Cannon Studio vs Video Thing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cannon Studio
This AI-powered platform allows users to create, edit, and publish AI-generated video content. Build reusable worlds, generate images and video from prompts, add audio, and polish your projects with editing tools. Share your creations on Cannon TV or explore the Marketplace for assets.
- AI image and video generation
- Reusable world building
- Integrated editing tools
- Narration and audio creation
- Publishing to Cannon TV
- Creator Marketplace
- Team collaboration
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Cannon Studio is an AI video production studio and creator platform for building, finishing, publishing, and sharing AI-made content in one connected workspace. Start with an idea, build reusable worlds, generate images and video, add narration, music, and sound design, then polish your work with editing and delivery tools. When your project is ready, publish and discover creator work through Cannon TV, or browse the Marketplace for reusable assets that can support your next production. Use Cannon Studio to create shorts, ads, episodic content, explainers, concept films, social posts, and story-driven video projects without jumping between disconnected tools. What you can do: - Build reusable worlds with characters, locations, stories, camera setups, lore context, and more all from an idea. - Generate AI Images and Videos from prompts and references, or in natural language only with full world context of your characters, locations, and lore using the World Generator. - Keep creative continuity across scenes, shots, and future projects within the same world. - Preserve the context of your world as the lore, characters, and character relationships change as you write new stories. - It's not just an AI wrapper: - Edit, restyle, upscale, crop, resize, compress, and convert images. - Trim, crop, compress, transcode, upscale, and assemble video clips - Add Smart Motion, subtitles, overlays, transitions, and other finishing passes - Create narration, voices, lip sync, music, SFX, and scene-aware audio - Organize generated media in a project gallery and separate in-world assets from generations in your asset library. - Publish and watch creator videos through Cannon TV - Build a public creator presence with social discovery and engagement tools. Make friends, not followers. - Browse, buy, and sell creative assets through the Marketplace using in-app credits. - Collaborate with teams through shared Creator Flow workspaces and production handoff tools. Creator Flow helps transform a story idea into a structured project. Define the concept, characters, locations, scenes, and shot direction before spending credits on generation. Worlds let you save the context you want to reuse, so characters, locations, visual rules, and camera language can stay consistent across multiple videos. Cannon TV gives creators a place to share finished videos, discover other work, and build an audience around AI-made films, shorts, and visual experiments. The Marketplace extends that ecosystem with reusable creative assets and packs that can help speed up future productions. Cannon Studio is built for: - Filmmakers developing AI-assisted scenes and short films - Content creators producing social videos and reels - Marketers creating ads, product videos, and campaign assets - Studios and agencies that need repeatable visual systems - Teams building episodic stories, branded worlds, or reusable creative IP Whether you are sketching a first concept, building a repeatable production pipeline, publishing to a creator audience, or sourcing assets for the next project, Cannon Studio brings generation, organization, post-production, marketplace discovery, social publishing, and collaboration into one app. Cannon Studio mobile app is a companion app, and purchases are not supported directly on the app. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.cannonstudio.app/privacy
Video Thing
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Video Thing mixes four videos live on your iPhone. No timeline, no clip list to manage. You perform the video with your hands, hit record when it looks the way you want, and save it to your camera roll. Load a video from your Photos into any bay, aim your camera at what's in front of you, or drop in a live signal generator. Four bays, four sources, in any combination. Each channel has its own video fader and audio fader, plus mute, solo, hide, and spot buttons. Eight blend modes to pick from — normal, screen, lighten, darken, multiply, difference, XOR, and add-wrap. Effects like color, glitch, mirror, freeze, and a matte you can draw with your finger, plus feedback loops with a Droste spiral. A luma key to drop black, a noise generator when you need one. Video Thing can react to audio too. Wire the low, mid, or high frequency band — or the master level — into any effect parameter. The picture moves with the music. Everything's live. Drag the divider to grow the monitor. Tap the picture for fullscreen. Double-tap any knob to reset it. Hit record and the whole mix saves straight to your camera roll as an mp4, in the same aspect as your source clip.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Video Thing at none against Cannon Studio's shown. Cannon Studio's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). On price 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Cannon Studio | Video Thing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chase Cason | Green Rose Systems, LLC |
In-app purchases
Cannon Studio
No in-app purchases
Video Thing
No in-app purchases
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