VantaPlayer vs Clipbench

Step through any video in your Photos library one frame at a time. Slow it down to a quarter speed, jump back ten seconds, scrub the timeline, do whatever it takes to see exactly what happened in that one moment. No upload, no account, no subscription. The app reads your existing video library and that's the whole story. WHAT IT DOES Frame-by-frame stepping. Swipe across the video to step one frame. Keep holding and the steps pick up to a review-friendly cadence. Variable speeds. Long-press anywhere and slide vertically through speed bands (8x, 2x, 1x, 0.5x, 0.25x). Pick which speeds show up in Settings, anywhere from 1 to 5 of them across the 0.1x to 8x range. Skip ahead or back. Double-tap the left or right edge to jump. Default is 10 seconds, adjustable. Scrub the timeline. Long-press the center to bring up the gesture overlay with a scrub bar. Drag it. No buffering, no lag. Reverse playback. Swipe and hold to the left. The video plays backwards at whatever speed you're holding. Everything stays on your phone. No analytics, no third-party SDKs, no network calls. There is nowhere your video can go because the app has no way to send it. GOOD FOR Coaches breaking down game film. Athletes reviewing their swing or form. Dance and martial arts students working through choreography one beat at a time. Editors spot-checking timing before they touch a real timeline. Or anyone who's tired of how YouTube handles the comma key. REQUIRES iOS 18 or later. Works on iPhone and iPad. Reads only from the Photos library, no streaming, no file imports.

SEVENTEEN TOOLS, ONE APP • Compress — shrink large videos to free up space, with control over resolution and quality • Trim — cut the start and the end, frame-exact when you need it • Merge — join several clips end to end into one video • Speed — slow motion or fast forward, from 0.25× to 4×, with voices kept at their natural pitch • Crop — cut in to any part of the frame, freely or at 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 or 16:9 • Convert — MP4, MOV and M4V, in H.264 or HEVC • Reverse — play any clip backwards, audio included • Mute — strip the sound out completely • Extract Audio — save the soundtrack as M4A or WAV • Add Audio — drop in music or a voiceover, looped to fit the clip • Video to GIF — turn a clip into a looping animation • Watermark — overlay your own text or logo • Subtitles — burn in captions from an SRT or VTT file • Enhance — fix light and colour automatically, and upscale to 1080p or 4K • Social Export — reframe to 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9 for Reels, TikTok, Stories and feed • Social Trim — split a long video into parts that fit WhatsApp Status, Stories, Shorts and more • Save from Link — get a video from a link to keep and edit