[ipad] Free iOS/Mac apps (Garageband, iMovie etc)

[dry]

Credit to herbertsimpson on HUKD.

 

The following Mac/iOS apps are currently free:

 

Keynote

Numbers

Pages

iMovie

Garageband

 

I've just claimed plenty of iMovie and Garageband licenses through VPP for our school iPads.

 

It's worth doing now as it's likely they'll return to being paid-for shortly. I think they've offered them for free before, but it was quite a while ago.

 

Fill 'yer boots!

[DavR]

Looks like a conscious business decision rather than a fluke - https://www.macrumors.com/2017/04/18/apple-imovie-garageband-iwork-free-for-all-users/ - but still though, thanks for the head's up!

[FN-GM]

Another thread on it here

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/educational-software/182686-pages-numbers-keynote-imovie-garageband-ios-macos-currently-free.html

[kathabell]

Thanks for the "heads up", just added 150 copies to our school MDM

[GuyJD]

Weren't they free anyway but you had to buy the extra instruments through in app purchases, is the whole thing free now then?

[eddyc]

Weren't they free anyway but you had to buy the extra instruments through in app purchases, is the whole thing free now then?

 

Kind of. If you used a MDM you had to upload a proof of purchase to apple for your devices so you could get the apps in an assignable format

[XiJ]

They weren't originally free but did start with certain devices. I think back in 2013! But as above you had to claim them with invoice proof from Apple on some cases.

 

Annoyingly one of our schools just bought ~30 pages licenses.

[Brimstone]

They weren't originally free but did start with certain devices. I think back in 2013! But as above you had to claim them with invoice proof from Apple on some cases.

 

Annoyingly one of our schools just bought ~30 pages licenses.

 

Apple's VPP team are very accommodating when it comes to crediting you back when something like this happens, I would email vpp support with a request for a credit for these.

 

https://www.apple.com/support/itunes/vpp-edu/