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Affinity Publisher free Beta version available for Windows and Mac.
SpecsUpdate
PlatformsWindows, macOS, iPadOS
LicenseProprietary
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Pros
Pro One-off reasonable price, with no upgrades or monthly subs
Pro Very comprehensive set of features
Pro Has become sufficiently popular over the past year that there is an excellent knowledge base
You can quickly find solutions, tutorials, etc. online when you need help. Contrast this to Scribus, which despite its rich feature set, is often unintuitive and awkward to use, and help from other users sometimes difficult to find.
Pro Lots of Resources to Learn
Serif's forums, videos and other sites offer good resources to learn this tool, which has a very intuitive interface.
Pro Most intuitive interface
Cons
Con No EPub options (yet?)
Con No Linux version available
Unfortunately, there is no Linux version available in 2021, despite of numerous requests of the users.