Apple Introduces New 'Creator Studio' Bundle of Apps for $129 Per Year

[ignatius345]

When I was on Tahoe, I had weird issues with the toolbar flickering and Keynote in particular crashing. Granted that was when Tahoe first came out.

I still end up restarting from time to time because the screen on my iMac is flickering and the brightness control works in big glitchy chunks instead of smoothly.

 

[Palliser]

Wow what a cash grab. This solidifies me moving off Logic Pro and over to Luna by Universal Audio.

 

[Alex.ne]

Hope its release will be tied to release of another Studio products like ... Display.

 

[VTGuy79]

From Apple's news release: "Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform will remain free for all users to create, edit, and collaborate with others, including Apple Creator Studio subscribers. These apps will continue receiving updates, with the latest versions adopting the beautiful new visual design language with Liquid Glass on all platforms, and supporting the new windowing and menu bar improvements in iPadOS 26."

It seems they're adding some Copilot-esque features to the paid version, but the base version remains free.

At the risk of sounding dense..... Numbers stays free if I don't want the AI junk? OK- that is good to know. As long as I can run formulas.

I WAS going to buy Final Cut Pro but am glad that I didn't, it would have been a waste of $300. Bummer as I like the advanced features but it's just not worth it for a small content creator. iMovie it is!

 

[splifingate]

Apple co-opts 'Richard David James' with their new "Windowskicker" . . .

. . . love the energy, but "...slow your roll...."

 

[turbineseaplane]

Yeah, the positioning of this is kind of weird. It seems a lot like someone decided to put together a subscription for a "Final Cut Studio" type of bundle and then thought "hey, might as well include all the AI iWork stuff in there as well".

One thing is clear - the thought that they definitely didn't have was "You know, we should probably run this one past the marketing department first."

And the other thought they didn't have is:

"Is this going to lead to our products being the best for customers?"

Apple customers have been so frog boiled that I think folks haven't really noticed how far away everything has gotten from "make the best products and the profits will come".

Tim has totally inverted that over time.

 

[MallardDuck]

They should have waited until they actually had AI features.

 

[It’s always something]

They should have waited until they actually had AI features.

I was sort of thinking that maybe the announcement means that they will have it by then; it’s a good question given their track record about this.

 

[usagora]

Subscriptions only exist to squeeze ever more money from customers.

Gee, and here I thought companies do this to lose money 🤦🏼

Edit: lmao @ the dislike - get a grip, dude. You people who freak out over for-profit companies seeking to increase profits are hilarious 😂

 

[kepardue]

What would be really nice in this suite would be a 3D asset and scene creation tool, something to make USDZ files to drop into all the other apps in the suite… something with Apple’s design sensibility without the long learning curve of Blender.

 

[Allards]

Never used those Apps, always deleted them. Currently, using Proton Productivity Apps.

 

[dumastudetto]

Gee, and here I thought companies do this to lose money 🤦🏼

You could easily think that right now. A company with around $14bn revenues committed to at least $1.2tn in CapEx.

 

[RadMac]

Shouldn’t Apple Intelligence be intelligent first before being sold for money 💰?

 

[madebybela]

Pixelmator Pro being the only app that requires macOS 26 minimum is diabolical

 

[madebybela]

The pixelmator icon going from

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To

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is baffling. As someone pointed out, it seems to be focusing on vector graphics but it's just such a weird icon.

I want to believe they experimented with a brush in the icon, but they probably thought it would've been too similar to the Pages icon, which has a pen.

My charitable interpretation of their intentions is that the top layer is supposed to be a standard bitmap layer, and the bottom, a vector one, attempting to communicate that the program is capable of both.

Doesn't really do a good job though as in the end, you may think it's strictly a vector program.

 

[guyxye]

Will it be available on Apple Vision Pro?

 

[robgreene]

Wait, so $12.99 a month is a cash grab, but charging 2-3 times as much would NOT be a cash grab?

Correct. Charging 2-3x would signify they're planning to invest heavily in these tools to bring them on par with Creative Cloud.

 

[nostaws]

Actually, that’s a pretty good price all things considered.

 

[Harvey Zoltan]

I wish Apple would take this icon design makeover and apply it to all their native apps. At least then they would be consistent. The pen in the Pages icon needs to be thinner though.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Speaking of the icons..

 

[RedWeasel]

something with Apple’s design sensibility

The what?

 

[dampfnudel]

Read the news article it’s linked to? Only select features are pay. The apps remain free.

For now. Apple should tread carefully when it comes to making decisions on what free services it wants to change to a subscription model.

 

[throAU]

Bargain!

 

[throAU]

Hopefully if you already own the app you won't need the subscription for AI features.

AI features usually cost cloud compute to run, so you'll probably need a sub.

 

[johannnn]

I still end up restarting from time to time because the screen on my iMac is flickering

I have that issue sometimes on my iMac M4 🙁