Can I start a trial version of all 3 programs separately in different time periods?

[Kacha]

I've been thinking 7 days isn't enough for me to test all 3 programs, so I installed just Designer, since I need to test that the most. Now I'm thinking though, whether other apps are tied to that trial period and whether they can be tested even after Designer's trial runs out so I have time for each one of them separately. I downloaded all 3, installed just 2 and activated trial just for one. How is it though?

[SFurniss]

@Kacha

Welcome to the forums. Yes, that's fine. Each separate element of the trial can be activated when you are ready.

[PaulEC]

I have no idea why Serif decided to drop the free trial period from six months down to only seven days, but (unless you have nothing else to do with your time) it's not really long enough to try out all three apps together. The problem with trialling them individually is that you're not able to test out Studio Link, which (IMHO) is one of best selling points of the Affinity Suite.

Rather than seven days for each app, I would have thought that 21 days for the whole suite would have been a better decision, so as to give potential customers a decent chance make the decision whether or not to purchase individual apps or the Universal Licence. 

[Kacha]

I'm actually considering buying just one of these programs, I wanted to see whether others two are also worth it but I'm trying to replace just Illustrator at this point in business. Not sure what studio link is...

So far I find it annoying to just have to press different shortcuts for zooming, keeping things proportional and all of the stuff, since it's very different from Adobe and I have hard time with that and can't find a way to preset that shortcut setting (if even possible). Otherwise I'm not expert in Illustrator or CorelDRAW, so learning new program to get better in vector graphics may be even beneficial.