Creator Studio Is Apple’s Long-Awaited Answer to Adobe Creative Cloud

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Apple Creator Studio logo is displayed above a row of colorful app icons on a black background, each icon representing different creative tools or media categories.

In a shock move, Apple has unveiled Creator Studio, a new collection of the company’s most powerful creative apps, including Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, and more.

Apple characterizes its new Creator Studio as a “groundbreaking collection” of powerful creative apps designed to deliver “studio-grade power into the hands of everyone.” As Apple explains, its Creative Studio collection caters to a wide range of users across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, including video editors, photographers, musicians, illustrators, and more.

A person with headphones sits at a desk using a laptop and two monitors. The desk also has a microphone, camera on a tripod, speakers, notebooks, and plants. The screens show code and an underwater scene.

Alongside a new subscription option and rebranded apps, Apple is introducing intelligent new features across the board, including in popular apps Final Cut Pro and Pixelmator Pro, which Apple formally acquired nearly a year ago.

Specifically, Final Cut Pro features new video editing tools for Mac and iPad designed to improve efficiency in complex workflows. At the same time, Pixelmator Pro is coming to iPad for the first time, with an experience designed explicitly for touch and the Apple Pencil. Logic Pro for Mac and iPad promise a new Synth Player and Chord ID to help artists dial in the perfect mix.

A person wearing headphones sits indoors, focused on using a laptop with audio editing software open on the screen. An orange chair is visible in the background near a window.

Although not explicitly creative apps, Apple’s Office competitors — Pages, Numbers, and Freeform — also live within the new Creator Studio. These apps are typically free, and still are, but premium Apple Creator Studio subscribers will have access to additional content and “intelligent features” across Apple’s entire ecosystem, the company explains.

A tablet screen displays an image editing app with a photo of bibimbap—a Korean rice dish topped with vegetables, beef, and a sunny-side-up egg—open for editing. Editing options are visible in a pop-up menu.

“Apple Creator Studio is a great value that enables creators of all types to pursue their craft and grow their skills by providing easy access to the most powerful and intuitive tools for video editing, music making, creative imaging, and visual productivity — all leveled up with advanced intelligent tools to augment and accelerate workflows,” says Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services.

A person with braided hair uses a stylus to draw a futuristic robot face on a tablet, leaning over a gridded worktable with art supplies and colorful paper nearby.

“There’s never been a more flexible and accessible way to get started with such a powerful collection of creative apps for professionals, emerging artists, entrepreneurs, students, and educators to do their best work and explore their creative interests from start to finish.”

Apple Creator Studio will be available on the App Store beginning January 28, starting at $2.99 per month or $129 annually. A one-month free trial will be available. College students and educators can subscribe for $2.99 monthly or $29.99 per year.

All of the creative apps inside Creator Studio, including Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage, remain available separately as one-time purchases in the Mac App Store, however there are features that appear locked to the subscription versions of these apps.

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