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In abstract:
- Macworld explores Apple Creator Studio, a subscription bundle combining inventive apps like Last Lower Professional, Logic Professional, and Pixelmator Professional with new AI options.
- The service presents stable worth for college students and Apple customers however contains month-to-month limits of fifty AI-generated photographs and displays.
- Customers should obtain new variations of iWork apps as outdated ones are discontinued, with some options now subscriber-only regardless of primary apps remaining free.
Apple Creator Studio is now out there to customers. The bundle gathers apps like Last Lower Professional, Logic Professional, and Pixelmator Professional right into a single subscription. Subscribers additionally get entry to unique options in some Apple apps, reminiscent of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
However there are a number of small particulars about Apple Creator Studio that weren’t clear till we had an opportunity to mess around with it. So listed below are 11 stuff you won’t know in regards to the bundle.
1. There isn’t a Creator Studio app
On the day of the Creator Studio launch, many customers naturally tried to search out the Apple Creator Studio app within the App Retailer. Nevertheless, Creator Studio just isn’t a single app, however reasonably a bundle. In the event you seek for Apple Creator Studio within the App Retailer, you’ll discover a bundle with the entire following apps:
- Last Lower Professional
- Logic Professional
- Pixelmator Professional
- Keynote
- Pages
- Numbers
- Movement
- Compressor
- MainStage
You’ll be able to obtain each app within the bundle abruptly or simply choose those you need to use straight away, however Creator Studio is simply the title of the gathering. There isn’t a Creator Studio supervisor or content material hub—the person apps are merely bought collectively.
While you open any app that’s a part of Creator Studio, a subscription immediate will seem. When you subscribe, your subscription might be legitimate for all different apps within the bundle.
If you wish to use Pixelmator Professional the iPad, you’ll must subscribe.
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2. You’ll be able to nonetheless purchase Mac apps individually, however not iPad apps
In the event you’re not a fan of subscriptions and like to pay a one-time charge for a license, the Mac apps which are a part of Apple Creator Studio can nonetheless be bought individually from the App Retailer, together with Last Lower Professional, Logic Professional, Pixelmator Professional, Movement, Compressor, and MainStage.
Nevertheless, there aren’t any lifetime licenses supplied for iPad apps, and Pixelmator Professional for iPadOS is completely out there as a part of Apple Creator Studio. iWork apps stay out there free of charge, though some options at the moment are unique to subscribers.
3. AI options have utilization limits
Talking of unique options, iWork apps (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers) present some new AI instruments for Apple Creator Studio subscribers. For instance, you possibly can generate photographs to your paperwork or displays, create slides based mostly on prompts, and even auto-fill tables.
There are limits to what number of Apple Intelligence options can be utilized every month.
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Nevertheless, based on Apple, there are utilization limits for these AI options. Creator Studio subscribers can generate as much as 50 photographs and 50 Keynote displays (with roughly 10 slides every) monthly. Presentation notes are additionally restricted to 700 slides monthly.
Mac customers can examine their utilization standing by clicking on the app title within the Menu Bar, then Intelligence Options. On the iPhone and iPad, utilization standing might be discovered beneath the “Extra” button in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote.
4. Apple Creator Studio makes use of AI fashions from OpenAI
Whereas some customers might imagine that the AI instruments supplied as a part of Apple Creator Studio are powered by Apple Intelligence fashions, these are literally powered by OpenAI.
Apple makes it clear that, though some knowledge could also be despatched to OpenAI, the information just isn’t used to coach AI fashions in any scenario. The info can also be despatched anonymously and isn’t synced together with your ChatGPT account.
5. Photos from Content material Hub can’t be utilized in different apps
Apple Creator Studio subscribers have entry to the Content material Hub, which is basically a library of royalty-free photographs and art work. Whereas you should utilize these photographs freely in your paperwork and displays, you possibly can’t copy them to different apps. In the event you strive, the picture could have an Apple Creator Studio watermark.
In the event you attempt to import an Apple Creator Studio inventory picture in one other app, a watermark will seem.
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6. Some Creator Studio apps aren’t out there on the iPad
Whereas Apple promotes Creator Studio as a multi-platform subscription, a number of the apps are unique to the Mac: Movement, Compressor, and MainStage.
On the iPad, you should utilize Last Lower Professional, Logic Professional, Pixelmator Professional, in addition to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers (which additionally work on the iPhone).
Aside from Keynote, Creator Studio apps should not appropriate with Imaginative and prescient Professional.
7. Chances are you’ll must re-download a number of the apps in your Mac
If you have already got older variations of apps reminiscent of Last Lower Professional or Pixelmator Professional put in in your Mac, you’ll must re-download the brand new variations when you plan to subscribe to Creator Studio. That’s as a result of the subscription variations can be found as separate apps.
In terms of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, Apple says that everybody must obtain the brand new variations of those apps from the App Retailer, even when they don’t plan to subscribe to Creator Studio. The outdated variations have been discontinued and can not obtain updates.
On iOS, nothing adjustments. You’ll be able to merely replace your present apps to the newest variations, that are additionally appropriate with Creator Studio.
In the event you’re an current Last Lower Professional consumer, you might must obtain one other model.
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8. New icons are unique to Creator Studio subscribers
When Apple unveiled Creator Studio, it additionally confirmed off new icons for the apps which are a part of the bundle. Nevertheless, since there are two totally different variations of the apps, solely these meant for subscribers have the redesigned icons.
The standalone variations out there on the Mac App Retailer for particular person buy follow the outdated icons—apart from Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, which have new Creator Studio-styled icons.
9. New Freeform options are coming later this 12 months
Apple highlighted that the Freeform app would even be a part of Creator Studio. Extra particularly, the app can even achieve new AI-powered instruments, identical to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
Nevertheless, Apple says that Freeform’s new options might be out there later this 12 months, which might imply they gained’t arrive with the OS 27 updates within the fall.
10. You’ll be able to share your Apple Creator Studio subscription
One of many fundamental advantages of subscribing to Apple Creator Studio is you could share your subscription with as much as 5 different buddies or members of the family by means of iCloud Household Sharing.
In the event you’re a scholar, Creator Studio is cheaper than a cup of espresso.
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11. Creator Studio is de facto low-cost for college students and lecturers
Whereas Creator Studio is an excellent worth for $12.99 monthly or $129 per 12 months, it’s a downright steal for the training market. Eligible college students and lecturers can get Apple Creator Studio for simply $2.99 monthly or $29.99 a 12 months.
Is Apple Creator Studio value it?
Apple Creator Studio presents stable worth by combining highly effective inventive apps right into a single subscription, particularly for college students and customers already deep in Apple’s ecosystem. Nevertheless it additionally introduces new trade-offs, from AI utilization limits to platform restrictions and subscription-only options.
For some creators, the comfort and pricing will outweigh the drawbacks. However for others, understanding these lesser-known particulars stands out as the distinction between subscribing or sticking with standalone apps.
