You can get CorelDRAW here ->

I'm a former Corel user, so I'm also very aware of the lack of trace, blend and extrude tools in Affinity. Good video.

I swapped from Corel when it became (effectively) subscription based. Overall I am very happy with Affinity and whilst there are some Corel features I miss these don't stop me producing the work I want to as Affinity has plenty of features overall.

Gradient Mesh, commonly referred to as Mesh Fill in CoreDRAW, is an additional crucial feature that is currently absent from Affinity Designer. Users have been requesting the feature for years, so it is safe to assume that AD has no plans to implement it.

For me, both are good, but CorelDRAW is still light years ahead in the printing system, in addition to accepting programming in VBA, C# and Visual Studio, letting us work with infinite automation. On our Channel we have examples of Macros that no other program is able to do. Apart from the PS that has some Scripts or Plugins,

I still have the Coreldraw 3.0 diskettes. I love Affinity as it is completely new , another advantage of Coreldraw is the imposition module no one else have. The history in Affinity is a winner. Pixels against vectors subdivision is also amazing in Affinity and not to mention Publisher completely separated from designer. Long ago or on a few memory computers handling several pages was or still too heavy for Corel. Let´s say we could compare Affinity Publisher with Adobe Indesign, still, I prefer Affinity Publisher. And not to talk about prices, Coreldraw has a new version every year and I high payment to pay for continuing having the last version, Affinity is more affordable and open. Oh, and the plugins of Affinity are absolutely amazing. Thanks .

Which one do you think has a less steep learning curve?

I was a user of the original CorelDraw 1.0, but gave up on the program in a fury years ago, after upgrading (eventually) to version X5.

In the next update of this comparison, include a chapter about document size.

Well, I will say it. CorelDRAW IS better and considerably so for serious designers. I say this as a former user of many years It falls short on bang for the buck though. I moved to AD a few years back when Corel went heavy on the subscription model. Affinity Designer crushes it for value. I think it is easier to learn than CorelDRAW, and I like ADs UI better.

AD is easy to learn cause of the UI? 🤔😂🤣 it follows like Inkscape the stupid „logic“ of Illustrator.