Updated iWork And iLife Apps Now Available In App Store And Mac App Store

Today is indeed "the biggest day for apps in Apple's history," as proclaimed by Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue. Shortly after their official announcement at Apple's recently concluded special media event, the updated iWork and iLife apps for iOS and Mac have been made available in the App Store and in the Mac App Store. The iWork productivity apps, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, and the iLife creativity apps, iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand, have all been significantly redesigned for both iOS 7 and the newly released OS X Mavericks. All of them have been updated with support for 64-bit, iCloud integration, and a great many new features. Check out the information below to learn more about what's new in the iWork and iLife apps for iOS and Mac. Pages for iOS:

Stunning new user interface designed to match iOS 7

Over 60 Apple-designed templates

Your most important text formatting options are right in your keyboard, and always just a tap or two away

Use comments and highlights to share ideas and feedback with others

Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts

Use AirDrop to send your document to anyone nearby

Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook

Anyone with a shared document link will always have access to the latest version of the document and can edit it with you at iCloud.com using Pages for iCloud beta

Turn your documents into ebooks by exporting to ePub

New unified file format across Mac, iOS, and web makes documents work seamlessly everywhere

Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

Pages is now available in Arabic and Hebrew

Improved support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Pages for Mac:

Stunning new user interface

Over 60 Apple-designed templates

Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options

New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection

Enhanced change tracking, comments, and highlights; show and hide changes and comments on mouse-over

Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts

Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful

Easy setup for headers, footers, and document body

Use new 2D bubble charts

Enhanced conditional highlighting makes it easy to automatically highlight cells based on numbers, text, dates, and durations

Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook

Anyone with a shared document link will always have access to the latest version of the document and can edit it with you at iCloud.com

Access and edit documents from iCloud.com using Pages for iCloud beta

New unified file format across the Mac, iOS, and the web makes documents work seamlessly everywhere

Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

Pages is now available in Arabic and Hebrew

Improved support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Numbers for iOS:

Stunning new user interface designed to match iOS 7

Brand-new Apple-designed templates

Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts

All-new calculation engine for fast performance

Use AirDrop to send your spreadsheet to anyone nearby

Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook

Anyone with a shared document link will always have access to the latest version of the spreadsheet and can edit it with you at iCloud.com using Numbers for iCloud beta

Export to CSV

New unified file format across Mac, iOS, and web makes spreadsheets work seamlessly everywhere

Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

Numbers for Mac:

Stunning new user interface

Brand-new Apple-designed templates

Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options

New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection

Quickly click through a spreadsheet using new tab navigation

Get function suggestions as soon as you start typing a formula

Get live formula results, error checking, exact value, and cell format with the new smart cell view

Add your favorite functions to Quick Calculations for instant results

Search the integrated function browser for built-in help and sample formulas

Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful

Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts

Use new 2D bubble charts

Enhanced conditional highlighting makes it easy to automatically highlight cells based on numbers, text, dates, and durations

Easily filter through large tables with the new Filter Panel

New star ratings cell format

Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook

Anyone with the link will always have access to the latest version of the spreadsheet and can edit it with you at iCloud.com with Numbers for iCloud beta

All-new calculation engine for fast performance

New unified file format across Mac, iOS, and web makes spreadsheets work seamlessly everywhere

Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

Keynote for iOS:

Stunning new user interface designed to match iOS 7

New animations and effects including updated Magic Move, Clothesline, and more

New Apple-designed themes

Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts

Use AirDrop to send your presentations to anyone nearby

Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook

Anyone with a shared document link will always have access to the latest version of the presentation and can edit it with you at iCloud.com using Keynote for iCloud beta

New unified file format across Mac, iOS, and web makes presentations work seamlessly everywhere

Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

Keynote for Mac:

Stunning new user interface

Brand-new Apple-designed themes

Simplified toolbar gives you quick access to shapes, media, tables, charts, and sharing options

New Format Panel automatically updates based on selection

New and updated cinematic transitions and animations

Updated Magic Move animations

New Emphasis build animations

Centered canvas for greater layout control

Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful

Animate data with new interactive column, bar, scatter, and bubble charts

Use new 2D bubble charts

Quickly and easily share a link to your work via Mail, Messages, Twitter or Facebook

Anyone with the link will always have access to the latest version of the presentation and can edit it with you at iCloud.com with Keynote for iCloud beta

New unified file format across the Mac, iOS, and the web makes presentations work seamlessly everywhere

Turn on Coaching Tips for guided in-app help

iPhoto for iOS:

All-new streamlined design

Create and order professionally printed hardback photo books

Order pro-quality prints in a variety of sizes, including square and panoramic

Create custom slideshows that can be interactively controlled during playback with touch gestures

New photo effects, including Drama, Camera Filters and improved Black & White

Advanced search controls for filtering photo views by multiple criteria, such as Favourites, Tags and Flags

Share photos directly from iPhoto using Messages

Add national flags and currency widgets to web journal layouts

Improved support for panoramas in web journal layouts

Photos in the Camera Roll can now be deleted from within iPhoto

White balance controls now include an “Underwater” option

Panoramic photos are displayed as wide-format pano thumbnails in grid views

AirDrop photos, books, web journals and slideshows to other iOS 7 devices

New image processing system for improved rendering and performance

64-bit support

iPhoto for Mac:

64-bit support

The Places feature now uses Apple maps to display photo locations

Adds support for iCloud Photo Sharing, including the ability to post videos to shared photo streams and the ability to have multiple subscribers contribute to a shared stream

Adds support for iOS 7 camera filters applied to photos imported from iOS devices

Includes a new, streamlined interface for printing

Replaces the Create menu with an updated Share menu providing access to all sharing options, including print products such as books, cards and calendars

Fixes an issue that could cause iPhoto to quit unexpectedly when sharing an edited photo from a MacBook Pro with Retina display

Addresses an issue that could cause iPhoto to show incorrect file type and size information for imported TIFF and PSD files

Comment sheet now appears correctly when sharing multiple photos to a new or existing photo stream

Fixes an issue that caused photos with specific color profiles to display incorrectly on iOS devices after being shared via iCloud

Captions instead of version names are now synced between iPhoto and Facebook for newly-created albums

Privacy settings can now be managed when sharing photos from iPhoto to a Facebook Timeline

Videos up to three minutes long can now be shared to Flickr

Addresses an issue that could cause photos synced to iPhoto from Flickr to appear rotated incorrectly

Fixes an issue that could cause photos synced to iPhoto from Facebook or Flickr to be duplicated and reposted

URLs in the photo comments field can now be clicked to open the corresponding links

Improves reliability when working with custom locations in the Places feature

Improves reliability when copying and pasting photos to a new event

When a single photo is selected in an album, clicking the Trash button in the contextual menu now removes the photo from the album rather than from the library

Includes stability and performance improvements

iMovie for iOS:

All-new, streamlined design

Share clips, movies, and trailers to iMovie Theater and watch them anywhere

Full-screen Video browser with quick clip sharing

Adjustments Bar for easy access to audio and video controls

16 new title styles

Three new transitions — Slide, Wipe, and Fade through black or white

Two new trailers — Indie and Family

Slow motion

Cutaway, picture-in-picture, and split-screen effects

Add just the audio portion of video clips to a movie

Detach audio from video in the timeline

Duplicate audio or video clips

Trim, split, and reposition music and sound effects

Adjustable audio fade-in and fade-out

High-frame-rate video recording

Share via Mail and Messages

Use AirDrop to send video clips and iMovie projects

Import media via iTunes File Sharing

64-bit support

iMovie for Mac:

All-new, streamlined design

Share clips, movies, and trailers to iMovie Theater and watch them anywhere

Video browsing mode with quick clip sharing

Adjustments Bar for easy access to video and audio controls

16 new title styles

14 new trailer templates from iMovie for iOS

Eight new movie themes from iMovie for iOS

Use photos in trailers

Plus button for quickly adding clips to your movie

Trim video and audio clips directly in the timeline

Simplified drag and drop for picture-in-picture, side-by-side, green screen, and audio-only effects

One-click Enhance for video and audio

Adjust shadows, highlights, and color temperature

Match the color of two clips

Ken Burns Effect for panorama photos

Improved video stabilization

Enhanced green screen and blue screen effect

Volume-aware audio ducking

Speed change controls in the timeline

Add just a portion of a song from iTunes to your movie

Email video clips and projects

Sharing support for Youku and Tudou

Import, analyze, and share clips in the background

Native support for AVCHD video

64-bit support

GarageBand for iOS:

All-new streamlined design

Create a song with up to 32 tracks* using Touch Instruments, audio recordings, and loops

Record compatible Third-Party music apps using Inter-App Audio in iOS 7

Drag and drop audio recordings to create Sampler instruments

Support for AirDrop in iOS 7

64-bit support

* Requires devices with the A7 chip.16 tracks available on iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPad (4th generation), iPad (3rd generation), iPad 2, iPad mini, and iPod touch (5th generation)

GarageBand for Mac: Rather than just being updated, GarageBand has been rebuilt from the ground up and relaunched on Mac. It boasts a new design, a new Sound Library, and a bevy of new features, including Drummer and Smart Controls. All iWork and iLife apps for iOS are available for free in the App Store for any new device running iOS 7, and are also available as free updates for existing users. All iWork and iLife apps for Mac come free with every new Mac purchase. They are also available as free updates from the Mac App Store for existing users running OS X Mavericks. Note that GarageBand for iOS and GarageBand for Mac are now available as freemium downloads in the App Store and in the Mac App Store for all users of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks. Additional GarageBand instruments and sounds are available for a one-time in-app purchase of $4.99 for each platform.