Splice vs Continue Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Continue Camera
Record and edit videos simultaneously, completing your edits as you shoot. Features include pause/resume, auto-cut based on volume or smiles, and real-time filters. Create dynamic videos with fast-forward, reverse playback, and various visual effects.
- Real-time video editing during recording
- Pause and resume shooting
- Auto-cut based on volume or smiles
- Automatic fade-in/out on pause/resume
- Adjustable fast-forward and reverse playback
- Extensive real-time color filters and effects
- Face detection and deformation effects
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Edit video while shooting video. Editing is complete when shooting is complete! Pause / Resume function, record only where it is needed. It corresponds to the ratio of 1: 1, 16: 9, 4: 3. Rich real time filter. Because you can pause and fast-forward while shooting, you can only shoot videos where needed. Fade-in / out can be added automatically when pausing / resuming, No need to edit videos later /******* Editing function ******/ * Auto cut Automatically record only when the volume exceeds the specified value. There is also a recording mode only for the moment of smile. * Fade in out Automatically dims the image when paused / restarted. The color when fading in and out can be changed from the settings. * Fast forward You can change 1 to 10 times fast forward during shooting. You can shoot time-lapse movies with audio while changing the speed freely. * Reverse play Make a 10 second reverse playback video. *Mute You can mute the audio at any time during shooting. /*********Real time filter**********/ *10 color processing You can easily change the color of the movie, such as the part color that displays only the specified color. *10 effect Add special effects such as adding effects to diorama processing, afterimages, and movement. *8 deformation Deform shapes such as fisheye lens style and puzzles. *8 face detect Recognize human faces and add effects such as processing and posters. *9 else Anime style and video delivery site style are possible. You can control shooting from Apple Watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Splice at 4.6 against Continue Camera's 2.8. Splice also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (71% vs 40%). Continue Camera's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, 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. Splice sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Continue Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Splice holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Splice has 429K ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Splice's written reviews are positive against 40% of Continue Camera's.
Splice ships an update fortnightly, Continue Camera every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Splice | Continue Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (429K ratings) — better | 2.8 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 40.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 429K — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #15 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bending Spoons Apps ApS | Ayumu Kinoshita |
Customer experience
Splice
Continue Camera
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
Continue Camera
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Splice
- 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
Continue Camera
- remove ads and logo$1.99
Questions
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