Buy once instead of Apple Creator Studio
3 apps in the directory cover what people use Apple Creator Studio for. Each one is a one-time purchase.
Apple Creator Studio costs about $129 a year. At that rate Pixelmator Pro, the cheapest dollar-priced replacement at $49.99, pays for itself in 5 months.
Read the catch on each one before you switch — a one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
The replacements
Pixelmator Pro
mac-native image editor you can still buy outright for $49.99
$49.99 Perpetual
The one-time build is drifting behind the subscription one, which gets the Warp Tool exclusively
Logic Pro
full pro DAW with a very large bundled sound library
$199.99 Perpetual
Mac only, and Logic Pro for iPad is subscription-only rather than part of this purchase
Final Cut Pro
Apple's pro video editor, still sold as a one-time purchase
$299.99 Perpetual
Some premium content is Creator Studio subscribers only, and Motion and Compressor cost extra