# Affinity Photo 2 for iPad

> Create, edit, retouch & share

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1616823773](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1616823773)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1616823773`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Serif Labs
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (3,128 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.6.4
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-23
- **First published:** 2022-11-09
- **Size:** 1.74 GB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/affinity-photo-2-for-ipad/id1616823773)
- **Website:** [https://affinity.serif.com/photo/ipad/](https://affinity.serif.com/photo/ipad/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://affinity.serif.com/privacy/](https://affinity.serif.com/privacy/)

## Description

The next generation of the iPad App of the Year, Affinity Photo 2 for iPad is a genuine desktop-grade, professional photo editor used by photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, artists, and other creators around the world. Wielding tons of incredible new features, hundreds of enhancements and a completely redesigned UI, the award-winning photo editing app has everything you need to edit images, retouch photos, create multi-layered art, beautiful raster paintings, designs, and so much more – no matter where you are.

OPTIMIZED FOR IPAD
• Fully integrated and optimized iPad gesture controls to speed up your workflow
• iOS16 ready, including optimization for virtual memory swap, dramatically increasing performance on large documents
• Sensitive to pressure, tilt, and angle, the app harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil
• Command controller hosting on-screen modifiers
• Quick Menu for context-sensitive access to commands
• Full iCloud drive integration for seamless file management, storage, and sharing
• External display support with separate configuration options

POWERFUL TOOLS & FUNCTIONALITY
• Non-destructive RAW development of linked/embedded RAW images
• Non-destructive Live Mesh Warp filter and other live effect layers
• Luminosity, hue range, and band pass live masks
• Compound masks
• Multiple shadow, outline, and overlay layer effects per object
• Normals adjustment for editing normal maps from material and texturing workflows
• JPEG XL file import and export
• OCIO v2 support – particularly useful for video editors, VFX, film, and 3D artists

PERFORMANCE & POWER
• Massive image support (100+ Megapixels)
• Pan and zoom at maximum refresh rate
• Open, edit, and save Adobe Photoshop ® PSD/PSB files
• RGB, CMYK, Greyscale and LAB color spaces
• Full 16-bit and linear unbounded 32-bit per channel editing
• Work with all standard formats like PNG, TIFF, JPG, JPEG XL, GIF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR, and PDF

UNSURPASSED PRODUCTIVITY
• Full support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, filter layers, and masks
• Edit live filters, adjustments, effects, blend modes, and masks non-destructively
• Remove objects or erase backgrounds with magic eraser tool, blur photos, add filters for pictures, cut, crop, and more with ease
• Savable history with alternate futures
• Customizable shortcuts with attached keyboard or new quick menu
• Isolate, edit, and duplicate spare channels with a simple touch
• Link layers to edit simultaneously
• Stitch picture-perfect panoramas on location

PROFESSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING
• Open RAW in a dedicated 16-bit development workspace and edit straight from your camera
• Adjust exposure, blackpoint, clarity, vibrance, white balance, shadows, highlights, etc.
• Advanced lens corrections including chromatic aberration, defringe, vignette, and noise reduction
• Paint areas or use fully customizable gradients to mask adjustments
• View histograms, blown highlights, shadows, and tones as well as detailed EXIF information
• Focus Merge, HDR Merge, and Tone Mapping for advanced image processing

QUALITY RETOUCHING & CORRECTION TOOLS
• Intuitive selection brush and refinement for precise selections like strands of hair
• Dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish, red eye, advanced inpainting, and object removal
• Smooth and retouch skin with built-in frequency separation
• Dedicated Liquify persona gives freehand control over warps, twirls, pinch, punch, and turbulence

ADVANCED BRUSH ENGINE
• Huge library of painting, drawing, textures, and professional DAUB® Brushes included
• Create custom brushes and nozzles with full control over advanced dynamics

FAST, CUSTOMIZABLE EFFECTS
• Massive collection of effects available, including blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows, lighting, and many more
• Swipe-able split or mirrored screen always available for before and after views
• Path text capabilities

## Rankings

- #32,908 — Overall

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