Affinity’s creative studio is now available on iPad for free

Canva is giving digital creatives a new way to design, illustrate, and edit photos on their iPads, and it doesn’t have to cost them a thing. After relaunching the Affinity creative suite as an all-in-one desktop app last year, Canva has now introduced Affinity for iPad, which provides the same pro-grade tools for vector graphics, photo editing, illustration, and page layouts in a format optimized for Apple Pencil and touch screens.

Affinity for iPad has a new Sketch Studio that’s designed for freehand drawing and simplifying sketch-to-vector workflows, including optimized tools for masking and automatically converting rough sketches into cleaner geometric shapes. The app also supports Apple Pencil Pro capabilities like natural gestures, pressure sensitivity, tilt, barrel roll, squeeze, and hover, allowing creatives more control over tools and shortcuts.