Comparison

Pulse vs PeekCut

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

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About

Pulse

Features
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Turn a 10-minute video into a 15-second highlight reel. On your phone. No upload, no signup, no waiting. Pulse turns long videos into short highlight reels using on-device AI. Pick a clip from your camera roll, watch Pulse work in real time, and share the moments worth keeping. No account. No upload. No cloud queue. WHAT IT DOES • Pick — open any video on your iPhone with one tap (PHPicker, no Photos access prompt). • Process — Pulse listens for excitement in the audio and watches for visually interesting frames, then fuses both signals into a hype score per moment. • Highlights — get a stack of short clips, ranked by score, with auto-looping previews. Tap to share. WHY ON-DEVICE MATTERS Your videos never leave your phone. There is no server. There is no upload bar. There is no third party watching. Because everything runs locally on the Apple Neural Engine, Pulse is fast: a 10-minute video becomes highlights in about 20 seconds on iPhone 15 Pro and newer, around 30 seconds on iPhone 13/14, and under 60 seconds on iPhone 11/12. No cell-data tax. No "processing in the cloud" wait. LIQUID GLASS, BUILT FOR IOS Pulse uses iOS 26's Liquid Glass material system end-to-end. Highlight cards refract a blurred frame from your video; the timeline, the action bar, and every modal sit on Apple's translucent surface hierarchy. It looks like iOS because it is iOS — no cross-platform rewrap. FREE OR PULSE PRO Free includes: • Up to 5 videos per month • The single top highlight per video • 720p export with a small watermark Pulse Pro unlocks: • Unlimited videos • Every highlight Pulse detects, not just the top one • Original-quality export (passthrough — no re-encode, no quality loss) • No watermark Pro is a simple subscription. The free tier is genuinely useful on its own, with no signup required. GREAT FOR • Sports parents trimming game footage to the goals • Gamers pulling clips from long screen recordings • Vloggers finding the moments worth cutting to • Travelers turning a long handheld pan into a shareable reel • Anyone with a camera roll full of "I'll edit this later" COMPATIBLE WITH • iPhone 11 and newer (A13 Bionic and up) • iOS 26 and above • Any video in your camera roll — MP4, MOV, HEVC, HDR KEYWORDS WE EARN HONESTLY Pulse is an automatic highlight maker, a clip extractor, an on-device video AI tool, and a private alternative to cloud-based highlight services. If you've been searching for an auto highlight app, a best-moments finder, a way to make a sports recap reel, or a way to turn long footage into short clips without sending it anywhere, you're in the right place. PRIVACY, IN ONE LINE Pulse needs read access to the videos you pick — that's it. No account. Your videos never leave your phone — no footage, frames, or personal information are ever uploaded. Models run on the Apple Neural Engine, locally. Built by Golazo Services LLC. Single developer, no investors, no growth team. Just a video tool that respects your iPhone and your time. SUBSCRIPTION & TERMS Pulse Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, offered monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.golazoservices.com/privacy-policy/

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PeekCut

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PEEKCUT: AI HIGHLIGHT REELS — 100% PRIVATE & OFFLINE Stop scrubbing through hours of footage to find the good parts. PeekCut is the AI-powered highlight-reel maker that turns your long videos into share-ready clips—all directly on your device. No cloud, no uploads, no accounts. THE PROBLEM SOLVER Most "AI editors" force you to upload your private videos to the cloud for processing. PeekCut does the opposite: our intelligence runs 100% locally on your phone. Your footage never leaves your device, ensuring total privacy. CORE FEATURES • Smart Auto-Highlights: Our AI analyzes audio loudness, spoken keywords, and on-screen motion to surface the moments that actually matter—across the entire recording, not just the first few minutes. • Hit Your Target Length: Set the reel length you want and PeekCut fills it accurately. Moment selection accounts for trim padding and transitions, so an 18-minute target delivers an 18-minute reel. • Total Control: Tune your results with Signal balance sliders (loud vs. keyword vs. motion), adjust sensitivity, set target lengths, and manually trim or pin your favorite moments. • Responsive Trim: Add a few seconds of breathing room to every clip and watch the reel update instantly—PeekCut automatically rebalances how many moments fit your target. • Seamless Stitching: Moments that overlap after trimming are merged into one continuous shot—no duplicate footage, no awkward cut in the middle of a sentence. • Multilingual Transcription: Supports ~99 languages. Keyword highlighting works from the actual words spoken—not a fixed English list. • Two-Tap Export: Save individual highlights or stitch them into one polished reel with smooth cross-dissolve transitions, ready for your photo library. WHY PEEKCUT? • Truly Private: 100% offline. No servers, no data harvesting. • Fast & Effortless: Import, analyze, review, and export in just a few taps. • Predictable Results: What you see in Review is what you get in your photo library—including the final reel length. • No Subscription Fatigue: We believe in ownership. Pay once, own it forever. PEEKCUT PRO PeekCut is free to use with all features enabled. Free exports carry a small "PeekCut" watermark. Upgrade to PeekCut Pro for a one-time purchase of $9.99 to: • Remove the watermark from all future exports. • Support the development of privacy-first, on-device AI tools. Because our AI runs locally on your phone, we don't have recurring server costs—so we pass those savings to you. Pay once, unlock everything, and keep your footage private forever. IDEAL FOR Content creators, social-media posters, coaches, gamers, event/travel videographers, and anyone sitting on long recordings who wants the highlights without giving up their privacy. Your highlights. On your device. Not in the cloud. Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Reach out to us at peekcut@primeanalytiq.com or visit our website to learn more about how we keep your data private.

Screenshots

Pulse3 screens
PeekCut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PeekCut at none against Pulse's 2. PeekCut also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Pulse sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PeekCut asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pulse ships an update every 2 months, PeekCut every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Pulse versus PeekCut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPulsePeekCut
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB110 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGolazo ServicesPrimeAnalytIQ Corp.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pulse

Subscriptions2
  • Pulse Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pulse Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
None

PeekCut

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pulse free?
Pulse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PeekCut free?
PeekCut is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pulse or PeekCut have ads?
Neither Pulse nor PeekCut shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pulse or PeekCut?
Pulse ships an update every 2 months, and PeekCut every 2 days. Most recently, Pulse was updated on October 24, 2026 and PeekCut on October 24, 2026.

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