Seven things to know about how Apple's Creator Studio subscriptions work
Apple's new Creator Studio subscription bundle officially launches today, offering access to a wide range of updated professional apps for an all-or-nothing price of $12.99 a month or $129 a year. Teachers and students can get the same apps for $2.99 a month, or $29.99 a year.
The bundle includes either access to or enhanced features for a total of 10 Apple apps, though the base versions of several of these are available for free to all Mac and iPad owners:
- Final Cut Pro
- Logic Pro
- Pixelmator Pro
- Keynote, Pages, and Numbers
- Freeform
- Motion, Compressor, and MainStage (Mac only)
When companies introduce a subscription-based model for long-standing apps with an established user base, they often shiftexclusively to a subscription model, offering continuous updates in return for a more consistent revenue stream. But these aren't always popular with subscription-fatigued users, who have seen virtually all major paid software shift to a subscription model in the last 10 or 15 years, and who in recent years have had to deal with prices that are continuously being ratcheted upward.