Alight Motion vs Time Cut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alight Motion
Create professional animations, motion graphics, and visual effects on your mobile device. This app offers advanced tools for video editing, compositing, and animation with support for multiple layers, vector graphics, and keyframe animation.
- Multiple layers of graphics, video, and audio
- Vector and bitmap editing
- 160+ visual effect building blocks
- Keyframe animation for all settings
- Camera controls with pan, zoom, and focus blur
- Grouping and masking
- Customizable animation easing
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Be part of the movement! Alight Motion is the first professional motion design app for your smartphone for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, bringing you professional-quality animation, motion graphics, visual effects, video editing, video compositing, and more! • Multiple layers of graphics, video, and audio • Vector and bitmap support (edit vector graphics right on your phone!) • 160+ basic effect building blocks that can be combined to create sophisticated visual effects • Keyframe animation available for all settings • Link parent and child layers and rig character joints • Cameras that pan, zoom, and support focus blur and fog • Grouping and Masking • Color Adjustment • Animation easing for more fluid motion: Pick from presets or build your own timing curves • Bookmarks for ease of editing • Velocity-based motion blur • Export MP4 video, GIF animation, PNG sequences, and stills • Share project packages with others • Solid color and gradient fill effects • Border, shadow, and stroke effects • Custom font support • Copy and paste entire layers or just their style • Save your favorite elements for easy re-use in future projects Alight Motion is free to use with basic features and a watermark on videos you create. There are several paid membership options in the app to remove the watermark and access a regularly updated library of premium effects and features. These subscription membership options are charged when you select to purchase them, and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the beginning of the next subscription period. After purchasing, subscriptions can be managed in your Apple ID settings. You can find more information about subscriptions at https://alightcreative.com/support Terms of Service: alightcreative.com/tos Privacy Policy: alightcreative.com/privacy
Time Cut
Create professional-looking slow-motion videos with AI-powered frame interpolation and motion blur effects. Enhance video quality and convert frame rates for cinematic results.
- Smooth slow motion with AI frame interpolation
- Motion blur and lens blur effects
- Frame rate conversion
- AI-driven quality enhancer
- Customizable speed curves
- Highlight moment effects
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Make smooth slow motion video with deep-learning frame interpolation model. Add motion blur to make rsmb effect or simply make videos smoother. Use AI-driven quality enhancer to enhance the quality of both pictures and videos. Using advanced image processing algorithm, Time Cut is a powerful and professional video editor that is dedicated to change the frame rate or the speed of a video. Unique de-duplication technique for ultimate smooth slomo video. We also offer a wide range of carefully designed slowmo effects that make fast and easy velocity edits. #Smooth Slow Motion Including three frame interpolation approaches - Optical Flow, RIFE deep-learning model, frame blending, our video speed adjustment feature allows you to make any flexible velocity edits to your video, including customized speed curve and a variety of common speed change presets. For example, you can speed it up and then slow it down, and the video will always stay smooth even after being slowed down like trending tiktok velomingo edits. #Motion Blur and More Lens Blur FX Two modes of motion blur to make rsmb/vsmb edits, and many more other blur option like BCC lens blur and directional blur etc. #Frame Rate Converter Convert videos to any frame rate you need. In addition to increasing the frame rate of normal videos to 60/120/240 fps, it can also convert high frame rate videos into cinematic 24fps videos and the most commonly used 30fps videos of smaller size to share. #Quality Enhancer Wanna good-quality video to take the edits to the next level? We offer AI-driven quality enhancer to enhance the quality of both pictures and videos. #Highlight Moments and More Fx There're all kinds of slow motion effects available in our app to help you make the most creative and stunning edits in an easy way regardless of your editing skills. Trending high quality coloring preset (unsharp masking) to help your videos look super professional. Download Time Cut and play with time! ---------------------------------------------- Subscription option: $1.99 per week, $5.99 per year, $7.99 for forever VIP. Subscribe for unlimited access to all features and content offered for purchase within the app. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Privacy policy: https://www.floatcamellia.com/privacy.html Terms of use: https://www.floatcamellia.com/agreement.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Time Cut at 4.7 against Alight Motion's 4.4. Time Cut also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 62%). Alight Motion's advantage is chart position (#61 vs unranked) and ratings volume (81K vs 15K). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Alight Motion sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Time Cut sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Time Cut holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alight Motion has 81K ratings behind it against 15K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Alight Motion's written reviews are positive against 73% of Time Cut's.
Alight Motion ships an update fortnightly, Time Cut every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Alight Motion | Time Cut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (81K ratings) | 4.7 (15K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.1% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81K — better | 15K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #61 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | BENDING SPOONS OPERATIONS SPA | 立亚 林 |
Customer experience
Alight Motion
Time Cut
User reviews
Alight Motion
From 81K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great for editing and animating
- 👍 Lots of features and effects
- 💡 Ability to watch ads to unlock premium features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and lag issues
- 🔒 Watermark issues and premium features locked behind paywall
- 🔋 App performance issues, especially on older devices
Time Cut
From 15K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth slow motion
- 👍 Free with no watermark
- 🚀 Quick and easy to use
- 🚀 Flawless slow motion
- 👍 Better than CapCut
Room to improve
- 🐛 Choppy/glitchy slow motion
- 🔒 Subscription-based features
- 🐛 Saving/exporting issues
- 🐛 Compatibility problems with iOS 18
- 🐛 Motion blur glitches
Bugs and requests
Alight Motion
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashing when trying to export videos
- Inability to add text or photos/videos
- Grouping issues causing projects to become unusable
Requested features
3 requests- Add speed graphs and time remapping
- Improve stability and reduce crashes
- Allow more customization of watermark
Time Cut
Reported bugs
4 issues- Slow motion not working properly
- Saving/exporting issues
- Compatibility problems with iOS 18
- Motion blur glitches
Requested features
5 requests- Add a timeline/editing features
- Increase bitrate and export quality
- Add a denoise feature
- Improve motion blur quality
- Provide more free trial options for pro features
In-app purchases
Alight Motion
- Weekly Subscription$0.997 Days
- Weekly with 2 weeks offer 0.997 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Weekly Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$4.997 Days
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- Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Weekly Subscription with Free Trial7 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
- Weekly Cloud Subscription7 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Alight Motion with Free Trial7 Days trial$7.997 Days
Time Cut
- Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription$5.991 Year
- Forever VIP$7.99
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