Photo & Design
Clear Affinity Designer Cache on Mac
Clear the cache from inside the app if it offers that option, or quit the app and remove only the cache files. Affinity Designer 2 is no longer sold; in 2025 Canva replaced the separate Affinity apps with one free app that opens existing documents, so these steps apply to whichever version you have.
Clear the Affinity Designer cache without guessing
Affinity Designer data usually takes 500 MB – 10 GB on a Mac. The free scan shows the exact size on your Mac before you change anything.
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Email me the link- Application
- Affinity Designer
- Typical data size
- 500 MB – 10 GB
- Category
- Photo & Design
- File Location
~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner2
Affinity Designer cache folders you can clear
Affinity Designer has no separate cache folder. Its folders hold settings and your own data, so there is nothing to clear safely by hand.
What the Affinity Designer cache holds
Specific to Affinity Designer
The cache is temporary material that Affinity Designer creates so it can open and redraw quickly. For the Mac App Store version it sits in the same folder as your settings, resources and autosaves, and for the version bought directly it sits in an Application Support folder, and both folders hold your own data. Clearing tends to help when the app feels sluggish, takes up more disk space than expected, or shows display glitches that a restart does not fix. Typical data for this app runs 500 MB – 10 GB, so the space you recover varies. Only the cache is cleared, so your documents stay wherever you saved them.
What changes after you clear the Affinity Designer cache
The next start after clearing is slower, because the app rebuilds the cache while it opens. Your settings, resources, autosaves and documents are not removed in this step. Sign-in should not change either, since it is tied to your Apple Account or your Affinity (Serif) account. If the app is still slow after the rebuild, the cache was probably not the cause.
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- Account and sync
- The Mac App Store version is tied to your Apple Account; the version bought directly is registered to an Affinity (Serif) account.
Try it without risk
- Download and scan for freeSee every Affinity Designer file and its size. No account needed.
- Clean free for 7 daysStart the 7-day free trial of the yearly plan inside the app.
- Keep it or cancelCancel in your App Store settings at least 24 hours before the trial ends and you won't be charged.
After the free trial, Pro costs $39.99 per year in your country's App Store; cancel any time.