Does iWork come free with the macbook pro?

Unfortunetly Mac's don't come with iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote). They only come with iLife, which consists of Garage Band, iWeb, iMovie etc.

There is a free alternative, which does the exact same thing as iWork and MS Office, it's called Open Office. It's free to download, use and share. It's free from adds and commenrcials and is a very usefull program because it has things that iWork and the basic MS Office Mac don't offer (such as a their own version of Access and Project)

Link to OpenOffice is Bellow

http://www.openoffice.org/porting/mac/download/

Once on this page, download OpenOffice.org Aqua

PS Please rate my comment

No and no.

It does not come on the Mac.
The iOS version of Pages has nothing to do with the Mac version.

You can either buy Pages on the Mac in the Mac App Store or buy the iWork installation disk.

You can also try out Pages using the trial version for free, to make sure it does what you need.

Best of luck.

Axelmoret,

I bought a MBP with retina display a month ago and I had numbers, pages, and keynote come with it. I did not purchase any iwork software.

My question, and there seems to be varing answers on here, is if I restore my mbp will it contain the abovementiond software suite, or will I need to re-downoald it.

Apple has now made iWork free with new Macs (and iPhone and iPad). Older Macs and iDevices need an older version of iWork to qualify for the free upgrade to the newer version.

The apps are associated to your Apple ID account, and should be in your Purchases in the Mac App Store. You should be able to download iWork from the Mac App Store using your Apple ID at any time in the future.

But you have a backup of all your files and apps anyway, don't you....? 😮