Desktop Publishing
Top Affinity Publisher Alternatives and Competitors

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Optimised for the latest tech on Windows and Mac – and chosen by Apple as its Mac App of the Year – Affinity Publisher is the next generation of professional publishing software. From books, magazines and marketing materials, to social media templates, website mock-ups and more, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.

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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Affinity Publisher

Compare how Affinity Publisher stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Canva

Canva Teams

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, Canva Teams is:

More Inspiring

Worse at Training

Worse at Support

Less Caring

Less Respectful

Less Efficient

Adobe Systems

Adobe InDesign

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, Adobe InDesign is:

More Inspiring

Less Efficient

Less Caring

Worse at Support

Less Innovative

Less Transparent

Alludo

CorelDRAW

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, CorelDRAW is:

More Inspiring

Worse at Training

Less Innovative

Less Caring

Harder to Implement

Worse at Support

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft SQL Server

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, Microsoft SQL Server is:

More Inspiring

Better at Integrating

Easier to Use

Less Innovative

Less Efficient

Worse at Support

Wondershare Technology

PDFelement

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, PDFelement is:

More Inspiring

Less Efficient

Less Caring

Harder to Implement

Less Innovative

Less Respectful

VistaCreate

VistaCreate

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, VistaCreate is:

More Inspiring

More Transparent

Better at Integrating

Less Reliable

Harder to Implement

Worse at Training

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Publisher

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, Microsoft Publisher is:

Less Innovative

Harder to Implement

Less Efficient

Harder to Customize

Less Respectful

Less Transparent

Apple

Pages

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+85

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, Pages is:

Less Caring

Less Innovative

Harder to Customize

Less Respectful

Harder to Implement

Less Reliable

Lucid Software Inc.

Marq

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, Marq is:

Less Efficient

Worse at Support

Less Respectful

Less Reliable

Worse at Training

Harder to Customize

Quark

QuarkXPress

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+69

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Compared to Affinity Publisher, QuarkXPress is:

Less Innovative

Less Efficient

Less Inspiring

Less Transparent

Less Respectful

Worse at Support

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