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Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by thecupisblue » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

jasongill wrote: post #9

It's $12.99/mo or $129/yr for a subscription that includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers Educational discount with verification required drops the price to $2.99/mo / $29.99/yr. The regular-price subscription includes family sharing, education price does not. One-time purchase versions remain available: Final Cut Pro ($299.99), Logic Pro ($199.99)…

That's actually surprisingly cheap compared to other subscriptions in the industry, especially for such a high powered suite.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by bayindirh » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — come together in a single subscription So Apple is copying Adobe's business model?

No, all apps are available for purchase for a one time payment.

I don't care about video, so I'll be buying Pixelmator now, and maybe music stuff later, and Video part never.

So it works like before, if you want.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by me_online » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

apple can pry my one-time final cut pro purchase from my cold, dead hands.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by sirwhinesalot » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

And here's the ruining of Pixelmator Pro everyone was waiting for. I paid one time 20 euros for it (discounted). And I would gladly pay again even full price for a new major version.

I don't want yet another subscription.

I see that they can still be bought (for now) but I wonder how long that will last.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by tapoxi » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — come together in a single subscription So Apple is copying Adobe's business model?

Yeah but this is $129/yr, that's significantly cheaper

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by acomjean » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — come together in a single subscription So Apple is copying Adobe's business model?

Subscription model so it’s adobes model. But you can buy “one time”. Though they have a tendency to just end product support (aperture software was canceled leaving a lot of bad taste for photographers that used it)

Wonder what Adobe thinks of this. Their support for Mac was pretty important in getting OS X off the ground, now they’re competing with a unified stack.

When I was a Mac user I remember buying Logic express 9 (I still have the disk). The price is a good deal, but you really are all in forever..

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by bambax » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

jpalomaki wrote: post #15

andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — come together in a single subscription So Apple is copying Adobe's business model?

Depends on if you are stuck with the subscription for life, or if there's actually a reasonable way to unsubscribe.

You're never free to unsubscribe because you become accustomed to the tools, and use the file formats, etc. (That's why I don't do subscription, ever.)

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by troupo » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

tjpnz wrote: post #13

Pages, Numbers and Keynote are the first apps I bin whenever I'm setting up a new Mac. Would people actually pay money for them?

They want you to pay money for premium AI features in those apps, which is worse.

The apps themselves are fine IMO.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by eurekin » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #5

I am still waiting for "XCode for iPadOS", where we can have a Smalltalk like approach to development, beyond what Swift Playgrounds allows for.

I played once with hosting a VSCode server on a raspberry pi for general development and it was actually quite powerful, when used from an iPad. Just not strictly for Swift unfortunately

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by bayindirh » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

cupofjoakim wrote: post #8

That's great if you need everything. If you need one of them, not so much.

You can buy the individual tools, if you want.