Comparison

Splice vs Slide Show Makér

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

Slide Show Makér

Easily create and edit photo music videos and stories using your photos and videos. Add music, filters, text, and emojis to craft engaging content. Share your creations instantly or save them privately.

Highlights
  • Create photo music videos
  • Add photos and video clips
  • Apply awesome filters
  • Set video speed
  • Add text and emoji
  • Share instantly
  • Save privately
Features
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Slideshow maker is the easiest way to create, edit and share amazing photo music videos and stories with your photos, videos and tons of free licensed music, you can easily make fun, inspiring, or creative photo music videos With Slideshow maker you can make fun music videos just following 4-steps: 1. Select photos & video clips from your photos gallery or any Photos app 2. Add your favorite music, set timing, cool filters, and text & Emoji 3. Share to your friends! 4. Save "Slideshows" privately so only you can see them Slideshow Maker FEATURES: + Add photos and video clips + Awesome filters + Set the speed of the video as fast/slow as you like + Edit videos with creative effects and filters + Share video to your favorite apps with your friends and families instantly + Clear interface and easy gestures Have any Questions? Comments? Please contact us at: https://slideshowmaker.co/#contact-us We are happy to help you always. To get access to cloud service and other paid features, please purchase our Slideshow Maker subscription plan, below is detail: SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TOS: We offer an auto-renewing subscription option: ○ Subscriptions are starting from USD $8.99 / month with 3 days free trial ○ Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase ○ You will be able to access the full feature of the app for the duration of the subscription ○ Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original "one month" 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 before the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package (weekly, monthly) ○ Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase ○ No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period ○ You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Please visit http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information ○ You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your iTunes Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period ○ Any unused portion of a free-trial period, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy at https://slideshowmaker.co/privacy-policy.html https://slideshowmaker.co/terms-of-use.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Slideshow maker team

Screenshots

Splice4 screens
Slide Show Makér4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Slide Show Makér at free with in-app purchases against Splice's subscription. Splice's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 38%) and ratings volume (431K vs 12K). On price, rating, ads 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 Slide Show Makér sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Splice holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Splice has 431K ratings behind it against 12K, 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 38% of Slide Show Makér's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Splice ships an update fortnightly, Slide Show Makér monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Splice versus Slide Show Makér: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpliceSlide Show Makér
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (431K ratings) — better4.4 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better38.4% of reviews
Number of ratings431K — better12K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBending Spoons Apps ApSYogesh Ukani

Customer experience

Splice

All ratings430,441 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews5,489 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.0%
Negative22.6%

Slide Show Makér

All ratings12,393 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral3.5%
Negative11.6%
Written reviews146 reviews
Positive38.4%
Neutral6.2%
Negative55.5%

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

Slide Show Makér

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly
  • ⭐ Easy to make slideshows
  • 🎨 Good editing options

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔍 Limited free features
  • 🔁 Constant ads and pop-ups
  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🤔 Confusing UI

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

Slide Show Makér

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Slideshow creation process is unreliable
  • Saved work gets lost or corrupted
  • Subscription issues and inability to cancel

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add own music to slideshows
  • Improve slideshow customization options
  • Provide a free, ad-free version

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
Show 4 more
  • 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

Slide Show Makér

Subscriptions1
  • Slide show maker with photos +3 Days trial$8.991 Month

Questions

Is Splice free?
Splice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slide Show Makér free?
Slide Show Makér is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Splice or Slide Show Makér?
Splice is rated higher. Splice averages 4.6 out of 5 from 431K ratings, while Slide Show Makér averages 4.4 from 12K ratings.
Do Splice or Slide Show Makér have ads?
Neither Splice nor Slide Show Makér shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Splice or Slide Show Makér?
Splice ships an update fortnightly, and Slide Show Makér monthly. Most recently, Splice was updated on October 27, 2026 and Slide Show Makér on October 26, 2026.

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