A competitor to Adobe Creative Cloud
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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Kinda glad that someone big is challenging Adobe tbh
Yeah, competition is good, but I'm not sure this is competition. These products were mostly free already, and the paid stuff in the bundle is, I guess... Pixelmator and FCPX, and at what appear to be much higher prices.
Then of course Apple is pretty famous for fucking over creatives by just dropping products. Film professionals still haven't forgiven Apple over FCPX, and then Aperture... they just dropped it one day and kinda forced people over to Lightroom. It's gonna be hard to earn back trust of people who've been burned by Apple in the past.
I was actually wondering if they were bringing back something like Aperture.
I liked Aperture, it was my preferred editing software before they unceremoniously dropped it.
Yeah, I liked aperture too. I do think Lightroom got a ton better in the ensuing years than aperture ever was, but it's like $15 a month now iirc.
Yeah, I only used Lightroom Classic. I tried regular Lightroom once, did not like.
And I agree, I liked aperture better than Lightroom at the time too, but Lightroom progressed while Aperture started pushin daisies.
I've recently given Darktable a try. It seems promising, but it's different enough to be a frustrating transition.
All good points. FCPX was by all accounts a major step back from FCP, the comparison I heard the most was that it was basically iMovie.
Also, wasn’t the main selling point of FCPX that it was cheaper? I feel like they sold it for ~$100 for a long time. Going from that to $129/yr is bullshit.
It was cheaper, but mostly they refocused the product from filmmakers to youtubers. The latter is a 10x (or maybe 100x) bigger customer base, so it sorta makes sense, but unfortunately for Apple they threw away the filmmaker customer base and failed to acquire the youtuber customer base. And the filmmakers didn't forget being cast aside. FCP usage in the industry fall off a cliff and never recovered.
Premiere has a lot of the market share Apple wanted, but even they are losing ground to Resolve; a highly capable product that's inexpensive, and made by a company that doesn't have the baggage of fucking over its customers. Resolve right now is free if you don't need the studio features, and $300 for life if you do.
Meh. Just use Linux
These apps have sort of been around for ages. Looks like Final Cut studio and Apple's office suite combined with a new fancy subscription model.