Other than price, Why is affinity better?

[Jasonpaul]

Photoshop hasn't been running too poorly for me, but Illustrator has been virtually unusable. It freezes all the time, and it causes a lot of visual artifacts when scrolling and zooming.

Switching to Affinity Designer has been great. It's faster, it goes into fullscreen, it's non-destructive in ways that Illustrator isn't, and it's very stable.

Affinity Photo also ticks all of the same boxes and does everything I need to do, with the exception of animated gifs. I don't think you can create them in Affinity Photo, at least not in the way that you can in Photoshop. So unless I need to build out an image with the Timeline, I never open Photoshop. movies 123 movies

[Pšenda]

It is "bug"? 

[stokerg]

Hi Jasonpaul and Welcome to the Forums,

I think you've covered all the benefits of Affinity over other software.  

Oh and we also can't create animated gifs and i don't believe we have any plans to add that function.

[Steps]

Rather than opening just another comparison discussion you should at least contribute to the latest one.

Seeing the Photo vs Photoshop and "Lightroom?" discussions over and over again I think it's time to make the oldest/longest threads sticky.