Adobe Audition vs Affinity Photo

Adobe Audition is a digital audio workstation developed by Adobe Inc. for audio recording, mixing, editing, and restoration. It is included in Adobe Creative Cloud and is used for podcast production, music mixing, sound design, and audio post-production for video. The application provides multitrack mixing, waveform editing, and spectral frequency display.

Affinity Photo is a raster graphics editor developed by Serif (now owned by Canva) for professional photo editing, retouching, and compositing. Originally sold as a one-time purchase alternative to Adobe Photoshop, Affinity became completely free in 2025 following Canva's acquisition of Serif. The application supports RAW editing, HDR merge, focus stacking, and non-destructive adjustment layers.