Apple Creator Studio price, apps, and features
Apple Creator Studio suite
Apple Creator Studio has landed, and Apple Creator Studio is basically Apple deciding it is done politely lending creators a laptop and a smile. Now it wants the whole creative workflow living inside its walled garden, with a single subscription, a suspiciously sharp price, and enough AI sprinkled over the top to make Adobe sit up a bit straighter.
Apple announced Apple Creator Studio on 14 January, 2026, and it goes live on the App Store on Thursday, 29 January, 2026. In Australia, the pricing is A$19.99 per month or A$199 per year, both including GST, with a one month free trial.
So yes, Apple Creator Studio is real, and yes, it is aimed directly at anyone who edits video, makes music, designs thumbnails, builds pitch decks, or does all of the above at 1am because the algorithm demanded tribute.
What is Apple Creator Studio
Apple Creator Studio is a subscription bundle that combines Apple’s pro creative apps with new intelligent features and premium content across its productivity apps.
Included in the subscription you get:
- Final Cut Pro on Mac and iPad
- Logic Pro on Mac and iPad
- Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad
- Motion on Mac
- Compressor on Mac
- MainStage on Mac
- Plus intelligent features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and later this year, Freeform, across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
It is Apple’s way of saying, you can film, cut, score, design, and present a project without stitching together five subscriptions and seventeen browser tabs.
Apple Creator Studio pricing in Australia
Here is the part everyone will Google, so let’s make it painfully clear.
Apple Creator Studio subscription prices, Australia:
- A$19.99 per month inc. GST
- A$199 per year inc. GST
- One month free trial for new subscribers
- Three months free with purchase of a new Mac or qualifying iPad
Education pricing (university students and educators):
- A$4.99 per month inc. GST
- A$49 per year inc. GST
It also supports Family Sharing, with up to six family members able to share the apps and included content.
And if you hate subscriptions on principle, Apple says you can still buy the Mac versions of the pro apps as one time purchases.
One time purchase prices on Mac in Australia
If you want to do it the old fashioned way and buy outright, these are the Australian prices listed:
- Final Cut Pro, A$499.99
- Logic Pro, A$299.99
- Pixelmator Pro, A$79.99
- Motion, A$79.99
- Compressor, A$79.99
- MainStage, A$49.99
Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform remain free, as they always have been.
Final Cut Pro gets faster, smarter, and a bit cheeky
Final Cut Pro is getting a suite of new tools and on device intelligence features on Mac and iPad, aimed at speeding up real world editing, especially for interviews, podcasts, and short form content.
Highlights include:
Transcript Search
Type a phrase, find the moment in your footage, and pull the matching soundbite without scrubbing through hours of timeline misery. It is built for people assembling interviews, video podcasts, and talking head content.
Visual Search
Search your footage for an object or action, then jump straight to the relevant clip. This is the kind of feature that saves you from losing your weekend to a folder called “B roll final”.
Beat Detection and Beat Grid
Final Cut Pro now analyses music and displays beats, bars, and song parts directly in the timeline, using an AI model from Logic Pro. Translation, you can align cuts to rhythm quickly, without doing that thing where you zoom in until the waveform looks like a coastline.
Montage Maker on iPad
This is the one designed for speed. It can analyse footage and assemble a dynamic edit, then let you tweak pacing, cut to music, and even reframe horizontal video to vertical with Auto Crop for social platforms.
Motion and Compressor included
Apple Creator Studio also gives you Motion for motion graphics and effects, including Magnetic Mask for isolating and tracking people or objects without a green screen, plus Compressor for tighter control over export settings for distribution.
Logic Pro adds new AI music tools that actually sound useful
Logic Pro is already one of the best value creative tools Apple sells, and Apple Creator Studio pushes it further on both Mac and iPad.
Synth Player
A new AI Session Player that can generate electronic performances, chord parts, and synth bass lines. The idea is you sketch a musical thought, then Synth Player reacts like a skilled synth player who is oddly happy to work for free.
It can also work with third party Audio Units, or even control external hardware synthesisers, which is where it gets properly interesting for serious setups.
Chord ID
This is the music theory helper for people who would rather make music than label chords. It can analyse audio or MIDI and create a ready to use chord progression, then populate the chord track, which drives the Session Players. That means quicker experimentation across styles and genres, without manually transcribing everything.
Sound Library and Producer Packs
Logic Pro for Mac gets a new Sound Library with Apple designed packs and Producer Packs, with hundreds of royalty free loops, samples, patches, drum sounds, and more.
iPad upgrades
Logic Pro for iPad gets Quick Swipe Comping, plus Music Understanding features, including natural language search in the Sound Browser. You can describe what you want, or search for similar loops, without playing tag bingo with filters.
MainStage included
MainStage comes with Apple Creator Studio too, turning your Mac into a live instrument rig, vocal processor, or guitar setup, using the same sounds you built in the studio.
Pixelmator Pro finally goes full iPad, with Apple Pencil support
Pixelmator Pro is coming to iPad as part of Apple Creator Studio, built for touch and Apple Pencil rather than feeling like a desktop app taped onto a tablet.
Key bits worth caring about:
- Touch optimised workspace, built from scratch for recent iPadOS
- Full Apple Pencil support, including precision features like hover, squeeze, and double tap where supported
- A full Layers sidebar supporting images, shapes, text, and even video layers
- Smart selection tools, plus bitmap and vector masks
- Super Resolution for upscaling, Deband for compression artefacts, and Auto Crop composition suggestions
- A new Warp tool on Mac and iPad, plus Warp powered product mockups for subscribers
If your workflow is thumbnails, social graphics, product mockups, or quick design work on the couch, this is Apple taking a clear swing at the “I just need Photoshop for this one thing” crowd.
Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform get an AI boost
Apple Creator Studio layers premium content and intelligent features into Apple’s productivity apps, without making the apps themselves paid.
Content Hub and premium templates
There is a new Content Hub for curated photos, graphics, and illustrations, plus premium templates and themes in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
Image Playground and generative image tools
Subscribers can create images from text or transform existing images using generative models from OpenAI, alongside on device tools like Super Resolution and Auto Crop.
Keynote features in beta
Apple says subscribers get access to features such as:
- Generating a first draft presentation from a text outline
- Creating presenter notes from existing slides
- Cleaning up slides to fix layout and object placement
Numbers Magic Fill
Magic Fill can suggest content, generate formulas, and fill tables based on recognised patterns, which is handy for anyone building budgets, content plans, or media kit sheets who does not want to spend their life writing formulas.
Apple also notes these apps are adopting the new visual design language with Liquid Glass, and supporting windowing and menu improvements in iPadOS 26.
So who is Apple Creator Studio actually for
Apple Creator Studio is for the person who does not fit neatly into one lane anymore.
You shoot on iPhone, edit on iPad, finish on Mac. You need music, graphics, motion titles, and a deck for the sponsor, and you need it all to talk to each other without a tantrum.
Apple Creator Studio is Apple saying, we have an ecosystem, so let’s make it the entire production pipeline.
And if Apple Creator Studio sticks the landing on pricing and features, it becomes a very tempting alternative to paying separately for video editing, music tools, design software, stock assets, and whatever else you have subscribed to and forgotten about.
The simple takeaway
Apple Creator Studio is a creator bundle that combines Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage, then adds AI powered features and premium content across Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and later Freeform. It launches 29 January, 2026, and in Australia it costs A$19.99 per month or A$199 per year, with a one month free trial, plus cheaper education pricing and Family Sharing.
If you are already in the Apple world, Apple Creator Studio looks less like a random new subscription and more like Apple quietly building an all in one creative toolbox, then pricing it to make everyone else sweat a little.
Zachary Skinner is the editor of TechDrivePlay.com, where tech, cars and adventure share the fast lane.
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