Comparison

Splice vs Xgrid

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

Xgrid

Features
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Photographing a screen usually fails. The camera's sensor and the display's pixel grid interfere with each other, laying rippling bands of false colour across the picture. Moving closer, tilting, or zooming shifts the pattern around but rarely removes it. Xgrid removes it. Press the shutter and Xgrid captures a hundred frames in under a second, lines them up, and averages them. The interference pattern shifts between frames while the picture itself stays put — so averaging cancels the pattern and keeps the detail. HOW IT WORKS • Captures at the highest resolution and frame rate your camera will stream, then resamples each frame so the display's pixel grid is filtered out before it can turn into an artefact • Aligns every frame for both drift and rotation, correcting the natural twist of a hand-held shot that simpler stacking ignores • Averages a hundred frames into 16-bit monochrome, with far more tonal precision in the shadows than any single exposure • Works hand-held. It genuinely prefers a relaxed grip to a tripod — the slight movement between frames is what lets the pattern cancel CONTROLS • Detail Restore — bring back fine structure after averaging • Density — adjust the tonal curve to open up dark or high-contrast areas • Colour — optional, off by default; monochrome discards the colour fringing that carries most of the interference • Swipe to compare the processed result against a single untreated frame, and pinch to zoom into either • Save or share whichever one you prefer - or both PRIVACY Everything happens on your device. Xgrid contains no networking code of any kind — nothing is uploaded, nothing is collected, nothing is tracked.

Screenshots

Splice4 screens
Xgrid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Xgrid at none against Splice's 10. Splice's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and chart position (#17 vs unranked). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Xgrid asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Splice ships an update fortnightly, Xgrid every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Splice versus Xgrid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpliceXgrid
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (431K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings431K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#17 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBENDING SPOONS OPERATIONS SPAMichael Hewson

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

Xgrid

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

Xgrid

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Splice free?
Splice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Xgrid free?
Xgrid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Splice or Xgrid have ads?
Neither Splice nor Xgrid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Splice or Xgrid?
Splice ships an update fortnightly, and Xgrid every 2 months. Most recently, Splice was updated on November 8, 2026 and Xgrid on November 6, 2026.

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