# Saber Movie FX — user reviews > 270 indexed App Store user reviews of Saber Movie FX by Outerspacious Software LLC, rated 3.00/5 from 288 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/saber-movie-fx/id698445671/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/saber-movie-fx/id698445671.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 74 · 4★ 49 · 3★ 52 · 2★ 26 · 1★ 87 ## What do users think of Saber Movie FX? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Great for LEGO stop motion - 🚀 Realistic lightsaber effects - 👍 Useful for making movies - 👍 Good range of lightsabers and sound effects - 👍 Impressive displays **Cons** - 🐛 Glitchy and buggy - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🐛 Lightsabers flicker and duplicate - 🐛 Inconsistent saber sizing and placement - 🐛 Exporting/saving issues - 🕰️ Time-consuming to edit frame-by-frame **Commonly reported bugs** - Saber effects duplicating to next frame - Custom saber effects not working as expected - Sound effects causing app crashes - Uploaded videos not showing up correctly - Inability to save/export finished projects **Most requested features** - More lightsaber colors (white, orange, black, yellow, pink, dark blue) - Eraser tool to fix mistakes - Zoom function - Saber locking sound effect - Saber cutting/slicing effect - Sparks when sabers clash - Ability to adjust saber angle/orientation - Keyframe/motion tracking support - 4K/60fps export option - Effects for photos, not just videos ## Newest reviews (16 of 270) ### 3/5 — It’s good but… *2026-08-07, version 2.1* The FX goes off track sometimes it can go on the other frame. I think you guys should fix that and you should make an update and also it’s a pretty good app, but yeah, the tracking on this is not bad ### 4/5 — It's Great, with a few bugs. *2025-07-27, version 2.1* It works as advertised, but weird glitches and bugs make me have to reinstall the app. Overall, it works really good. also very time consuming. ### 4/5 — Ja *2025-07-22* Nach 30 Videos stürzt es halt immer ab, ich kann meine Videos gar nicht mehr angucken. Wenn ich sie lösche sind sie irgendwie noch da. Ich kann die Videos nicht wirklich löschen und angucken und es verzögert meistens😫😤😃 ### 3/5 — It’s great but *2025-06-17, version 2.1* I was working on a project for Lego stop motion I was creating when after 2 and a half hours of saber editing i decided to take a little break. However, when I went back into the app to look for my project. The 2 and a half hours of work was gone. ### 4/5 — Export failure *2025-05-14, version 2.1* Can you PLEASE help me with exporting, I put a lot of saber effects, and when I click on the export button, it kicks me out of the app. Please fix that bug ### 3/5 — I can’t figure out how to import a video from my photos!!!! *2025-02-06, version 2.1* I cannot seem to determine the method of which is used to import a video from my photos into this app. So far I like this app, but I think I might need to know how to import a video into it. ### 2/5 — READ BEFORE BUYING!!! TO MANY GLITCHES!! *2025-01-31, version 2.1* I use this app to make Lego stop motions. .The app worked perfectly at first, but after a few weeks it started glitching and won’t stop. When you add a lightsaber to a frame, it will paste it on the next frame. And after you do hours of editing, when you play your film, the lightsaber will be flickering, and not lining up with the blade. Also the sound FX do not start on the frame you put it on. The only thing you can do in this app now is just edit blasters. It will still glitch but you won’t really notice it. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP!!!! ### 3/5 — Good, but could use a few more features to make up for its price *2025-01-29, version 2.1* I think it’s good but here are a few features to make up for its high price: More default lightsaber colors such as: white, orange, black, yellow and pink and dark blue. I think more features like erasing parts of the lightsaber effect would be cool and zooming in too. I also would like to see 4K 60fps option if it’s not a thing already and no compression on audio and video what so ever And one final thing I’d like to see is an option to add effects to photos ### 4/5 — Controls *2025-01-21* This app is AMAZING, I recommend it to those who want to make Lego stop motions. But this app could use a few improvements like: easier controls for rotating and resizing the lightsabers, more better sound effects, making it where the screen doesn’t go black when you only have sound effects in the FX bar, fixing the bug that makes the lightsaber extend even more when you push the add button, and maybe make it where we can make presets for lightsaber sizes, and length especially for the Lego stopmotion creators. But overall this app is 🔥🔥🔥🔥. And we also need a DARKSABER. ### 4/5 — Good but hard for me sometimes *2024-09-29, version 2.1* This app is great as long as you are good at it. The sabers are nice as well as the Kylo Ren saber’s ripple effect changing with the frames. The sounds are not accurate to the original Star Wars movies but are still well-done. I personally rotoscope the blades with SaberFx, which is simpler, then send it to this app to be given SFX and clash effects. It is not very easy for me to handle rendering the blades with this app, which is why is split the process into 2 different apps. ### 4/5 — Great app, but a few things are wrong *2024-08-04, version 2.1* This is a great app! It is sooooooo useful! But there are a few things. 1: When you create a custom effect, no matter how long you format it, it always shows up as a full length! This makes it unusable! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE fix this! 2: When you format the saber right but then move it around the screen, sometimes the saber changes size. Could you please add a locking mechanism to the length? Again, this is a great app that I use all the time. It makes making videos so much easier. Thank you, and please respond. ### 3/5 — Missing feature *2024-05-20, version 2.1* The app has great fx it just really needs a way to get rid of the bar at the bottom while editing, it bothers me and sometimes I can’t finish because I can’t see near the bottom ### 4/5 — This app is very good *2024-04-05, version 2.1* The app does exactly what it is designed for and works great I wouldn’t recommend for stop motions but looks great I like this app and recommend u get it however I would like some blaster fire and a way for the light sabers to cut through things ### 2/5 — Doesn’t automatically adjust to frame rate *2024-02-14, version 2.1* It doesn’t adjust to your frame rate so the effect won’t show at times and also the effect will show in later frames. There also should be a dark saber effect. ### 4/5 — Very very laggy *2024-02-07, version 2.1* So much glitches but good features all this makes it an alright app ### 4/5 — Vraiment bien *2024-02-05* J’aime beaucoup cette application le contenu est réaliste et rend bien. Même si cela prend beaucoup de temps et que c’est un peu dure à prendre en main. Mais par contre le prix de l’application est un peu trop élevé pour le contenu je trouve… Sinon c’est une très bonne application, rien d’autre à dire bravo ! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — It’s almost as bad as Disney’s… *2026-04-20, version 2.1* First of all, there are no sound effects for the cross gaurd Lightsabers. Secondly, it is very limited for the price. It is absolutely not worth it and I am against the people who made this. ### 1/5 — Wth? *2025-08-06, version 2.1* It won’t let me open any of my projects?!? I laid so much for this app and can’t even use it!! ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2025-05-30, version 2.1* The app cannot be used for pictures, only videos. Not too much of an issue, of course, unless you count the fact that it doesn’t work properly for videos. The custom color fx cannot make a saber in the length you set it to, the frame by frame is not accurate (skips entire frames) and effects you put in one frame will linger into the next even though the saber moved, and there is no eraser feature to correct mistakes (to erase one effect you need to erase the entire project’s worth of effects). ### 1/5 — It glitches way to much *2024-12-31, version 2.1* There are soooo many glitches and after an hour of hard work of working on this then it glitches and I lose it all is very annoying please fix the glitches ### 1/5 — Lags to much *2024-11-10, version 2.1* Every time I film something it deletes it or lags out so I can’t finish it this is the worst app ever ### 1/5 — NICHT KAUFEN *2024-10-26* Ich habe diese App für 22€ gekauft, was extrem viel ist für so etwas. Die App ist sehr sehr simpel und sogar fünf Euro wären zu teuer. Außerdem gibt es fast bei jedem Mal wenn man einen Laser in ein Bild rein machen möchte einen Fehler und er wird auch in das nächsten Bild kopiert. Die App ist einfach unbrauchbar. Dafür 22€, niemals kaufen! ### 1/5 — Horrible *2024-10-24, version 2.1* This app was very trustworthy and very good for my lightsaber animations, but I’ll state 3 things that make it horrible, 1. Every time you add something it literally skips another frame when you go to the next frame and then when you watch it, it literally is like a disco party 2. Whenever you place a thing it slightly extends it by quite a lot making animations ruined 3. It costs so much! £20 for a scan and I’ve only have it for 25 minutes and it was awful I want my £20 back, this was a waste of my money, I’d consider you fix your bugs for others to keep the app ### 1/5 — It doesn’t import *2023-09-30* This app doesn’t import my movies i make, when I click on import nothing shows up and I can’t make the movie, that is why I am giving it 1 star, if you fix this it will be the best, thank you! ### 1/5 — Not really worth it *2023-09-24, version 2.1* This app is SOOO GLITCHY Half of the time the video won’t play, it will just show a picture of the last frame you were on. And effect mover will just vanish! And sometimes the lightsaber FX you place I. One frame will appear in every other frame It was not worth the five bucks. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work! *2023-05-11, version 2.1* When I try to set a size for a light saber it works at first but then it goes back to its original size then when I go onto the next frame it duplicates the lightsaber. fix it now!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best app ever!!! *2026-05-14, version 2.1* Perfect for recreating the most iconic Star Wars lightsaber duel out in the backyard ### 5/5 — Pls notice and update *2025-05-19, version 2.1* This is amazing and I use it for my stop motions but it needs the dark saber ### 5/5 — I love this app! *2025-03-14, version 2.1* Works great! Everything I imagined it would be. GunMovieFX on the other hand… ### 5/5 — Love this *2024-12-13, version 2.1* This app is amazing and has a pretty good price for being the only freaking frame by frame lightsaber fx editor on the App Store😂 but maybe add a option to create your own effects bc frame by frame editing is amazing ### 5/5 — Very good *2024-05-06, version 2.1* For what it is it is great ### 5/5 — Great app! *2024-01-11, version 2.1* Not sure why the rating has dropped so much, the app is great and works fine for me. Definitely the easiest way to do good lightsaber effects! ### 5/5 — Great for LEGO Animation *2022-08-01, version 2.1* I use this for my LEGO stopmotions. It works well. Only thing I think could make this app better is a built in tutorial for how it works, it was confusing at first. ### 5/5 — Flawless absolutely beautiful *2022-06-10, version 2.1* This is the best editing software I ever purchased. the effects are great and look really good. I say they look their best in action figure stop motions but they still do look good in real life too I recommend for fast movements using one of their blurs and with their blaster fx use one of their highlights. people would normally have to spend $600 on adobe after effects but this is just $15 and it’s totally worth it. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 ### 5/5 — Issues *2021-07-05, version 2.1* Hi it will not let me import videos, amazing app, best ever on phone, can you make it allow imports my screen just goes blank. ### 5/5 — Saber movie review *2021-01-11, version 2.1* App must be fixed I’m having the same issue as these people every time I click the + button my saber extends and sometimes when I click the + button the saber from the previous frame moves to the next frame, it remains in the same spot, and it really bothers me, this must be fixed !!!!!!!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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