So, THIS happens to Pixelmator Pro

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“Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — come together in a single subscription”

$12.99 / month or $129 / year
(education: $2.99 / month or $29.99 / year)

“Alternatively, users can also choose to purchase the Mac versions of Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage individually as a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.”

I’m not going to comment, since I’m not using any of those apps, except for the iWork suite; and if a paywall keeps this “AI” crap out of those apps, all the better.

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Logic Pro for $12.99 a month? That is really appealing

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only two things have kept me from switching from Apple to Linux. one, Scrivener. two, Pixelmator Pro. now Apple have fucked up Pixelmator Pro. (okay to swear here?)

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What’s the usual release cycle for major Logic Pro versions? (Genuinely ignorant question.) If it’s longer than ~1.5 years, the savings evaporate. Otherwise it looks enticing.

How so? Was is it cheaper than $59.99 before? (Current App Store price, never used it, never bought it.)

Sure. As long as you don’t bite any living creature here.

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gah! apologies! as I often do, I skimmed, rather than read, the original post. I thought that Pixelmator Pro users had to now pay for it annually now.

(I did, in fact, pay less than $59,95 for it, but adjusting for inflation, I paid something ike the equivalent of that.)

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Only if they pump out annual major versions that are for some reason mandatory. :nerd_face: (I better don’t give them ideas.)

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you may know this, but Apple did not create Pixelmator. Apple bought it up sometime after the creation of Pixelmator Pro.

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I do. Hence this thread as a follow-up, kind of. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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I already have Pixelmator Pro. Great app, especially for increasing DPI of images for print.

I also have lifetime licences for FCP, LP, Motion, Compressor, from my Apple days.

Unless there’s something outstanding in the premium offering for iWork, no incentive for me to go subscription.

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Neither Photos or Photomator are mentioned anywhere. I bring up Photos only because the other free apps (Pages/Keynote/Numbers/Freeform) are mentioned (with subscription-only ‘premium’ features. Too bad there’s not a one-off purchase for whatever they’re doing to Pages and Keynote.

I bought Acorn during the Black Friday hullaballoo, doubt I’ll need Pixelmator? (And I don’t do “subscriptions.”)

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As I understand it, Photos and Photomator aren’t going anywhere, they just don’t get “premium features” like the others. Simply serving as an upsell ramp (e.g. to Pixelmator Pro). Pages, Numbers and so on, however, currently have no separate “pro” version.

We’ll see what happens after Wednesday, January 28.

ADDED LATER: Like this

iMovie → Final Cut Pro / Motion / Compressor
Garage Band → Logic Pro / MainStage
Photos, Photomator → Pixelmator Pro
Pages → “Pages Pro”
Numbers → “Numbers Pro”
Keynote → “Keynote Pro”
Freeform → “Freeform Pro”

(my interpretation)

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Strange that Photomator misses out on the AI fad. :wink: It’s already a premium product, unless PixelmatorPro is the go to app for AI-aided photo editing.

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That’s what I think. We already have the precent of iMovie → Final Cut Pro and Garage Band → Logic Pro. It was not unexpected to go in this same direction after the PMP acquisition.

The only surprise are the iWorks apps. Didn’t see “pro” versions for them coming.

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Well, I did have this fantasy.

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I liked it back then and I still like the idea. But those two are very different beasts under the hood. Maybe TextEdit → Nisus Writer Pro? :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Regardless, I can’t escape the feeling that Apple just started broadsiding Adobe and Microsoft.

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That’ll be one heckuva jump in functions! :upside_down_face: A few days ago I visited the Nisus forums; the latest hope is that OmniGroup buys NWP; something about adding OmniOutliner functions to NWP.

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True, but they share the file format (RTF). Featurewise… I guess that would require dumbing NWP down, so that Pages “pro” looks more expensive. :see_no_evil_monkey:

Omnigroup also offers perpetual licenses, a promising sign if the rumor is true.

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It seemed more like wishful thinking on their part than rumors.

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More answers and more question marks.

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Luckily they are still available as standalone apps as well:

Alternatively, users can also choose to purchase the Mac versions of Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Logic Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage individually as a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store.

  • One-time-purchase versions of Final Cut Pro (£299.99, Logic Pro (£199.99, Pixelmator Pro (£49.99, Motion (£49.99, Compressor (£49.99, and MainStage (£29.99, are available on the Mac App Store.

You don’t have to subscribe if you don’t need the additional features.

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