For the last few years, I’ve been using Adobe’s suite of apps for my photography and Ulysses for Mac and iOS to run my blog. After giving it a lot of thought and trying it out for a month, I’ve decided to switch to Apple’s Creative Studio for these tasks. My long-form writing is still in another app that I paid for a one-time license fee. Switching to Apple’s suite of apps feels like coming home. I started writing my first novel in Pages for iPad. I wrote the whole book on an iPad 2 and later edited it in Pages on a Mac mini. I’ve been a Pixelmator and Final Cut Pro subscriber for the iPad for a long time. Now, both of these apps are part of the Apple Creative Studio, which is great!
I’ve been on the subscription for the past two weeks, and while I notice some things are missing from Pixelmator Pro compared to the Adobe apps, I don’t miss them too much. As for my writing and other work with Apple’s productivity apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), the addition of Apple’s AI integrations has really helped my workflow. I have to manually post my articles to WordPress, but Ulysses used to handle all the heavy lifting. I have to copy and paste into WordPress now. The combination of Apple’s writing tools and their own software is unmatched by Ulysses. Ulysses was written in Markdown and that made some confusing situations in the past. Apple’s apps are rich text editors so you see what you get.
Right now, Apple is offering a free month trial for Creative Studio. Will you be trying it out, or what software do you prefer?
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