Apple has unveiled Apple Creator Studio, a single subscription bundle of video editing, music production, and image editing productivity apps. Apple Creator Studio is a collection of creative apps, including Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro, as well as Motion, Compressor, and MainStage.
The service will be launched on the App Store on January 28, 2026, and is priced at ₩19,000 per month or ₩190,000 per year in Korea. A one-month free trial is available for new subscribers, while students and educators can subscribe for ₩4,400 per month or ₩44,000 per year. Family Sharing allows up to six people to use the service together.
Subscription plans are divided by device. Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro are available on Mac and iPad, while Motion, Compressor, and MainStage are also available on Mac. Intelligence features and premium content for Keynote, Pages, and Numbers are available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Freeform joining the fold in the future.
Apple has put intelligence at the forefront of this bundle. Final Cut Pro supports transcript-based search and visual search for objects and actions, allowing you to quickly find the section you need in long footage. Beat detection, which analyzes musical rhythms and displays a beat grid in the timeline, has also been introduced. On iPad, Apple announced that the AI-powered Montage Maker streamlines workflows, including automatic editing and vertical video conversion.
Logic Pro is spearheaded by features like Synth Player and Chord ID. Synth Player is described as a line of AI session players that assist electronic music performance, while Chord ID aims to reduce the burden of arrangement by extracting chord progressions from audio or MIDI. Enhanced sound libraries for Mac and natural language-based loop search for iPad are also included.
Pixelmator Pro is coming to iPad for the first time. Apple highlighted its optimized workflow and layered editing environment for touch and Apple Pencil, and described it as providing a unified experience with features like image upscaling and automatic cropping. In the productivity app space, the company also provided a content hub and premium templates, and in Keynote, it mentioned an image creation and editing workflow leveraging OpenAI generative models.
Market analysts interpret this as Apple accelerating the expansion of its service revenue with the Creator Subscription while sharpening its competitive landscape with Adobe Creative Cloud. Reuters reported that Creator Studio was launched amid Apple's shift to focusing on hardware and increasing recurring revenue, while The Verge reported that bundled subscriptions could disrupt the creator tools market with their competitive pricing.
