Apple has launched Creator Studio, a suite of advanced creative apps.  

Apple Creator Apps include:  

• Final Cut Pro  

• Logic Pro  

• PixelmatorPro  

• motion compressor  

• MainStage  

These included apps are now available via a single subscription, with specific platform availability for each app:  

• Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for both Mac and iPad  

• Motion Compressor and MainStage for Mac only  

New AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers are available across Mac, iPad, and iPhone.  

Apple Today Announces Apple Creator Studio, a Complete Suite of Creative Applications Designed to Provide Studio-Grade Tools for All Users Available as a Single Subscription. Apple Creator Studio offers advanced features for video editing, music production, creative imaging, and visual productivity. The suite includes new intelligent features and premium content across Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro (Mac and iPad), Keynote, Pages, Numbers (Mac, iPad, and iPhone), and, in the future, Free Form (iMac, iPad, and iPhone), empowering creators while sustaining user privacy.  

Final Cut Pro adds new video editing tools for iMac and iPad. Pixelmator Pro launches on iPad with touch and Apple Pencil support. Logic Pro introduces Synth Player and MIDI for music creation. Subscribers get premium content and smart features in Keynote, Pages, and Free Form across devices.  

Apple Creator Studio will be available on the App Store starting Wednesday, January 28, for INR 399 per month or INR 3999 per year, with a one-month free trial. The subscription grants access to all included apps and features across compatible devices.  

• Final Cut Pro  

• Logic Pro  

• Pixelmator Pro  

For both Mac and iPad:  

• Motion Compressor and Main Stage for Mac only  

• Keynote, Pages, Numbers (and later FreeForm) feature intelligent tools and premium content for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.  

College students and instructors can subscribe for INR 199 per month or INR 1,999 per year, or $3 per month or $30 per year in the US. Alternatively, users may purchase Mac versions of Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage individually as a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.  

Now that we have provided details about the pricing and availability of the Creator Studio, let us see who it is for.  

Apple Creator Studio offers creators of all backgrounds powerful, intuitive tools for video editing, music production, creative imaging, and video productivity, enhanced by advanced artificial intelligence to simplify workflows.  

 Said Eddie Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services. This suite provides a flexible and accessible way for professionals, artists, entrepreneurs, students, and teachers to achieve their creative goals from start to finish.   

What is Apple Creator Studio? 

Apple Creator Studio is a comprehensive suite that integrates various apps into a Final Cut Pro bundle. Apple Creator Studio includes the following:  

Complete suite: Integrates video editing, music production, image editing, and productivity with family sharing for up to six members.  

AI integration: adds transcript search, beat detection, and montage maker to Final Cut Pro, as well as AI-powered image editing in Pixelmator Pro.  

Apple Creator Studio launches January 28, 2026, at $12.99 per month or $129 per year, with a 1-month free trial.  

Purchasers of new eligible Mac or iPad devices received 3 months of free service.  

Education pricing:  

• Students and instructors can access the suite for $3/month or $30/year.  

The new subscription is designed to make studio-grade professional creative tools more accessible on Apple devices, enhancing content creators’ workflows.  

Video Creation Gets Smarter And Faster 

Final Cut Pro for Mac and iPad provides content creators, video editors, and filmmakers with intuitive features to improve their projects. Both one-time purchase Mac users and Apple Creative Studio subscribers benefit from high performance with Apple Silicon and new on-device intelligent features that improve video creation.  

With transcript search on Mac and iPad, users can now easily find the perfect soundbite in hours of footage by simply typing phrases into the search bar to see exact or related results. Video podcasts and interviews can be assembled quickly, eliminating the need to spend extensive time skimming through footage to find a specific video clip. Also gets an intelligence assistant assist with visual search. Users can now quickly pinpoint exact moments across all footage by searching for an object or action, then adding that visual to their timeline in seconds.  

Final Cut Pro for Mac and iPad introduces beat direction, which displays musical beats, bars, and song parts directly in the editing timeline. Beat direction uses an AI model in Logic Pro to analyze music tracks and generate a beat grid, permitting users to align video cuts with music efficiently. Re-editing music tracks to different lengths is also simplified.  

The new Montage Maker in Final Cut Pro for iPad lets users kick-start their edit in just seconds, using the power of AI. Montage Maker will analyze and edit a dynamic video from the best visual moments in the footage, allowing you to adjust the pacing, cut to a music track, and intelligently reframe horizontal videos to vertical with auto-cropping to simplify sharing across social platforms.  

Apple Creator Studio provides full access to Motion, a motion graphics tool for creating 2D and 3D effects, including intelligent features like magnetic masks that isolate and track people and objects without a green screen. The suite also includes Compressor, which integrates with Final Cut Pro and Motion to customize output settings for distribution.  

Taking Music Creation to the Next Level 

A new line-up of features for Logic Pro for Mac and iPad supports musical artists and helps creators deliver original music for their video content. Whether as an Apple Creator Studio subscriber or a one-time Mac purchase user, the new tools are sophisticated, intuitive, and intelligent, inspiring beat-making, songwriting, remixing, and more.  

Synth player joins the AI session player lineup, delivering incredible electronic music performances with a diverse range of chordal and synth-based parts, all powered by AI and advanced software instrument technology of Logic Pro. Using Synth Player is like having access to a musical idea in new directions, developed in-house by Apple’s expert sound designers. Synth player delivers incredible realism and fidelity, powered by Logic Pro’s vast array of software synthesizers and samplers. Like every AI session player, creators can direct the synth player using user-friendly controls for complexity and intensity, while additional parameters unlock advanced performance capabilities. A synth player can also access third-party audio units and plug-ins or even control an external hardware synthesizer.  

Chord ID uses AI to turn recordings into quad progressions, populating Logic Pro’s quad track for fast auditioning of styles and genres.  

The new Sound library in Logic Pro format delivers Apple-designed packs and producer packs with hundreds of royalty-free loops, samples, instrument patches, drum sounds, and more. Additionally, Logic Pro for iPad users will now have access to the industry-leading Quick Typing Comping feature. The new sound library in Logic Pro for Mac offers Apple-designed packs and producer packs with hundreds of royalty-free loops, samples, instrument patches, and drum sounds. Logic Pro for iPad users now have access to the Quick Type Comping feature from Logic Pro for Mac, an important tool for producing seamless performances. You can search either by natural language or by recording to find a similar or complementary loop or sound.  

Apple Creator Studio includes access to MainStage, which transforms a Mac into an instrument, voice processor, and guitar rig. This allows users to replicate their recorded sound in live performances with a streamlined setup and reliable operation.  

Creative Imaging Designed for iPad 

Pixelmator Pro, the award-winning image editor for Mac, comes with the all-new Apple Creator Studio, bringing an accessible and professional editing experience to even more creators. Pixelmator Pro is packed with powerful image editing tools, empowering Apple Creator Studio subscribers and one-time purchase Mac users to design, draw, paint, and improve their creative vision, and so much more. For the first time, Pixelmator Pro is coming to iPad, bringing an all-new touch-optimized workspace, full Apple Pencil support, the ability to work between iPad and Mac, and all of the powerful editing tools users have come to appreciate on Mac. Pixelmator Pro for iPad offers fast and effective image editing, making use of the blazing performance of Apple Silicon and built from the ground up for the latest iPadOS.  

Intuitive touch controls make it even easier to create desktop-class designs. Whenever users take their iPad, the full-featured Layers sidebar lets creators build designs with a range of unique elements, including images, shapes, text, and even video. Smart selection tools help users isolate and edit specific parts of images effortlessly, and with advanced bitmap and vector masks, users can hide or reveal discrete portions of their designs. 

 The deep integration of hardware, software, and Apple Silicon unlocks features like:  

• Super resolution for intelligently upscaling photos  

• Deband for removing compression artifacts  

• Automatic composition suggestions for auto-crop  

With full support for Apple Pencil, digital artists can enjoy painting in the most natural way with a beautiful collection of pressure-sensitive brushes. And unmatched Apple Pencil precision, combined with features like Hover 9, Squeeze 10, and Double Tap 11, gives creators the ability to craft pixel-perfect designs.  

Additionally, for Apple, Apple Creator Studio subscribers can access the new Warp tool in Pixelmator Pro for Mac and iPad, facilitating flexible layer manipulation, along with a collection of Warp-powered product mockups.  

Supercharging Visual Productivity 

For over 20 years, Apple’s visual productivity apps have enabled users to create presentations, documents, and spreadsheets with Keynote Pages and Numbers. FreeForm supports creative brainstorming and visual collaboration.  

Apple Creator Studio introduces new features and premium content to improve productivity. The Content Hub provides curated high-quality photos, graphics, and illustrations. Subscribers can also gain access to new premium templates and themes for Keynote pages and Numbers.  

In addition to Image Playground’s advanced image creation and editing tools, it lets users create high-quality images from text or transform existing images using Generative Models from OpenAI. In addition to Image Playground, advanced image creation and editing tools allow users to generate high-quality images from text or modify existing images using generative models from OpenAI.  

• On-device AI models enable super-resolution upscaling while preserving detail.  

• Auto Crop offers intelligent crop suggestions to improve photo composition.  

• You can create presenter notes from existing slides.  

• Subscribers can quickly clean up slides to fix layout and object placement.  

• In numbers, subscribers can generate formulas and fill tables using pattern recognition with Magic Fill.  

Keynote, Numbers, and Freeform will remain free for all users to create, edit, and collaborate on, including Apple Creator Studio subscribers. These apps will continue receiving updates to the latest versions, adopting the beautiful new Visual Design Language with Liquid Glass across all platforms, and supporting the new windowing and menu bar improvements in iPadOS 26.  

Compared with Adobe, Apple Creator Studio offers a unique platform for creators that is not only affordable but also tailored to their needs.