Affinity Photo 2 for iPad 4+

Create, edit, retouch & share

Serif Labs

    • 4.4 • 439 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

FREE 7-day trial.
One-off, in-app purchase for lifetime access after the trial.
No subscription.

The next generation of the iPad App of the Year, Affinity Photo 2 for iPad is a genuine desktop-grade, professional photo editor used by photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, artists, and other creators around the world. Wielding tons of incredible new features, hundreds of enhancements and a completely redesigned UI, the award-winning photo editing app has everything you need to edit images, retouch photos, create multi-layered art, beautiful raster paintings, designs and so much more – no matter where you are.

OPTIMISED FOR IPAD
• Fully integrated and optimised iPad gesture controls to speed up your workflow
• iOS16 ready, including optimisation for virtual memory swap, dramatically increasing performance on large documents
• Sensitive to pressure, tilt and angle, the app harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil
• Command controller hosting on-screen modifiers
• Quick Menu for context-sensitive access to commands
• Full iCloud drive integration for seamless file management, storage and sharing
• External display support with separate configuration options

POWERFUL TOOLS & FUNCTIONALITY
• Non-destructive RAW development of linked/embedded RAW images
• Non-destructive Live Mesh Warp filter and other live effect layers
• Luminosity, hue range and band pass live masks
• Compound masks
• Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per object
• Normals adjustment for editing normal maps from material and texturing workflows
• JPEG XL file import and export
• OCIO v2 support – particularly useful for video editors, VFX, film and 3D artists

PERFORMANCE & POWER
• Massive image support (100+ Megapixels)
• Pan and zoom at maximum refresh rate
• Open, edit and save Adobe Photoshop ® PSD/PSB files
• RGB, CMYK, Greyscale and LAB colour spaces
• Full 16-bit and linear unbounded 32-bit per channel editing
• Work with all standard formats like PNG, TIFF, JPG, JPEG XL, GIF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR and PDF

UNSURPASSED PRODUCTIVITY
• Full support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, filter layers and masks
• Edit live filters, adjustments, effects, blend modes and masks non-destructively
• Remove objects or erase backgrounds with magic eraser tool, blur photos, add filters for pictures, cut, crop and more with ease
• Saveable history with alternate futures
• Customisable shortcuts with attached keyboard or new quick menu
• Isolate, edit and duplicate spare channels with a simple touch
• Link layers to edit simultaneously
• Stitch picture-perfect panoramas on location

PROFESSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING
• Open RAW in a dedicated 16-bit development workspace and edit straight from your camera
• Adjust exposure, blackpoint, clarity, vibrance, white balance, shadows, highlights, etc
• Advanced lens corrections including chromatic aberration, defringe, vignette and noise reduction
• Paint areas or use fully customisable gradients to mask adjustments
• View histograms, blown highlights, shadows and tones as well as detailed EXIF information
• Focus Merge, HDR Merge and Tone Mapping for advanced image processing

QUALITY RETOUCHING & CORRECTION TOOLS
• Intuitive selection brush and refinement for precise selections like strands of hair
• Dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish, red eye, advanced inpainting and object removal
• Smooth and retouch skin with built-in frequency separation
• Dedicated Liquify persona gives freehand control over warps, twirls, pinch, punch and turbulence

ADVANCED BRUSH ENGINE
• Huge library of painting, drawing, textures and professional DAUB® Brushes included
• Create custom brushes and nozzles with full control over advanced dynamics

FAST, CUSTOMISABLE EFFECTS
• Massive collection of effects available, including blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows, lighting and many more
• Swipe-able split or mirrored screen always available for before and after views
• Path text capabilities

What’s New

Version 2.5.7

Bug fixes and stability improvements, including fixes for iPadOS 18.
For more information, please see the announcement on the Affinity forum.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
439 Ratings

439 Ratings

Editors’ Notes

There’s no task too big—or too small—for this robust photo editor. If you want to add some cool filters, you can. If you want to adjust the exposure, add some saturation, and make it ’gram-worthy, you can do that too. And if you’d rather draw than edit? You’re in luck. Affinity Photo packs support for Apple Pencil and an incredible array of basic and advanced illustration tools. Create unlimited layers, choose from an unsurprisingly enormous selection of brushes, and even create your own brushes—complete with jitter, spacing, and flow. (Sounds like dancing, right?)

mark117h ,

Very Useful App

I was like many sceptical at launch, however after a few updates the app has been more than good enough for most of my tasks, still not struck on the Canva taking over but it is what it is. Back to Photo 2, I have never really been a big user of apps on my mobile devices especially photo editing and modelling apps as I used to think no ways they will run as good as pc’s, but I’m happy to report I am running Affinity Photo 2 for iPad on my iPad 5th Generation with 2GB ram and 32GB storage with no issues especially performance wise it runs spot on. Any one who’s been on the fence, don’t be as the app has truly matured since it’s initial release and launch to the wider public, between these tools Photo, Designer, Nomad Sculpt & Procreate you have a capable great toolset.

MidnightMinstrel ,

Its Probably an excellent app.

It may be my age, or I’m just not able to understand it. Affinity Photo v2 is probably an excellent photo editing program, but I cant for the life of me get to grips with it. I find it very complicated , the video guides don’t help because half the time when you try to do what they show in the guide, it doesn’t do it, or the function isn’t there. Also, the reason I bought it was because I want to edit Astrophotography pics, but it seems the functions to be able to do this are only on the desktop version, my fault for that one as I should have checked first, but then I’m struggling with it anyway so I guess I wouldn’t get my head around doing that either. My message is, if you are a skilled and knowledgeable photo post editor then you will love this programme , but it is definitely not user friendly for the novice.

In-App Purchases

Photo 2 for iPad Licence
Photo 2 for iPad Licence
Single Payment, No Subscription.
£17.99
Affinity Collection for iPad
Affinity Collection for iPad
Get all three apps for one low bundle price
£35.99
Affinity V2 Universal Licence
Affinity V2 Universal Licence
All apps. All platforms. No subscription.
£159.99

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The developer, Serif Labs, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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Supports

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