is out. "Bug fixes and stability improvements." It's essentially an update specific to macOS 10.13 Ventura but backwards compatible.
zlazkow
zlazkow
Sep 22 2022
1.10.5
1.0
Sep 22 2022
1.0
Version: 1.10.5
I tried and tested Affinity. Awful piece of software. Don't be fooled looking at their smooth razor sharp photos jumping right into your eyes. Functions, features are scattered all over the place. They make it look as "top-of-the-line" application, really making an impression, creating a "glamour" effect using silky smooth black background, making it look alluring and exciting....but it is all Smoke. It's an illusion, to fool and blind the user, a smoke of cheap effects. SWIFT PUBLISHER beats affinity in everything: ease of use, in logical placements of every tool and features. Many features in affinity are repeated all over the place under different names, again to fool you, to make it look "sophisticated". In fact, it is far from being so. In addition affinity is also very very slow. SwiftPublisher is definitely The Best and so far has no competition. Don't waste your time. You might get a cheap euphoria effect when using A. in the first couple days, but I can guarantee you'll get disappointed after that. Affinity will get you nervous for many different reasons. SWIFT Publisher is also a much better value for your money.
ash-f
ash-f
Dec 9 2021
1.10.4
5.0
Dec 9 2021
5.0
Version: 1.10.4
This is the alternative to Indesign, a pro publishing tool. I think it's the most underrated among cheap publishing apps. People complain about its complexity should not use it. It's a PRO tool, not an armature tool, a pro tool for an armature price. Do not take its purpose wrong.
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Oct 30 2021
1.10.3
5.0
Oct 30 2021
5.0
Version: 1.10.3
v1.10.4 is out for all Affinity apps.
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Apr 13 2021
1.9.2
5.0
Apr 13 2021
5.0
Version: 1.9.2
Now at v1.9.3.
zlazkow
zlazkow
Mar 1 2021
1.9.1
1.0
Mar 1 2021
1.0
Version: 1.9.1
I tried to like it again, but unfortunately it is too confusing, too many tools, some of them are hard to understand what for they are, what they do, and these are all over the place. The interface is confusing as well. It should be cleaned out and made simpler and easier to use. Not worth even $25.
Iztoubade
Iztoubade
Feb 5 2021
1.9.0
5.0
Feb 5 2021
5.0
Version: 1.9.0
Affinity Publisher must be the desktop publishing app with the best combo of ease-of-use and useful features being able to hand over a reliable industry-standard pdf to professional printers. When used together with the Affinity Designer app (for vector and pixel graphics) and Affinity Photo (for image treatment), which are incredibly well integrated together, the possibilities are endless. The pricing is also ridiculously affordable. That must be one of the most-for-the-bucks app around. Even though, they regularly offers discounts. Their support forum is a very active community with a lot of creative people interacting with the developers and a dedicated support team. A great example on how support should be done.
DanielaPaletti5904
DanielaPaletti5904
Sep 20 2020
1.8.4
0.0
Sep 20 2020
0.0
Version: 1.8.4
The indicated price does not correspond, I tried to buy it but the real price exceeds the double what appears above, for the rest I would have nothing else to say, I have tried it faith is very interesting.
Rayf
Rayf
Mar 20 2020
1.8.2
0.0
Mar 20 2020
0.0
Version: 1.8.2
Today, March 20, Affinity made the following announcements in support of the Creative Community: A new 90-day free trial of the Mac and Windows versions of the whole Affinity suite A 50% discount for those who would rather buy and keep the apps on Mac, Windows PC and iPad The introduction of the 90-day free trial and deeply discounted pricing is done in the hope that this will make life a little easier for people who rely on creative software to make a living, but may be stuck at home without their usual tools, or for students who might not have access to their Affinity apps on their personal devices. We plan to make the free trial and additional discount available until 20 April
DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Mar 2 2020
1.8.1
5.0
Mar 2 2020
5.0
Version: 1.8.1
GOODBYE and GOOD RIDDANCE Adobe!!! Huge advances. And, buy it and you own it. Fine support. Built for the Mac ground up.
Tim27
Tim27
Feb 28 2020
1.8.1
5.0
Feb 28 2020
5.0
Version: 1.8.1
This thing just keeps getting better! Download the trial if you haven't and say goodbye to InDesign or Quark forever.
Cookie08
Cookie08
Feb 26 2020
1.8.0
5.0
Feb 26 2020
5.0
Version: 1.8.0
This really is a great app speed and fluid use and using the other app on the fly is great and is very flexible. I also used SwiftPublisher in the past this is in another league. Having used Adobe design etc in the past no more this is just great. Also a lot better value for your money.
DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Sep 6 2019
1.7.2
5.0
Sep 6 2019
5.0
Version: 1.7.2
Love this app. It may be hard to believe but I deleted my QuarkExpress and iNdesign within a week of getting Publisher. Publisher will satisfy almost any publisher and the app gets better day by day!. Support is without rival. Flexible with virtually any file format. Something that gets rarely mentioned all of the Affinity apps integrate into one another main a huge inexpensive magnificent suite!!!
zlazkow
zlazkow
Jul 7 2019
1.7.1
1.0
Jul 7 2019
1.0
Version: 1.7.1
I'm using for about 5 years SwiftPublisher to design posters. It is great, easy and pleasure to use. Before SP I used Pages, but when I discovered SP and what it can do, I never looked back. How it compares to Affinity Publisher ?
Big77
Big77
Jun 24 2019
1.7.1
4.5
Jun 24 2019
4.5
Version: 1.7.1
The speed of Publisher and ability to pull in the resources of Affinity Designer and Paint on the fly are just awesome. High quality stuff for a good (non-subscription!) price.
Politically Incorrect Puppy
Politically Incorrect Puppy
Jun 23 2019
1.7.1
5.0
Jun 23 2019
5.0
Version: 1.7.1
Affinity Publisher is really an Adobe InDesign killer for desktop publishing for macOS and Windows. Presently, I'm learning how to use the software. So far, I think it's great. Can't wait for the Publisher workbook to be released! Also, I own the macOS and Windows versions of Designer and Photo - now the suite is complete with Publisher.
Fariborz
Fariborz
Jun 23 2019
1.7.1
0.0
Jun 23 2019
0.0
Version: 1.7.1
The developer “Serif Labs” is famous for developing very high-quality software and Affinity Publisher is surely no exception. However, it’s a pity no DEMO is available as this is a new software and unless someone is willing to take a leap in the dark it’s impossible to evaluate it beforehand. Fariborz AMIRSHAHI - Verona (Italy)
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