Comparison

Splice vs Clippy

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

Head to head
About

Splice

Create professional-looking videos with a powerful yet simple mobile editor. Easily trim clips, add effects, customize soundtracks with royalty-free music, and share your creations directly to social media.

Highlights
  • Trim, cut, and crop video clips
  • Adjust exposure, contrast, and saturation
  • Speed ramping for slow or fast motion
  • Overlay clips and apply masks
  • Chroma Key for background removal
  • Royalty-free music library
  • Voice recorder for narration
Features
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Simple yet powerful, Splice makes it easy to create fully customized, professional-looking videos on your iPhone or iPad. Imagine the performance of a desktop editor, optimized for your mobile device. Just tap to trim clips, add slow motion effects, and overlay multiple clips to create beautiful videos you’ll love to share. It’s never been easier to edit like a pro on the go. POWERFUL EDITING TOOLS MADE SIMPLE + Trim, cut, and crop your photos and video clips. + Refine your clips by adjusting exposure, contrast, saturation, and more. + Adjust playback speed for fast or slow motion, now also with speed ramping. + Overlay photos or videos and apply masks to create incredible effects. + Remove background with Chroma Key. + Animate your clips with the Ken Burns effect. + Apply filters and adjust background colors, orientation, and more. + Add amazing effects: glitch, chroma, vintage, and lots more. + Choose your transition style and control the speed between transitions. + Add title slides, text overlays, and a custom outro. + Bring your photos to life and create slideshows with pan and zoom effects. CUSTOMIZE THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK + Choose songs from 6,000+ royalty-free tracks from Artlist and Shutterstock libraries. + Trim and mix multiple audio tracks with precision. + Use a song from your own iTunes collection (subject to iTunes terms). + Add narration or custom sound effects with the built-in voice recorder. EASILY SHARE + SAVE YOUR VIDEO + Share right to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Mail, Messages, and more. + Save videos to your camera roll. SUBSCRIPTION INFO: Subscribe to take advantage of the features described above. • Subscription length: weekly, monthly, yearly • Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. • Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription.

About

Clippy

Easily edit videos with a variety of tools including combining clips, stabilizing footage, adding music, and reversing playback. This app preserves video quality and integrates with Photos and Share extensions for seamless editing.

Highlights
  • Combine video clips
  • Stabilize shaky footage
  • Add music to videos
  • Reverse video playback
  • Crop, zoom, and rotate
  • Change video speed
  • Flip videos horizontally
Features
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Simple to use + preserves video quality, Includes Photos and Action extensions, and it's free, try it now! This app can be used to quickly combine clips, stabilize videos, loop videos, add music to videos, reverse videos, rotate videos, zoom or crop videos, change video speed, reduce volume, or mirror a video left to right (a.k.a. flip). To use the app from within the Photos app, hit the "Edit" button after selecting a video. Also, anytime a video can be "shared" with the iOS "Share" button, you can use the Video Tools action to edit the video and share it to another app without having to save it again. ===================== Video Editing Options ===================== * Combine * Stabilize * Add Music * Loop * Reverse * Crop / Zoom * Rotate (90, 180, 270) * Change speed (2x, 3x, 1/2 x, 1/4 x), or * Flip (mirror horizontally) * Volume (Muted up to 100%) ===================== What is a Photos Extension ===================== You can directly edit videos while in the Photos app, and the result will overwrite the original. You can "undo" the video to its original version with the "revert" button in Photos. For example, looking through your videos in the Photos app, you notice one video is sideways. While looking at the paused video, tap "Edit", then tap "Video Tools", select rotate and save. Now the video is not sideways when you look through Photos! ===================== How to Enable the Photos extension ===================== 1) Go to the Photos app, 2) Select a video, 3) Tap the Edit button 4) Tap the "...", 5) The extension can be enabled here and dragged to the top of the list: "Video Tools". Afterward, the extension will be visible after tapping Edit. ===================== What is an Action Extension ===================== You can directly edit videos wherever the system "Share" button is used, from the bottom list of "Actions." The result of the edit can be passed to another extension, shared, or saved to the camera roll. For example, you receive a video in a text, with something funny going on in the background. Tap to view the video, then hit the "Share" button. In the bottom gray options, choose "Video Tools". Zoom in on the part you want and hit save, then share the result to Messages and send it back to your friend with the video zoomed on your focus. ===================== How to Enable the Action extension ===================== 1) Go to the Photos app, 2) Select a video, 3) Tap the Share button 4) Tap the "..." at the end of the bottom list (all the options will be black and white), 5) The extension can be enabled here and dragged to the top of the list: "Video Tools". Afterward, the extension will be visible after tapping the Share button.

Screenshots

Splice4 screens
Clippy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Clippy at free with in-app purchases against Splice's subscription. Clippy also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Splice's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (431K vs 201). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Splice sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Clippy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Splice against 4.6 for Clippy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Splice has 431K ratings behind it against 201, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Splice's written reviews are positive against 65% of Clippy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Splice ships an update fortnightly, Clippy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Splice versus Clippy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpliceClippy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (431K ratings) — better4.6 (201 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better64.7% of reviews
Number of ratings431K — better201
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#17 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBending Spoons Apps ApSDaniel Anderson

Customer experience

Splice

All ratings430,441 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews5,540 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.0%
Negative22.6%

Clippy

All ratings201 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral5.5%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative27.5%

User reviews

Splice

From 431K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Intuitive interface
  • 🎨 Variety of editing tools
  • 🎶 Good music selection
  • 💡 Allows video and photo editing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitchy performance
  • 🔒 Paywall for basic features
  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔍 Difficult to navigate
  • 🔇 Audio issues

Clippy

From 201 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 💡 Useful video editing tools (rotate, reverse, zoom, stabilizer)
  • 🆓 Free to use with no intrusive ads or sign-ups
  • ✨ Non-intrusive, like it used to be

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Editing failed with error message
  • 🐛 Cannot import video into the app
  • 🐛 Edits are not of the quality hoped for
  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • adware Full of ads

Bugs and requests

Splice

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Videos fail to export properly
  • App crashes during editing
  • Syncing issues with audio and video
  • Laggy performance on older devices
  • Inconsistent behavior with photo/video imports

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more transition options
  • Allow importing custom music
  • Improve text editing capabilities
  • Implement layers and compositing
  • Provide better export options

Clippy

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Editing failed with error message
  • Cannot import video into the app
  • Crashes frequently
  • Won't access full photos in albums
  • Extension is completely broken
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  • Zoom doesn't work
  • Does not export sound
  • App crashes
  • Error when trying to use

Requested features

11 requests
  • More granular speed control (e.g., 2/5 speed for 60fps to 24fps)
  • Ability to cut videos
  • Ability to cut black bars
  • Ability to save edited video as a separate file
  • Improve stabilization feature
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  • Add new features
  • Change some things in the app
  • Allow editing of videos longer than 10 minutes
  • Faster video preparation for editing
  • Improve zoom functionality
  • Add option to change aspect ratio when zooming

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Splice

Subscriptions7
  • Movie creator and clip editing7 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Splice4 variants$9.997 Days
  • Splice Weekly With Free Trial14 Days trial$9.997 Days
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  • Splice Bundle7 Days trial2 variants$9.997 Days
  • Splice Weekly With Free Trial7 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Splice Bundle$9.997 Days
  • Splice Monthly With Free Trial7 Days trial$13.991 Month
1 purchases

Clippy

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Splice free?
Splice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clippy free?
Clippy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Splice or Clippy?
Splice is rated higher. Splice averages 4.6 out of 5 from 431K ratings, while Clippy averages 4.6 from 201 ratings.
Do Splice or Clippy have ads?
Clippy shows ads; Splice does not.
Which is updated more often, Splice or Clippy?
Splice ships an update fortnightly, and Clippy every 2 months. Most recently, Splice was updated on October 31, 2026 and Clippy on October 21, 2026.

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