The largest competitor to the Adobe Creative Suite has been Affinity. They've had their three apps in direct competition to Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator: Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. In contrast to Adobe's rather pricy subscriptions, Affinity offered affordable one-time purchases.
Now, they're releasing something completely new: ONE app for all these areas of work, simply called Affinity.
They've also been adopted by Canva, and claim to offer their new app completely for free!
With AI as an add-on.
I'm excited to see how this will impact designers of all sorts and levels. It's good for Adobe to actually have some real competition, because once we enter a universe such as Adobe's, it can be hard to break out of it.
On the other hand, I see a lot of scepticism in the comment regarding what the catch is. It will be interesting to follow the developments.
Will you be exploring the new Affinity?