Comparison

Splice vs Video Maker

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

Video Maker

Transform your photos into captivating movies with dynamic animations and music. Easily select themes, add your favorite songs, and arrange images to create stunning videos. Share your creations instantly with friends on social media.

Highlights
  • Create videos from photos
  • Add movie themes and effects
  • In-built music library
  • Custom music selection
  • Arrange images freely
  • Add titles and animated backgrounds
  • Social media sharing
Features
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VideoMaker App will turn your photos into sensational movies by adding beautiful animations and music to it for Free. It allows you to select the Theme/effects and Audio of your Choice, and allows you to create & Share your Stunning Video. It's never been easier to make video from images/photos by choosing one of our video effects and music from our library or choose your ownsong/Music of your choice to make most beautiful video out of your photos, and Share that amazing movements with your Friends using our inbuilt Social Sharing option. Key Features:- * Create Stunning Video from your Photos * Add our in-built movie Themes and make your albums with your photos * Add Animated backgrounds to your video * Add Music from our in-built library * You can choose song or music of your own choice if you wish * You can arrange the images according to your choice * Add Title to your Video/Photo * Option to choose photos from your camera roll * In-built option to share your Awesome video with social networking sites * You can share on Facebook, Instagram, email, YouTube, Viddy etc Steps to create your movie 1. Select Create Project and select your Aspect Ratio and all photos from your album. 2. Add your Favourite transition. 3. Select your background, background 4. Select animation transition 5. Select music from music library or from our app. 6. Add effects to photos. 7. Enter your movie title. 8. Click on done button to create your movie. 9. Share with your friends(supports Facebook,Instagram, email,YouTube ,Viddy etc). Or You can use our huge collection of Themes and make movie with photos and videos too. How Does VideoMaker App Works? You don't need be a video editor at all to use this app. Just use our app as a movie maker. VideoMaker app will analyze your photos and focus on users automatically and creates a professional looking movie from photos that you have selected. It will give you an option to select effect and music according to your Choice/mood and make your video even more interesting/Compiling. RESTORE:You can restore your paid in app purchases without paying again. Follow these steps 1. Open the app 2. Click on Top Right to open the Premium window 3. Click on RESTORE to re-activate your in app purchases again 4. DONE Video Maker Premium Subscription========================== 1. Enjoy professional video maker & slideshow tools with Pro-Level Features & Amazing Members-Only Benefits. 2. Get unlimited access to all premium Slideshow maker Themes 3. Get unlimited access to all premium filters and tools 4. Patterns, colors, Stickers and Fonts 5. Get rid of ads and watermark 6. Get access to all movie style Photo and video transitions. • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Subscription plans: 1. USD $20.99/6 Months 2. USD $3.99/Week 3. USD $30.99/Year with 3 days Free Trial Subscriptions automatically renew unless they are turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period in account settings. Renewals are charged within 24-hours preceding the end of the current period. Payment is charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions are managed by the user. Terms of Service: http://206.189.130.170/ps_tc.html Privacy: http://206.189.130.170/ps_privacy.html

Screenshots

Splice4 screens
Video Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Splice at 4.6 against Video Maker's 4.0. Splice also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (429K vs 10K). Video Maker's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, review sentiment, 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 Video Maker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. 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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Splice has 429K ratings behind it against 10K, 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 64% of Video Maker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Splice ships an update fortnightly, Video Maker every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Splice versus Video Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpliceVideo Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (429K ratings) — better4.0 (10K ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better64.2% of reviews
Number of ratings429K — better10K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBending Spoons Apps ApSpixel force private limited

Customer experience

Splice

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

Video Maker

All ratings10,325 ratings
Positive68.9%
Neutral17.8%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews397 reviews
Positive64.2%
Neutral17.4%
Negative18.4%

User reviews

Splice

From 429K 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

Video Maker

From 10K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient slideshow creation
  • 💡 Variety of effects and transitions
  • 🎨 Good photo editing capabilities

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited free features, must pay for full access
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • 💸 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 📤 Difficulty uploading own music

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

Video Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to add more than 7 photos
  • Music playback issues and repeated songs
  • Slideshow generation often fails to complete

Requested features

4 requests
  • Increase free photo limit
  • Add more free music options
  • Improve stability and reduce crashes
  • Allow custom music uploads in 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
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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
4 purchases

Video Maker

Subscriptions3
  • Video Maker Weekly Pro$3.997 Days
  • Video Maker HalfYearly$20.996 Months
  • Video Maker Yearly Pro3 Days trial$30.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro version$2.99

Questions

Is Splice free?
Splice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Video Maker free?
Video Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Splice or Video Maker?
Splice is rated higher. Splice averages 4.6 out of 5 from 429K ratings, while Video Maker averages 4.0 from 10K ratings.
Do Splice or Video Maker have ads?
Neither Splice nor Video Maker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Splice or Video Maker?
Splice ships an update fortnightly, and Video Maker every 2 months. Most recently, Splice was updated on September 25, 2026 and Video Maker on September 23, 2026.

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