Apple is launching a new Creator Studio subscription bundle that offers access to six creative apps as well as premium content in iWork apps. The bundle costs $12.99 per month or $129 per year. It includes access to Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad, as well as Motion, Compressor, and MainStage on Mac. It also includes premium content for Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. Later, the bundle will include Freeform for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. College students and educators can subscribe for a discounted rate of $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year.
Apple Creator Studio will be available beginning January 28. All new subscribers will get a one-month free trial.
As part of the announcement, Apple revealed that these creative apps are launching new features. Final Cut Pro on Mac and iPad is getting Transcript Search to find soundbites, Visual Search to find exact moments by describing them, and Beat Detection. Final Cut Pro for iPad is also getting Montage Maker to quickly start edits and Auto Crop to reframe content.
New features are coming to Logic Pro as well, such as Synth Player, Chord ID, a new sound library, and natural language search. Apple Creator Studio also brings access to MainStage, which turns Macs into an instrument, voice processor, or guitar rig.
Pixelmator Pro, which Apple bought in 2024, is also coming to iPad for the first time, bringing its editing tools to more creators. It includes full Apple Pencil support alongside fast image editing. The bundle also provides access to Motion, a motion graphics tool for creating 2D and 3D effects, and Compressor, which works with Final Cut Pro and Motion to customize output settings for distribution.
In Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, a Creator Studio subscription unlocks a new “Content Hub” where users can find high-quality photos, graphics, and illustrations. Plus, there are new premium templates and themes in these apps. Subscribers also get access to beta features in Keynote, including tools to generate presentation drafts from text outlines and create presenter notes from existing slides. In Numbers, subscribers can generate formulas and automatically fill tables using pattern recognition with Magic Fill.
Apple notes that Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage will continue to be available as one-time purchases on the Mac App Store, while free versions of Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and Freeform will remain available.