Comparison

GIF Maker vs Layacut

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

Head to head
About

GIF Maker

Easily create animated GIFs from videos or photos. Edit existing GIFs, add text, stickers, and effects. Share your creations on social media or save them to your device.

Highlights
  • Convert video to GIF
  • Cut and crop video for GIF
  • Create GIF from photos
  • Create GIF from camera
  • Add text and stickers to GIF
  • Edit GIF with effects and filters
  • Share GIFs on GIPHY
Features
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GIF Maker : Creator Load a video or create a new one, then select a time range, beginning and ending. You can view the preview for the time selected. Remember 1 second is 1000 milliseconds. video maker,Birthday photo video Maker, photo video Maker Keep it mind that you're using a mobile device and memory and other resources are limited. You can view the gif specs at the end of the main window. When gif is created touch and hold for view it in the gallery.video maker,Birthday photo video Maker,GIF Maker GIF Maker : Creator is the best Gif maker app that fits right in your pocket. This video to gif editor allow you to edit a existing gif or make gif files from photos and video files. You can create animated gif with music and share on social media.Viva video maker. Edit video with music, emoji, stickers, text and convert video to gif. You’ll be able to create photos to gif from gif camera selfie.photo video Maker The video to gif maker is only gif creator app that can crop your gif and let you edit your gif files by gif tools.Birthday photo video Maker, photo video Maker - Convert video to gif by gif maker easily - Cut video to gif, crop video to gif maker - Select photos from gallery to make gif & video gif - Add frames to your GIF Maker - Create gif from pictures - Create gif from camera - Add free GIF to your video - Allow edit gif with many effect & filter - Add text to gif Maker - Add funny stickers in your GIF - Export all images in your Gif - Make gif from photos, pictures - View, Share gif files on GIPHY - Load all GIF in your phone - photo video Maker [GIF Maker : Creator Pro] - GIF Maker : Creator Pro subscription is billed weekly, monthly or annually at the rate corresponding to the selected plan. In addition, a one-time payment will be offered if needed, which is not one of the subscription plan. - 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. [Terms of Use] https://skyinfotechdeveloper.com/terms_and_condition_ios.html [Privacy Policy] https://skyinfotechdeveloper.com/privacy_policy_ios.html

About

Layacut

Features
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Point Layacut at your clips and a song. It cuts a finished reel. Not a rough cut, and not a template with your footage poured into it. Layacut reads your camera's own telemetry, watches the footage, listens to it, and cuts the best of it to the beat. HOW IT CUTS It reads. G-force, speed, and the moments you tagged on the camera, read straight out of the file. Faces, subjects, framing and movement, read out of the picture. Voices and real sounds, read out of the audio. It cuts. The reel plays your day in the order it happened. What changes is the pace: shots hold where the reel should breathe and quicken where it should drive. Every cut lands on a beat, within a frame. It finishes. Color matched shot to shot. Music leveled, and pulled back under anything worth hearing. It fades out with the music and it is done. ANY CAMERA A GoPro writes its own record of the ride. A DJI writes a flight log beside the clip. An iPhone records scene light and the faces it saw. Layacut reads all of it, and where a camera says nothing, on-device vision finds the moments in the pixels instead. No ecosystem, no lock-in. YOU STEER IT Tell it what the reel is for and it changes what counts as a good moment: the people, the story, the action, or the place. Choose a style, set the length, and move one slider from subtle to dramatic. Open any shot and pick the part you meant. The reel re-cuts around what you touched and leaves the rest of your work alone. AND THEN IT FINISHES IT Captions transcribed on device from what was actually said. Live gauges from your camera's own telemetry. Your logo over the reel. Transitions measured off real reels rather than invented. Export at 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5, and drag the tall frame to say which part of a wide shot to keep. EVERYTHING ON YOUR IPHONE OR IPAD No cloud, no account, no upload bar. The analysis, the decisions and the render all happen on your own iPhone or iPad. Your footage stays in Photos, found by its own bytes and never copied. A reel saved to iCloud Drive opens anywhere Layacut runs, the same reel, the same app. Layacut has no servers and collects nothing. REQUIREMENTS An iPhone or iPad running iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later. Apple Intelligence makes the cut smarter where it is on, and Layacut still cuts without it. FREE AND PRO Layacut is free to use and free to export at 720p, with a small Layacut mark on the reel, and you can cut the same footage as many times as you like. Every style pack and every gauge is free too. Layacut Pro is an annual subscription that adds 1080p, 4K and 8K export, turning the Layacut mark off, and your own closing card in place of the Layacut one. One subscription, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. From laya, meaning rhythm, flow, and the merging of one thing into another. Terms of Use (EULA): https://layacut.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://layacut.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

GIF Maker4 screens
Layacut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Layacut at monthly against GIF Maker's every 5 months. GIF Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (16 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GIF Maker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Layacut sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $59.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GIF Maker ships an update every 5 months, Layacut monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
GIF Maker versus Layacut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGIF MakerLayacut
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (314 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews18.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings314 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS16 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB518 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaxay GajeraPritesh Chauhan

Bugs and requests

GIF Maker

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App crashes after ads
  • Export failed
  • Video to Gif crashes when opening gallery
  • App crashes when selecting video to GIF
  • App crashes when scrolling down to Video List
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  • Crash issue when clicking video to gif

Layacut

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

GIF Maker

Subscriptions3
  • GIF Maker Pro - Weekly$0.997 Days
  • GIF Maker Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • GIF Maker Pro - Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • GIF Maker - Remove Ads$3.99
1 purchases

Layacut

Subscriptions1
  • Layacut Pro$59.991 Year

Questions

Is GIF Maker free?
GIF Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Layacut free?
Layacut is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GIF Maker or Layacut have ads?
Neither GIF Maker nor Layacut shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GIF Maker or Layacut?
GIF Maker ships an update every 5 months, and Layacut monthly. Most recently, GIF Maker was updated on November 9, 2026 and Layacut on October 31, 2026.

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