Comparison

Video Text Editor vs Add Text

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Video Text Editor

Enhance your videos with dynamic text overlays. Add animated captions with customizable fonts, colors, and effects. Control animation timing, speed, and positioning for professional-looking results.

Highlights
  • Animated transition effects
  • Customizable text appearance
  • Multi-level text animation
  • Adjustable animation timing and speed
  • Flexible text positioning and movement
  • Unlimited captions
  • Font and emoji support
Features
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Easily add text to your videos! - Animated transition effects - Adjust the size, color, opacity, outline, background of your captions. - Animate all text at once, line by line, word by word, or character by character. - Adjust timing and speed of animations - Position your labels anywhere (can also rotate), make them move across the screen or slowly grow/shrink. - Add as many captions to a single video as you want - Tons of awesome fonts - Emoji support

About

Add Text

Easily add customizable text to your videos and photos. Enhance your images with various fonts, colors, and effects to create unique digital art, memes, and greetings. Share your creations instantly or save them to your device.

Highlights
  • Customizable text size, font, and color
  • Adjustable text opacity and alignment
  • Text rotation and letter spacing
  • Add shadows and effects
  • Create memes, greetings, and cards
  • Share to social media or save to gallery
Features
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Add text to Videos and photos is the coolest app for designers to transform their pictures into digital art! Text on video is the most useful font editor for you to make your videos look like more cool and glorious. * Text size is changeable * Text font is changeable * Text opacity is changeable * Text alignment options available * Text color is changeable * Text shodow is changeable * Text is rotatable * Letter spacing is changeable Be creative and inspire others with your unique ideas! Create funny memes, motivational pictures, greetings, and birthday cards or just decorate your own images with our collection of stamps, photo effects, and text fonts. Easy to use app with an intuitive interface. Just select a typography and type a meaningful or funny text with a font of your choice. Share your creation with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or save in the gallery to send it through Email, iMessage. SUBSCRIPTION: You can subscribe to premium features, choosing from the following plans: – 1 month – 12 months – Lifetime (One Time Purchase) The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be provided. Subscriptions may be managed by the user. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. Terms of Use : https://pyappsprivacy.wordpress.com/2020/01/24/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://pyappsprivacy.wordpress.com/2020/01/24/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Video Text Editor3 screens
Add Text4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Video Text Editor at none against Add Text's shown. Video Text Editor also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (626 vs 27). Add Text's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (33% vs 23%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Video Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Add Text sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Add Text holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Video Text Editor has 626 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Video Text Editor's written reviews are positive against 33% of Add Text's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Video Text Editor ships an update fortnightly, Add Text every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Video Text Editor versus Add Text: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVideo Text EditorAdd Text
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (626 ratings)4.8 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.1% of reviews33.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings626 — better27
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVoxeloid Kft.Prashant Yadav

Customer experience

Video Text Editor

All ratings623 ratings
Positive87.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative9.0%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive23.1%
Neutral19.2%
Negative57.7%

Add Text

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Bugs and requests

Video Text Editor

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes when exporting videos
  • Audio disappears after adding text and exporting
  • No sound during video editing/import
  • App closes unexpectedly during save operations
  • Video files fail to open after premium purchase
Show 2 more
  • Audio becomes crackling/distorted after text editing
  • Progress lost when closing app or after inactivity

Requested features

5 requests
  • Auto-save functionality and progress persistence
  • Ability to customize text timing in videos
  • Multiple project support
  • Improved audio handling during editing
  • Delay rating prompts until after meaningful app usage

Add Text

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Video Text Editor

One-time1
  • Premium upgrade, one-time fee$2.99
4 purchases

Add Text

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • 1 Time Purchase$6.99

Questions

Is Video Text Editor free?
Video Text Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Add Text free?
Add Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Video Text Editor or Add Text?
Add Text is rated higher. Video Text Editor averages 4.5 out of 5 from 626 ratings, while Add Text averages 4.8 from 27 ratings.
Do Video Text Editor or Add Text have ads?
Add Text shows ads; Video Text Editor does not.
Which is updated more often, Video Text Editor or Add Text?
Video Text Editor ships an update fortnightly, and Add Text every 5 months. Most recently, Video Text Editor was updated on October 29, 2026 and Add Text on October 24, 2026.

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