Clayton Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Just some technical clarifications: If I buy the universal license from the Serif store, my understanding is that will allow me to activate the Affinity suite by logging into my Affinity account, whether I downloaded the apps from the Mac App Store or the Serif website. If I buy the universal license from the Mac App Store, will that instead add licenses for the six apps to my Apple account, to be activated in the future via Restore Purchases instead of logging into my Affinity account? Or will I need to link the IAPs with my Affinity account to activate? I like keeping software licenses together in one place and am leaning toward the Mac App Store for that reason, but if that adds a step I may just go with the Serif store instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 14 minutes ago, Clayton said: If I buy the universal license from the Mac App Store, will that instead add licenses for the six apps to my Apple account, to be activated in the future via Restore Purchases instead of logging into my Affinity account? No. The App Store only knows you made a purchase, not what it was. And it does not know what Universal means. That's all handled by the Affinity Store. If you think about it, that's the only way that Universal could cover all three OSes. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxidiZed Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Further to above question, are there any key differences between the MAS vs Serif direct download versions? As far as I am aware the features are the same across both versions (happy to be corrected if I'm wrong here?). Is there anything else to be aware of, such as plugin, brushes, macros or any other content install locations being different? Just upgraded from v1 to v2 and wondering if I'll need to shift anything if move to MAS download to simplify updating etc. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 On 1/11/2023 at 9:45 PM, OxidiZed said: Further to above question, are there any key differences between the MAS vs Serif direct download versions? As far as I am aware the features are the same across both versions (happy to be corrected if I'm wrong here?). Is there anything else to be aware of, such as plugin, brushes, macros or any other content install locations being different? Just upgraded from v1 to v2 and wondering if I'll need to shift anything if move to MAS download to simplify updating etc. Thanks. Essentially they are feature identical, barring some minor OS things, such as the fact that Apple RAW is available on Macs. Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 2 hours ago, LeeThorpe said: Essentially they are feature identical, barring some minor OS things, such as the fact that Apple RAW is available on Macs. But the Mac download from Serif would also have Apple RAW, right? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 36 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: But the Mac download from Serif would also have Apple RAW, right? It does. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.3, Affinity Designer 2.5.3, Affinity Publisher 2.5.3, Mac OSX 14.5, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 3 hours ago, LeeThorpe said: Essentially they are feature identical, barring some minor OS things, such as the fact that Apple RAW is available on Macs. What about sandboxing? My understanding is that the MAS version of Affinity Photo doesn’t play well with some Photoshop-compatible plugins. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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