iWork on iCloud beta available for free developer's account users as well

At WWDC 2013 last month, Apple announced that iWork would be available for iCloud. The add-on essentially allows users to create and edit Pages as well as Numbers and Keynote documents inside both desktop and iOS browsers. Last year, the company had announced that it was discontinuing iWork as it was looking at integrating the same with iCloud.

The company has said that iWork for iCloud is Apple’s answer to Google Drive and Microsoft’s Office Web Apps. iWork for iCloud can support Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer. The company did add that it will work best on Safari, though.

The web-based app suite is also capable of taking care of Microsoft Office documents. While the beta version of iWork for iCloud has been available for a month now, it now seems like anyone who has a developer’s account can access the beta version. Apple has two kinds of developer’s accounts. The first is a paid account for which developers pay $99 (Rs 5,900 approx) in order to get access to all the trials and test-versions that Apple puts out. The other is a free developer’s account, which normally does not get all the test-versions. 

iWork for iCloud now available for users with a free developer’s account. (Image credit: Apple)

Although beta versions are traditionally the realm reserved for developers with paid accounts, users without this have also said that they can log on and create documents over the Internet using iWork. The documents are saved to the user’s iCloud account and can be accessed on a Mac or iOS device, which was demonstrated by Apple last month.

Users who may have used any of the Pages, Keynote or Numbers applications and have saved it on their iCloud account before will be able to access the same as well. The company has sent out emails to developers yesterday, according to The Verge , welcoming them to explore the beta version. From what can be seen so far, users with free developer’s accounts can also test their heart out on iWork on iCloud as well. There is still no word on when normal users will be getting this feature, though.