Video Maker+ vs Vays
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Video Maker+
Create videos from your photos and add music. Easily import images, arrange them, and customize video settings like size and frame rate. You can also add audio tracks to your finished videos.
- Add images from phone or cloud
- Delete single or all images
- Rearrange image order
- Customize video size and frame rate
- Add music to videos
- Save videos to library
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Video Maker Plus is a video-making program. The video is made of images added to the program. Music can also be added to the finished video. You can add up to 40 images to a video without upgrading. Add pictures Press the “Add Pictures1” or “Add Pictures 2” button to add pictures. You will then be presented with a file picker. Whether the images are in the cloud or on the phone media, you can add them to the images in the application. In the “Add Pictures 1” window, you can select all pictures by double-clicking on the window. And by clicking the window three times with your finger, you will delete all the selected images. Edit Added Pictures You can delete inserted images one at a time or all at a time. To delete a single image, press the image in the Image bar. When a blue box appears around the image, then the image is selected. To delete, press the “Delete Image” button in the bottom row of buttons. To delete all images, press the 4th button in the bottom row of buttons. You can move the image left or right in the list. Press the "Move Back" button to move left and press the "Move On" button to move right. Press the image twice with your finger to move to the beginning of the image list. Pressing the image 3 times in a row moves to the end of the image list. Make a video When the bottom strip of images contains images, a video can be made. To make a video, press the first button in the bottom row of buttons. Edit video size and multiple frames per second To do this, press the first button in the top row of buttons the “Video Settings” box is displayed. In this box, you can change the width and height of the video. Also, the video setting about several frames per second can be adjusted. In addition, there is a box where you can choose to save the video to the library of images (“Save video to library”) or not. Add audio to a video You can add audio to a ready-made video. To do this, press the 2rd button in the bottom row of buttons. Then the music library opens. From there, you can select music for the video. Edit Video You can watch the ready-made video from the location you want. To do this, move the video slide to the desired location. To play the video, press the first button in the average row of buttons. The second button in this row is a pause, putting the video in pause status. And if you no longer want to watch the video, press the third button in the average row of buttons - that's a stop. The numbers are visible, in the average row of buttons which show the position of playing the video, and the length of the entire video. Watch a video You can import video from Apple Finder->Phone->Files Video Maker Plus folder. The phone must be connected to a computer.
Vays
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Vays is a FOREVER FREE voice notes app built around your voice and your privacy. Record a thought, a meeting, a task, or a conversation with multiple people. Vays transcribes directly on your device, using models tuned for Polish and English. Your audio is not sent to the cloud. Built for people who think out loud: • Construction and site managers capturing decisions in the field • Medical and clinical professionals, where accurate Polish transcription matters • Product managers turning meetings into tasks • Anyone whose best ideas come while walking, driving, or moving between meetings What’s inside • On-device transcription: your audio stays on your phone unless you decide otherwise • Sessions (BETA): multi-speaker recordings with speaker recognition. Your own voice is recognized from a one-time voice profile, and other speakers can be named with a single tap • Vays Dictation Keyboard: dictate in any app with on-device transcription • Local Gemma AI: chat with your notes offline, without an account • Polished transcripts: turn messy spoken language into clean, readable text • Voice tasks: dictate a task and Vays turns it into a title, notes, and category • Improve transcript: re-transcribe a memo using a larger Whisper model • Device sync: notes from your iPhone can appear on your Mac • No ads, no tracking, no account Privacy by default Vays is designed so your recordings stay yours. Recording, transcription, speaker separation, transcript polishing, and AI chat all run locally on your iPhone. There is no external AI service in the iOS data path. AI runs locally using Apple Neural Engine and the Gemma model. The only network features are optional iCloud sync, without audio recordings, and optional pairing with your own Mac running Vays on your local network. Optional companion: Vays for Mac Vays for Mac is a paid desktop companion for people who want richer analysis, support for long recordings, and system-wide dictation mode. Notes recorded on your iPhone can automatically appear on your Mac. Vays is built by one developer. Every piece of feedback is read, and every bug report is taken seriously.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vays at weekly against Video Maker+'s every 11 months. Video Maker+'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Video Maker+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Vays sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Video Maker+ ships an update every 11 months, Vays weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Video Maker+ | Vays |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Janek Soomets | ARVIND JUNEJA OUMM |
In-app purchases
Video Maker+
- Upgrade Video Maker+$3.99
Vays
- Hi five$1.99
- Buy me a coffee$3.99
- Patron$9.99









