Comparison

Simple Video Tools vs RayCut Pro

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

Head to head
About

Simple Video Tools

Easily edit videos with a suite of essential tools. Create GIFs, extract frames, trim clips, convert formats, and manipulate audio. Features like smart face blur and auto-generated subtitles enhance your video projects.

Highlights
  • GIF Generator
  • Frame Extraction
  • Clip Creation
  • Video Conversion
  • Audio Manipulation
  • Smart Face Blur
  • Auto-Generated Subtitles
Features
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Quickly edit videos with Simple Video Tools—a focused collection of powerful tools without the complexity of a traditional video editor. • Trim & Crop: Create precise clips, freely crop the frame, or use preset aspect ratios. • Convert & Compress: Change video formats or reduce file size for easier sharing. • GIFs & Frames: Create animated GIFs or capture the perfect still image. • Playback: Speed up, slow down, or reverse your videos. • Audio: Extract, remove, replace, mix, or record and insert audio. • Transform: Mirror videos or change their rotation. • Privacy & Branding: Automatically obscure faces or add customizable text and image watermarks. • Subtitles: Generate subtitles from speech or create and edit them manually. • Combine Clips: Insert a second clip at any point, or stitch two clips using horizontal, vertical, and overlay layouts. Choose videos from Photos or Files, switch between tools without repeatedly importing your video, and save finished results to Photos or Files. Settings let you choose export quality, appearance, default sources, and automatic saving. Simple Video Tools is designed for iPhone and iPad, including landscape, Split View, and multitasking support on iPad. No account required. Simple Video Tools does not collect your data.

About

RayCut Pro

Edit videos like a professional on your Apple devices with a multi-track timeline, automatic captions, and cinematic color grading. Create movie trailers, storyboards, and instant movies with advanced editing tools and effects. Your footage stays private on your device.

Highlights
  • Multi-track timeline editing
  • Automatic captions with animated styles
  • Cinematic color grading tools
  • 4K HDR export
  • Story Studio for trailers and storyboards
  • Smart Reframe for multi-format output
  • On-device processing for privacy
Features
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Edit like a pro on iPhone, iPad and Mac. No account. No uploads. RayCut Pro gives you a real multi-track timeline, automatic captions, cinematic color and 4K HDR export, and your footage stays on your own devices. NEW: STORY STUDIO • Movie trailers: pick one of 9 themed trailers, fill the shot list with your clips, add your title and credits. RayCut times the cuts, titles and music for you. • Storyboards: guided shot lists that tell you what to film, then assemble the edit. • Instant Movie: choose your clips and get a finished, music-timed movie you can keep editing. FINISH FASTER • Viral Cut and automatic edits that cut to the beat of your music, at the pace you choose. • Automatic captions with animated styles, word-by-word highlights and speaker labels. Search the transcript and jump to any word. • Remove silences, split long clips at every shot change, and detect beats in one tap. • Smart Reframe follows your subject so one project works vertical, square and landscape. A REAL PRO TIMELINE • Frame-accurate, multi-track and magnetic: insert, append, overwrite, connect and replace edits, In/Out ranges, ripple and roll trims, and a precision trim view. • Compound clips, multicam editing, auditions for alternate takes, markers and chapters, and a searchable timeline index. • Keyframes with smooth curves for position, scale, rotation, opacity and effects. • Speed ramps, smooth slow motion, reverse and freeze frames. MAKE IT LOOK CINEMATIC • Color wheels, curves, HSL, LUTs, Looks, Match Color and Auto Enhance. • Change the focus of iPhone Cinematic videos after you shot them. • Cut Out removes the background without a green screen. Plus chroma key, shape masks, object tracking with pinned titles and stickers, and stabilization. • Animated titles with neon, glitch and wave effects, 3D transitions and animated backgrounds. SOUND THAT HOLDS UP • Voice Isolation and Voice Enhance for clean dialogue, EQ and voice effects. • Music that follows your edit, a built-in sound library, auto-ducking under voice, voiceover recording and text-to-speech narration. • Dialogue, music and effects roles with per-role mute and stem export. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC • Projects sync through your own iCloud. Start on iPhone, continue on Mac with Handoff. • On Mac: familiar pro keyboard shortcuts, skimming, and a full-screen viewer on a second display. • Export FCPXML to keep editing in Final Cut Pro. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No RayCut account, no tracking, no RayCut cloud. • Captions, cutouts, reframing and beat analysis run on your device by default. • Sync uses your own iCloud, and you decide when and where a video is shared. EXPORT WITH CONFIDENCE • Up to 4K with HDR on supported media and devices, up to 60 fps. • Chapters in the exported movie, plus ready-to-paste YouTube chapter timestamps. • Save to Photos, AirDrop, Files or the share sheet. Long exports pause and resume safely. PLANS RayCut Pro is free to download and edit with. Exports from the free version end with a short RayCut Pro card; remove it once with Remove Watermark. Pro and Max subscriptions (monthly or yearly) unlock the advanced tools. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use / EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Simple Video Tools4 screens
RayCut Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Video Tools at none against RayCut Pro's 9. Simple Video Tools also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. RayCut Pro sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Simple Video Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Video Tools against 5.0 for RayCut Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Video Tools ships an update every 2 weeks, RayCut Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Simple Video Tools versus RayCut Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Video ToolsRayCut Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB178 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKtisis Web, LLCSolueman Hussain

Customer experience

Simple Video Tools

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

RayCut Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Video Tools

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

RayCut Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Max Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$17.991 Year
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  • Max Yearly$22.991 Year
One-time5
  • Remove Watermark$1.99
  • Pro 1-Month Pass$2.99
  • Max 1-Month Pass$3.99
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  • Pro 1-Year Pass$24.99
  • Max 1-Year Pass$29.99

Questions

Is Simple Video Tools free?
Simple Video Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RayCut Pro free?
RayCut Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Video Tools or RayCut Pro?
Simple Video Tools and RayCut Pro are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Video Tools or RayCut Pro have ads?
Neither Simple Video Tools nor RayCut Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Video Tools or RayCut Pro?
Simple Video Tools ships an update every 2 weeks, and RayCut Pro fortnightly. Most recently, Simple Video Tools was updated on November 4, 2026 and RayCut Pro on November 5, 2026.

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