Ondrej Holzman Since Apple has offered many of its iOS and macOS apps for free in recent years to those who purchase a new iPhone or Mac, iMovie, Numbers, Keynote, Pages, and GarageBand already have many users. Now, however, the Californian company has decided to start offering all the mentioned applications completely free of charge.
Anyone who, despite purchasing new machines since 2013, has not downloaded one of the applications, now has the opportunity to do so completely free of charge, on any device.
The entire iWork office suite, which includes Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for both macOS and iOS, is free, and is a direct competitor to Microsoft's Office suite, namely Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Mobile versions cost 10 euros each, desktop versions were 20 euros each.
For Macs and iPhones or iPads, iMovie for video editing and GarageBand for working with music can also be downloaded for free. On iOS both applications cost 5 euros, on Mac GarageBand also 5 euros and iMovie 15 euros.
You can download all apps in the respective App Stores:
- Pages for iOS
- Numbers for iOS
- Keynote for iOS
- Pages for Mac
- Numbers for Mac
- Keynote for Mac
- GarageBand for iOS
- GarageBand for Mac
- iMovie for iOS
- iMovie for Mac
Apple makes its move comments by, among other things, now making it easier for businesses and schools to purchase all of the aforementioned apps within VPP program and then distribute them via MDM.
I am solving one problem and maybe you can help me. I have an incompatible mac with sierra so I have el capitan. On ios, I have the current system and version of iwork. But as soon as I open a document on the iPad, iwork on the mac tells me it's time to upgrade, but the current iwork doesn't work on el capitan anymore and I'm at a dead end. Do you know how to solve it?
Buy a new mac :)
Yeah, I'm only upgrading because of the broken tables, smart.
Unfortunately, there is no better solution. If the entire company uses iWork, it probably uses the latest version. The only option is to do it on your Mac via the web-application on https://www.icloud.com. But I have no idea how you share the data and if web access is feasible for you.
Unfortunately.. personal experience from today - although off the mark, but - we updated the OS Win server and the old scanners stopped working. The manufacturer no longer offers an update. So either switch to a new hw or send the whole company back a few sw solutions..
It sucks. It's stupid to upgrade just because of office. And what if you use LibreOffice on your Mac and some app on your iPad that can work with documents?
I don't want to change the workflow. The whole company uses iCloud and iWork. I thought there was some option to "force open" or downgrade that document.
Yes, I tried to work on a different worflow as a company and it doesn't work, there are many problems and people waste time. Try this guide again, maybe it will help https://support.apple.com/sk-sk/HT204038
That doesn't solve anything, it installs the version I have and it won't open newer documents. Tried.
This "compatibility" is one of the things that bothers me about Apple, forcefully pushing its users to new versions, which is not always possible -> forcefully pushing them to new HW. E.g. if I take such an iCloud Drive, the oldest possible version of Mac OS that it runs on is Yosemite from the end of 2014. But most importantly, iCloud Drive runs on Windows 7 from 2009! Or an ecosystem, but only for someone.
Sierra can also be 'forced' installed on older Macs http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html
I don't want to risk that
Such an empty Apple gesture :-( 99% of users who actually work on computers have bought (had to buy) new hardware over the years anyway, so…
But another thing is that now this sw package is also available to those who buy a bazaar device. I don't think that was the case until now, so the original package that was included with the hw for free remained with the original owner.
So I tried it, on an old mac pro with 10.7 and it can't be installed from the appstore with the min requirement. 10.12 :-) so unusable for bazaar solutions (I didn't expect the latest version, but the one functional for 10.7 as it works with different versions of iOS) and whoever launches 10.12 will probably have these applications a long time ago... rather it will be some unification of the old solutions offered...
That is possible. I was just thinking about my last experience when I wrote this, when I bought a Mac mini 2014. Which supports the latest Mac OS. (Until then, I only owned a Macbook Pro from 2010, which, although it still supports the latest version of the OS, was unable to download the given applications). And there I used the "trick" of downloading the demo version. That is, the scam that got me to the full version. Which is why I now welcomed this possibility to legally download the "office" package.. I had already bought iWork before, so I kind of "justified" it, but still my conscience was not clear..
I know it's from somewhere, I don't know how it could happen, but I don't know what to do with it at all!
"Pages menu" and "Dropbox menu", I have in Norwegian!!!!! and I absolutely do not see how to get out of it??!!
Can someone advise me?