Apple on Tuesday unveiled Apple Creator Studio, a subscription bundle that groups several of the company’s professional creative apps and adds new on-device intelligent features and premium content aimed at video editors, musicians and visual creators.
The suite, described by Apple as a way to put “studio-grade” tools into the hands of more users, combines video, music and imaging software with productivity apps and adds features intended to speed common tasks such as searching footage, aligning edits to music and generating musical parts. Apple said the package is designed for professionals, emerging creators, entrepreneurs, students and educators.
Apple said Apple Creator Studio will appear on the App Store on Jan. 28, priced at $12.99 per month or $129 per year, with a one-month free trial. College students and educators are offered a discounted rate of $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year. Users who prefer not to subscribe may still buy the Mac versions of the included apps as one-time purchases on the Mac App Store.
The subscription includes access to Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad; Motion, Compressor and MainStage on Mac; and new intelligent features and premium content for Keynote, Pages, Numbers and, later, Freeform on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Apple emphasised that many of the new intelligent capabilities run on device and that privacy protections are part of the offering.
Apple outlined key upgrades to its flagship apps. Final Cut Pro for Mac and iPad gains tools such as Transcript Search and Visual Search to locate soundbites and moments across footage, Beat Detection to align edits to music, and an iPad Montage Maker that uses AI to assemble dynamic edits and reframe video for social platforms. The suite also unlocks Motion (with a Magnetic Mask tool to isolate people and objects without a green screen) and Compressor for output customization.
Logic Pro additions include an AI-driven Synth Player and Chord ID, the latter converts audio or MIDI into chord progressions to speed songwriting and production, plus a new Sound Library of royalty-free loops and samples and Quick Swipe Comping for iPad. Pixelmator Pro is being ported to iPad for the first time with touch-optimized controls, Apple Pencil support, layers and masks, and image tools such as Super Resolution, Deband and Auto Crop. Apple said these features are built to leverage Apple silicon performance.
Apple presented the bundle as a single, flexible way for people at different skill levels to access the company’s creative tools, while preserving the option for outright purchases of individual Mac apps. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, said the bundle provides a flexible, accessible way for creators to “do their best work.” The company said the collection aims to make advanced creative workflows more accessible across Mac, iPad and iPhone.
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