

Other features that graphic designers will love include previews for all different screen sizes, a saveable history with alternate futures, unlimited artboards, and the ability to have each change you make to a design automatically exported. The most notable is Affinity Designer’s ability to switch personas, toggling between editing vectors and raster graphics. Used by professional designers, illustrators, and game developers from all over the world, Affinity Designer has most of the vector editing features Illustrator has, while also adding in a few of its own.

The winner of the Apple Design award in 2015, Affinity Designer is Illustrator’s biggest competitor and our top pick for the best Illustrator alternative.
