Comparison

YouTube Create vs Edits

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

Head to head
About

YouTube Create

Create engaging videos with this intuitive mobile editor. Add music, effects, and auto-captions to enhance your content. Easily trim, combine clips, and share directly to your channel.

Highlights
  • Combine videos, photos, and audio
  • Trim, clip, and crop video
  • Add royalty-free music and sound effects
  • Record voiceovers
  • Auto-generate captions
  • Apply filters and effects
  • Resize for different aspect ratios
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Take your videos to the next level with YouTube Create, the official editing and creation app from YouTube. Add filters and effects, music, voiceover, auto-captions and more to easily make amazing videos that will captivate your audience – all without the need for complicated editing tools. EDIT WITH ALL THE ESSENTIALS ● Easily combine videos, photos and audio all in one place ● Trim, clip and crop video clips ● Choose from 40+ transitions to seamlessly blend your clips together ● Speed up or slow down your video SIMPLIFY YOUR PROCESS WITH POWERFUL TOOLS ● Turn your footage into a high-quality first draft using the Edit with AI tool* ● Automatically add captions or subtitles to your videos with just one tap (available in selected languages) ● Arrange your footage with one of our built-in, customisable templates ● Remove your video's background with the cut out or chroma key features ENHANCE VIDEOS WITH MUSIC AND QUALITY AUDIO ● Bring your video to life with thousands of trending and royalty-free songs available through the YouTube Shorts music library, as well as sound effects ● Find the beat of your soundtrack and easily sync your video clips to the music with beat matching ● Narrate your videos by recording a voiceover directly in the app ● Easily remove distracting background noise with the audio cleanup tool CREATE BEYOND YOUR CAMERA WITH AI ● Generate new videos with prompts and reference images* ● Also generate new images with prompts and reference images* ● Remix AI videos and put your own spin on them* STAND OUT WITH FILTERS AND EFFECTS ● Enhance the colour by adjusting saturation, brightness, exposure, hue and more ● Set the mood with customisable filters ● Choose from 60+ effects to make your videos pop GET CREATIVE WITH UNIQUE STICKERS AND FONTS ● Add your creative touch with hundreds of fonts and animated text effects ● Choose from a library of stickers, GIFs and emojis to match your style MADE TO SHARE ACROSS FORMATS ● Resize your videos to different aspect ratios, including portrait, landscape and square, for sharing across different formats ● Export videos in up to 4K resolution, with frame rates of up to 60 fps supported ● Easily upload your video directly to your YouTube channel and share your creation with your audience *Feature is available in selected countries

About

Edits

This app simplifies video creation for social media, offering tools for editing, effects, and audio enhancement. Users can export in 4K without watermarks, manage drafts, and track performance. It provides AI animation, green screen, and automatic caption generation.

Highlights
  • 4K export without watermark
  • AI animation
  • Green screen and video overlays
  • Automatic caption generation
  • Audio enhancement
  • Live insights dashboard
Features
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Make videos you’re proud to share with Edits, the new video creation app from Instagram. Edits is a free video editor that makes it easy for creators to turn their ideas into videos, right on their phone. It has all the tools you need to support your creation process, all in one place. Simplify your creative process • Export your videos in 4K with no watermark and share to any platform. • Keep track of all your drafts and videos in one place. • Capture high-quality clips up to 10 minutes long and start editing right away. • Easily share to Instagram with high-quality playback. Create and edit with powerful tools • Edit videos with single-frame precision. • Get the look you want with camera settings for resolution, frame rate and dynamic range, plus upgraded flash and zoom controls. • Bring images to life with AI animation. • Change up your background with green screen, cutout or add a video overlay. • Choose from a variety of fonts, sound and voice effects, video filters and effects, stickers and more. • Enhance audio to make voices clearer and remove background noise. • Generate captions automatically and customize how they appear in your video. Inform your next creative decisions • Get inspired by browsing reels with trending audio. • Keep track of ideas and content you're excited by until you're ready to create. • Track how your reels are performing with a live insights dashboard. • Understand what affects your reels engagement. Meta Terms: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php Meta Privacy Policy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy

Screenshots

YouTube Create4 screens
Edits4 screens

Verdict

The call

YouTube Create and Edits both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of YouTube Create's written reviews are positive against 48% of Edits's. Edits's advantage is ratings volume (99K vs 4K) and chart position (#4 vs #112). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Edits holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Edits has 99K ratings behind it against 4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of YouTube Create's written reviews are positive against 48% of Edits's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
YouTube Create versus Edits: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYouTube CreateEdits
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (4K ratings)4.8 (99K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.8% of reviews — better47.6% of reviews
Number of ratings4K99K — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#112#4 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size245 MB332 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogle LLCInstagram, Inc.

Customer experience

YouTube Create

All ratings3,950 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews739 reviews
Positive66.8%
Neutral8.1%
Negative25.0%

Edits

All ratings98,254 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews3,881 reviews
Positive47.6%
Neutral13.5%
Negative39.0%

Bugs and requests

YouTube Create

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Edits

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Text overlays not displaying correctly
  • Editing projects randomly glitching
  • Audio not saving or syncing properly
  • Freezing and crashing issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add keyframe support
  • Implement custom font uploads
  • Improve text overlay customization
  • Introduce video speed adjustment
  • Expand template and preset options

In-app purchases

None

YouTube Create

No in-app purchases

None

Edits

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YouTube Create free?
YouTube Create is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Edits free?
Edits is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, YouTube Create or Edits?
Edits is rated higher. YouTube Create averages 4.6 out of 5 from 4K ratings, while Edits averages 4.8 from 99K ratings.
Do YouTube Create or Edits have ads?
Both YouTube Create and Edits show ads.
Which is updated more often, YouTube Create or Edits?
YouTube Create ships an update weekly, and Edits weekly. Most recently, YouTube Create was updated on October 29, 2026 and Edits on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, YouTube Create or Edits?
YouTube Create currently peaks at #112 in the App Store charts, and Edits at #4. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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