This popular, cheap Adobe alternative is 50% off during Black Friday

Adobe Creative Cloud apps can excel at image and video work, but ongoing subscriptions can get pretty expensive. You can go the free route, or instead snag a great deal on a solid, well-loved alternative for as little as $9.

For Black Friday, Serif is selling its products Affinity Photo 2, Designer 2 and Publisher 2 software with 50 percent discount. For these analogues of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, respectively, you pay only once for the software license (no paid subscription required!). You can also choose to purchase the app for a single platform (for example, Windows only) or a Universal License that gives access to all apps and platforms.

• Affinity Photo 2 (iPad): $9
• Affinity Photo 2 (Windows, macOS): $35
• Affinity Designer 2 (iPad): $9
• Affinity Designer 2 (Windows, macOS): $35
• Affinity Publisher 2 (iPad): $9
• Affinity Publisher 2 (Windows, macOS): $35
• Affinity V2 Universal License: $83

Users of Affinity version 1 apps can upgrade for less money; It costs $63 for the V2 Universal License. Serif also offers four bonus add-ons for existing V1 customers. But both returning and new users will spend hundreds less compared to a 12-month Creative Cloud subscription. It’s also on sale for Black Friday

Online users speak highly of Affinity as an alternative to Adobe applications, and reviewers praise it over free options like Photopea. Some also say it’s most natural to switch to Affinity apps when ditching the Creative Cloud subscription. Our Discord community members even independently recommended this deal to each other.

This Affinity sale does not have a specific end date, so if you want to get the software, get your license as soon as possible. Serif may be timing its sale to match Adobe’s sale, which ends on November 29, the actual Black Friday. (If necessary, you probably have enough hours left to give the free trial another try before pulling the trigger).

Pay as little as $9 for this popular Adobe alternative