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Affinity Designer

Design — Vector art & design • Imagined by designers, created for Mac [Mac, Design Tools, Tech]
DesignAnyone can copy thisperpetualest. 2014
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 34 probesavg response 1558 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
affinity.studio
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Affinity Designer's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.affinity.studio/) when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 6 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Sketchdesigncurated40.00.0● live
Linearity Curvedesigncurated47.30.0● live
Pixelmatordesigncurated23.60.0→ redirected
Affinitymarketingcurated48.70.0● live
Canvadesigncurated35.2+27.2● live
Spyder5designsimilar100%15.10.0— unverified
Artistic Tools: Photoshop Bundledesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Acorn 5designsimilar100%46.10.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelperpetual
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternatives6
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:07Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1239redirected_offsite
2026-08-26 09:38Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1428redirected_offsite
2026-08-19 14:00Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1340redirected_offsite
2026-08-11 00:35Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1390redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 06:28Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1931redirected_offsite
2026-08-05 18:48Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1934redirected_offsite
2026-07-30 18:02Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1503redirected_offsite
2026-07-23 09:23Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1467redirected_offsite
2026-07-22 09:26Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1660redirected_offsite
2026-07-21 09:26Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1537redirected_offsite
2026-07-20 09:54Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1617redirected_offsite
2026-07-19 09:05Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1661redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 08:46Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1220redirected_offsite
2026-07-17 09:08Z200affinity.serif.com → affinity.studiocloudflare1884redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Affinity Designer · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/affinity-designer · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.