
The App Store did offer Lightroom in the past, way back with Lightroom 4 priced at $149.99.

It’s free to download and use for a week, and then it’s a $9.99/mo subscription through Apple’s purchasing system or annually for $118.99, which includes 1TB of cloud storage. The App Store version of Lightroom is the “new” version of Lightroom, previously known as Lightroom CC. Shifting over to the App Store will be a welcome change for some users. Many long-time users just prefer the old way of doing things. It’s been more of a challenge than with iOS as the Mac has been around for much longer than the App Store.

Apple has been pushing for more developers to move their apps onto the App Store, rather than having their own individual platforms.
