Adobe Lightroom is now available in the Mac App Store with the Lightroom subscription plan for $9.99 per month billed through the Mac App Store. The app is available to download for free and comes with a free week of use, then the subscription will be billed monthly through your Apple account.
Notably, it appears to offer only the Lightroom Subscription Plan, which gives you Lightroom access and 1TB of cloud storage with Adobe. The Photography Plan that includes Photoshop does not appear to be available with the Mac App Store version of Lightroom.
In order to get the Photography Plan subscription that includes Photoshop, you’ll need to get it direct from Adobe or pre-pay with a retailer like B&H Photo.
This is an interesting move given the 30% that Apple takes from developers. While Adobe is crushing it with record revenue quarter after quarter, many big players like Adobe have held off from giving such a big cut of their revenue to Apple with App Store offerings. Apple is currently in the middle of serious monopoly claims with some government officials wanting to break-up Apple because of such practices. With the behemoth that Adobe is becoming though, this move can only mean more profit for its shareholders and now, of course, Apple too. It will be interesting to see how this affects both parties going forward…
But with On 1 for a flat $80, and Affinity Photo for $50, I’m hard pressed to see the logic of giving Adobe $10 per month. They may be making record profits, many smaller players are coming up. They’ve lost my and other’s business with this subscription nonsense. Remember Adobe — you want to shear the sheep, not skin it.