Design templates are not included
Inferior photo adjustment tools
British firm Serif has been in the media-creation-software space for over a decade. Its Affinity line, which started with Mac-only apps in 2015, even garnered an Apple Mac App of the Year award that year. The Affinity apps are also available for Windows, and the company is attempting to make inroads on Adobe's firm grip on the media and design software industry. Serif’s low, non-subscription pricing is no doubt a factor for some users. The latest version of this photo editing software adds hardware acceleration for improved performance on Windows, linked layers, astrophotography stacking, and custom interface presets. It’s feature-packed and powerful, but some operations are still slow and the user interface still lacks some friendliness found in competitors. Several of the program’s tools, too, fall short of Adobe's state-of-the-art software.