Comparison

Splice vs Perfect Video

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 on your mobile device with intuitive editing tools. Easily trim clips, add effects like slow motion and Chroma Key, and customize soundtracks with royalty-free music or your own audio. Share your creations directly to social media platforms or save them to your camera roll.

Highlights
  • Trim, cut, and crop video clips
  • Adjust playback speed and apply speed ramping
  • Overlay clips with masks and Ken Burns effect
  • Remove backgrounds with Chroma Key
  • Access 6,000+ royalty-free music tracks
  • Add narration and custom sound effects
  • Direct sharing to social media
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

Perfect Video

This app offers comprehensive video editing tools, including trimming, merging, splitting, and adding effects like subtitles, watermarks, and music. It supports advanced features such as keyframe animations, picture-in-picture, split screen, and chroma key for professional-looking results.

Highlights
  • Chroma Key (Green/Blue Screen)
  • Picture in Picture Video
  • Split Screen editing
  • Keyframe animations
  • Add subtitles, watermarks, and text
  • Trim, merge, split, and reverse clips
  • Add music and sound effects
Features
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Perfect Video is a really EASY TO USE and Full featured video/slideshow editing app. It lets you quickly Trim, Merge, Split, Reverse, Rotate, Mirror, Flip and Crop clips, add Subtitles, add Mosaic, add Watermark, Photos, and Text, pick Transitions, add Music and Recordings, and export your video clips. [PREMIUM FEATURES] 1. Keyframe animations: Various editing operations can add key points. 2. Picture in Picture Video. 3. Split Screen: Playing two videos side-by-side. 4. Chroma Key (Green/Blue Screen): Replace the video solid background with a video or photo. 5. Mosaic Video: Pixelate or blur or Highlighted a part in the video. 6. Video Color: Adjust the video color (Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue,…) in a real-time manner. 7). Photo Motion: Set Ken Burns effect for photos. [OHTER FEATURES & HOW TO USE] 1) Importing Videos or Photos: Add multiple videos or photos to a project instantly. 2) Multiple canvas ratios: Video original size, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 19.5:9, 9:19.5, 3:2, 2:3, 2:1, 1:2, 2.39:1 . 3) Canvas background setting: Set the color or make background blur, or add a custom picture. 4) Combine: Merge multiple videos, photos or text into one video clip. 5) Split: With this feature, you can remove the middle part of the video,  speed up/down part of the video. 6) Video to picture: Extract still images from video via Split feature. 7) Trim: Cut out any unwanted moments. 8) Slow Motion: Slow down or speed up video (0.25x-6x). 9) Crop & Mirror & Flip & Rotate and Angle adjustment . 10) Reverse: Reverse video playback. 11) Duplicate: Duplicate projects or create duplicates of video clips. 12) Animated Subtitles: Add animated text or images to videos. 13) Watermark: Display your own logo on video. 14) Volume: Mute the video or increase the video volume (0-500%). 15) Music: Add multiple songs to a project. You can also choose a specific part of a song to include in your project by trimming it. 16) Sound Effects: Choose from many pre-defined sound effects. 17) Transitions: Select from a host of pre-defined video clip transitions. 18) Video Fade In/Out: Configure the fade-in and fade-out options in the Settings screen for the first and last shots. 19) Compress Video: Reduce video file size dramatically without reducing video resolution. 20) Save Storage Space: Perfect Video only saves the video location so imported videos don’t take up valuable storage space (just DON'T DELETE the original video you're editing). 21) High Resolution: Support for several formats, including 1920x1080HD, and support for up to 4K resolution on iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPad Air 2, iPad Pro and later. 22) Share: Save your video to your Camera Roll or share it on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or via email. 23) Instant Actions: All actions are performed in an instant manner. No need to wait any more! If you have a question or suggestion, please contact us. We’ll get right back to you. Thanks! Email: PerfectVideoSupp@icloud.com

Screenshots

Splice4 screens
Perfect Video3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Splice at Free against Perfect Video's $4.99. Splice also leads on ratings volume (431K vs 924) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Perfect Video's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (87% vs 71%). On rating, 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; Perfect Video costs $4.99 up front. Splice sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Perfect Video asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Perfect Video holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Splice has 431K ratings behind it against 924, 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 87% of Perfect Video's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Splice ships an update fortnightly, Perfect Video monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Splice versus Perfect Video: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplicePerfect Video
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.6 (431K ratings)4.8 (924 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews86.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings431K — better924
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#17 — better#155
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBENDING SPOONS OPERATIONS SPABeijing Perfect Frame Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Splice

All ratings430,871 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews5,541 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.0%
Negative22.6%

Perfect Video

All ratings919 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral1.2%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews875 reviews
Positive86.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.0%

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

Perfect Video

From 924 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient video editing
  • 💡 Lots of features
  • 🎨 Good for creating videos and slideshows
  • 👍 Simple and straightforward

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🔋 Quality issues with exported videos
  • 🔒 Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
  • 💰 Expensive for a mobile app

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

Perfect Video

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Difficulty accessing all editing options on iPhone X
  • Issues with saving and exporting edited videos
  • Problems with music and audio syncing

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more video effects and filters
  • Improve audio editing capabilities
  • Implement a reverse/rewind feature
  • Allow importing videos from online sources
  • Add a voice-over recording function

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Splice

Subscriptions6
  • 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
None

Perfect Video

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Splice free?
Splice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Perfect Video free?
Perfect Video costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Splice or Perfect Video?
Perfect Video is rated higher. Splice averages 4.6 out of 5 from 431K ratings, while Perfect Video averages 4.8 from 924 ratings.
Do Splice or Perfect Video have ads?
Neither Splice nor Perfect Video shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Splice or Perfect Video?
Splice ships an update fortnightly, and Perfect Video monthly. Most recently, Splice was updated on November 8, 2026 and Perfect Video on November 6, 2026.
Which is more popular, Splice or Perfect Video?
Splice currently peaks at #17 in the App Store charts, and Perfect Video at #155. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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