Showing results for 'old version garageband' as the word download is considered too common. I understand, but if you download the latest version of GarageBand in iTunes, you'll then be offered an older version if you try to download it from the App Store on your iPad.The App Store has a feature to let you download older versions of apps, but one of the prerequisites is that you already own the app, hence the need to download the latest version in iTunes.
Apple recently made a number of core consumer-level iOS and Mac apps free of charge to all users. Previously apps like iMovie and GarageBand were free only to customers purchasing a new Apple device.
Even users with old devices or those who purchased second hand iPhones or MacBooks can now download Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, and iMovie free of charge.
Here’s how to get them and what you can use them for.
Downloading These Apps
You can find Mac and iOS versions of the apps in the respective App Store. Simply open the App Store on your iOS device, or launch the Mac App Store. You can also find the links to the relevant desktop and mobile versions below.
Unfortunately, none of Apple’s professional suites like Final Cut Pro X ($299) or Logic Pro ($199) have been made available free of charge (yet).
iMovie (iOS, Mac)
iMovie is a surprisingly feature-rich free video editor that previously cost $14.99, at least for the more capable Mac version. It’s a video editor built with user friendliness in mind. It uses your Photos database as a source location for media.
The app tends to cop a bit of flak for Apple’s persistent meddling, as the company has a track record of doing things like removing the Save and Save As options from the File menu. But the app is great for newcomers, utilizing a simple drag and drop timeline and easy-to-manipulate controls for things like volume and video transitions.
One of the best things about iMovie is that it comes with a rich database of royalty-free sounds, customizable titles, animated backgrounds, and video transitions that are easy to work with. You can start a project on your iPhone and pick it up on your Mac too, while completed projects can be shared with the web and other users using Theatre mode.
iMovie supports projects up to 4K resolution and includes a range of export options including YouTube, Vimeo, or to file at a specified quality. It’s a long way off Final Cut Pro X, but it’s free and foolproof.
GarageBand (iOS, Mac)
Did you know that Rihanna’s hit song Umbrella uses a free GarageBand loop? Slow down the included “Vintage Funk Kit 03” beat to around 90 BPM and you’ll see what we mean. Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Justice, Oasis, and many other artists have admitted to using the app to both capture ideas and create whole tracks.
Just like iMovie, GarageBand is built with user-friendliness in mind. You don’t need MIDI interfaces or a fancy soundcard to get started. You don’t even really need a background in music. If you just want to create randomized drum beats or play the rock organ with your keyboard then you can.
But you can also hook up a MIDI keyboard and get far more in-depth with the included instruments. If you invest in a good sound card you can record high quality audio using a microphone, or real-world instruments like guitars, synthesizers, drum machines and so on.
Finally, GarageBand provides access to Apple Loops, a database of royalty-free sounds to use in your own projects. Use these to practice playing guitar against recorded drum patterns, or find something you like and build upon it to create something truly original.
Pages (iOS, Mac)
Apple’s answer to Microsoft Word, Pages toes the “user-friendly” line at the cost of features, but it’s still a great place to get some writing done. If the sight of Microsoft’s complicated interfaces bother you, you might just love Pages for its raw simplicity.
It’s still one of the best word processors on the Mac5 Mac Word Processors To Help You Write That College Paper5 Mac Word Processors To Help You Write That College PaperFinding sources to cite is easy. Planning a paper is easy. Sitting down and writing the thing? Much harder — do yourself a favour and get the right tool for the job.Read More and shouldn’t be missed at the low price of free. You can choose to create documents from scratch or use Apple’s bundled templates. You can even create your own documents and save them as custom templatesHow to Create Impressive Pages Documents and Templates on MacHow to Create Impressive Pages Documents and Templates on MacThe price isn’t the only reason to give Pages a spin — it's packed with ready-to-use templates that will make your work look fantastic.Read More on the Mac version.
Just like Google Docs, Pages utilizes real-time collaboration so you can work with others on the same document — whether you’re on iOS, Mac, or online at iCloud.com. Import images, format text document-wide, create charts and tables, and use LaTeX or MathML notation to display equations.
Numbers (iOS, Mac)
It’s not Excel or even Google Sheets, but there’s plenty you can get done using Apple NumbersOrganize Your Life With Numbers for MacOrganize Your Life With Numbers for MacNew Macs come with Numbers, a spreadsheet program that's perfect for helping you get organized.Read More. The spreadsheet app shares many similarities with Pages in that it favors a simple interface at the cost of features. Currently Mac App Store reviewers are split down the middle: some love it and others hate it.
Whether Numbers is going to work for you depends on what you need a spreadsheet app for. If you’re creating a simple budget, plotting a graph, or in need of an impressive-looking 3D chart then Numbers can do it. It’s also a capable number-cruncher with over 250 in-built functions, including an auto-suggest functionality for formulas.
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But it lacks the powerful capabilities of Microsoft Excel, and can’t match the online-friendliness of Google Sheets. This makes Numbers somewhat limited in scope for power users and data nerds, but it’s great for everyone else.
Keynote (iOS, Mac)
Finally, we have Apple’s answer to PowerPoint, the presentation app Keynote. Just like Pages and Numbers, it’s very Apple in its design: lots of templates, sharp visuals, and a simple UI. There’s not a lot to be said here. If you’ve ever created a presentation before then you’ll be right at home.
Built in AirPlay support makes it easy to display your presentations on an Apple TV, if you happen to have one. The iOS version has support for Keynote Remote which allows you to control your presentation using your iPhone (this works for both iOS and Mac).
If you don’t want to pay top dollar for Microsoft’s offering and you’re unimpressed with Google’s offering, Keynote is a solid choice for your next board meeting. You can even use iWork for iCloud to access and work on your presentations remotely.
Other Apple Freebies
There are two other creative Apple apps that have been available free of charge for a long time, the first being iBooks Author. As the name suggests, this is a comprehensive tool for creating interactive publicationsHow To Write and Publish Your First iBook Using iBooks AuthorHow To Write and Publish Your First iBook Using iBooks AuthorThinking about producing your own e-book? Apple's iBooks Author is a free, user-friendly tool for producing interactive publications that can reach a large audience of iPad, iPhone & Mac users.Read More which you can then make available using the iBooks Store. It’s a powerful tool, with one very specific and limited use.
The other big one is Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) for creating iOS and macOS apps. The app is free, and programming language Swift is now open sourceApple's Swift Is Going Open Source: So What?Apple's Swift Is Going Open Source: So What?Even if you aren't a programmer yourself, Apple's decision to open source Swift will impact you. Want to know why and how?Read More to boot. You can learn Swift for freeThe Best Places to Learn Swift, Apple's Programming LanguageThe Best Places to Learn Swift, Apple's Programming LanguageIf you want to learn Swift, now is the time to dive in. The language has a bright future and the faster you learn it, the sooner you'll be able to reap the rewards.Read More but you’ll need to pay Apple’s annual $99 developer fee to publish on the App Store.
Which is your favorite Apple app? Will you be using iMovie, Pages, or one of the others now that these apps are free?
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Your old iPad might be still going strong, but if all your apps need newer versions of iOS to run, it feels like you can’t do anything with it. Don’t worry, we’re here with a clever trick that will help you load up your old device with older versions of of your favorite apps.
What’s the Deal With Old Versions of iOS and New Apps?
As of the publication of this article, we’re currently on iOS 9 and, in a short few months, iOS 10 will roll out to the public. Although Apple does a pretty admirable job dragging old hardware along for each iOS update, every train has a final stop. The iPhone 4 is stuck at iOS 7.1.2, for example, and the first-gen iPad is stuck all the way back at iOS 5.1.1. With every new wave of iOS hardware, a little bit of the legacy hardware is left behind.
While getting stuck on older software is par for the course, it can be frustrating. Many people abandon these old-but-still-functioning devices not because they’re upset about missing out on the new iOS features, but because it’s such a pain to download apps to them.
The way Apple has the App Store configured, you are always directed towards the newest version of an application. On the surface, this is a perfectly sensible thing for Apple to do: why would they ever want you to download older, buggier, and potentially less secure software when there’s an updated version available? When you’re on an older device, however, this means an app may not be compatible with your old version of iOS. Search for an application in the App Store on your iPad 1, for example, and the App Store app will tell you that the app can’t be downloaded because it requires a device running iOS 7 (or 8, or 9), and therefore can’t be installed on your iPad…even if there was an iOS 5 version of the app at some point in the past.
What they don’t tell you, though, is that you can easily (no jailbreak required) and legally (no piracy required) download old versions of applications to your older iOS devices with a pretty simple trick.
Before we walk you through that trick there is one minor and obvious caveat: the trick only works on apps that once had versions compatible with your OS. You can’t download an iOS 5 version of a six month old app that never had a version compatible with iOS 5.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at how to stock up your aging iPad 1 with apps, frustration free.
How to Download Old App Versions to Your Older Device
As we noted above, if you fire up an old iPad using iOS 5 and try to download darn near anything from the App Store, iOS 5 is so ancient that installation will almost certainly fail for 99% of apps (even if that app is old enough to have an ancient iOS 5-era version).
However, if you purchase/download the current version of the application–on either a newer iOS device (like your iPhone 6) or using the iTunes desktop software on your Windows or Mac–then the older version of the application will be accessible to your older device. Why? Because Apple’s policy is that if you purchased an app (this applies even to free “purchases”), that the app should be available to any device in your personal collection that requests to download it. When an old iOS 5 device requests a new app from your library (rather than from the iTunes Store), it’ll search for an old, compatible version and–if one exists–grab it.
We’ll demonstrate the trick with the popular comic book reading app Comic Zeal. If you attempt to download Comic Zeal an an old device (which is presently listed in the App Store as requiring iOS 8.2 or above), you’ll get an installation error like the one we highlighted above.
To get Comic Zeal on our iPad, we need to make a quick stop at either our computer or another, newer, iOS device. Does it matter which you use? Only if you’re downloading an application that is iPad only–if you search for an iPad only app on your iPhone you won’t see it in the search results.
For our example, we’ll use iTunes. Fire up the app and search in the search box for the name of your application. Select the app in the search results. Click the “Buy” or “Get” button, depending on whether the app is paid or free.
Once you click the Get or Buy button, you don’t have to wait for the app to actually download to your computer (and we recommend you don’t, actually, as it will be a new version you can’t use anyway).
Having purchased the app, head over to your older iOS device and search for the exact app in the App Store or click on the “Purchased” icon in the lower navigation bar. When you locate the app, click the “Install” button.
After you click “Install”, you’ll see a popup like the one below indicating that there is an older version of the app available for download. Click “Download” the last compatible version.
At this point, the app will install as expected and you can use it, albeit without the features present in the newer updates.
It might not be the most convenient way to go about doing things, but this little workaround is a great way to breath life into old hardware.