Video Star vs cAR Show
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Video Star
Create stunning fan edits and lip-sync music videos with a vast array of effects. Enhance, animate, and combine clips to transform photos and videos into magical creations. Unlock all features with an optional subscription.
- Create fan edits
- Lip-sync music videos
- Thousands of effects
- Color and animate clips
- Enhance and warp videos
- Combine and re-time clips
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Video Star is your #1 video editing app — there’s no other app like it! Create incredible fan edits and amazing lip-sync music videos with Video Star. There's thousands of effects to color, animate, enhance, warp, combine, and re-time clips ... creating pure magic from photos and videos. Video Star includes TONS of free features or get an All Access Pass to unlock everything, including your mad editing skills! We update Video Star regularly with new effects and features. Be sure to join our daily #VideoStarApp community challenges on Instagram and TikTok! Video Star Pro Subscription - A Pro subscription provides unlimited access to ALL current and future Power Packs in Video Star - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase, taxes may also be included in some areas - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - You can read our privacy policy at: videostarapp.com/privacy.html - You can read our terms of service at: videostarapp.com/terms.html
cAR Show
Experience your dream cars in augmented reality. Customize their color, place them in a virtual garage, and capture stunning photorealistic images to share with friends. Enhance your creations with numerous filters.
- Augmented reality car placement
- Photorealistic car rendering
- Customizable car colors
- In-app photo filters
- Shareable car images
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Open cAR Show. Use it. Keep your jaw from dropping! ;) cAR Show brings the cars you've ever dreamed of right in front to you! Configure them with your favourite color, place them in your garage, take a picture and share with your friends: they won't believe their eyes! Here are the major features: -AR Kit: thanks to the integration of AR Kit you can bring into real world the car of your dreams, place it, configure it and take awesome pictures. -Incredible photorealism: the car really reflects what stands around it, lights adapts to the real scene for a PERFECT blending. Most people doesn't even realize it comes from your device! -Filters, filters and filters: you can customize your picture with 25 built-in filters before you share with your friends. -Premium features: you can unlock ALL the amazing features of cAR Show with an in-App purchase. This will bring 11 more cars, the chance to disable/enable car plate and picture watermarks... Get now cAR Show, be amazed!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Video Star at every 2 weeks against cAR Show's every 4 months. Video Star also leads on ratings volume (90K vs 133) and review sentiment (57% vs 42%). cAR Show's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Video Star sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and cAR Show sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
cAR Show holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Video Star has 90K ratings behind it against 133, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Video Star's written reviews are positive against 42% of cAR Show's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Video Star ships an update every 2 weeks, cAR Show every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Video Star | cAR Show |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (90K ratings) | 4.4 (133 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.8% of reviews — better | 41.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 90K — better | 133 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #92 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 540 MB | 237 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frontier Design Group | Vincenzo Cosentino |
Customer experience
Video Star
cAR Show
Bugs and requests
Video Star
Reported bugs
4 issues- Multilayer feature crashing
- Exported videos losing quality
- QR code imports not working
- Saved edits getting deleted unexpectedly
Requested features
5 requests- Add undo/redo functionality
- Improve text animation and effects
- Introduce more free transition and color options
- Optimize performance and reduce crashes
- Allow custom audio editing and voiceovers
cAR Show
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Video Star
- Month Pro$5.991 Month
- Month Pro7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- 3 Month Pro$17.993 Months
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- Year Pro$34.991 Year
- Video Import KitFree
- Crazy Party Effects$2.99
- Advanced Auto Stop$3.99
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- Motion Madness Effects$5.99
- Cinema Pro Pack$7.99
- Multi-Layer$9.99
cAR Show
- Premium content$1.99
