VideoPad Masters vs Paralight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VideoPad Masters
Easily create professional-looking videos on your mobile device. Edit footage, add effects, music, and narration, then share directly to social media. Ideal for on-the-go video editing.
- Import or record videos
- Adjust brightness and color
- Add visual effects and transitions
- Include music and narration
- Trim and rotate clips
- Direct sharing to YouTube and Facebook
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Create amazing videos in minutes with VideoPad Master's Edition for iOS. Import or record videos from your tablet and then get straight to editing. Fine tune the brightness, color and add other visual effects. Trim videos down to size, rotate clips recorded at different orientations, zoom in on the action, add transitions, music, narration, video effects and more all from the palm of your hand. Don't wait to get to your computer to start editing. Take your movies to the next level, whenever and wherever you are. Videos can be saved or uploaded to YouTube or Facebook directly from the VideoPad video editing application. This version of VideoPad is under a free trial. Once the trial expires, you will have to pay for the subscription in order to access the full features.
Paralight
Create and share films with an AI writing partner and a full video studio. Transform ideas into movies in thirteen phases, from screenplay to final cut. Connect with a community of creators and showcase your work.
- AI writing partner and guide
- Full video editing studio
- Quick video creation
- Screenplay writing and editing
- Film production workflow
- Social feed for creators
- Channels for series and films
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Paralight is the social network of The New Hollywood — where anyone with an idea can make a film, and share it with people who make things too. A full film studio lives inside it, and Scarlett, your AI guide and writing partner, is beside you at every step. MAKE SOMETHING IN A MINUTE • Quick Create — say what you want, and Scarlett plans it, prices it, and makes it. Add a photo and it stays the same person all the way through. • New World — record yourself, describe a place, and your real performance is kept while the world around you is re-made. • The Video Studio — Become a character, change one thing, restyle, dub into another language, re-say a line, add captions, trim, upscale to 1080p. • Looks and Change for photos. MAKE A FILM • Create with Paralight takes a story from a page to a finished film in thirteen clear phases: breakdown, characters, voices, props, locations, storyboards, filming, score, poster, credits, the final cut. • The Production Office shows where your film stands and what it needs next. • Film a sequence more than one way, compare the timelines, and choose the one that goes in the film. • Read and edit every prompt before anything is made. Nothing is charged without a price on the button first. WRITE • Create full screenplays from an idea. A full screenplay creator and editor on your phone, with Scarlett as a writing partner, coverage, and export to PDF, Fountain and Final Draft. SHARE • A feed built for people who make things: For You and Following, posts that carry the recipe that made them, polls, collaborators, scheduling. • Repost what you love to your followers — as it is, or with your own comment. • Channels — a show people follow on its own: a series, a film, one kind of work. With a broadcast to everyone who follows it. • Messages with video messages, voice notes and the work itself travelling in the thread. • Paralight+ to watch, and Paralight Star for the people behind the films. BUILT TO BE TRUSTED • Before any AI tool runs on a photo or video of a real person, you confirm it is you, or that you have their written permission. • Every post, profile and channel can be reported, and anyone can be blocked. • A job that fails refunds itself. Paralight uses credits for AI generation. Browsing, posting, messaging, writing and trimming are free. Available in English, Español and Korean. Paralight memberships are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before that. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Paralight Terms of Service: https://paralight.ai/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://paralight.ai/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paralight at 5.0 against VideoPad Masters's 4.4. VideoPad Masters's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, 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. VideoPad Masters sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Paralight sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $70.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Paralight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VideoPad Masters has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | VideoPad Masters | Paralight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | NCH Software | Paralight LLC |
Customer experience
VideoPad Masters
Paralight
In-app purchases
VideoPad Masters
- Full monthly subscription$2.991 Month
- Full Features (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Unlock All Features$14.99
Paralight
- Elite Studio$70.991 Month
- Ultra Studio$141.991 Month
- Elite Studio$709.001 Year
- 330 Credits$5.99
- 660 Credits$11.99
- 1,320 Credits$23.99
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- 3,500 Credits$58.99
- 7,500 Credits$117.99
- 16,000 Credits$239.00
- 48,000 Credits$709.00
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