Mac users can now get Lightroom directly from the Mac App Store
Jun 23, 2019
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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Adobe just made the first major app shift from their own platform by adding Lightroom to the Mac App Store. This isn’t the first Adobe application on the Mac App Store, as it joins Photoshop Elements, however, this is the first major “professional” piece of software available in this way.
Apple has been pushing for more developers to move their apps onto the App Store, rather than having their own individual platforms. It’s been more of a challenge than with iOS as the Mac has been around for much longer than the App Store. Many long-time users just prefer the old way of doing things. For others, though, it’s a pain. Shifting over to the App Store will be a welcome change for some users.
The App Store version of Lightroom is the “new” version of Lightroom, previously known as Lightroom CC. It’s free to download and use for a week, and then it’s a $9.99/mo subscription through Apple’s purchasing system or annually for $118.99, which includes 1TB of cloud storage.
The App Store did offer Lightroom in the past, way back with Lightroom 4 priced at $149.99. That was a perpetual license before Adobe switched to the Creative Cloud subscription model. Microsoft, too, has jumped onto Apple’s Mac App Store, too, by adding its Office applications earlier this year, which is now also another subscription service.
If you’re not already a Lightroom user, head on over to the Mac App Store to check it out. You can still use the Adobe CC installer if you prefer, at the same price.
[via Engadget]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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One response to “Mac users can now get Lightroom directly from the Mac App Store”
This is just in line with their other consumer products like Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements. Since the App Store version doesn’t require the background process bloat that the regular version comes with, I’d recommend installing this store version and not the one from Adobe directly as it will work with a regular subscription, not just an App Store one.
Personally, however, I wouldn’t ever sync my photos, or worse, those of my clients, to some cloud service like that. Adobe has previously leaked my credit card information that is used for my Creative Cloud subscription – It’s just a matter of time until private data from a service like Lightroom CC, Apple Photos oder Google Photos shows up somewhere on the internet.