So here’s the gist: iMovie on macOS is light-years ahead of iMovie on the iPadOS. One would think that a tech juggernaut with obsession with little details like Apple manage to make the iMovie experience consistent on all platforms. Just like Photos, Messages and Mail, iMovie is available on iOS, iPadOS and macOS. It was sold to compete with Microsoft Office but later given away for free as a value added software bundle for the macOS and later iPadOS and iOS. iMovie was part of iLife Suite which are productivity apps like Microsoft Office. This is pretty much true for Apple’s utility apps like Messages (with iMessage), photos, Shortcuts (coming to Monterey Bay), FaceTime, Stocks and others.Īnother suite of apps that Apple gives away for free is productivity apps like Pages, Keynote and the focus of this article, iMovie. And if you register all your devices in iCloud, the apps can be synched up with every device you have and act in a certain way. One of the selling points and key features of Apple ecosystem is that they have a slew of common apps in every device they have sold.

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