What is a .afphoto file?
AFPHOTO is a document from Affinity Photo, Serif’s photo editor. Created and opened by Affinity Photo.
- Did you know
- Affinity Photo launched in 2015 as a one-off-purchase rival to Adobe Photoshop.
- Affinity Photo came from the British studio Serif, which Canva acquired in 2024.
- In 2025 its features were merged into one free Affinity app that also absorbed Designer and Publisher.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify design-app files: Figma (FIG), Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher, CorelDRAW (CDR), MediBang Paint (MDP) and Substance. A Figma file has its container read out - format, Kiwi version and chunk sizes - but not its contents: Figma encodes the design with Kiwi, a schema-driven binary format whose schema ships inside the file and changes with the version of Figma that wrote it, so there is no stable structure to walk. Sketch, by contrast, opens in a full viewer - see Sketch above. GIMP (XCF) does too, and Krita (KRA), Procreate and Paint.NET (PDN) show their embedded preview - see Raster art above.
- Depth of analysis
- .afphoto is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .afphoto file
- Drag a .afphoto file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.