- Here's our roundup of the best video editors
for Android right now in 2020.
We're gonna take a look at the leading options
after all of our in depth testing
and finish with a reveal of my top pick
for best video editing app for Android.
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So let's jump into it.
So after testing all the latest options
we gonna take a look at the best video editors
that are available on Android right now in 2020
including the pros and cons of each,
before revealing our choice
for which app takes the top spot.
Now as we go through makes sure to let me know
down in the comments below
what your favorite video editing app for Android is,
and most importantly why.
And whether you agree with our choices or disagree,
I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
Now there are so many options when it comes to
video editing apps on Android.
You've got things like Adobe Premiere Rush,
Alight Motion, Cute CUT, FilmoraGo, Funimate,
InShot, KineMaster, Movavi Clips, PowerDirector,
Quick, VivaVideo, V L L O or Vllo,
WeVideo, VideoShow, and YouCut.
So yeah, there's a lot of options out there
but don't worry we've narrowed this down
to a shortlist of four apps,
which we're gonna be covering off in this video.
Now there's actually two apps that I wanna give
a really quick mention to
because they are still really solid video editing apps,
even though they haven't made our shortlist
this time around.
They are Alight Motion and Powerdirector,
and Powerdirector is one that's actually
taken out this title in one of these videos previously,
as best video editing app on Android.
So it's not to sat that either one of them
aren't great apps and you couldn't get great
results using them,
it's just to say that looking at the overall package
and what you can do with them.
Overall they haven't measured up
for what's on offer out there right now.
But I'll also say that if you are looking
beyond just video editing,
and you're looking at motion graphics
and animations, then Alight Motion
could be a solid option for you
because its focus isn't just on video editing,
but also on animation and motion graphics
and those sorts of things as well,
which most apps here aren't.
So now for our shortlist in no particular order,
we've got Adobe Premiere Rush, Inshot,
Kinemaster, and Vllo or Vllo, or V L L O.
I've looked around,
no one knows how to say this correctly,
so we'll just call it Vllo.
Now I'm gonna give you a quick little overview
of each of these apps before we get to our top pick
to help you decide which one is the best one for you.
So the first one then is Adobe Premiere Rush
now this is really the baby brother of the
professional video editing software on Mac and PC
Adobe Premiere Pro.
And while it is a cut down version
it really packs a punch in the amount of features
and control that you get in this app.
It's also the only app that will work
cross platform and cross device,
meaning that you can start and edit in Premiere Rush
on your I Phone,
you can open it up on your Android device,
or your Mac and PC and make changes
and it's just synchronized across all of them.
So this makes your workflow so easy for you
to start something on your phone
or on an I Pad or Tablet,
and then finish it off on your desktop computer.
Personally I love how fast it is to edit in,
and how intuitive it is to quickly find everything
that you need, without needing to get bogged down
in menus upon menus to go and find everything.
I also love how fast and easy it is
to reformat your videos,
meaning that if you start with a 16 by nine
or a wide screen video,
and you wanna quickly change it to
something to fit an Instagram story in portrait.
With the click of a button you can change
and you can reformat your video to that,
and it's actually gonna do a great job
at lining up all your titles
and those sorts of things as well.
Its also got amazing control over things
like the audio, there're some really powerful
audio features in there that not only make it
really easy to get your volume levels right,
there's an auto mode that does all of it for you
if you want,
but you can also dial in and control everything manually,
which is awesome.
As for the downsides this is something that's not
gonna work on every Android device,
there is a list of recommended devices
or supported devices,
to work with this app so you're obviously gonna
need to have one of those.
And the other thing that's worth knowing
at the time of recording this video
there is still no ability to reverse a clip
or play it backwards.
Which does seem a little strange given that
it is something that a lot of people use
when they're editing their videos.
And it's also pretty rare to not have that feature,
in a video editing application, or software.
Now in regards to pricing
there is a free version of this app
but you only get to export three videos,
so you really gonna be looking at the paid version
which starts at $9.99 per month.
The other option you've got
is to bundle up with either Adobe Premiere Pro,
or the rest of the Adobe suite.
If you've already got Premiere,
or you're paying for the Adobe Master suite,
then you've already got access to Adobe Rush
without any additional expense.
Now don't worry if you're freaking out about the price
and the monthly subscription,
there're some other apps coming up
that may be better suited for you.
But overall I would recommend Adobe Premier Rush
to anyone whether you're an absolute beginner
right through to intermediate or advanced level.
Someone who is looking for a really fast,
really easy to use video editing application,
that's not holding back on the features.
Now obviously if you're already in that
Adobe ecosystem you're paying for Premiere,
Photo Shop or any of those,
you may already have a subscription
or a license to be able to use Rush,
at no additional expense.
But even for the $9.99 per month,
what you're getting access to
ans what this is going to allow you to do
and how fast it's gonna allow you
to edit your videos down,
I do think it is a great option
for video editing on Android.
Number two on the shortlist is Inshot.
Now out of all the apps we're covering of
in this video Inshot is hands down
the easiest video editing app to use,
but that doesn't mean that it doesn't pack a punch.
It doesn't have, all the advanced features
and control like Adobe Premiere Rush,
or like some of the other apps that we're about to mention
but, it is super powerful for allowing you
to create your videos fast, and easily,
and still having them look really good.
Now just like in Adobe Premiere Rush
if you do wanna reformat your videos from
widescreen to portrait for Instagram stories or square,
Inshot makes that surprisingly easy as well.
And there's also a surprisingly huge amount of customization
and control, over the effects and things
that you can apply to your edit as well.
And one of the stand out features for me
was having the ability in such a simple app,
to be able to apply an effect to multiple clips
in your timeline or in your edit,
without needing to manually set everything
for each individual clip.
It's such a simple thing
and a lot of the more professional apps have this built in,
and yeah it's awesome to have it Inshot as well.
But what you won't get in Inshot
is the ability to have multiple video layers
or video tracks,
or to be able to stack your video clips
on top of one another.
There's also no control over frame rate,
so if you wanna be editing in a specific frame rate,
you're not gonna have that here,
and there's also no advanced professional level features.
Things like key framing or advanced audio control.
If you're after those,
one of the other options is gonna be better pick for you.
But what they do include in Inshot,
is all the tools and everything
that an absolute beginner
or someone who just wants to edit fast
is going to need to be able to do just that.
Now in regards to pricing there is a free version.
It does have a watermark,
but, you can click to remove it
and all you need to do is to watch an ad
and, your video can be exported without a watermark.
So, it's free.
You also have the ability to pay $1.99
to remove ads completely from the app.
You also have the option to unlock the
Pro version of Inshot,
and this unlocks all the paid filters,
effects, and stickers.
Pricing wise for the Pro Version starts at $4.39 per month,
or $42.99 as a one time purchase.
But again, you can use this app totally for free,
and without a watermark.
App number three on the shortlist is Kinemaster.
There's a lot of people that always comment saying
you say it wrong, it's Kinemaster,
it's actually Kinemaster.
Now Kinemaster is probably the most professional
video editing app on Android right now.
You've got a huge amount of control,
and tools and features and things
that you would normally only find
in desktop video editing programs.
Things like, Advanced Key Framing,
things like Audio Ducking, Equalizers,
advanced editing tools like Ripple edit,
to let you edit your footage down much much faster.
I also like that they've added some simple stuff
like video layouts or presets for your video layouts.
So if you wanna have more than one video
on the screen say,
50% of the screen one video, 50% another, or image,
you can use one of the presents to quickly set that up.
They also have an Assets store so if you wanna purchase
music, effects, filters, you can do all of that
from within the app as well.
Now as for the downsides the two main things
I think Kinemaster is missing,
is the ability to easily switch between
the different formats,
again it's from wide screen to portrait, to square,
you actually can't do that in Kinemaster,
you have to select what type of video
you're creating upfront before you start editing,
and you can't actually change it afterwards.
The other thing is the color correction
or the color grading tools,
yes you can tweak some colors
and make some minor adjustments,
but they're pretty basic.
Now in regards to pricing,
there is a free version of Kinemaster available,
you can download it,
you can use it on your device for free,
but, it does have a Made with Kinemaster watermark,
or logo, or branding,
that will be saved out on your video
unless you sign up for one of their subscriptions.
So your options are $4.99 per month,
or $39.99 for the year.
and again I actually think that's really really cheap
considering what this app will let you do,
and how fast it's gonna let you create your videos
down on your Android device.
So I think Kinemaster will be perfect for someone
whether you are an absolute beginner
right through to intermediate or advanced,
because it is easy enough to jump in
to get up to speed with the interface.
It's pretty intuitive it's not as easy,
as Inshot or probably as easy as Adobe Premiere Rush,
but it's definitely not gonna be too overwhelming
or too hard for you to figure out.
But obviously having all of those advanced
and professional features in there,
then yes this is gonna be perfect
for someone who is looking for that advanced control
and advanced functionality while they're editing as well.
So number four on our shortlist then is Vllo
or Vllo, however you say it.
Now this is an app that's totally taken me by surprise,
I really didn't have high expectations for this one
I downloaded it, installed it,
but, it's awesome.
Once again it's got a super simple interface
so it's really easy to use
and to get up to speed editing in there,
but it's also got some really cool advanced features
in there as well,
that are gonna make your editing much much easier.
Simple things, like having an audio waveform
the visual representation of the audio
in your videos that's overlaid on top of the clips
in your timeline.
There's not many video editing apps out there
that give you that functionality
let alone have it in an app like this one.
Now they also have a really
powerful video editing feature in here
that's normally only in the
top video editing software on desktop.
Let alone, the cheaper ones on desktop,
let alone in an app,
and this is adjustment layers.
An adjustment layer is where you can apply
all your effects and things to a layer,
and then anything that is under that layer
on your timeline or in this case above that layer,
has those effects applied to it.
This makes it so easy to bulk apply effects,
or bulk apply color grades across your entire edit,
really really fast.
It also has a great amount of control
over things like your color grade,
you can really get in and dial in
and tweak and adjust to make the colors in your video
look the way that you want
or, to fix up any mistakes that you might have had
while you were filming.
Now the biggest thing though that this app is missing
right now, the time of recording this video,
is the multi-track video layers,
or picture in picture layers
as they call it.
Having the ability to stack video clips
on top of one another.
Now this is something that their IOS Version
already has so I'm hoping this is something
that they release on Android really really soon,
but for now, yeah, it doesn't have that feature.
Now the app itself is free,
and it doesn't have a watermark,
so you can use the basic functions in the app,
and export your videos without any branding
or anything on there.
There are ads in the free version,
but if you do purchase the app for $10.99
you're gonna unlock all the features in the app,
which for the most part I would say that
you really wanna be doing that,
but also you remove any ads from the interface as well.
So yeah, I'm pretty blown away with this app,
and I think it's again gonna be perfect
for someone whether you are an absolute beginner
right through to an advanced user,
because of how easy it is to find everything,
how easy it is to edit,
but also having all of those advanced features
and things in there as well.
So those are our top four shortlisted apps.
Now if I had to pick a winner,
it's gonna be hard
but I think my number one pick would be
Adobe Premiere Rush.
I really like that it is cross platform, cross device,
I can start something on my phone,
I can pick it up on my Mac,
I can even transfer the project from Premiere Rush
into Adobe Premiere Pro if I really wanna finish it
on a more advanced editing system.
But really, I can't say that I've ever done that
or, needed to do that,
because everything that I've needed to do in the app
I've just done in the app.
I would say a really close runner up though is Kinemaster,
because it definitely hands down has
the most amount of advanced tools
and functionality in any app on Android,
but I'm also totally blown away with Vllo,
and if they did have that multi track feature
on Android or, when they have that on Android,
that could change the game a little bit.
So now that you've worked out
which one of these is the best app for you right now,
if you're looking for the most efficient
and the fastest way to edit your videos down
in any of these applications,
or any software for that matter,
with minimal wasted time or rework
then check out the video linked in screen now,
taking through the ultimate video editing process.
This is an absolute game changer,
and I'll see you in the next video.