The price of some Canva subscriptions are set to skyrocket next year following the company’s aggressive rollout of generative AI features. Global customers for Canva Teams — a business-orientated subscription that supports adding multiple users — can expect prices to increase by just over 300 percent in some instances. Canva says the increase is justified due to the “expanded product experience” and value that generative AI tools have added to the platform.
In the US, some Canva Teams users are reporting subscription increases from $120 per year for up to five users, to an eye-watering $500 per year. A 40 percent discount will be applied to bring that down to $300 for the first 12 months. In Australia, the flat $39.99 AUS (about $26 USD) per month fee for five users is switching to $13.50 AUS (about $9 USD) for each user. That means a team of five will pay at least 68 percent more, not withstanding any other discounts.
Will Affinity product line be the next as Canva bought them?
Every proprietary software will be enshittified eventually; it’s only a matter of time.
The only way to not be subject to the enshittification, in the long run, is to adopt a militant zero-tolerance policy against all proprietary software and insist on using only 100% Free Software instead.
I like this (and largely follow it), except that I occasionally need CMYK color space for printing, and GIMP makes that extreeeeeeeeemely difficult and annoying. That’s why I use Affinity. I got the software for the single lifetime price and I’m hoping they let me keep it…
I’m in the same position. I prefer free software but there is none that does what Affinity does. If it goes subscription-only and they shut down the bought versions, it will have to be piracy time.
Everyone prefers free until they have to contribute to actually making things better. Most popular opensource project are funded by corporations for a reason.
Yeah I’m not going to pay their subscription. The whole point was to avoid Adobe.
if it goes subscription, atp i’ll just put up with adobe bullshit because i’m pretty sure if affinity goes that route they’ll forget what made them so good in the first place- not being adobe.
I’m fine with (reasonably priced) paid software, that’s why I use Affinity; it pretty much hits the sweet spot between affordability and capability. If there is a free software program that does what I need, I’ll gladly use it, but I don’t demand it, plus you really can’t make FOSS developers develop what you need or want, while with paid software you have some leverage.
Eventually some pissed off engineer who knows a thing or two about color will create a conversion utility to allow GIMP to seamlessly work with CMYK.
That angry engineer might be you if you have friends who fill in the gaps within your own knowledge base.
I should research what would be required for that.
Maybe Krita is the solution to your problem?
I’m still open to giving the Immich licensing model a chance.