Apple is starting a new subscription service named Creator Studio on January 28, 2026. It costs $13 per month or $130 for the whole year. Students get a great discount—just $3 per month or $30 per year. New people can try it for free for one month.
The subscription gives you access to several Apple apps for creative work. These include Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for video and music editing, Pixelmator Pro for photos, and other tools like Motion, Compressor, and MainStage. You can use these apps on both Mac computers and iPads (where available). Up to six family members can share one subscription.
Apple is also adding new features to these apps. Final Cut Pro now lets you search through videos by typing what people said in them. It can also automatically create highlight videos from your footage. Logic Pro adds computer-generated music players to help you make songs. Pixelmator Pro is coming to iPad for the first time, designed to work with the Apple Pencil.
Free apps like Keynote, Pages, and Numbers get extra benefits too. Subscribers get special templates, designs, and access to professional photos and graphics. These apps also get AI features that can create images from text descriptions, improve existing pictures, and even make presentation slides from written notes.
The good news is that Apple still lets you buy Mac versions of these apps individually if you don’t want a subscription. This is different from Adobe, which stopped selling standalone versions in 2013. However, iPad versions only work with the subscription.
At $130 per year, Creator Studio is much cheaper than Adobe Creative Cloud, which costs $780 yearly. Apple’s bundle works best for people who use multiple creative apps on both Mac and iPad devices.
