Apple bundles creative apps like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro into a single subscription

Apple has been putting more onus on its plans for the past few years – the company is making tens of billions of dollars in revenue from that side of the business, which it says has a record year in 2025. Apple is slowly moving in that direction with a new subscription bundle called Apple Creator Studio.

This allows creators to pay a single fee ($13 per month or $129 per year) to use Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor and MainStage. Subscribers will get access to “premium content” on Pages, Keynote and Numbers (and on Freeform later this year). Of course, there are AI features as well. Apple Creator Studio will be available from January 28 and you can try it for free with a one-month free trial.

College students and teachers can subscribe to Apple Creator Studio for $3 a month or $30 a year. Up to six people can access all features of the program if one person in the Family Sharing group signs up.

Apple noted that Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor and MainStage will still be available as one-time purchases for Mac through the Mac App Store. Considering those can be quite expensive (up to $300 for Final Cut Pro), subscriptions may be attractive to many aspiring creators.

This looks like Apple’s attempt to muscle in on Adobe’s space, especially now that it’s bringing AI features to many of these apps. Adding new features to productivity apps like Numbers and Keynote means Apple is taking on the same image as Microsoft 365 Copilot (yeeeeeah, that’s what Office is called) and Google Workspace.

On Mac and iPad, Final Cut Pro has a new feature called Beat Detection. Apple suggests that this makes “editing video to the beat of music faster and more fun.” It uses an AI model from Logic Pro to analyze music tracks and display the Beat Grid. The idea here is to visualize the song’s parts, beats and bars to help the editors match their cuts to the music.

Montage Maker’s AI-powered tool can assemble “dynamic video based on the best viewing moments within a video.” You’ll be able to edit these montages and use the Auto Crop tool to reshape the clip into a more precise format to better fit social media. Final Cut Pro has text and visual search functions.

Logic Pro, MainStage, Pixelmator Pro (coming to iPad with Apple Pencil support) and Motion will have AI-powered features as well. As you might expect, you’ll need an Apple Intelligence-capable device to use some of these.

Apple also introduced something called Content Hub. This media library includes “selected, high-quality images, graphics and illustrations.”

As for Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, you’ll have access to premium templates and themes for those free apps with the Apple Creator Studio app. Subscribers will be able to try beta versions of new features, such as a way to draft Keynote presentation text based on an outline, and a Magic Fill tool for generating formulas and filling tables in Numbers.