Comparison

Splice vs Pause

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

Pause

Easily record videos by pausing and resuming your recording in real-time. Edit and combine your clips into a single video, with options to trim, reorder, and delete segments. Supports high-quality recording and sharing to social media.

Highlights
  • Pause and resume recording
  • Real-time video editing
  • 4K video quality
  • Trim, cut, and reorder clips
  • Target Mode for stop-motion
  • Apple Watch remote control
Features
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Pause video maker is a real time video cut editor. The Pause video maker is easiest way to video while recording. Now, you can video record with the ability to pause and resume your recording. You can get record video inshot, pause and resume recording whenever you want - when you are ready, edit and save your recordings as one completed video to your camera roll and share with friends on your social media accounts ! FEATURES; ● Pause and Resume on your video recording ● Better video quality , 4K support camera ● Video Editor - Trim or Cut your videos ● Zoom in/out with pinch gesture or slide while recording on cam ● Camera change to back/front or Ultra Wide Angle cam ● Export video clips from Pause app after that share on ig, tik tok, youtube with blogger and vloggers ● Change order of your movie clips ● Delete anyone video clips before video final cut process ● Trim on video clips duration like a splice and instagram reels video editor ● Video length without limits ● Video Countdown timer like iPhone camera app ● Supports Remote Controller for Apple Watch. You can control shooting from Apple Watch. ● Target Mode ( Vine ghost mode ) ● Share with AirDrop for your Mac or iPad. ● Share on social networks (Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook) ● Share on cloud services (Dropbox, iCloud Drive) ● Share via with E-mail, WhatsApp or iMessage on Pause video maker & editor TARGET MODE ( Ghost Mode ) The primary benefit of the ghost feature on Pause app, that helps make capcut clips or video story like that influencer of tiktok, instagram reels and instagram stories, inshot, capcut, like a picsart. This video editor pause the target feature switched on - just tap the little target icon in the bottom-right corner of the app - the end point of your last recording snippet will overlay the "live" scene, as in the pic above. With the target mode on, you will much more easily be able to line up your stop-motion videos, tiktok,instagram reels,instagram story style video shots, without the guesswork that might ruin the finished video. You are become filmmaker and jump cutter !

Screenshots

Splice4 screens
Pause4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Splice at Free against Pause's $2.99. Splice also leads on ratings volume (429K vs 71) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Pause's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On ads 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

Splice is free to download; Pause costs $2.99 up front. Splice sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Pause asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Splice holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Splice has 429K ratings behind it against 71, 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 56% of Pause's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Splice ships an update fortnightly, Pause every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Splice versus Pause: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplicePause
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (429K ratings) — better4.3 (71 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings429K — better71
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionPaid — better
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB194 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBending Spoons Apps ApSMetromedya Digital Ad Agency

Customer experience

Splice

All ratings429,184 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews5,010 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative22.7%

Pause

All ratings71 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative15.5%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative44.4%

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

Pause

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Pause

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Splice free?
Splice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pause free?
Pause costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Splice or Pause?
Splice is rated higher. Splice averages 4.6 out of 5 from 429K ratings, while Pause averages 4.3 from 71 ratings.
Do Splice or Pause have ads?
Neither Splice nor Pause shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Splice or Pause?
Splice ships an update fortnightly, and Pause every 5 days. Most recently, Splice was updated on September 24, 2026 and Pause on September 9, 2026.

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