Photo Editor Express+ vs ClipLit

Bring out the best in your photos with precise color and lighting controls, portrait retouching, background editing, and creative reshaping tools. COLOR AND LIGHT • Enhance local contrast with adjustable Auto Enhance. • Fine-tune exposure, brightness, contrast, and gamma. • Balance highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. • Adjust saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, and hue. • Control individual color ranges with HSL. • Adjust overall brightness and individual color channels with RGB Curves. • Color-grade shadows, midtones, and highlights separately. PORTRAIT RETOUCHING • Reduce small blemishes with the healing brush. • Smooth skin while preserving texture. • Explore Skin Tone presets with adjustable shade, intensity, and redness reduction. • Zoom in for detailed brush work. BACKGROUND EDITING • Automatically separate a person from the background. • Create a transparent background. • Replace the background with a solid color. • Blur the background to draw attention to your subject. RESHAPING AND GEOMETRY • Liquify — push, expand, pinch, and twirl selected areas with an adjustable brush. • Portrait Liquify — reshape a person while protecting the surrounding background, with an editable person mask. • Mesh Warp — reshape your photo by dragging grid control points. • Distort — adjust width and height independently. • Perspective — correct horizontal and vertical perspective. • Lens Correction — adjust barrel and pincushion distortion. DETAIL AND EFFECTS • Refine sharpness and structure. • Reduce luminance and color noise. • Adjust haze with Dehaze. • Add glow, fade, vignette, and film grain. • Create selective blur with Tilt Shift. • Apply preset photo filters with adjustable intensity. CROP, DRAW, AND ADD TEXT • Crop using different shapes and aspect ratios. • Rotate, straighten, and flip your photos. • Draw directly on a zoomable photo. • Add text with customizable fonts, bold styling, size, color, and placement. CAPTURE AND SHARE • Take photos with the built-in camera or import them from your library. • Compare your edits with the original. • Save and share your finished photos. Basic adjustment tools and the first five photo filters are free. Cropping, drawing, text, portrait retouching, Skin Tone, background editing, HSL, RGB Curves, reshaping tools, and additional filters require Premium access through an in-app purchase. - Terms of service: https://appsupport.store/terms/ - Privacy policy: https://appsupport.store/privacy/

Cliplit turns short videos into captioned, share-ready clips right on your iPhone. Import a video from Photos or Files, let Apple's on-device Speech framework transcribe the audio, fix any words, choose a caption style, preview the timing, then export a burned-in MP4 to Photos. Your video and audio stay on your device. There is no account, no cloud queue, and no advertising SDK. Version 2.1 adds an Export Readiness advisor in Preview plus an offline Creator Playbook in Settings. Before you render, Cliplit checks the clip for subtitle timing, reading speed, caption contrast, platform safe zones, and deliverable completeness. The new playbook adds an 18,750-entry local reference pack of caption hooks, readability rules, safe-zone notes, subtitle delivery checklists, and accessibility reminders for creators working without a network connection. Cliplit is built for creators, small businesses, teachers, coaches, and anyone who wants fast readable captions without uploading private clips to another service. Features: - On-device speech transcription that stays in sync, even on longer clips - Import from Photos, Files, iCloud Drive, and compatible document providers - Editable word-by-word transcript - Eight caption styles, including true left-to-right karaoke word fill and a high-contrast Accessible style - Clean two-line caption layout and crisp burned-in text - Caption cadence control: one word, phrase, or full line - Auto emoji and power-word highlights using deterministic offline rules - Caption position control with live platform safe-zone checking and Fit all platforms placement - Export Readiness advisor for timing, readability, contrast, safe zones, and deliverables - Offline Creator Playbook with 18,750 caption drills, hook rewrites, safe-zone notes, and export checklists - Accessibility-first: SDH sound cues like [music], WCAG-AA contrast labels, and Reduce Motion support - Create SRT, WebVTT, or plain-text transcript files with readable cue merging - Live caption preview synced to playback - Burned-in MP4 export to Photos - No login, no tracking, no advertising SDK Notes: - Best with clear speech and short vertical videos. - Speech recognition availability depends on the languages and on-device models supported by iOS.