Affinity Publisher, Designer, and Photo apps update on Windows 10 and 11 with big improvements

Affinity’s suite of image editing and designer apps, Publisher, Designer, and Photo, all updated for Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices this week.

This update, referred to as the 1.10 Update, focuses mainly on performance and dramatically increases speed, asset loading, and processing speed in all three apps.

“The first area of focus has been memory management in Affinity Publisher,” a post on the official Affinity blog explains. “This has had a complete re-write, and now enables huge documents—even with thousands of pages and many gigabytes’ worth of linked images—to offer instant loading times, smooth live editing and super-fast scroll, pan and zoom across whole files.

“In Affinity Designer, our main area of focus was the rendering engine and seeing how we could improve the handling of highly complex documents, potentially with hundreds of thousands of objects or layers.”

Affinity Photo also receive a significant boost with a focus on layers and how they were blended. “This new approach gives options to maintain slick performance even after building up highly complex compositions—all while retaining a non-destructive workflow,” the blog explains.

Here’s the release notes for Affinity Publisher that break down the specifics of the improvements made with this update:

Here’s the Affinity Photo release notes:

And here’s the release notes for the Affinity Designer update:

All three Affinity apps are incredibly solid alternatives to Adobe’s various designer and photography services. Each features professional-grade editing and production tools and, unlike Adobe, doesn’t require the purchase of a new version every few years or a subscription to a pricey membership.

All owners of Affinity Publisher, Photo, and Designer get all future updates completely for free.

Are you an Affinity user? Let us know if you’ve noticed any major improvements with this update in the comments below and then follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more Windows app update news.