Apple made its iWork suite—Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—free on Tuesday, as well as two of the iLife apps*—GarageBand and iMovie. While they were already free to new Mac and iOS device customers (since 2013), making the price “free” makes them easier to download by everyone.
![Icons for Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, and GarageBand](https://www.macobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/pages-numbers-keynote-garageband-imovie-icons-1200x630.jpg)
In reality, that likely matters most to sysadmins managing fleets of devices through the Apple Volume Purchase Program, as noted by a KnowledgeBase article (via MacRumors). Put another way, the only folks who will notice a change are those who might have had trouble downloading the apps in the first place.
iWork Download Links
iLife Download Links
*Photos was already included in macOS and iOS.
Great, I don’t use any of these apps, have Office 2016, but now I can give them a try 🙂
A while back I got so frustrated with iMovie on my iPad that in a fit of pique I deleted it. Later on I tried to redownload it but the MacAppStore wanted to charge me for it. TNow I can finally try it again.