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This is a freemium graphics app, meaning you pay if you want to unlock premium features, in this case AI tools. I called it a graphics app because it includes vector graphics, like Adobe Illustrator or the open source Inkscape, a pixel-based photo editor, and layout functions to place and arrange elements on a page, or pages if you're working on a brochure, pamphlet etc. Affinity is tailored for biz use, like the Canva site itself, intended IMHO for the average biz user who doesn't want to pay a graphics pro, but wants/needs visual aids for advertising, promotions etc. That doe Not mean you couldn't or shouldn't use the photo editor for your own purposes, and for that it's decent. The layout features *might* come in handy from time to time, for anything from Xmas cards to fliers for church or school or perhaps a garage sale. Vector graphics are too involved for most folks IMHO, but this part of the app can be useful letting you use vector clipart, and there's plenty of that online. A vector graphic like a clipart object isn't a picture itself, but directions for your PC to draw that picture. Because of that, size is irrelevant -- the same graphic on a postage stamp can just as easily fill the side of a bus -- you generally just stretch or shrink it at will.
That said, Affinity isn't a Photoshop killer by any means. The photo editor uses layers, and it has several layer blending modes which is good. And it includes some filters, though nothing really to write home about. The big plus however is it can do semi-automatic object selections if you add the segmentation module, which you turn on in Affinity's settings. Very often you want/need to change part of a photo, not the whole thing, and that's where selections come in. The problem is that making a selection can be at the least tedious, and may take quite a bit of time & effort. Now Affinities object selector isn't perfect, but it may be good enough, or get you a good part of the way there if nothing else.
Affinity is a somewhat big app, taking up 1.39GB in its main folder, with its folder in Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Roaming\ taking up 577MB after installing the segmentation add-on. 23dce.msi is also copied to Windows\Installer\ for another 642MB. Thankfully the folder added to ProgramData takes up hardly any space. Installing Affinity isn't terrible when it comes to the registry, adding keys for the Windows installer, along with unfortunately adding keys to take over Very many image file formats -- Canva want to make sure that when you double click an image file it opens in Affinity.