Leave a Review Alight Motion
Its just too laggy.
This app is great in all it offers, I personally use it for animation and it does an excellent job. It can make smooth great animation thats easy to learn and has many effects that really improve the quality of the product.
Despite all this, however, it is EXTREMELY laggy. It crashes all the time. Cant handle even half of one of my characters let alone two or more. It wont let me go further than animating like 2 characters in groups, and even then its struggling. I cant make a singular background or overral edit. I dont know why this happened after the first month of use but, it just stopped accommodating.
Back then I could make a whole 30 layer character and duplicate it twice for shadows and lights and such, but now if I even think of duplicating anything, it would probably kick me out (like it does whenever I have one too many layers visible)
Its a shame. This app is what motivated me to animate but the lag just makes it unbearable. I just think for a big app with so many features it could have done better. For now I have no alternatives so I just cant animate at all :{Show lesssssjawwwqqqq
please alight motion
hey alight motion. I'm rating you guys 3 stars because i'm SICK and TIRED of waiting EVERY DAY for an update. ITS BEEN A YEAR SINCE YOU ADDED NEW EFFECTS. 15 months since 5.0 released. I understand it's hard to run an editing app and stuff and that adding new effects can be difficult, but i have a suggestion! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASEEEEEE ADD REVERSE. i've never needed and wanted something so bad. I desperately need you guys to add a reverse effect because i'm tired of exporting a single clip and adding it into a different editing software just to reverse it. Your app is amazing and i've been using it for over a year, so this would be extremely helpful! I'm not the only person who thinks this because i've seen many people complain about the same thing over on tiktok. Other people ask for smoother slow-mo, but I don't care. I can live with pre-made twixtor for all I care. I BEG OF YOU. Pretty please with a cherry on top add reverse. I need a new update desperately. At least 3 times a week, I check the app store to see if you guys have added a new update. The day i see the word "update" instead of "open" is the day i can finally be happy. I'm a pro-user. I bought pro. I need this.Show lessEvethefoxu
PLWASE
hey alight motion. I’m rating you guys 3 stars because i’m SICK and TIRED of waiting EVERY DAY for an update. ITS BEEN A YEAR SINCE YOU ADDED NEW EFFECTS. 15 months since 5.0 released. I understand it’s hard to run an editing app and stuff and that adding new effects can be difficult, but i have a suggestion! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASEEEEEE ADD REVERSE. i’ve never needed and wanted something so bad. I desperately need you guys to add a reverse effect because i’m tired of exporting a single clip and adding it into a different editing software just to reverse it. Your app is amazing and i’ve been using it for over a year, so this would be extremely helpful! I’m not the only person who thinks this because i’ve seen many people complain about the same thing over on tiktok. Other people ask for smoother slow-mo, but I don’t care. I can live with pre-made twixtor for all I care. I BEG OF YOU. Pretty please with a cherry on top add reverse. I need a new update desperately. At least 3 times a week, I check the app store to see if you guys have added a new update. The day i see the word “update” instead of “open” is the day i can finally be happy. I’m a pro-user. I bought pro. I need this.
Thanks!Show lessSKV4MP
good for transition edits, but super laggy.
I usually use video star and do velocity edits. Something happened and i can’t use it anymore so i tried alight motion because i use to use it for small things. i decided to have some fun and make a transition edit even though i was not use to it. I liked how the edit came out but i would not export and the percentage went to 100,000! i’ve tried everything they said to “fix” it but it doesn’t work. i deleted the edit because it did take up a lot of storage. i worked on another transition edit and it was definitely a lot simpler and this time it exported. i liked the edit and honestly alight motion is really easy to learn and i like that you can use pro effects just by watching an add. on the other hand, there is no twixtor (smooth slow-mo) just choppy slow-mo. so you have to either download twixtor clips, or use a whole other app to make your clips twixtor. that is one thing i don’t like about this app when it comes to velocities. Overall if you make less advanced transition edits, this app is okay.Show lessalight motion edits
Is everything this companies does just for money
Genuinely no monthly plan is absolutely absurd. I as a person with other things in life to worry about has to either pay 5 dollars or 8 dollars a week for a mobile service? not to mention 30 dollars or 80 dollars a year for this application I need no research to understand that this truly is not worth the price id rather learn an entirely different application to approach a hobby of mines. Then you as a company know your losing users like why must you be so parasitical on your own users like really must of your users are kids what kid is gonna to casually be able to ask the parents or guardians or anybody for that matter for a constant stream of 8 dollars a week no subscription should exceed 8 dollars a month. I am also an old user of this app coming back with only great intentions and this was a terrible welcoming your app to this day crashes on very minimum projects, the intrusive alight motion sign if you don't pay for some absurdly priced subscription will always hunt you, reasonably you don't get as many options as much as premium users. The old alight motion never called for the intrusive display nor the idea of no month fee what genuinely happen, once a great app now a cash grab?Show lesscarrototo
Strengths and weaknesses
To start off, Alight Motion is one of the best If not the best editing app of all time. It has many effects that is very appealing to many people, it’s very advanced and is incredibly well developed. So my review will be about what I think Alight Motion should do to make it even better.
Firstly, I’d like to talk about how Alight Motion keeps their watermarks during the editing project which they had removed. It has helped alot for many editors such as my self as the watermark won’t bother me while I am editing inside the project. However, they have added the water mark back to the project which I found really stupid of them to do. It bugs around your entire process and it leads to complications as the text itself covers up what you are adding in your project. So to put it short, I’d like the app to remove the watermark whilst being in projects. I’m not asking to remove the watermark all together but just inside the projects as it will help us editors with non premium a lot and we will have better understanding into what we are doing within the project.
Other than that, it’s a phenomenal app that many editors in this modern era should use as their main editing appShow less______.GUEST
It’s not great, but not bad
I often reach issues of the audio going silent,with me having to restart playing the edit from the beginning or some random point. Furthermore, there aren’t any fixes, tricks, or anything i could find to fix it (though this is likely just a problem of me getting another device for this), it doesn't mean it’s not a problem. Alight frequently crashes, lags, and freezes with no light at the end of the tunnel in updates to fix it. There are many features gate kept by them requiring a “premium” subscription fee to reach its “full potential”, although some people like me can watch ads to unlock these features which is great. But it shouldn't even be a problem in the first place as gate keeping shouldn't be a part of communities (whilst i understand they need money, doesnt mean I need to like the fact). To edit greatly you need effects, many moving parts, and layers which alight can’t even handle sometimes in a 30 second edit for me (and I have a high budget). In conclusion it needs to face it’s problems with lag/crashes, bugs/freezes, gate keeping issues, and more to improve. All this isn’t to say it’s bad, but to just show people issues they may find along the way.Show lessKueqq
Love the app, but..
I’ve been using Alight Motion for nearly a year now. I mainly use it to make sprites for animations, and it usually takes about an hour. The past few days, every time I try to enter, it’s froze before asking me if I’d like to enroll in a subscription. I’m a teenaged small YouTuber, so I can’t afford the subscription. It won’t work no matter what I do. I decided to delete then re-download the app because this happened a few months ago, except it would kick me out and I’d have a limited amount of time until I was kicked out again. So, I made sure I had my account set up so everything wouldn’t be lost, and guess what..it deleted nothing except for my projects. I’m so disappointed.
So how about this. Stop asking if we want a subscription every three minutes. Make sure there aren’t any bugs. Thanks to this, I’m probably gonna have to delay a very important video.
(And in case you’re wondering if deleting the app resolved my issue, it didn’t. Which make things ten times worse.)Show lessGemmiegem1510
Lags and freezes
In all honesty, I love this app wholeheartedly! I’ve been using it for years, I’ve gotten the subscription and I haven’t been able to find anything else like it on a mobile device! My only issue however, is the massive amount of lagging, crashing and freezes that happens. After a few years of having the app on the same device, it started to run slower and slower until eventually it would just crash every time, I tried reopening the app, clearing storage (which wasn’t an issue in the first place), restarting my device, everything I could think of! Eventually I simply deleted and reinstalled the app, and for about half a month, that was working out well, and I thought it would take a while at the most until this issue arises again, but after about a week of not using the app, the same lagging, freezing and crashing started up again, even though my device storage is clear, and I haven’t made many projects on the app yet. I don’t know why this has been happening, but I can’t find many solutions aside from deleting and reinstalling the app around once or twice a month, which one could imagine, is a very tedious process.
I love this app very much, but the crashing and lagging issues make it really hard to progressively use the app when I have to not only get rid of all my data on there, but also to do it so often that I can’t be comfortable using the app on a regular, whatever this issue is, I hope it becomes resolved, thank you for reading ^^Show lessRyaArts
Suggestions
I need Am is lacking a proper masking tool. I haven't used vector drawing in 2 years and nowadays I just pay the monthly plan for Blurrr app and mask my things, photos and videos alike in under 3 minutes. Another feature I think we need is puppet tool, would be really convenient for making animations, also the 3D section needs more vitality, when I look at some AE manga animation projects for example, the way they're able to make a 3d rendered scene from scratch is incredible and I find myself stumped at how to approach that level of competence with the current features. Although the most important feature in this context would prob be the Z plain, there's just not enough tools to create 3d trees for example and really make the environment look and feel 3D. Ultimately, these features would take time to implement, however I think the longer it takes, the more people are becoming experienced enough or unsatisfied with the level at which they are stuck to make the switch to AE.Show lesserenxken
Developer Response
Hello! Please do not delete the app, as that will not help in many cases. Please talk to us first, so we can try to find more non-destructive ways to help! Please open the side menu of the app and tap Email Support so we can assist you! (Please check our automatic response, and it doesn’t help with your issue, please be sure to follow the instructions at the bottom of it so you get through to a human being!) If possible, please include a screen recording showing the problem and a screenshot of the app version information from the “About” screen (when you first open the app, open the side menu, tap “About” to get this information). The more information you can provide, the more likely we are to be able to help. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
