Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro: Three-month trial still available
With the introduction of Creator Studio, popular trial versions of Apple's professional software will be gone too. However, they can still currently be found.
Final Cut Pro for 90 days as a trial: Apple will likely remove the download soon.
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Apple is known to be facing major changes with its creative applications: On January 28, the new Creator Studio subscription package will be released, which bundles several apps, including new iWork templates, for a monthly price of 12.99 euros or 129 euros per year, and makes Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro rental products by default. Apple is also reducing the free trial period. Previously, it was always three months for the video editing software and the digital audio workstation, but now it is being reduced to one month (30 days). With the Creator Studio announcement, Apple had actually removed the trials of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro from the website. The corresponding links lead to the app homepage. However, as it turns out, the trial versions are not gone yet – if you know where to look.
Deletion not yet on country pages
Apple has indeed removed them from Apple.com, but not yet from the individual country pages. This includes the German homepage: The Final Cut Pro trial can be found here (direct download), and the Logic Pro trial here (direct download). The apps are downloaded from the web, away from the App Store, and can be installed directly. They then run for 90 days without restrictions. Apple is also quite generous if you have already tested older versions: “If you are using a previous (...) trial version, you can use this version for an additional 90 days free of charge.”
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Apple had officially announced that the trial versions of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro would be discontinued. Therefore, it can be assumed that the downloads will also be removed from the Apple.com country pages and that it is currently an “oversight” that this removal has not yet occurred. Interested parties should therefore act quickly.
New versions on January 28
It is surprising that Apple is removing the trial versions at all. Because the apps will continue to be available via the App Store as a one-time purchase – at quite steep prices. Final Cut Pro still costs 350 euros, Logic Pro 230 euros. In comparison, a 30-day trial period seems stingy.
However, the currently still available trials are the old versions of the apps; new versions with adaptations for Liquid Glass, more AI functions, and more will be released on January 28. The Creator Studio package includes Motion, Compressor, and MainStage in addition to Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, as well as the acquired Pixelmator Pro. In addition, as mentioned, there will be “premium content” for the iWork products Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, and later for Freeform. The apps run on Mac and iPad; on the iPad, Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro were already subscription apps. Pixelmator Pro is coming to the tablet for the first time.
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