Design · Mobile app
Affinity Designer 2 for iPad
Desktop-class vector and raster design app optimized for touch and Apple Pencil.
Affinity Designer 2 for iPad brings full-featured vector illustration and raster editing to tablet workflows without a subscription. It provides specialized Personas for vector drawing, pixel texturing, and asset exporting, alongside Apple Pencil pressure and tilt support. It is particularly valued by illustrators and logo designers who need precise geometric construction and desktop-grade tooling on a mobile device.
What it's for
- Design geometric logos and vector marks using precise guides and shape tools
- Combine, subtract, and carve overlapping geometry with the interactive Shape Builder
- Paint raster textures and shading directly onto vector shapes using the Pixel Persona
- Export sliced graphic assets in multiple formats for web and UI projects
Features
- Dedicated Designer, Pixel, and Export Personas in a single app
- Interactive Shape Builder and Knife tools for manipulating geometry
- Apple Pencil optimization with pressure, tilt, and stabilization controls
- Non-destructive Boolean operations, Vector Warp, and Vector Flood Fill
- Transform panels supporting live mathematical operations in dimension fields
- Broad file compatibility including AI, PSD, SVG, PDF, and DXF/DWG formats
- Zoom up to 1,000,000% with real-time 120fps panning and previewing
Pricing
Freemium. Free download with trial; requires a one-time in-app purchase for perpetual license.
Details
- Type
- Mobile app
- Category
- Design
- Topic
- Vector Illustration
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- iOS
- For
- Vector illustrators, logo designers, and digital artists working on iPad.
- Alternative to
- Adobe Illustrator, Vectornator, Linearity Curve, Procreate
- Tags
- vector, graphic design, illustration, ipad, apple pencil, logo design
Why it was saved
- @willpat: Provides full desktop-class vector and raster design capabilities on iPad, including precise transform math calculations and an interactive Shape Builder tool.
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