- Here's our roundup of the best video editors
for iOS right now in 2020.
We're gonna take a look at the leading options
after our in depth testing and finish with the reveal
of my top pick for best video editing app
on iPhone and iPad.
Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video,
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so let's jump into it.
Okay, so after testing all the latest options,
we're gonna take a look at the best video editors,
available right now on iPad and iPhone.
And as we go through make sure
to let me know,
down in the comments, what's your favorite video editing app
for iOS and most importantly, why?
Now there is lots of options out there
when it comes to video editing apps.
You've got things like Adobe Premiere Rush,
Alight Motion, Videoleap, FilmoraGo, iMovie, InShot,
KineMaster, LumaFusion, PowerDirector, Quik, VivaVideo,
V-L-L-O or VLLO or VLLO and WeVideo.
So there's definitely a lot of options out there,
but what I've done is, I've created a shortlist
of my top four.
Now just before we get to this shortlist,
I do wanna mention a couple of apps here really quickly,
that just couldn't fit into the top four.
Hey, there's only four of them.
But they're still really good apps
and they'll still let you create professional videos really,
really fast and they are Alight Motion, Videoleap,
KineMaster and PowerDirector.
So Alight Motion doesn't have the most intuitive interface,
but it's still a really powerful app.
It's also a motion graphics and animation app
and not just video editing.
Videoleap has an awesome, really intuitive interface
with some pro-level features in there as well.
KineMaster is one that we've been recommending
on our channel for a long time.
And it's even taking out the title of Best Video editing app
on iOS previously.
This time round though, like I said,
it's got some tough competition.
And PowerDirector is a new one to iOS,
it's been a great app on android for a long time,
they finally have an iOS version,
but I still don't think it stacks up,
especially to limit this down to a top four list.
So as for our shortlist then,
that includes Adobe Premiere Rush,
InShot, LumaFusion and V-L-L-O.
Now I did do a quick Google search
and couldn't find how you actually pronounce it,
so I'm just gonna call it VLLO.
So without teasing these any longer,
app number one on the shortlist is Adobe Premiere Rush.
Now I'm a massive fan of Adobe Premiere Rush,
I think is so easy to use.
I think the interface is really intuitive.
I think if you're an absolute beginner,
you're gonna be able to start editing fast in here
without too much overwhelm or too much confusion.
But if you are someone who is more
on the advanced side of things, you're gonna have a heap
of professional level features in here
that are going to allow you to create the videos
that you want in this app as well.
So it's a good mix of beginner through to advanced features.
But probably the biggest standout feature
with Adobe Premiere Rush is the fact
that it is cross device, cross platform compatible,
meaning that you can use this on pretty much anything,
on your iOS devices, your iPhone, your iPad,
on your Mac, on your PC,
you can start a project on one and open it up on the other,
and then open it up on another if you'd like.
So it's the only app out there that works cross device
and cross platform.
But also it's kind of like the little baby brother
of the professional video editing software,
Adobe Premiere Pro.
And what you can do is start your projects
in Adobe Premiere Rush,
and you can open them up inside of Adobe Premiere.
So if you do wanna upgrade your projects,
or open them up inside of the professional grade software,
then you have that ability as well.
There's some great features in there
that make it really quick for you to edit your videos down.
Things like audio ducking and auto levels.
So it's automatically gonna adjust everything for you
based on the clips or the music
that you're using in your videos.
It also makes reformatting your video projects
really, really easy.
So if you're just starting with a widescreen video
for YouTube, and you wanna create an Instagram story version
a portrait video, with the click of a button
you can easily convert and switch between the two.
The biggest downsides I found with Rush is
that it can be a little bit buggy from time to time,
but in saying that it really hasn't been for a long time.
So I'm hoping that they've fixed all of that
in the most recent updates.
But also it's worth knowing
that you actually can't reverse a clip
or play a clip backwards.
I don't know why.
It seems to be something that even the most basic
video editing software has, except for Rush.
It's not a deal breaker, but it's worth knowing that
if you need to reverse your clips or play them backwards,
can't do it in Rush yet.
As for pricing, there is a free version,
but it only lets you export or save out three projects.
So you're really gonna be looking at one of the paid options
and it is a subscription model, is $9.99 per month
for access to Adobe Premiere Rush,
or you can also bundle it
with some of the other Adobe programs.
So if you've already got a license for Adobe Premiere Pro,
then you've already got a license for Adobe Rush as well.
But a package deal of Adobe Premiere Rush
and Adobe Premiere Pro started around
$20.99 cents per month.
So I really think Adobe Premiere Rush is a great option
for anyone who is that absolute beginner
right through to advanced given the amount of features
and control but also how easy it is to use.
And obviously, if you're someone who is a beginner
looking to advance your editing,
this could be a great leg up for you
into Adobe Premiere Pro when you're ready.
Now the next one on the list is Inshot.
I wanna come out and say this straight away
that this is probably the most basic app in our shortlist.
and yes, some of the other ones
that didn't make the shortlist have more features
and more control over Inshot.
But I think this app is definitely worth looking at.
If you wanna be able to edit your videos down fast,
without a heap of extra features.
The features that they give you in there are fantastic,
but they're not going to overwhelm you.
So this is going to be perfect
for an absolute beginner or someone who just wants
to make minor edits
and make their stuff look good.
and quickly get it out on social media.
So like I said,
this app is really,
really easy to use,
it's really fast to edit in the interface,
super intuitive.
but there's a couple of things in this app
that they've done,
which are really cool
that make it easy
for you to edit your videos fast.
The first is that you can set up your effects
or your color correction
or your formatting
and how you want to clip to look.
and you can tick a box
and you can apply it to all the clips in your timeline
or in your edit.
This is something
that you normally only see in the really high end.
They're really professional apps.
So this is awesome.
They have it in a more basic app like this,
just like Adobe Premiere Rush,
they make it really it easy
to quickly change the format of your video.
So if you are someone who is going
to be repurposing your content,
I really like the way
that they handle it Inshot,
and how fast it easy they make it even
for doing things like putting a widescreen video
and converting it through to portrait.
It's literally just clicking at the different options,
or adjusting the background color to be able
to add subtitles or add a blur in the background.
This is all stuff
that you can do in a lot of the other apps.
but it is so easy
and so fast in Inshot.
So as for the downsides then,
as I said, this app is not a pro level app,
it's not gonna have all the advanced control
and advanced features
that you're going to have in the more professional apps.
You also have no control over the frame rate of your video.
and there's also only one video layer or one video track
that you can use to create your video.
So if you're looking for something more advanced,
where you're going to be stacking clips
on top of each other,
like adding B roll or overlay footage,
you can't do that in InShot.
Now in regards to pricing.
There is a free version of Inshot,
it does have a watermark
but you can watch an ad to remove it.
So if you watch the ad,
you don't actually have to pay to remove the watermark,
which means that you can use Inshot totally for free,
and create unbranded videos,
which is awesome.
The other options you've got though,
is you can pay $1 99 to remove ads totally from the app,
or you can remove the ads
and unlock more features,
more stickers, more effects
and those sorts of things with the pro plan,
which is either $4.39 per month,
or you can pay a one time fee
and purchase the app outright
for around the $43 price point.
So rounding that out Inshot I think is an amazing app
for editing your videos really quickly
for repurposing them for adding captions
and those sorts of things if you need to.
but I would say it's definitely aimed at more
of the beginner to intermediate.
If you're an advanced user,
you could probably use something like Inshot,
just to do a really quick edit
to save you opening up one of these other apps
and getting everything set up.
Editing down something fast
is really where I see Inshot fitting into this list
or it'd be perfect for someone who doesn't wanna
get bogged down in all of the advanced features
and advanced controls.
The next one on the list is LumaFusion,
now this is hands down the most powerful,
most advanced video editing app
on iOS right now, this thing is absolutely amazing.
It is really mimicking what you would get
on something like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut,
but on your iOS device.
So this app pretty much has all the bells and whistles,
everything you need from creating a short,
quick little clip right through
to an actual documentary or a film.
There are people out there
that are using their iPads
and iOS devices to edit down major videos using LumaFusion.
Now, the interface itself definitely,
isn't the easiest to use,
especially when compared to some of these other apps
that we've mentioned here.
but it really is
because of all the advanced features
and controls, and settings
and stuff that you have in there.
So I really don't see
that as a downside.
And if you are someone who has edited before
on a different program or different app,
it's not going to take you too long
to get up to speed in here,
but you will be blown away with the amount of features
and control that you have.
One of the things
that I really love about LumaFusion,
is the amount of performance
and power that you have,
in that you can literally drop in multiple 4k clips,
drop them straight in the timeline,
you're able to scrub through them,
play them back at effects
and everything all without missing a beat.
and even on an older iOS device,
I've had great success using LumaFusion
on an older iPhone seven with multiple 4k clips,
and yeah, hasn't missed a beat.
I also really love some of the simple stuff
that they've added in from what you would normally see
in a desktop video editing application.
Things like the ability to easily
and quickly lower the volume on a track by track level,
what to easily pick up
and move clips around,
but keeping everything in sync.
It's almost like it's a hybrid of Premiere
and Final Cut with the Final Cuts magic timeline in there.
and it's also really cool
that you can easily switch
and change up the layout or the interface.
So depending on what you're actually doing
or what device you're using,
if you're on a smaller screen or a bigger screen,
you can customize up the layout,
so that it's going to work best
for you with what it is
that you're doing.
So in regards to pricing then,
there is no free version.
This is a one time purchase
but really, it is ridiculously cheap at 29.99 considering
that this is the most powerful video editing app
out there on iOS.
So I would recommend LumaFusion
to anyone who is an intermediate through to advanced level.
If you're a beginner,
you could still look at this as well,
I would say that the learning curve
for you is definitely going to be greater
than some of the other apps.
But if you do want to grow
and learn, and master video editing,
then this could be the perfect app
for a beginner as well.
But for an intermediate to advanced level person,
this is going to do everything
that you need, with all of those advanced features
and controls, and yet, it's ridiculously cheap.
And the last one then,
app number four is VLLO.
Now this is one
that's relatively new to me.
I've spent a lot of time with it recently,
but this is something
that we have never recommended before.
And I'm gonna say, when I first opened the app
and saw the welcome screen
that showed up I was kind of like,
Oh, it's just one of those template theme based,
really basic editors.
but it's actually the complete opposite.
It is awesome.
It doesn't have all the parts Pro features
and things that LumaFusion does,
it probably doesn't even have as intuitive interface
as Adobe Premiere Rush,
but it is still really easy to use.
and it does have some amazing features in there.
One of the standout features
for me in there is the adjustment layers
and the effect layers,
where you can apply all of your effects or any adjustments
that you want to have.
And they are applied to all the clips
that are below or in this case
above the actual adjustment layer.
So working with adjustment layers
and being able to bulk apply or batch apply things
to your entire clips,
or even just to multiple clips.
in one sitting is just insane.
This is something
that only the more professional,
desktop video editing apps have,
not normally seen
on an app like this.
So it's a great addition.
There's also some really cool features
in there like being able to ripple edit,
left ripple edit right,
so you're able to cut your timeline
and remove a chunk in one step instead of going through
and adding a cut, selecting and deleting.
So there's some ways
that you can edit your videos down fast
and LumaFusion has this as well.
Which is why I'm really blown away
that you have it in this app too.
I also really liked the way
that they displayed the audio wave form
or the visual representation of the audio
in your videos on top of the clips themselves.
This is something
that most video editing apps
don't include at all,
let alone to present it as well as it is in this app.
It makes it so much easier to edit your footage down
if you've got audio in your videos,
because you can visually see where those audio markers are.
And this is another app
that makes it really easy
to change between the different video formats.
So if you are interested in repurposing your content,
you can easily do it in here.
and you also have the ability in here to stack or to layer,
your video clips.
So if you do want to do some more advanced edits,
and dropping things like B roll or overlay footage,
you can do that in here too.
And just while we're on the multiple video layers,
while you can do it in there,
and while it works pretty well,
I don't think it's as intuitive
or it's more cumbersome
than something like Adobe Premiere Rush
or something like LumaFusion when it comes
to how you're just stacking the videos
on its own separate layer.
Stalking a video in here
is almost nesting the video
inside of the other one.
So this isn't too bad
if you're only gonna add one additional layer.
But if you want to add two or three,
that's when it becomes hard to work with,
and that's when it really becomes hard to switch
and select between which clip you want to adjust.
To in regards to pricing,
is a free version of this app
which does not have a watermark included.
Meaning that you can just use the basic features,
export your video,
and it's not going to have any branding or watermark on it.
But in order to totally unlock the app
and access all of the pro level features,
including things like the multiple video tracks,
then you will need to purchase the app
for a one time fee.
And this one is ridiculously cheap,
at 14.99 one time fee.
So I recommend VLLO
to anyone who is on the absolute beginner level,
right through to an advanced user.
I think you're going to have tools
and features in there
that are going to work across the board.
If you just want to do simple stuff,
you've got it it's going to be really intuitive
for you to do that.
But if you want to have access to a lot of those features
and things, you've got those in there too.
And obviously, for someone
on the more advanced side of things,
having access to those adjustment layers,
and the level of control
that you have over the way you actually edit
in the timeline,
this is gonna be a great pick for you too.
But it definitely doesn't have all of the advanced features
and control as something like LumaFusion.
So those are our top four video editing apps
on iOS right now.
Now, it's gonna be tough.
but if I had to pick a winner,
I would say it's going to go to LumaFusion,
hands down, because of the amount of features
and control that you have.
There is nothing
that really comes close to the level of professional tools
and professional features
that you have in there.
It really is like desktop video editing application
or video editing software on your iOS device.
I'm someone who has been editing professionally
for a very long time,
and it is just insane what you're getting
for 29.99 as a one time fee,
plus, it's really amazing how well it works
even with multiple layers of 4k videos.
Just yeah, well done, well played.
Now I do want to add in here a really quick runner up.
and that needs to Adobe Premiere Rush.
I love the these cross platform or cross device
that I can start it on one device,
open it on another,
but also that you're able
to edit really fast without getting bogged down
in a heap of settings and stuff.
But it still has a lot of Pro Tools
and everything in there.
So, that's my close runner up,
and I'm also totally blown away with VLLO or V-L-L-O,
I'm sure this video next year
is gonna look a little different
because what they're doing,
and obviously at that price point too.
Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting year
and it's going to be interesting to see what they do.
So now that you have your video editing apps sorted,
if you're looking for the most efficient
and the fastest way to edit your videos down
with minimal wasted time or rework,
check out the video linked on screen now
for our process on the most efficient way
for editing videos,
and I'll see you in the next one.