Affinity and Affinity Beta

[Andresson]

I read a lot affinity and the beta version, whats the difference between them and whats best and why?

 

Many thanks

[MEB]

Hi Andresson,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Affinity is a new line of products for Mac and Windows, currently composed by two programs: Affinity Designer (for design/illustration) and Affinity Photo (for RAW conversion/development and photo editing). Affinity Designer and Photo are already being sold for Mac thought the Mac app store as commercial products.

 

Regarding Windows, neither of them is being sold as a commercial product yet, since they are not finished.

What's available is a Beta of Affinity Designer for Windows (Photo will come later as a Beta too) that users can install and experiment for testing and feedback purposes. This is a development version and as such it still has bugs and may contain incomplete features. Beta versions should not be used for commercial/production work, since they are still in development and are subject to changes during the Beta period.

 

So they are not comparable in the sense that one is better than the other. We refer to Affinity Designer/Photo as the finished/complete versions and Affinity Designer/Photo Betas as development/test versions.

All the new features introduced in the development versions (Betas) will end up in the commercial version after being tested and stabilised.

[Dave Harris]

"Beta" is what we call the newest version of our software while we are still working on it. It'll generally contain more features than a final release, but also more bugs and more half-finished features. We make betas available to customers so they can help with testing and also to get their feedback, both of which can help make our products better. Use the beta if you want to be part of that process and can put up with the bugs. Don't use the betas for critical work or where there you have a deadline, because a bad bug might lose it all.