I use this function daily: I'll search for photos tagged "Scotland", and shot with my 11-24mm if I need something landscape and wide angle. You can view all your images at once, or narrow your search by date, keyword, ranking, kit used, settings used, and more. At the import stage you can add keywords and rate your images. It was set up to mimic a photographer's workflow, so you simply work from left to right in the workspace: import, edit, print or share. Lightroom is more than just an editor, it's a digital asset manager. Once your file is open in Affinity, the processing is fast - there's no lags as you wait for edits to show on screen. Photoshop, which needs to open the file from scratch like Affinity rather than working from a preview like Lightroom, takes less than a whole second to get the file ready to work on. No wait at all - because it isn't loading the whole file, you are just working with a preview.
With Lightroom, files open instantaneously. It is very fast, I have plenty of spare hard drive, but Affinity takes a looooong time to process big files. I use a Mac Pro - the tower kind, not the laptop.
A 33MB RAW file from my Canon 5DIV takes more than 7 seconds to open in Affinity, and a similar size file from my X-T1 takes more than 13 seconds. It is just much, much slower than Lightroom. I'll get my biggest objection to Affinity out of the way to start with. With Affinity you just have a one-off payment of around £50. Around £10 a month will get you both Lightroom and Photoshop. The main reason people object to buying Lightroom is that it's a subscription.
Is Affinity a good alternative to Lightroom? Yes is the short answer, but with a few critical caveats, especially if you are used to the speed of Lightroom.
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