Vectornator vs. Xara

[Boy]

It is competing with Affinity Design (MacOS), suggesting a future web product.

Could you elaborate, Acorn?

[Acorn]

Could you elaborate, Acorn?

Both snippets are in V's website information. The first is a compare link. The second is a one-liner.

Acorn

[Boy]

Both snippets are in V's website information. The first is a compare link. The second is a one-liner.

Still confusing, Acorn. Affinity doesn't do or plan any web product.

[Acorn]

Still confusing, Acorn. Affinity doesn't do or plan any web product.

As I said V's hinting about its web product. A web app to serve its current functionality. Not build websites and nothing to do with AD.

Acorn

[Boy]

Ah, I get it, the comma stood for 'and'. Thanks for clarifying.

[Beazy]

Vectornator is a great app, but it's not in the same league as Illustrator or Affinity Designer.

[Jonopen]

I've taken a quick look at Vectornator fairly recently and found whilst it does have a clean interface and a good solid feel to it, being relatively new it didn't have the depth of options a well established graphics program like P&GD or AD has.

To be honest I wasn't curious enough to give it a fair trial and didn't run through any of the tutorials. Having said that I don't think at this stage of its development journey it will have too much impact on mainstream graphic designers. Maybe one to watch out for in the future.

Below is a screen shot (running on a Mac). It does also have a dark interface option.



My alternative graphics solution at the moment is VectorStyler (available for Mac and PC, but not iPad), which is chock-full of useful drawing and design tools, but also has quite a learning curve. For me it bridges the gaps between Xara P&GD and Affinity Designer (which is evolving nicely), particularly with things like blends and variable stroke widths etc.