CapCut vs New Layer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CapCut
Create professional-looking videos with a wide range of editing tools, including advanced features like keyframe animation, chroma key, and stabilization. Add text, effects, music, and auto-generated captions to make your content stand out on social media.
- Keyframe animation
- Smooth slow-motion
- Chroma key
- Stabilization
- Auto captions
- Background removal
- Trending effects & filters
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CapCut offers easy-to-use video editing functions, in-APP fonts and effects, advanced features such as keyframe animation, smooth slow-motion, chroma key, and stabilization, to help you capture and snip moments. Create fancy videos with other unique features: auto captions, text-to-speech, motion tracking, and background removal. Show your personality and go viral on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook! FEATURES Basic video editing • Trim and shorten clips and split or merge videos. • Adjust video speed from 0.1x to 100x, and apply speed curves to clips. • Animate video clips with incredible zoom in/out effects. • Highlight the best moments with the freeze feature. • Explore transition options with awesome effects on and between clips. Advanced video editor • Keyframe video animation is available for all settings. • Edit videos to create smooth slow-motion with the optical flow feature and speed curve tool. • Use the chroma key to remove specific colors from videos. • Easy to arrange and preview clips on multi-track timeline. • The stabilizing feature keeps video footage steady. Intelligent features • Auto captions: automate speech recognition and subtitles in videos. • Text-to-speech: apply text-to-speech in multiple languages and voices. • Background removal: automatically remove backgrounds. Text & Stickers • Add text to videos with different fonts and styles, choose unique text templates. Fonts can be imported locally. • Subtitles can be added to the timeline of video tracks and can be moved and adjusted in one step. Trending Effects & Filters • Match video content with diverse filters that are updated weekly with the latest trends. • Edit videos with hundreds of trending effects, including Glitch, Blur, 3D, etc. • Add movie-style video filters or adjust video brightness, contrast, etc. Music & Sound Effects • Add millions of music clips and sound effects to videos. • Extract audio, clips, and recordings from videos. Easy to Share • Custom video export resolution, HD video editor supports 4K 60fps exports and smart HDR. • Adjust the format and share with your friends on social media platforms. CapCut is an all-in-one video editor and video maker application with everything you need to create stunning, high-quality videos. Beginners can get started with CapCut in a matter of seconds, while advanced users can enjoy all the functions they need to edit videos. Terms of Service — https://www.capcut.com/clause/terms-of-service Privacy Policy — https://www.capcut.net/clause/privacy Contact Us Any questions about CapCut? Please contact us at capcut.support@bytedance.com. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/capcutapp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capcutapp YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/capcutofficial TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capcut
New Layer
Experience a metaverse connected to the real world. This application allows you to place virtual objects into your physical surroundings using augmented reality. Explore and interact with virtual content overlaid onto your environment.
- Augmented reality viewer
- Place virtual objects in real world
- Connect to Unisphere metaverse
- View 3D art in AR
- Metaverse integration
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Unisphere is a metaverse connected to the real world. Unisphere makes it possible to place virtual things in the real world! The New Layer is a client for connecting to the Unisphere metaverse. Welcome to the Unisphere metaverse!
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Verdict
CapCut and New Layer both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of New Layer's written reviews are positive against 50% of CapCut's. CapCut's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.1M vs 217). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. CapCut sells 28 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and New Layer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for CapCut against 4.7 for New Layer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CapCut has 1.1M ratings behind it against 217, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of CapCut's written reviews are positive against 95% of New Layer's.
CapCut ships an update weekly, New Layer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and July 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CapCut | New Layer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.1M ratings) | 4.7 (217 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.6% of reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1M — better | 217 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 777 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bytedance Pte. Ltd | ar-generation |
Customer experience
CapCut
New Layer
Bugs and requests
CapCut
Reported bugs
3 issues- Deleted projects not recoverable
- Camera/video recording issues
- Inconsistent performance across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Improved slow motion feature
- More advanced editing tools (e.g. graphs, custom transitions)
- Better audio editing capabilities
- Organizational features (e.g. folders, project management)
- Expanded language support
New Layer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CapCut
- capcut cloud space$1.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$5.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription3 variants$7.991 Month
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- MonthlySubscription—7days free7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial3 variants$7.991 Month
- Standard Monthly Subscription1 Month trial3 variants$9.991 Month
- Standard Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial2 variants$9.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$10.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
- Pro Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$19.991 Month
- Pro Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial2 variants$19.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$62.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription$89.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$89.991 Year
- Standard Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$89.991 Year
- Annual Subscriptions1 Year trial$89.991 Year
- Template Editing$0.49
- Make Reservation$0.99
- One-month PRO$11.99
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- One Month Standard$11.99
- One- year PRO$54.99
- One-year Standard$77.00
- One-year Pro$77.00
New Layer
- New Layer PREMIUM for 1 week$4.497 Days
- New Layer PREMIUM$4.991 Month
- New Layer PREMIUM for 1 year$28.491 Year









