Image editingLast reviewed 2026-08-26

Affinity Photo

Affinity Photo is a image editing product focused on raster image editing.

Official product imagery

Affinity Photo screenshots

5 official images

Affinity Photo adjustment presets
Editorial product screenshot showing Affinity Photo's Photo Persona with non-destructive adjustment layers and the adjustment-preset panel open.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo 2 Photo Persona with a landscape image, layers panel, adjustment controls, and adjustment preset thumbnails. — Affinity Photo adjustment presets
Editorial product screenshot showing Affinity Photo's Photo Persona with non-destructive adjustment layers and the adjustment-preset panel open.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo Develop Persona
Editorial product screenshot of Affinity Photo's raw-development workspace, showing a photo under adjustment with its raw editing controls.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo 2 Develop Persona with a landscape photograph on the canvas and raw-development controls in the right-side panel. — Affinity Photo Develop Persona
Editorial product screenshot of Affinity Photo's raw-development workspace, showing a photo under adjustment with its raw editing controls.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo inpainting brush
Editorial product screenshot demonstrating Affinity Photo's inpainting brush removing an unwanted detail from a photograph.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo 2 editing a photograph of an interior scene with the inpainting brush tool selected to remove a wall socket. — Affinity Photo inpainting brush
Editorial product screenshot demonstrating Affinity Photo's inpainting brush removing an unwanted detail from a photograph.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo Tone Mapping Persona
Editorial product screenshot showing Affinity Photo's Tone Mapping Persona used to adjust a high-contrast landscape image.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo 2 Tone Mapping Persona with a mountain landscape on the canvas and tone-mapping controls and presets visible. — Affinity Photo Tone Mapping Persona
Editorial product screenshot showing Affinity Photo's Tone Mapping Persona used to adjust a high-contrast landscape image.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo local raw adjustment
Editorial product screenshot showing a local overlay adjustment being painted onto a raw image in Affinity Photo's Develop Persona.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Affinity Photo 2 Develop Persona with a landscape photo and a local adjustment overlay being painted across the water. — Affinity Photo local raw adjustment
Editorial product screenshot showing a local overlay adjustment being painted onto a raw image in Affinity Photo's Develop Persona.
Amateur Photographer · Rod Lawton / Amateur Photographer

Nearest matches

Alternatives to Affinity Photo

How suggestions are ranked

Capabilities guide the alternatives

Shared capabilities carry the most weight. Common use cases and categories come next, then audience, platform, deployment, integrations, pricing, and resource fit refine the order.

RAW image development
Layer-based editing
Layer masks
Non-destructive live filters
Frequency separation
HDR merging
Panorama stitching
Focus merging
Batch processing
Color-managed editing

Alternative 1
Photoshop
#1
Professional raster editing, compositing, and creative workflows.
Why it fits
Both are image editing products
Shared capabilities: RAW image development, Layer-based editing
License
Proprietary
Pricing
Subscription
Offline
Limited or unavailable
Best for
Photo editingIllustration
Layer-based editingLayer and vector masksAdvanced selections
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Alternative 2
GIMP
#2
Open-source raster image editing with extensive customization.
Why it fits
Both are image editing products
Shared capabilities: RAW image development, Layer-based editing
License
GPL-3.0-or-later
Pricing
Free
Offline
Supported
Best for
Photo editingIllustration
Layer-based editingLayer masksSelection tools
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Alternative 3
Affinity Photo
#3
Professional photo editing with a desktop-first workflow.
Why it fits
Both are image editing products
Shared capabilities: RAW image development, Layer-based editing
License
Proprietary
Pricing
Paid
Offline
Supported
Best for
Photo editingIllustration
RAW image developmentLayer-based editingLayer masks
Community feedback
0 found it useful · 0 did not
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At a glance

The source product and its three nearest reviewed alternatives.

Supported; Not supported or offered; “Not applicable” means the capability does not meaningfully apply.

Attribute	Affinity Photo	Photoshop	GIMP	Affinity Photo
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	GPL-3.0-or-later	Proprietary
Pricing	One-time purchase	Subscription	Free	Paid
Platforms	Desktop, Web	Windows, macOS, iPadOS, Web	Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, iPadOS
Offline support	Supported	Limited or unavailable	Supported	Supported

Reviewed attributes

Facts, inference, and editorial assessment are labelled separately with confidence and review dates.

Attribute	Value	Basis	Reviewed
License	Proprietary	editorial · medium	2026-08-20
Pricing	One-time purchase	editorial · medium	2026-08-20
Platforms	Desktop, Web	editorial · medium	2026-08-20
Offline support	Supported	editorial · medium

Capabilities

• RAW image development
• Layer-based editing
• Layer masks
• Non-destructive live filters
• Frequency separation
• HDR merging
• Panorama stitching
• Focus merging
• Batch processing
• Color-managed editing

Common uses

• Raster image editing