ditl vs Beat Motion Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ditl
Effortlessly transform your photos and videos into highlight reels with automatic editing. This app intelligently selects and stitches together your best moments based on your chosen focus, allowing for simple fine-tuning and sharing.
- Auto video stitching
- Smart media curation
- Customizable focus settings
- Picture-in-Picture detection
- Intuitive timeline editing
- Hierarchical video summaries
- Private on-device processing
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Have hundreds of photos and videos but no time to edit them? ditl is your offline on-device video curator that automatically edits your selected memories into stunning highlight reels. ditl is your automatic Day in the Life editor. With your choice of focus, ditl intelligently selects the best parts of your day. Use Visual Focus to stitch together video that contain action or keywords and Audio Focus to match speech. Use Action for a fast pace, Cinematic mode for slow pans or Music mode to cut to the beat of another video. Use Picture-In-Picture detection to automatically find and overlay videos from your phone with your glasses or camera. Our focus settings let you control exactly how your video is built. FOCUS: 1. Start with an album or location and desired final duration such as a 1 min holiday snapshot. 2. Use a Template to Focus on what you want to see. 3. Overlay or auto-insert time and location text before each clip. SCORE: 1. ditl selects photos and videos from your device and scores your selection to match your focus. 2. This saves you from having to manually select your media! 3. You can then recreate various highlights with different focus from the same event. FINE TUNE, SIMPLE TIMELINE 1. Fine tune your creation using a simple timeline. 2. One tap insert and remove clips, text, music and VoiceOvers. 3. Scrub to change clip durations. SHARE & COLLECT BADGES OR PINS 1. Save your ditl and share your day to other platforms. 2. Collect badges of your trips, grouped by time in the year, season or week on your denim grid. 3. Have a few favourites? Save your ditls to a favourites board. 4. Edit any ditl from the grid to reshape it. KEY FEATURES: • Auto Video Stitching: Instantly turn your photos and videos into a seamless vlog using transitions and text. • Smart Curation: Our local, on-device intelligence engine finds the most interesting, action-packed, cinematic visually unique moments or matches the edit to music from another video. • Templates: Choose from a Template to auto create a Vlog, Day in the Life and Save Templates (Pro) to make your own! • Focus (Pro): Tell ditl what you want to see (e.g., "food", "animals"), and it will prioritize those moments in your final video. • Picture-In-Picture (Pro): It will automatically find videos recorded at the same time and if one has a face, it will be displayed in the video in the bottom right. • Record: VoiceOver as video or from microphone. • Auto-Captions (Pro): Automatically add captions from your video and VoiceOvers. • Text: Automatically insert (Plus) each location as text before each clip where the location changes. • Hierarchical Summaries: Roll your daily videos into weekly, seasonal, and yearly recaps! • Private: All processing happens locally on your device. • Intuitive Timeline: Easily fine-tune cuts or add and remove clips or text with our simple storyboard editor. ditl Plus: - Unlimited ditls (otherwise two per day with watermark) - Combine photos and videos into one ditl - Automatic location text insertion - Remove watermark - Edit or hide the Intro text ditl Pro: - Save Templates - Focus your day visually using tags such as "food" or "animals". This allows you to cut your holidays in different ways without having to manually select them! Using visual focus, ditl scores those matching words and can provide a super-cut with what you want to see. - Use Audio Focus to score or highlight certain spoken words or auto edit the cut around sentences. - Automatic Picture in Picture detection for clips recorded at the same time, shown as a video overlay like a video call. - Manually insert video or photo as overlays or VoiceOvers. - Automatic Captions for both Video and VoiceOvers. Stop letting your memories sit on your phone. Download ditl and start editing your day! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/ditl-privacypolicy/home
Beat Motion Studio
Effortlessly create professional-looking video mixes synced to music. Automatically analyze song rhythms and cut clips to the beat. Offers various editing tools, filters, and effects for stunning results.
- Beat-synced editing
- Automatic framing
- 17+ transitions
- 12 filter looks
- Text and emoji overlays
- Live preview
- 4K resolution export
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Beat Motion Studio automatically creates video mixes cut to your music — right on your iPhone, fully offline and without any cloud. How it works: 1. Pick as many video clips or photos from your library as you like 2. Pick a song from Apple Music or from your files 3. Hit Start — the app analyses the rhythm and cuts your video to the beat The result: a professional-looking video mix where every cut lands exactly on the beat. FEATURES - Beat-synced editing — Automatic analysis of BPM, drops, build-ups and breaks - Automatic framing — When a clip's aspect ratio doesn't match your output format, the app picks the visible crop for you and follows movement within a shot - 17 transitions — Cut, Fade, Zoom, Wipe and more; nine additional ones with Pro - Strict Timeline — Let your clips play through in order instead of being mixed - 12 filter looks — From Original to Cinematic - 12 effects — Flash, Shake, Zoom Pulse and more - Photos with Ken Burns — Bring in stills with zoom, pan or parallax motion - Text and emoji overlays — Create, position and animate your own labels - Overlay packs — Animated graphics for weddings, parties, sports and more - Live preview — Real-time Metal preview before you export - Flexible formats — Portrait (9:16) or landscape (16:9) - 720p, 1080p or 4K resolution - Siri & Shortcuts — Start a mix by voice - Share directly — Export to Photos, Instagram Stories and more THREE VERSIONS Free — Up to 8 videos, 20-second export, Beat Motion Studio outro Standard ($9.99) — All export lengths, unlimited videos, favourites, no outro Pro ($19.99) — Everything in Standard plus the Video Editor with timeline, project management and nine additional transitions (Splits, Circle & Inset Wipe, Zoom & Pan Blur, Bloom, Color Planes, Doorway, Lens Flare) Fully offline. No accounts. No ads. Your videos stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ditl at 5.0 against Beat Motion Studio's 1.0. ditl also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. ditl sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Beat Motion Studio sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ditl holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
ditl ships an update every 2 days, Beat Motion Studio fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | ditl | Beat Motion Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 179 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JACK PETER SANDHAM | Juergen Frosch |
Customer experience
ditl
Beat Motion Studio
In-app purchases
ditl
- Ditl Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Ditl Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Ditl Plus Yearly$34.991 Year
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- Ditl Pro Yearly1 Month trial$49.991 Year
- Ditl Plus$99.99
- Ditl Pro$149.99
Beat Motion Studio
- Portrait Glitch Overlay Pack$0.99
- Glitch – Landscape 1$1.99
- Vintage Landscape 1$1.99
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- Retro VHS Glitch Pack – Landscape$1.99
- Luminous Landscape Effects 1$1.99
- Neon Frame Effects Pack$1.99
- Dynamic Portrait Overlays 1$1.99
- Glitch Portrait Effects 2$1.99
- Neon Portrait Frames – Portrait$1.99
- Dynamic Portrait Overlays 2$2.99
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