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[macOS, iOS] Apple Creator Studio: 1 Month Free Trial for New Subscribers (Ongoing A$19.99/M, Student $4.99/M) @ Apple Store AU

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[macOS, iOS] Apple Creator Studio: 1 Month Free Trial for New Subscribers (Ongoing A$19.99/M, Student $4.99/M) @ Apple Store AU
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swamp potato on 14/01/2026 - 11:13 apple.com (437 clicks)
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Apple will launch Creator Studio, bundling pro apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage, and premium iWork features (Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Freeform) for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Starts 26 January 2026.

New subscribers get:

  • 1 month free, then A$19.99/month or A$199/year;
  • 3 months free with new eligible Mac/iPad.

University students/educators pay

-A$4.99/month or A$49/year after 1 month free—75% off regular pricing.

Important notes:

  • Apps are universal purchases via App Store/Mac App Store, shareable with up to 6 family members.
  • Individual one-time buys still available (e.g., Final Cut Pro A$499.99). Competes with Adobe Creative Cloud/Canva Pro at lower cost for Apple users.
  • With the purchase of a new Mac or qualifying iPad,13 customers can receive three months of Apple Creator Studio for free.

I understand a subscription model is very annoying, but currently the existing lifetime/outright sales have not ceased so you have alternatives. And if you're able to get the edu pricing, at just $49.99 a year, it's still okay if you're on the fence (compared to buying the programs individually or the very popular $300 education bundle).

New features are now only available behind the subscription: Apple said some "exciting new intelligent features and premium content" in Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and Freeform will only be accessible with a Creator Studio subscription.

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  • JAF on 14/01/2026 - 11:20
    +1

    premium iWork features (Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Freeform)

    Does anyone even use these apps over PowerPoint , word , excel ?

    That university student pricing is great!

    • Howedan on 14/01/2026 - 11:26
      +6

      I love Keynote - incredibly quick and you can make some great looking presentations.

      Numbers on the other hand …. yuck.

    • frkino on 14/01/2026 - 11:47
      +3

      Yes,
      Keynote over PowerPoint
      esp. when you are building a presentation slide deck to convey rather than uni lecturers moving texts onto slides, powerpoint is better for that

      it's a valuable skill to develop the skill on how to build good slide decks

      • theaterinterior on 15/01/2026 - 00:02

        Real uni lecturers use Beamer and I will die on that hill.

    • entropysbane on 14/01/2026 - 12:38
      +1

      Until now the iWork suite was free.

      • Maximum64 on 14/01/2026 - 13:18
        +4

        Nope, only been free since 2017, prior to that it was paid. Was (understandably) much much cheaper than Office though.

      • theaterinterior on 14/01/2026 - 13:35
        +1

        Still free I believe. You just get some premium template and extra AI features according to the official page.

        Will I still be able to use Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform for free?
        Yes. You can continue using Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform for free. And while these apps remain free for everyone, an Apple Creator Studio subscription offers premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features.

    • skwashd on 14/01/2026 - 16:26
      +2

      Family sharing is great. EDU pricing is great. EDU sub not sharing with the family, not so great.

      Offer good for verified university students and educators only, and does not extend to a Family Sharing group.

      Source: https://www.apple.com/au/apple-creator-studio/#footnote-4

  • [Deactivated] on 14/01/2026 - 11:21

    Seems somewhat good when compared to adobe prices.
    But definitely a great price at EDU discounted rate.

    How would you get edu pricing? Do you need an entirely different apple account with your edu email?

    • xmagic on 14/01/2026 - 12:13
      +1

      I think it would be the same as Apple Music student - you can bond Unidays to your personal Apple ID and verify status with any .edu address.

      • VerticallyIntegrated on 14/01/2026 - 15:32

        Have read many comments here and on other forums a .edu address doesn’t need to be used when purchasing the student bundle.

        • butteroz on 14/01/2026 - 20:39

          Yeah but they'll probably care about subscriptions though. You can't get Apple Music / TV discounted without verifying so I can't imagine saving $150 per year without an .edu email is something they'd do

    • theaterinterior on 14/01/2026 - 13:38
      +2

      Keep in mind you could previously (not sure if it’s still going to be offered) get the education bundle which included Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Compressor, Motion and Mainstage for around about $250. I got that roughly 10 years ago and still get all the latest updates

      • Shenannigoat on 14/01/2026 - 14:10
        +1

        It's $300, and still available.

        • theaterinterior on 14/01/2026 - 23:58
          +2

          Pretty good still I think. I can’t remember how much Pro Tools is costing me but I think it’s more than that!

  • Darkscythe on 14/01/2026 - 11:26
    +1

    How long do you think till they get rid of the perpetual license and start ramping up the monthly cost?

    • Pobblebonk on 14/01/2026 - 11:30
      +8

      Enshittification happening before our eyes

    • xmagic on 14/01/2026 - 12:14
      +2

      For Adobe, they'll get rid of it yesterday.
      For Apple, they'll keep one-off license probably for the foreseeable future.

  • Nedkellyinthebush on 14/01/2026 - 11:26
    +1

    Just kill adobe please

  • Pobblebonk on 14/01/2026 - 11:30
    +1

    holy sh*t Motion is still a thing. What's next, Infini-D?

    • coxymla on 14/01/2026 - 20:57

      They should include Bryce, Poser, and Ray Dream Studio

      • Pobblebonk on 14/01/2026 - 21:33

        Bryce powertools…. now that was a UI

  • guidedlight on 14/01/2026 - 11:33
    +12

    Apple One subscribers should get this for free. There’s no way I’m paying even more for this.

    Also Divinci Resolve is free and is better than Final Cut Pro these days.

    • xmagic on 14/01/2026 - 12:17

      I doubt that would ever happen - two subscriptions facing two separate target audiences.

    • VerticallyIntegrated on 14/01/2026 - 21:55

      Could they ‘cobble’ or even remove the bundle licensing and then only provide updates to the subscription model?

      I’m tempted to buy the student bundle before the 26th in case it disappears.

  • chrism238 on 14/01/2026 - 11:33
    +1

    The trial may be the bargain here, but readers should also be aware of the shitshow that Apple's announcement has created:
    https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/13/apple-creator-studio-ex…
    https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/13/apple-creator-studio/

    • Larsson on 14/01/2026 - 12:01

      So wait, are they taking features away from their office apps and locking behind a paywall?

      • chrism238 on 14/01/2026 - 12:07

        Difficult to say.
        Unsure if Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and Freeform will even arrive (for free) on new Macs.

      • xmagic on 14/01/2026 - 12:19
        +1

        I don't think that's the definition. The new features (AI, stock libraries, etc.) all requires resources or compute which are not free, while existing features are included in the free version.

        • entropysbane on 14/01/2026 - 12:39
          -1

          Yeah but we Apple users pay a premium for kit and I would have thought a subscription is thus not justifiable. Particularly for software that was free previously.

  • Nilfunds on 14/01/2026 - 12:21

    well, we sold all the socks for phone, so lets milk the free software, why was it free anyway? just bundle the not free software nobody buys with free software and charge them, come on guys we're so close to another trillion,
    just tell them it helps 'supply chain decarbonisation'

    written by Apple Intelligence

    • askbargain on 14/01/2026 - 12:36

      Does your brain hurt when you can’t comprehend how Apple made their trillion?

    • entropysbane on 14/01/2026 - 12:42
      +1

      Suits will end up destroying a great company and the Jobs legacy for short term gain.

      Exactly like the early nineties after which Apple was only referred to in the press as “beleaguered Apple Computer” until the Return of the Jobs.

      • Nilfunds on 14/01/2026 - 14:24

        it's truly tragic, this kind of rubbish in place of real innovation,

        i suspect Jobs is never coming back? :):)

        maybe when Cook steps down, thought it would happen by now

        • theaterinterior on 15/01/2026 - 00:01

          I’ll still take it. MacOS 26 sucks of course (in my opinion – even though I actually secretly kind of like liquid glass), but the M4 Max is incredible and genuinely makes me smile regularly at the crazy things it can do while providing absolutely mind numbing battery life.

          • Nilfunds on 15/01/2026 - 13:12
            -1

            @theaterinterior: yea? what are 'all the crazy things'?

            what can M4 Max do that M1 can not?

            except brag

            • theaterinterior on 15/01/2026 - 15:39
              -1

              @Nilfunds: Run 120 billion parameter local LLMs (requires roughly 68GB of VRAM which was not possible on M1)? Get 18 hours of battery life? Use the new Metal 3 GPU pipeline (mesh shading, dynamic caching, hardware ray-tracing) that simply doesn’t exist on M1?

              M1 Max was brilliant too, and I absolutely loved mine. The M1 Max definitely still holds up today, but the M4 Max is noticeably faster than it and saying that it can’t do anything the M1 can do except brag is demonstrably false.

              • Nilfunds on 15/01/2026 - 18:19
                -1

                @theaterinterior: lol,
                yea, makes me smile too now lol
                you didnt google any of that did you?
                the 120 billion is just your observation, innit.

                some reall innovation there

                • theaterinterior on 15/01/2026 - 21:07

                  @Nilfunds: Yep. LM studio running the gpt-oss-120b iirc. I mean it’s not fast, but it’s crazy cool that I can run it on a laptop on battery power.

                  I’ll probably stop responding now as it kind of seems as though you just want to be angry at Apple, which I totally get as all of these companies suck. They’re just the less shit of two options and Linux battery life has not been anything to write home about in my personal experience.

  • PeppaCat on 14/01/2026 - 13:08

    I remember once you install finalcut, it won't check whether you purchased it or no.
    So does that mean we can subscribe for 1 month, then use it…

    • theaterinterior on 14/01/2026 - 23:59

      Probably? I mean you can still just airdrop it to yourself in the Apple store last I checked.

  • VerticallyIntegrated on 14/01/2026 - 14:10

    You can still buy the student bundle with perpetual license for $299

    https://www.apple.com/au-edu/shop/product/bmge2z/a/pro-apps-…

  • FujinShu on 15/01/2026 - 01:49

    I wonder what that means for the existing $300 pro apps edu bundle, will it be discontinued soon?

  • beeroll on 15/01/2026 - 12:31
    +1

    You either get acquired by Microsoft in the 1990s, or live long enough to become Adobe…

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