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Amadine

Approachable vector drawing app with a 29.99 dollar lifetime licence

Price: $29.99 once

Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app

Buy direct Website

Price read on amadine.com, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

The iPhone and iPad app is a separate purchase with its own monthly subscription

The full picture

Because the Mac App Store build sells subscriptions alongside the lifetime option, it is easy to end up on a monthly plan by accident — check what you are buying before you confirm. Nothing on the store page promises free major-version upgrades, so "lifetime" means this app for as long as BeLight ships it. The Mac licence does not unlock the iPad and iPhone version. Capability-wise it is mid-weight: no CMYK-heavy print production and no non-destructive effects stack.

Pays back in
1 month
Seats
Not stated
Developer account
None needed
Buy once$29.99Rent 5 years$1,320

$1,290 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against Adobe Illustrator at $264 a year, single-app annual plan, prepaid. Also replaces Linearity Curve and Adobe Creative Cloud.

What it looks like

Amadine: The full Amadine window with 'godzilla.amdn (61.92%) - Edited' in the title bar: Pen tool active in the context toolbar, full left tool palette, rulers, a detailed Godzilla/King Kong vector illustration on canvas with path anchor points selected, and the right dock showing Geometry (X/Y/W/H, rotate, skew), Appearance (8pt stroke, two fills) and a long Layers list. 2560x1600.
The full Amadine window with 'godzilla.amdn (61.92%) - Edited' in the title bar. Mac App Store (id 1339198386, screenshotUrls)
Amadine: Amadine with '9.amdn (39.01%) - Edited' open: Selection tool toolbar, tool palette, a flat-geometric portrait illustration on canvas with a circle selected showing its transform handles, and the right dock showing Geometry, Appearance (24pt stroke) and the Libraries panel with the 'Science' symbol set expanded into a grid of icons. 2560x1600.
Amadine with '9.amdn (39.01%) - Edited' open. Mac App Store (id 1339198386, screenshotUrls)
Amadine: Amadine with 'Girl.amdn (153.00%)' open, Gradient tool active: an illustration on canvas with the radial gradient control ring and its two colour stops dragged over the artwork, and the floating Color/Gradient/Image inspector open on the Gradient tab with the gradient ramp, Scale 28%, Roundness 96%, angle 270 degrees and the swatch grid; a Layers list of Paths behind it. 2560x1600.
Amadine with 'Girl.amdn (153.00%)' open, Gradient tool active. Mac App Store (id 1339198386, screenshotUrls)

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

Amadine is a vector app you do not need a week of tutorials to open. Pen and pencil drawing, shape building with boolean operations, several artboards and layers in a document, gradients and patterns, text on a path, and export to SVG, PDF, EPS and PNG. BeLight has been shipping Mac software for years — Live Home 3D, Swift Publisher — and it shows in how ordinary and unsurprising the app feels.

Buy the right thing, though. The lifetime licence is 29.99 dollars for one user or 49.99 for five seats, and in the Mac App Store build it sits directly next to subscription options, since that build downloads free and unlocks with a purchase. Tapping a monthly plan by mistake is a real hazard. The Mac licence also does not cover the iPhone and iPad app, which carries its own in-app purchases from 2.99 dollars a month. Nothing on the page promises free major-version upgrades, so read "lifetime" as this app for as long as BeLight keeps shipping it.

It is deliberately mid-weight. No heavy print production, no non-destructive effects stack, no mesh or interpolation work. Illustrators who need that will outgrow it and should look at VectorStyler. If you open a vector editor twice a year, the free options are enough. For everyone between those two, thirty dollars is the sane version of this purchase.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • Commenters return again and again to it being a real Cocoa app rather than an Electron or web wrapper, and several single that out as the reason they were interested at all
  • Path work gets named specifically — variable-width strokes, several strokes on one shape, and a group isolation mode that people point out Sketch and Affinity Designer did not have

Criticised

  • Mac-only draws a steady run of requests for Windows or Linux, with Affinity Designer's cross-platform licence held up as the reason to stay put
  • Affinity Designer owners repeatedly report seeing nothing worth switching for, naming the absent effects, filters and history panel

Details

The price in full

A single-user lifetime licence is 29.99 dollars; the five-seat family licence is 49.99. The iPhone and iPad app is separate, sold with its own in-app purchases (month, year or lifetime) from 2.99 dollars a month. The Mac App Store build is a free download that unlocks with either a subscription or the lifetime licence. Non-profit and educational discounts are offered separately.

The Amadine page at amadine.com
The developer’s own page. amadine.com, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
No
Minimum macOS
not stated
Developer
BeLight Software

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