During a special event recently, Apple released Mavericks, its latest operating system for the Mac, along with a huge pricing change for its productivity suite. iWork is now free for those who purchase a Mac which runs Mavericks by default. But if you are out of luck, and if you still want iWork badly, then there’s a way to download iWork suite for free from the Mac App Store.
There’s a new trick that would allow you to download iWork from the Mac App Store completely free. All we have to do is to just download iWork 06 from an external link, and then hit the update button on Mac App Store.
Follow the instructions below to get the trick working on your Mavericks machine. Remember that this trick might not work anytime, since Apple might be working towards closing this hole. Also get ready to burn some bandwidth.
- If the Mac App Store is open on your Mac, quit the app.
- Now, visit this link to download iWork 06: Download iWork 06
- Now, Download the build from the link above, and Install the DMG file.
- You will now have iWork 06 on your Mac.
- Open any app from the iWork 06 suite, and choose the 30-day trial
- Just leave the app for a while, and quit the app that you opened in Step-5.
- Now, go to Mac App Store and click the updates tab.
- You will now see that the iWork suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) updates are available.
- Just click on Update, and that’s all that you need to do.
If you find two copies of iWork, just delete the older version (iWork 06) manually. This trick seems to be working for a lot of people who run Mavericks on their Macs. And hope it works for you too!