# VideoEffect Lab — Effects you build yourself

> Effects you build yourself (iPhone/iPad app by Lintao Li.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/videoeffect-lab/id6803332553 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Lintao Li](https://appshunter.io/developer/1633884272)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Photo & Video
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-08-27
- Data updated: 2026-10-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/videoeffect-lab/id6803332553/reviews.md

## What is VideoEffect Lab?

Put a layer of light on your footage — and now, put it on the beat.

Pick an effect, drop it on a photo or a clip, and see it on the frame you are working with. Then take it apart: every effect here is made of skills, and the same forty-three skills are yours to stack into something nobody else has.

SEE IT BEFORE YOU USE IT
Discover is a screening room: every effect loops on its own clip, and the card says how long it runs and when it happens. Tap Use on the card and pick your footage. Dark by default; light is in Mine.

MOVE TO THE MUSIC
Add a track from Files, borrow the sound from a video in your library, or keep the clip's own. Then tap music on any slider: it rests where you set it and kicks on every beat. The timeline shows the waveform and each beat, and the app listens for the song's pulse, so busy drums do not make everything twitch. A photo with music exports as a video with sound.

SEE IT ON YOUR OWN FOOTAGE
No abstract preview grid. The effect renders on your picture, at the moment you scrubbed to, and a press-and-hold puts the original back so you can see exactly what changed. Bring footage in from your photo library or from Files.

ELEVEN EFFECTS TO START FROM
Beat Punch, Wave Warp, Soft Light Sweep, Halo, Back to 2007, Film Look, Bad Signal, Liquid Glass, and four about time: Afterimage, Half a Beat, Long Shutter, Freeze. Every one is a recipe you can open, look inside and change — a starting point, not a locked box. Beat Punch follows the music out of the box: on every hit the picture punches forward and a ghost springs off. Wave Warp ripples the whole frame like a flag.

FORTY-THREE SKILLS, IN ONE STACK
Colour, light, glass, glitch, texture, distortion, motion, time, subject and reveal. Add them in any order — order is the effect: a mosaic before a glow is not a glow before a mosaic. Every skill leaves you a slider or two, and any slider can follow the beat.

THE SUBJECT, NOT JUST THE FRAME
The app finds the person or object in your shot, so an effect can land on them and leave the background alone — or the other way round. Blur everything but them, drain the colour from everything but them, or put a rim of light on their outline.

TIME IS A MATERIAL
Afterimage leaves a fading copy behind whoever moves. Half a Beat has a second you follow a few frames late. Long Shutter smears fast motion into a streak while everything still stays sharp. Freeze stops the picture for a few seconds while the sound runs on, then cuts back. They show only where something moves.

EXPORT WHAT YOU SEE
Choose the shape — as filmed, 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 — and see the crop before it is written. Finished clips go straight to your photos.

YOUR WORK STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE
No account, no server. Photos, clips, music, effects and analysis stay on this device. No third-party analytics, no ads.

FREE
• All forty-three skills, with no limit on effects or projects
• Ten of the eleven built-in effects, and remixing all eleven (only Freeze's export is Pro)
• Adding music, and letting any slider follow the beat
• Automatic subject detection, and applying an effect inside or outside it
• Live preview and press-and-hold to compare
• Export at 1080p in any of the four shapes, saved to your photos
• Free exports carry a small Video Lab mark

VIDEO LAB PRO
• Export with no watermark
• Export at your footage's own resolution
• Tap to pick exactly which subject you mean, and keep it through occlusion
• Pro-only effects: Freeze (from 1.3)

Pro is available as a yearly or monthly subscription, or as a one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. The one-time purchase does not renew.

Privacy policy: https://videolab.ipixel.to/privacy
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

For iPhone and iPad. iOS 17 or later.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 专业版-月付 | $2.99 | per month |
| 专业版-年付 | $19.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro永久 | $39.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-09-30

Four new effects about time, each with its own sample clip.

• Afterimage: whoever moves leaves a fading copy of themselves behind, and it catches up when they stop.
• Half a Beat: a second you follows a few frames late, catching up every few frames.
• Long Shutter: fast motion smears into a streak, like a shutter left open a little longer; whatever stands still stays sharp.
• Freeze: the picture stops for a few seconds while the sound runs on, then cuts back. Moment sets where, Hold for sets how long, and the timeline shows the stop.
• Discover has a new Time shelf, where the four loop on their own clips.
• Freeze is the first Pro effect: viewing, previewing and remixing it are free; exporting needs Video Lab Pro.
• Subject effects now preview on a new tracked clip; Halo no longer uses the old animated one.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-24

A new room.

• A dark screening-room interface: the picture is the only colour. On Discover, effects loop on their own clips, each card shows how long it runs and when it happens, and Use is right on the card.
• Every effect now has its own sample clip: light, glass, glitch, retro and colour each get one, instead of eight cards of the same person.
• Effect details fill the screen, with the timeline on the edge of the picture so you can see the moments.
• On the editing screen the picture starts at the top edge; back, the project name and press-to-compare float on it, over one dark panel.
• New effect, Wave Warp: the whole frame ripples like a flag and straight poles bend into an S. Speed is adjustable. That makes forty-three skills.
• Projects gains a My Effects shelf, so your work and your effects share one page; Create keeps just New and Remix.
• Choose an appearance in Mine: dark, system or light.
• New app icon and tab icons.
• Now on iPad.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-20

Effects that move to the music.

• Add music to any project: a track from Files, the sound from a video in your library, or the clip's own sound. Choose where it starts. A photo with music exports as a video with sound.
• Tap music icon on any slider and it follows the beat. It rests where you set it and kicks on every hit; you set how hard. The timeline now shows the waveform and every beat.
• Beat detection listens for the song's pulse, so busy drums no longer make an effect twitch.
• New effect, Beat Punch: on every hit the picture punches forward and a ghost springs off and fades. It follows the beat out of the box.
• Three new skills: Zoom In, Radial Blur and Soul Out. That makes forty-two.
• Import photos and clips from Files, not only from your photo library.
• No music yet? Beat effects keep time to a 120 BPM stand-in until you add a track.
• Reset now takes an effect back to how its author made it, and can be undone.
• The export mark now simply reads "Video Lab".

### 1.0 — 2026-08-27

No release notes.

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All apps by Lintao Li: https://appshunter.io/developer/1633884272

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