➤ Affinity updates its applications to take advantage of the M1 🎮

If anything characterizes Affinity, it is the care for using the latest technologies that are coming out and have always bragged about them on their website, such as the 120 Hz on the iPad Pro screens or the use of the Metal graphics library.

They now have versions 1.8.6 available that take advantage of the M1 system. Since these are applications that you have in the Apple application store, it is very likely that they have already been updated.

Affinity participated in the small video, which they showed during the presentation, about the impressions of the developers.

The benefits are particularly evident when working on documents with thousands of pixel layers, vector objects and text. Pixel-level changes are handled better on the GPU, while vector and text on the CPU, so when you have unified memory much faster handling of these complex documents is possible.

Affinity website

Affinity confirms the data provided by Apple in the presentation regarding the significant speed increase, even in fanless computers, compared to Intel.

In short, M1 makes our applications faster, smoother, and more responsive than ever (we've already seen speed increases of over 3x faster on the new MacBook Air).

Affinity website

Affinity prides itself on being the first to bring professional graphic design applications with native M1 support to the market.

As you will also see, Affinity, like Apple, takes care of the details and application icons have changed too.

Affinity

The company has 3 applications that can be used on Mac, iPad * and Windows, with compatible files between all of these systems, so you can switch devices seamlessly for the same job.

Affinity Designer: vector graphic design.
Affinity Photo: photo editor (complete for iPad).
Affinity Publisher: layout of magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and writing materials ...

(Publisher not yet).

The best thing about its applications is its price for such a high level of quality. Each question costs: