Here is the lovely artists Bluesky 💗: bsky.app/profile/nons...

Give all the programs a try with their free trials and snatch it when it goes on sale! It goes on sale a lot due to all this Adobe mess. Plus you own the programs for life without any monthly charges and you get a big discount for later versions that come out!💗

Affinity Publisher is a great asset to have in my opinion especially if you are in my field of Interior Design. Finding a good alternative for Indesign has been hell to say the least and we always use it for a variety of projects. Plus we use Photoshop, so its a win win having both working together.

I will say Affinity Publisher is a great alternative to Indesign and Affinity Photo is a close alternative to Photoshop. I have yet to fully try Affinity Designer but all three work interchangeably and if you have Affinity Publisher open you can go between all three without having each program open.