Affinity Designer for Android

It's good at what it does. However things like the ability to smooth a path or reduce the number of points on a line are lacking.

I have been using Affinity Designer for a couple years and glad to be rid of the overpriced Adobe subscription products. The Affinity suite was touted as optimized for M1. However, on my M1 Android, the initial startup times for these products are long. This is a regression compared to the prior snappy performance. I see other reviewers saying similar things. Please fix. This is the reason for a 3/5 rather than higher rating.

The layout and toolsets are pretty intuitive and as far as basic design elements go I would easily rate this software 4 stars, but there are no perspective, distortion, skew or free transform tools. So as far as complex designs go this software adds a good amount of hourse to your projects just trying to work around a missing tool set that is in every other vector based software. When I found out their user comunity has been asking for these tools for almost 5 years. I was disheartend in my hopes to truly utilize this as a stand alone option.

I've been a graphic design professional ever since graphic computers were available, and an Adobe user for almost that long. I always dreaded working in Illustrator because it was so clunky to deal with and it seemed you had to fight with it just to get it to do what you wanted it to do. I especially soured on Adobe when they swtiched to a subscription-based business model. After I tried Affinity Designer, I was hooked. Creating vector artwork became so easy and natural to me. The tools made sense and I didn't feel I was fighting with the software to do what I needed it to do. I currently use the entire Affinity Suite for my professional work, and said goodbye to the subscriptions with Adobe. 90% of all of the work I do now is done in Affinity Designer. It is my go-to program for all of my vector work and most of my raster work. It's so affordable, that I also have the iOS versions of Designer and Photo on my Mobile Pro.

So Vectornator just had an update that has auto-tracing. At this point, it's clear that Serif doesn't WANT to have auto-tracing be a feature in Designer after years of begging from users. Vectornator is 100% free...and they managed to make it happen. And seriously, Serif, why no object blend tool? Freehand and Illustrator had it back in the 1980s. Inkscape has blending. Tried to do an ombre blend of an outline letter transforming into an object in 10 steps...found out there isn't a tool for that in Designer. It's obvious people at Serif have strong opinions against these tools and are refusing to implement them. I no longer recommend Designer until Serif stops calling Designer "professional" while it lacks features other programs have.