Apple is giving away several of its premium mobile apps, like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and iMovie, to some customers. Find out if you qualify for these productivity freebies.
During the annual Apple iPhone announcement, we learned that several of the company's premium mobile apps will be free to some customers. The apps include Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—the office suite collectively referred to as iWork [1] —as well as the media editing apps iMovie and iPhoto.
Each of the office apps costs $9.99 on its own, so that's nearly $30 for the full set. Factor in another $4.99 each for iMovie and iPhoto, and the total package price adds up to $39.95. Getting those apps for free is a pretty nice add-on, if you use them.
All five apps will be free if you meet the following criteria:
1. You have to activate an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on or after September 1, and
2. The device has to be compatible with iOS 7, and you can check our complete list of devices that can run iOS 7, and
3. You have to install iOS 7, which will be available September 18. Before then, the apps will still have a price tag on them.
That means you're eligible to get the apps free even if you buy an older model iPhone, like iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 , so long as you activate it for the first time now (and install iOS 7 when it's available).
A word of warning: These apps are huge and will eat up a significant percentage of your available space if you install all of them on an 8GB iPhone 4S, which is an eligible model (but again, only if you activate it for the first time on or after September 1).
Of course, all these apps are only truly valuable if you use them, and plenty of alternatives are available in the App Store, too.
For productivity apps, Microsoft's trifecta for spreadsheets, word-processing, and presentation, called OfficeMobile [2] , is free to download on iPhone and iPad, but requires a Microsoft 365 account, and that starts at $99 per year.
Cheaper than that (and our recommended Editors' Choice among mobile office suites) is Polaris Office (for iPhone) [3] , which costs $12.99.
For photo editing, Snapseed [4] (free) is one of our Editors' Choices, matched only by iPhoto. So if you don't qualify for the free iPhoto app, definitely download Snapseed.
For video editing, we loved Pinnacle Studio [5] ($12.99), but it costs a bit more than iMovie as a single purchase, and it's only available for iPad—not iPhone. So iMovie may still be a good choice if you have to buy it.
For more on iOS 7, see our video: An Early Look at iOS 7 [6] .
Links
- ^ iWork ('http)
- ^ OfficeMobile ('http)
- ^ Polaris Office (for iPhone) ('http)
- ^ Snapseed ('http)
- ^ Pinnacle Studio ('http)
- ^ video: An Early Look at iOS 7 ('http)
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