Comparison

Magisto Video Editor & Maker vs Flow Speed Control Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Magisto Video Editor & Maker

Create professional-looking videos from your photos and clips in minutes. This app uses AI to intelligently edit your media, add graphics, effects, and music. It's perfect for social media, invitations, or slideshows.

Highlights
  • AI-driven smart editor
  • Create video slideshows and collages
  • Ready-made templates for any occasion
  • Edit clips: cut, trim, merge, reorder
  • Customize with text, fonts, and colors
  • Easy social media sharing
  • Vast commercially licensed music library
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Get Magisto Video Editor - Music Slideshow, Collage & Movie Maker now to create incredible share-worthy videos in minutes. Join over 120 million people who already make all the videos they need with Magisto's mobile and web apps! * Apple's Best of 2019: Discover The Storyteller Within * * Gartner' Cool Vendor' 2018 * * Consumer Reports' 2017 #1 Video Editing app * Magisto Video Editor - Music Slideshow, Collage & Movie Maker lets you: ◆ Rise to social-media stardom by turning your photos and clips into eye-catching videos. ◆ Quickly create professional-looking videos thanks to Magisto's artificial-intelligence driven smart editor. It will edit your media intelligently and add beautiful graphics, effects, filters and music in a way that tells a story. ◆ Create beautiful moving photo slideshows or video collages even if you don’t have any video clips. ◆ Use ready-made templates for any occasion: Birthday Wishes, Event Invitations, Anniversary Announcements, and much more. ◆ Edit your clips: cut, trim, merge and reorder. ◆ Customize your video by adding text, choosing fonts, changing orientation and using different colors. ◆ Easily share your scroll-stopping videos on social media, via messaging apps, email, or anywhere else. With Magisto Video Editor - Music Slideshow, Collage & Movie Maker, you can make amazing videos in just three easy steps: 1. Media - Select photos and video clips from your gallery, Google Photos™ or iStock™ library 2. Style - Pick a theme that fits the vibe and look you want to give your video: Celebrate, Love, Memories, Trailer, Extreme, Travel, and more. 3. Music - Pick from our vast commercially licensed song library. About the Magisto app: Magisto Video Editor - Music Slideshow, Collage & Movie Maker uses advanced Artificial Intelligence technology to find the best parts of your footage and apply video editing techniques including stabilization, object detection, filters and effects. The result is an eye-catching video that outshines the average slideshow or video collage. ● Magisto Premium monthly plan ($6.99) includes: ◦ Premium styles ◦ No Magisto watermark ◦ 10 min movie length ● Magisto Professional monthly plan ($29.99) includes: ◦ Everything in Premium ◦ Exclusive styles and templates ◦ 3+ million full-HD iStock™ video clips and photos ◦ Customizable colors and fonts ◦ Free access to 'Vimeo Pro' ($20 monthly value). Get powerful video hosting and sharing tools: password-protected links, customizable player, analytics, cloud storage, and more. * ‘Premium’ and ‘Professional’ plans are available via an auto-renewing subscription which you can purchase and try for a trial period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Purchase of an additional subscription during the trial period will forfeit the remaining portion of said period. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel a subscription during the active period. Manage your subscriptions in your account. Start creating amazing videos today; get Magisto Video Editor - Music Slideshow, Collage & Movie Maker Now! Magisto uses FFmpeg licensed under the LGPLv.2.1 or later: (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html) Privacy Policy: http://www.magisto.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.magisto.com/tos

About

Flow Speed Control Pro

Easily adjust the speed of your videos, creating dynamic slow-motion or fast-forward effects. Manipulate time with intuitive controls to add new perspectives to your recorded moments. Gradually speed up or slow down specific segments for impressive visual results.

Highlights
  • Variable speed control
  • Time remapping
  • Import from various sources
  • 4K video support
  • Professional color controls
  • Social media publishing
  • Reverse playback
Features
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Take control of the speed of your videos. Flow let you manipulate time and give you new perspectives on your recorded moments. You can gradually speed up or slow down segments of your videos creating impressive effects. Flow is intuitive and super easy to use, just add and move the control points up and down so that the video can go gradually faster or slower than its natural speed. FEATURES • Capture amazing moments combining different speeds on-the-fly and perfect it later with innovative time remapping options. • Edit the speed of videos recorded with any type of camera, there are many ways to import your videos, including directly from your GoPro or using iTunes, iCloud Drive and many others. • Flow can gradually slow down or speed up any videos up to 24x, combine different speeds adding as many speed control points as you need. • Create elaborated projects with one or multiple videos and customize each element with a different settings. • There are many tools available for editing such as trimming, cropping, rotating and others. • Flow supports recording, importing and exporting videos in ultra-high definition "4K". • You can even edit professional slow motion videos recorded up to 1000fps. • Instant project preview, watch your production without any waiting time. • Videos created with Flow will play exact same way on every device, perfect for sharing. • Stylize your videos with professional color controls and more than 40 unique filter effects. • The audio of the video will match the video speed, creating a cool effect on voices and other sounds. • Publish directly to social media such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and others. • Have fun playing in videos in reverse and sharing with your friends. • Rotate videos you recorded in the wrong orientation. • Save the best scenes of your videos as images. • Crop videos to square format. • Flow includes a handy extension to edit videos directly from Photos app. • Use your Apple Watch as a remote control when recording with Flow. Have any questions? Contact us at contact@flowspeedcontrol.com For more information, visit https://www.flowspeedcontrol.com Follow us on social media @flowspeedcontrol

Screenshots

Magisto Video Editor & Maker4 screens
Flow Speed Control Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Magisto Video Editor & Maker at Free against Flow Speed Control Pro's $9.99. Magisto Video Editor & Maker also leads on ratings volume (123K vs 251) and chart position (#177 vs unranked). Flow Speed Control Pro's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 39%) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On rating, update cadence, 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

Magisto Video Editor & Maker is free to download; Flow Speed Control Pro costs $9.99 up front. Magisto Video Editor & Maker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Flow Speed Control Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Magisto Video Editor & Maker against 4.6 for Flow Speed Control Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magisto Video Editor & Maker has 123K ratings behind it against 251, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Magisto Video Editor & Maker's written reviews are positive against 82% of Flow Speed Control Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magisto Video Editor & Maker ships an update every 2 weeks, Flow Speed Control Pro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Magisto Video Editor & Maker versus Flow Speed Control Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagisto Video Editor & MakerFlow Speed Control Pro
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.6 (123K ratings)4.6 (251 ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.8% of reviews82.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings123K — better251
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#177 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size212 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVimeo, Inc.INTERACTIVE UNIVERSE CREATIVE SOFTWARES EIRELI

Customer experience

Magisto Video Editor & Maker

All ratings123,376 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral3.6%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews510 reviews
Positive38.8%
Neutral6.5%
Negative54.7%

Flow Speed Control Pro

All ratings251 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews208 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative13.9%

User reviews

Magisto Video Editor & Maker

From 123K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Produces quality videos
  • 🎨 Variety of templates and styles
  • 🎶 Good music selection

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔒 Difficult to cancel subscription
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔇 Limited ability to use own music
  • 🤔 Lack of customization and editing options

Flow Speed Control Pro

From 251 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great & useful app
  • 🚀 Best video speed ramp media center and player app
  • 👍 Nice little app
  • 👍 Fantastic app
  • 👍 Awesome

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Destroyed my iPad
  • 🐛 Crashes when saving
  • 🐛 Poor output quality
  • 🐛 Doesn't work with other apps
  • 🐛 Watermark remains on paid version

Bugs and requests

Magisto Video Editor & Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Videos not saving properly
  • Crashes when trying to edit videos
  • Subscription charges even after cancellation

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow more control over video editing
  • Improve video quality output
  • Add option to use own music
  • Make subscription cancellation easier

Flow Speed Control Pro

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Crashes when saving
  • Doesn't work with other apps
  • Watermark remains on paid version
  • Can't add music from phone
  • Choppy frame rate
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  • Voice lag after export
  • Can't import videos

Requested features

5 requests
  • Separate soundtrack from speed changes
  • Zoomable timeline
  • Import multiple videos at once
  • Access camera roll's favorites and albums
  • More effects besides filters

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Magisto Video Editor & Maker

Subscriptions8
  • Monthly Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Premium Magisto$6.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium Subscription$6.991 Month
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  • Magisto Premium$6.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium Subscription$19.991 Year
  • Magisto Professional7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Magisto Professional7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Month
  • Professional Magisto7 Days trial$29.991 Month
One-time1
  • Single Movie Download$0.99
None

Flow Speed Control Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Magisto Video Editor & Maker free?
Magisto Video Editor & Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flow Speed Control Pro free?
Flow Speed Control Pro costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Magisto Video Editor & Maker or Flow Speed Control Pro?
Flow Speed Control Pro is rated higher. Magisto Video Editor & Maker averages 4.6 out of 5 from 123K ratings, while Flow Speed Control Pro averages 4.6 from 251 ratings.
Do Magisto Video Editor & Maker or Flow Speed Control Pro have ads?
Neither Magisto Video Editor & Maker nor Flow Speed Control Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Magisto Video Editor & Maker or Flow Speed Control Pro?
Magisto Video Editor & Maker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Flow Speed Control Pro every 3 weeks. Most recently, Magisto Video Editor & Maker was updated on November 8, 2026 and Flow Speed Control Pro on November 6, 2026.

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