IWork was initially sold as a suite for $79, then later at $19.99 per app on OS X and $9.99 per app on iOS. In 2013, Apple launched iWork web apps in iCloud even years later, however, their functionality is somewhat limited compared to equivalents on the desktop. A version of iWork for iOS was released in 2010 with the first iPad, and the apps have been regularly updated since, including the addition of iPhone support. The next release, iWork '09, also included access to, a beta service that allowed users to upload and share documents, now integrated into Apple's iCloud service. Pages was released with the first iWork bundle in 2005 Numbers was added in 2007 with the release of iWork '08. Steve Jobs announced Keynote saying 'It's for when your presentation really matters'. The oldest application in iWork is Keynote, first released as a standalone application in 2003 for use by Steve Jobs in his presentations. Although Microsoft Office applications cannot open iWork documents, iWork applications can export documents from their native formats (.pages. The equivalent Microsoft Office applications to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively. Apple's design goals in creating iWork have been to allow Mac users to easily create attractive documents and spreadsheets, making use of macOS's extensive font library, integrated spelling checker, sophisticated graphics APIs and its AppleScript automation framework. It includes the presentation application Keynote, the word processing and desktop publishing application Pages, and the spreadsheet application Numbers.

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