January 13, 2026
PRESS RELEASE
Apple introduces Apple Creator Studio, an inspiring assortment of the strongest artistic apps
Closing Reduce Professional, Logic Professional, Pixelmator Professional, Movement, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI options and premium content material in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — come collectively in a single subscription
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at the moment unveiled Apple Creator Studio, a groundbreaking assortment of highly effective artistic apps designed to place studio-grade energy into the arms of everybody, constructing on the important function Mac, iPad, and iPhone play within the lives of thousands and thousands of creators world wide. The apps included with Apple Creator Studio for video modifying, music making, artistic imaging, and visible productiveness give fashionable creators the options and capabilities they should expertise the enjoyment of modifying and tailoring their content material whereas realizing their creative imaginative and prescient. Thrilling new clever options and premium content material construct on acquainted experiences of Closing Reduce Professional, Logic Professional, Pixelmator Professional, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and later Freeform to make Apple Creator Studio an thrilling subscription suite to empower creators of all disciplines whereas defending their privateness.
Closing Reduce Professional introduces distinctive new video modifying instruments and clever options for Mac and iPad to enhance the effectivity of even probably the most complicated workflows.1 For the primary time, Pixelmator Professional is coming to iPad with a uniquely crafted expertise that’s optimized for contact and Apple Pencil.2 Music creation with Logic Professional for Mac and iPad introduces much more clever options like Synth Participant and Chord ID to encourage anybody to write down, produce, and blend a variety of well-liked music.3 And with Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform, Apple Creator Studio subscribers will be extra expressive and productive with new premium content material and clever options throughout Mac, iPad, and iPhone.4
Apple Creator Studio shall be obtainable on the App Retailer starting Wednesday, January 28, for $12.99 per 30 days or $129 per yr, with a one-month free trial, and contains entry to Closing Reduce Professional, Logic Professional, and Pixelmator Professional on Mac and iPad; Movement, Compressor, and MainStage on Mac; and clever options and premium content material for Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and later Freeform for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Faculty college students and educators can subscribe for $2.99 per 30 days or $29.99 per yr. Alternatively, customers also can select to buy the Mac variations of Closing Reduce Professional, Pixelmator Professional, Logic Professional, Movement, Compressor, and MainStage individually as a one-time buy on the Mac App Retailer.5
“Apple Creator Studio is a good worth that permits creators of all kinds to pursue their craft and develop their abilities by offering easy accessibility to probably the most highly effective and intuitive instruments for video modifying, music making, artistic imaging, and visible productiveness — all leveled up with superior clever instruments to enhance and speed up workflows,” mentioned Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vp of Web Software program and Companies. “There’s by no means been a extra versatile and accessible method to get began with such a robust assortment of artistic apps for professionals, rising artists, entrepreneurs, college students, and educators to do their finest work and discover their artistic pursuits from begin to end.”
Video Creation Will get Smarter and Quicker
Closing Reduce Professional for Mac and iPad empowers content material creators, video editors, and filmmakers to raise their initiatives with intuitive options. One-time-purchase Mac customers and Apple Creator Studio subscribers can expertise blazing-fast efficiency with Apple silicon for probably the most demanding workflows, and get into the artistic move sooner than ever with new on-device clever options that make video creation easy and straightforward.
With Transcript Search on Mac and iPad, customers can now simply discover the right soundbite in hours of footage by merely typing phrases into the search bar to see actual or associated outcomes.6 Video podcasts and interviews will be assembled rapidly, eliminating in depth time spent skimming by means of footage. Searching for a particular video clip additionally will get an intelligence help with Visible Search.7 Now, customers can rapidly pinpoint actual moments throughout all footage by looking for an object or motion, after which add that visible to their timeline in seconds.
Closing Reduce Professional for Mac and iPad additionally makes modifying video to the rhythm of music quick and enjoyable with Beat Detection, an incredible new method to see musical beats, bars, and music components proper within the venture timeline. Beat Detection makes use of an AI mannequin from Logic Professional to immediately analyze any music monitor and show the Beat Grid, so customers creating fast-paced movies can rapidly and visually align their cuts to the music. Re-editing music tracks to completely different lengths can also be simpler than ever.
The brand new Montage Maker in Closing Reduce Professional for iPad lets customers kick-start their edit in simply seconds. Utilizing the facility of AI, Montage Maker will analyze and edit collectively a dynamic video primarily based on the most effective visible moments throughout the footage, with the flexibility to alter the pacing, minimize to a music monitor, and intelligently reframe horizontal movies to vertical with Auto Crop to simplify sharing throughout social platforms.
Apple Creator Studio additionally unlocks full entry to Movement, a robust movement graphics device for creating cinematic 2D and 3D results with clever options like Magnetic Masks, which effortlessly isolates and tracks individuals and objects with no inexperienced display. It additionally contains Compressor, which integrates with Closing Reduce Professional and Movement to seamlessly customise output settings for distribution.
Taking Music Creation to the Subsequent Degree
A brand new lineup of options for Logic Professional for Mac and iPad helps musical artists and helps creators ship authentic music for his or her video content material as an Apple Creator Studio subscriber or one-time-purchase Mac consumer. The brand new instruments are subtle, intuitive, and clever to encourage beat making, songwriting, remixing, and extra.
Synth Participant joins the AI Session Participant lineup,8 delivering unbelievable digital music performances with a various vary of chordal and synth bass components — all powered by AI and the superior software program instrument expertise of Logic Professional. Utilizing Synth Participant is like accessing a talented synthesist that may immediately take a musical concept in new instructions when wanted. Developed in-house utilizing Apple’s personal group of professional sound designers, Synth Participant delivers unbelievable realism and constancy fueled by the huge array of software program synthesizers and samplers in Logic Professional. And like each AI Session Participant, creators can direct Synth Participant utilizing intuitive controls for complexity and depth, whereas extra parameters unlock entry to superior efficiency capabilities. Synth Participant also can entry any third-party plug-in Audio Items, and even management an exterior {hardware} synthesizer.
Tapping into the facility of AI, Chord ID turns into a private music principle professional by turning any audio or MIDI recording right into a ready-to-use chord development, eliminating tedious handbook transcription and bringing demo concepts to life even sooner. Designed to assist everybody get probably the most out of the Session Participant expertise, Chord ID can analyze complicated harmonic content material from almost any recording to mechanically populate the chord monitor in Logic Professional. And for the reason that chord monitor drives the performances of any AI Session Participant, customers can rapidly audition completely different gamers, kinds, and genres, permitting them artistic freedom to experiment and dial of their favourite vibe.
The brand new Sound Library in Logic Professional for Mac delivers Apple-designed packs and Producer Packs with a whole lot of royalty-free loops, samples, instrument patches, drum sounds, and extra. Moreover, Logic Professional for iPad customers will now have entry to the industry-leading Fast Swipe Comping function from Logic Professional for Mac, an indispensable device for vocalists and producers who need to create seamless performances inside or outdoors the studio.
Logic Professional for iPad additionally presents Music Understanding options with pure language search within the Sound Browser to assist customers describe a loop or discover related loops — no tags, guesses, or filters required. AI-based consciousness of the huge assortment of loops in Logic Professional makes it straightforward to go looking both by means of pure language or a recording to discover a related or complementary loop or sound.
Apple Creator Studio additionally unlocks entry to MainStage, which turns Mac into an instrument, voice processor, or guitar rig. Now, the sound customers love of their recording will be the sound their viewers hears. Setup is quick, teardown is quicker, and every part in between is extra dependable.
Artistic Imaging Designed for iPad
Pixelmator Professional, the award-winning picture editor for Mac, comes with the all-new Apple Creator Studio, bringing an approachable {and professional} modifying expertise to much more creators. Pixelmator Professional is full of highly effective picture modifying instruments, empowering Apple Creator Studio subscribers and one-time-purchase Mac customers to design, draw, paint, and refine their artistic imaginative and prescient, and a lot extra. For the primary time, Pixelmator Professional is coming to iPad, bringing an all-new touch-optimized workspace, full Apple Pencil help, the flexibility to work between iPad and Mac, and all the highly effective modifying instruments customers have come to understand on Mac. Pixelmator Professional for iPad affords quick and environment friendly picture modifying, leveraging the blazing efficiency of Apple silicon and constructed from scratch for the newest iPadOS.
Intuitive contact controls make it even simpler to create desktop-class designs wherever customers take their iPad. The complete-featured Layers sidebar permits creators to construct designs utilizing a variety of distinctive parts like pictures, shapes, textual content, and even video. Sensible choice instruments assist customers isolate and edit particular components of pictures effortlessly, and with superior bitmap and vector masks, customers can disguise or reveal discrete parts of their designs. The deep integration of {hardware}, software program, and Apple silicon unlocks options like Tremendous Decision for intelligently upscaling images, Deband for eradicating compression artifacts, and computerized composition solutions with Auto Crop. With full help for Apple Pencil, digital artists can take pleasure in portray in probably the most pure approach with a wonderful assortment of pressure-sensitive brushes. And unmatched Apple Pencil precision — mixed with options like hover,9 squeeze,10 and double-tap11 — provides creators the flexibility to craft pixel-perfect designs.
Moreover, for Apple Creator Studio subscribers, each Pixelmator Professional for Mac and iPad convey a robust new Warp device for twisting and shaping layers any approach creatives can think about, alongside a wonderful assortment of Warp-powered product mockups.
Supercharging Visible Productiveness
For greater than 20 years, Apple’s visible productiveness apps have empowered customers to precise themselves with lovely shows, paperwork, and spreadsheets utilizing Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. And Freeform has introduced infinite potentialities for artistic brainstorming and visible collaboration.
With Apple Creator Studio, productiveness will get supercharged with all-new options that convey extra intelligence and premium content material to creators’ fingertips to allow them to take their initiatives to the subsequent stage. The Content material Hub is a brand new area the place customers can discover curated, high-quality images, graphics, and illustrations. A subscription additionally unlocks new premium templates and themes in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
Along with Picture Playground, superior picture creation and modifying instruments let customers create high-quality pictures from textual content, or remodel present pictures, utilizing generative fashions from OpenAI.12 On-device AI fashions allow Tremendous Decision to upscale pictures whereas retaining them sharp and detailed, and Auto Crop offers clever crop solutions, serving to customers discover eye-catching compositions for images.
To assist customers put together shows much more rapidly in Keynote, Apple Creator Studio contains entry to options in beta, akin to the flexibility to generate a primary draft of a presentation from a textual content define, or create presenter notes from present slides. Subscribers also can rapidly clear up slides to repair format and object placement. And in Numbers, subscribers can generate formulation and fill in tables primarily based on sample recognition with Magic Fill.
Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform will stay free for all customers to create, edit, and collaborate with others, together with Apple Creator Studio subscribers. These apps will proceed receiving updates, with the newest variations adopting the attractive new visible design language with Liquid Glass on all platforms, and supporting the brand new windowing and menu bar enhancements in iPadOS 26.
Pricing and Availability
- Apple Creator Studio shall be obtainable starting Wednesday, January 28, for $12.99 (U.S.) per 30 days or $129 (U.S.) per yr. All new subscribers will take pleasure in a one-month free trial of Apple Creator Studio, and with the acquisition of a brand new Mac or qualifying iPad,13 clients can obtain three months of Apple Creator Studio without cost.14
- Training financial savings can be found for faculty college students and educators15 for $2.99 (U.S.) per 30 days or $29.99 (U.S.) per yr.
- Apple Creator Studio is out there to obtain on the App Retailer as a common buy.
- As much as six members of the family can share all the apps and content material included in Apple Creator Studio with Household Sharing.
- One-time-purchase variations of Closing Reduce Professional ($299.99 U.S.), Logic Professional ($199.99 U.S.), Pixelmator Professional ($49.99 U.S.), Movement ($49.99 U.S.), Compressor ($49.99 U.S.), and MainStage ($29.99 U.S.) can be found on the Mac App Retailer.
- Free variations of Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform proceed to be obtainable and are included with each new iPhone, Mac, and iPad.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At present, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- The Apple Creator Studio model of Closing Reduce Professional for Mac shall be suitable with Mac fashions with Intel or Apple silicon chips working macOS 15.6 or later. Some options require Apple silicon. Closing Reduce Professional for iPad shall be suitable with iPad fashions with the A16, A17 Professional, or M1 chip or later working iPadOS 18.6 or later.
- Pixelmator Professional for iPad is suitable with iPad fashions with the A16, A17 Professional, or M1 chip or later working iPadOS 26 or later. The Apple Creator Studio model of Pixelmator Professional requires macOS 26.
- The Apple Creator Studio model of Logic Professional for Mac requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple silicon. Logic Professional for iPad requires iPadOS 26 or later and an iPad with the Apple A12 Bionic chip or later. Some options require the Apple A17 Professional chip or later.
- Apple Creator Studio variations of Keynote, Pages, and Numbers would require iOS 18.0 or later, iPadOS 18.0 or later, or macOS Sequoia 15.6 or later. Some clever options together with picture era would require iOS 26, iPadOS 26, or macOS Tahoe. Premium content material and options in Freeform should not at the moment obtainable and are anticipated to be included within the Apple Creator Studio subscription later this yr.
- The one-time-purchase variations of Closing Reduce Professional requires macOS 15.6 or later, Logic Professional requires macOS 15.6 or later, and Pixelmator Professional requires macOS 12.0 or later. MainStage is out there for any Mac supported by macOS 15.6 or later. Movement requires macOS 15.6 or later. Compressor requires macOS 15.6 or later and a few options require a Mac with Apple silicon.
- Transcript Search in Closing Reduce Professional requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15.6 or later, or an iPad with the Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16), or iPad mini (A17 Professional) and iPadOS 26 or later. Out there solely in U.S. English.
- Visible Search requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15.6 or later, or an iPad with the Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16), or iPad mini (A17 Professional) and iPadOS 26 or later. Out there solely in U.S. English.
- Session Gamers require iPad with the Apple M1 chip or later or Mac with Apple silicon is really useful.
- Apple Pencil hover works with iPad Professional 13-inch (M4), iPad Professional 12.9‑inch (sixth era), iPad Professional 11-inch (M4), iPad Professional 11‑inch (4th era), iPad Air 13-inch (M2), and iPad Air 11-inch (M2).
- Apple Pencil squeeze is just obtainable when utilizing Apple Pencil Professional with iPad Professional 13- and 11-inch (M4 and M5), iPad Air 13- and 11-inch (M2 and M3), and iPad mini (A17 Professional).
- Apple Pencil double-tap works with Apple Pencil (2nd era) with iPad mini (sixth era), iPad Air (4th and fifth generations), iPad Professional 11-inch (1st, 2nd, third, and 4th generations), and iPad Professional 12.9-inch (third, 4th, fifth, and sixth generations); and with Apple Pencil Professional with iPad mini (A17 Professional), iPad Air 11-inch and 13-inch (M2 and M3), and iPad Professional 11-inch and 13-inch (M4 and M5).
- Some options of Apple Creator Studio require an Apple Intelligence-capable system. For an inventory of Apple Intelligence availability and technical necessities, see help.apple.com/121115. Some synthetic intelligence options of Apple Creator Studio make the most of third-party fashions and will have utilization limits and restrictions.
- A brand new Mac or iPad bought from Apple or an Apple Approved Reseller. iPad should have no less than 6 GB reminiscence and an A16, A17 Professional, or M-series chip or later.
- New and certified returning subscribers solely. Plan renews at $12.99 per 30 days or $129 per yr primarily based on plan chosen. Just one supply per Apple Account and just one supply per household in the event that they’re a part of a Household Sharing group, whatever the variety of gadgets that they or their household buy. This supply is just not obtainable if the account holder or their Household have beforehand accepted an Apple Creator Studio subscription three months free supply. Supply good for the latter of (i) three months after eligible system activation or (ii) three months after first availability for subscription to Apple Creator Studio. Plan mechanically renews till cancelled. Restrictions and different phrases apply.
- New subscribers solely. Training Financial savings Plan mechanically renews at $2.99 per 30 days or $29.99 per yr primarily based on plan chosen till cancelled. Supply good for faculty college students and educators solely and doesn’t prolong to a Household Sharing group. Verification required. Phrases apply. Restricted-time supply; supply could finish at any time.
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