Apple has pushed a big update to Apple Creator Studio, the subscription bundle that groups its professional creative apps into one plan. Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro get the bulk of the new features, but the bundle also includes Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform – so this update isn’t just for pro users.
Video and photo editing
Final Cut Pro’s big new feature is Generate Captions, which automatically transcribes audio and drops subtitles onto the timeline – all on-device, with no cloud processing required. It’s a welcome addition, but this kind of thing has been standard in other video editing apps for years now, so it’s more a case of catch-up than a big win for Apple.
Perhaps more notable is Edit Detection, which looks at a finished video and works out where the original cuts were – handy for going back to trim a highlight reel without hunting for edit points manually. And Mac users also get Auto Mask, which can isolate parts of a shot (skin, hair, sky, and so on) without manual tracking.
Pixelmator Pro is getting cozier with the rest of the suite too. You can send a frame straight from Final Cut Pro into Pixelmator Pro for editing, and the same trick now works for any image sitting inside Keynote, Pages, or Numbers – edit it in Pixelmator Pro, and the changes save straight back into your document.
Meanwhile Logic Pro gets a rebuilt Chord ID for more accurate harmonic analysis, plus a new “Producer Project” that lets you poke around the full multitrack session behind a real Grammy-winning track.
Upgrades for iWork
If you’re not invested in the pro creative tools but still pay for this suite to access the office suite formerly known as iWork, you’ve not been left in the cold.
Keynote, Pages, and Numbers pick up smaller but useful updates: Keynote gets new transitions and builds, Pages adds Auto-Hyphenate and Show Invisibles on iPhone and iPad, and Numbers lets you hide or color-code sheets in complex spreadsheets. Freeform is also getting Dark Mode and folders with the arrival of iOS 27.
Apple Creator Studio costs $13/month or $129/year for new subscribers, with existing subscribers getting the update for free. We covered the bundle’s launch back in January, and whether it’s worth subscribing in this deep dive.