Riley at DXO Support responded with an official compatibility chart of old/new Nik with past/present apps. Specifically, I was asking about compatibility between Nik, Affinity Photo, and GraphicConverter on my Macs running OS 11.6 El Capitan.
I wrote DXO - Nik Support earlier today asking about the ' new ' ( paid) version of the Nik Software bundle compatibility going forward, since DXO really hasn't changed to functionality of Nik for now, and won't until the new upgrade comes out later this year. I simply cannot afford the expense of massive upgrade of all hardware and software. I will be a sad day for me when I can no longer stay current with Affinity, Nik, and GraphicConverter after apple force-marches us into the Mojave promised land. Apple is moving away from Open Cl and Open GL altogether, instead migrating to Metal graphics management ( say goodbye to 32-bit apps as well ). So I wonder for the rest of you - will Nik continue to work with Affinity Photo if either is cleanly installed ? Also, Apple just announced the next version of the Mac OS, called Mojave, which TOTALLY rejigs graphic processing. 2012 and El Capitan OS nad have no intention of advancing. Using Affinity, GC, and the Nik bundle is so feature rich and easy that I have not even opened my Photoshop CS5 in many months. 1.6 AND Thorston Lemke's amazing GraphicConverter v. I use my Nik bundle with both Affinity Photo v. Nik is stated to work with Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom, and even Apple Aperture.
Nowhere on DXO/Nik website does Affinity come up. DXO has promised a new improved and updated version of the Nik bundle by year's end. Same features and functionality except now you have to pay for it.$ 69 retail, currently on sale till end of June for $ 50. DXO has not altered or improved the Nik plug ins much, if at all.
The Nik bundle is no longer available for free from DXO or anywhere else near as I can tell. J- I received notification today that DXO software has issued the paid license version of Nik Software, which they purchased from Google late last year.