YouTube Create vs Lumetta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Lumetta
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Lumetta is a pro photo editor that runs entirely on your iPhone. Every edit happens on the device, instantly: no upload, no waiting. Every slider moves in real time and every step can be undone. LOOKS 36 color-grading looks across Natural, Beauty, Makeup, Vintage and Mono. Stack up to three, dial in the intensity, and compare before and after on your own photo. ADJUST Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, vibrance, saturation, clarity, sharpness, noise reduction, vignette, grain and fade. COLOR A five-point tone curve and eight-band HSL: shift the hue, saturation and luminance of one color without touching the rest. PORTRAIT Skin smoothing that keeps real texture, brighter eyes, whiter teeth, lip tint in five shades and background blur, each placed by face detection. SELECTIVE EDITS AND HEALING Apply any adjustment to just the subject or just the background. Paint away blemishes, dust and small distractions. CROP AND EXPORT Free or fixed ratios including 9:16 for Stories and Reels, rotate, flip and straighten to a tenth of a degree. JPEG or HEIC at full resolution. Location data stays off exported files. AND MORE RAW and ProRAW support, your own presets, copy and paste edits, batch editing for up to thirty photos, and video trim, speed and mute with the same looks. OPTIONAL BACKUP With an account you can back up your photos and videos automatically at full quality. It's off by default, and you can turn it off, download or delete your data any time. Every tool is free right now. No ads, no watermark, no account needed to edit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lumetta at none against YouTube Create's shown. YouTube Create's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and chart position (#108 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
YouTube Create ships an update weekly, Lumetta every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YouTube Create | Lumetta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (4K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #108 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 245 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ugur cihan cekic | |
In-app purchases
YouTube Create
No in-app purchases
Lumetta
No in-app purchases









