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Affinity Publisher for Mac

Publishing software for page layout and design.

$69.99
In English
Version 2.5.5
4.6
Based on 19 user rates

Affinity Publisher overview

Affinity Publisher delivers an incredible design experience. Whether you’re creating a book, magazine, marketing materials, social media template or something else, it has everything you need to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. And with the ground-breaking ability to fully integrate with other Affinity apps, it’s completely revolutionizing the way creatives work.

Refined & redesigned with powerful new features
  • Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons
  • Completely revamped Layers Panel
  • Book creation and management – combine multiple Affinity Publisher files as chapters, with linked text styles, table of contents and indexes
  • Footnotes, sidenotes, and endnotes via new Notes panel
  • Style Picker Tool
  • Quick grid
  • Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs
  • Layer visibility override for placed linked files (PDF/DWG/DXF and Affinity files)
  • AutoCAD DWG/DXF import, place, and edit
  • Place linked web images using their URLs
  • Resave packages with auto-update of resources
  • Force scale of stroke, effect and fills on object resize
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
  • Text column dividing lines
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 & graphics
  • Link or embed images in your document
  • Place PSD, AI, PDF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, DWG, 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
  • Fully optimized for the latest Mac hardware and operating systems, including M1 chips
  • IDML & XLSX import
  • Section manager to organize your documents
  • Pan, zoom and scroll through documents at 60fps
  • Regular Expressions search and replace
  • Savable undo history with alternate futures
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts and savable presets, including studio layout presets for the UI layout
  • Smart master pages
  • Automatically generate indexes and table of contents
  • Manage and create anchors
  • Consolidate images linked from various locations into a single folder
  • Merge multiple documents together into a single file
  • Save documents as template files to re-use time and time again
  • Collate your document alongside all used image and font resources into a folder using the Package feature
  • Convert pixel layer to image node
  • Integrate text and image links into documents by merging from external data sources
  • PDF passthrough
Professional output
  • End-to-end CMYK, PANTONE© and spot color
  • Crop, bleed, and registration
  • Live preflight checking
  • PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 output for professional print
Full integration with other affinity apps
  • Instantly switch to the advanced photo editing features of Affinity Photo and precise vector tools of Affinity Designer without leaving Affinity Publisher with StudioLink
  • The most fluid workflow ever conceived in a creative suite of applications

What’s new in version 2.5.5

  • Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Affinity Publisher for Mac

$69.99
In English
Version 2.5.5
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
Reliability
5.0
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5.0

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4.6

(18 Reviews of Affinity Publisher)

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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 10 2021
1.10.4
5.0
Dec 10 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.
Stoob
Stoob
May 30 2023
2.1
5.0
May 30 2023
5.0
Version: 2.1
Diarbyrag
Diarbyrag
May 30 2023
2.1
5.0
May 30 2023
5.0
Version: 2.1
Maclover1-1
Maclover1-1
May 30 2023
2.1
5.0
May 30 2023
5.0
Version: 2.1
Kongsgar
Kongsgar
Sep 23 2022
1.10.5
2.0
Sep 23 2022
2.0
Version: 1.10.5
arimatheia_otto
arimatheia_otto
May 31 2022
1.10.5
5.0
May 31 2022
5.0
Version: 1.10.5
zlazkow
zlazkow
May 15 2022
1.10.5
1.0
May 15 2022
1.0
Version: 1.10.5
Drtyrell969
Drtyrell969
Mar 31 2022
1.10.5
5.0
Mar 31 2022
5.0
Version: 1.10.5
Macedward
Macedward
Jan 20 2022
1.10.4
5.0
Jan 20 2022
5.0
Version: 1.10.4
ash-f
ash-f
Dec 10 2021
1.10.4
5.0
Dec 10 2021
5.0
Version: 1.10.4
Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Oct 30 2021
1.10.3
5.0
Oct 30 2021
5.0
Version: 1.10.3
Iztoubade
Iztoubade
Feb 5 2021
5.0
Feb 5 2021
5.0
Version: null
DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Mar 2 2020
5.0
Mar 2 2020
5.0
Version: null
Tim27
Tim27
Feb 28 2020
5.0
Feb 28 2020
5.0
Version: null
Cookie08
Cookie08
Feb 28 2020
5.0
Feb 28 2020
5.0
Version: null
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Jul 24 2019
5.0
Jul 24 2019
5.0
Version: null
Big77
Big77
Jun 24 2019
4.5
Jun 24 2019
4.5
Version: null
Politically Incorrect Puppy
Jun 24 2019
5.0
Version: null
Psaldari
Psaldari
Jun 24 2019
5.0
Jun 24 2019
5.0
Version: null
Freenergy
Freenergy
Jan 11 2030
1.9.1
5.0
Jan 11 2030
5.0
Version: 1.9.1