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Affinity Photo | iPad 7th generation vs Macbook Air 2020


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Hi, I want to purchase Affinity Photo on my 7th generation iPad (2019) or in my macbook air 2020 (i3 10th generation processor 1,1 GHz with turbo boost up to 3,2 GHz, 8GB RAM). Which one would work better? (In terms of performance)

And just to be sure, both the ipad and the mac version are a one time purchase without any subscription?

Thanks in advance 

Alexander Geisse

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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

The iPad and Mac versions have somewhat different workflow, given their different physical characteristics. And the iPad apps lack some of the functions of the desktop apps. I think the real question is which workflow would you like better, more than "which performs better". But I will let iPad and/or Mac users comment further on that.

Regarding purchase: Yes, each application is a one-time purchase, without a subscription. That one-time purchase gets you the current release and all further releases in the 1.x version of the application (1.8, 1.9, etc. until version 2.0). If/when Serif decides to release version 2.0 that would require another purchase, if you want to use it. But your 1.x version would keep working.

Note that the license is platform-specific. If you purchase a license to use one of the applications on Mac and later decide you want to use it on iPad, that will require a second purchase.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
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Thank you! I'm using it as a tool to digitally restore old black and white pictures from my family. I bought the iPad version because I'm not really familiar with photo editing software and I believe it's easier to learn. Now let's watch some tutorials.

Thanks again!

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9 hours ago, Algeisse said:

I'm using it as a tool to digitally restore old black and white pictures from my family.

It’s great for that. I like to restore our old photos too. Some have very little detail but it’s fun restoring missing bits and fixing up damage. This was my dads old 1932 Humber.

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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