G2 Vendor Directory

Affinity Designer vs. Adobe Illustrator

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAffinity Designer

by Canva

Adobe Illustrator

by Adobe

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count4526,200
Ease of use8.98.2
Ease of setup9.48.9
Quality of support8.98.5
Meets requirements9.19.4
NPS73.25842777.27797
Small Business79.7%63.5%
Mid-Market13.0%23.6%
Enterprise7.3%13.0%
Total page views1,1573,291
Total LLM citations7,29421,825

Affinity Designer

Proud winner of an Apple Design Award in 2015, Affinity Designer brings inspiration to illustration in a strong, sleek tool. Combining vector design and raster finishing naturally in one tool, this innovative illustrator lets your ideas flow. Put simply, its speed, power and precision make creating art feel fun and spontaneous again, while delivering high-end results in both macOS and Windows.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Vector Design
  • Quality
  • Graphic Design
  • Affordable
  • Features

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading graphic design tool that lets you design anything you can imagine – from logos and icons to graphics and illustrations – and customize it with professional-level precision, as well as time-saving features like Repeat for Patterns or Global Edits. You can use the graphics you create with Illustrator in any size digital or print format, and be confident they'll look exactly the way you designed them.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Graphic Design
  • Vector Design
  • Logo Design
  • Quality
  • Adobe Integration