CreatorGrade vs iVideo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CreatorGrade
A professional mobile app for color grading and cinematic video editing. It offers a touch-first timeline for trimming and reordering clips, along with advanced color tools like node-based workflows and LUT support. Shape your footage anywhere with a streamlined, premium mobile experience.
- Node-based color grading
- Realtime color tools
- LUT support
- Touch timeline editing
- Cut, trim, reorder clips
- Export clips or sequences
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CREATORGRADE — PROFESSIONAL VIDEO EDITING AND COLOR GRADING ON IPHONE CreatorGrade turns your iPhone into a powerful, portable post-production studio. Organize footage, build multi-layer edits, record voiceovers, perform detailed color correction, work with ProRes RAW, and export polished videos—all from one streamlined app. Whether you’re creating social content, short films, client projects, or cinematic mobile productions, CreatorGrade gives you the tools to take an idea from raw footage to final export. PROFESSIONAL EDITING TOOLS • Build complete edits with multiple video and audio tracks • Arrange clips across V1 and V2 video layers • Work with linked audio on dedicated A1 and A2 tracks • Trim, split, move, resize, and reposition clips • Mix videos, still images, titles, music, and voiceovers • Scrub through your timeline with responsive visual previews • Add and edit multiple titles throughout a project • Preview your work in a clean, full-screen player • Organize projects and keep every production easy to find ADVANCED COLOR GRADING CreatorGrade includes a node-based grading workflow designed for both quick corrections and more advanced creative looks. • Adjust exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation, hue, temperature, and tint • Balance footage with professional lift, gamma, and gain color wheels • Refine individual color channels with Color Mix controls • Apply LUTs and color space transforms • Build grades across multiple adjustable nodes • Compare graded and ungraded footage with a live before-and-after viewer • Preview color adjustments during playback • Maintain consistent color across supported H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and RAW workflows PRORES RAW SUPPORT Work with supported ProRes RAW footage directly on iPhone and begin with a neutral, flexible image ready for grading. • Read supported camera metadata • Adjust RAW white balance, ISO, and tint • Combine RAW adjustments with LUTs, color space transforms, and additional grading nodes • Preserve your grading pipeline from preview through export MULTITRACK AUDIO AND VOICEOVER Sound is part of the edit—not an afterthought. • Record voiceovers directly into your project • Add music and external audio files • Work with multiple audio tracks • View audio waveforms directly on the timeline • Keep source audio linked to its video clip • Relink missing music and media files when needed FLEXIBLE EXPORT OPTIONS Choose exactly what you want to deliver. • Export a complete edited sequence • Export individual clips • Render videos with titles, grading, transforms, crops, and positioning intact • Save finished videos to Photos • Create deliverables for social media, client review, or further post-production DESIGNED FOR MOBILE CREATORS CreatorGrade is built specifically for a touch-first workflow. Pinch to resize footage, drag to reposition it, use alignment guides for precise composition, and move naturally between editing and grading without leaving your project. No desktop required. No watered-down workflow. Just serious editing and color tools built for creators who want to work anywhere. Some professional media formats and features require compatible iPhone hardware, supported source files, and sufficient available storage. ProRes RAW availability depends on device and media compatibility.
iVideo
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iVideo is a privacy-first video toolbox and frame-accurate editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It includes 31 professional tools and a full multi-track Edit Project. Import, cut, transform, and export on your device. Nothing is uploaded or analyzed. No ads, no tracking, no account. The library organizes footage. Edit Project is one tap away. Screen recording can be shown or hidden. Live Photo Studio is ready when you need it. A short intro explains the app. An empty library can generate a sample clip on device. ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE Auto captions turn speech into timed subtitles on device and can label music or applause. Add a translated line, apply style presets, then export SRT or ASS or burn captions in. Edit by transcript deletes a sentence and cuts the matching picture. OCR extracts text from the current frame. Auto face blur plus drawn regions cover plates and signs. One tap wipes EXIF, GPS, timestamps, and device fingerprints. Scene chapters, silence jump-cut, denoise, and voice lift include live preview. Frame marks add arrows, circles, boxes, ink, and type. PRO WORKSPACE 31 tools live in one dark workspace. Open parameters only when needed. Export from the primary button and cancel anytime. Grab any frame or batch extract with adjustable JPEG quality, including save to Files. Dual-handle trim with waveform, aspect crop, and rotate. Speed from 0.05x to 8x, reverse, and ramps. Mute or extract audio as M4A, WAV, or CAF. Text watermark and smart compress to 10-200 MB. A favorite-tools bar holds up to five shortcuts. Batch jobs remember the last recipe. COLOR AND SOCIAL FRAMES Grade exposure, contrast, saturation, and temperature. Built-in cinematic LUTs plus your own .cube files. Beat-sync montage with flash, black, zoom, and slide. Social frames 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9 with blur, color bars, or crop-fill, plus safe-area guides. Convert video and Live Photo both ways, or export GIF. EDIT PROJECT The Edit Project tab stays in the bar. Multi-clip timeline with split, reorder, and cross-dissolve. Timed type and stickers with six text presets. Video PiP drags freely. Music and voiceover, with speech ducking the bed. On-device stabilize, face-follow reframe, and smooth slow motion. Two-camera offset align. The publish wizard sets platform frame, poster frame, captions, and export speed for this job only. Projects are self-contained and autosaved. PRO PLAYER Dark preview at true aspect. Double-tap for full screen. Editor-style JKL shuttle, any rate from 0.05x to 8x. Scrubber thumbnails, skip ten seconds, step frames. Picture in Picture and AirPlay. Lock Screen and Dynamic Island can show the current rate. Full keyboard on iPad and Mac. LIBRARY AND CAPTURE Search by file name, custom name, or tags. Favorites, tags, and six smart filters. Batch share, save to Photos, concat, collage, compare, or delete. Photos import with no transcode. Multi-select from Files. iOS ReplayKit recording with mic and in-app audio plus interval snapshots. Hide the Record tab; Shortcuts can still open recording. macOS ScreenCaptureKit can capture system audio. Import from Photos, Files, or Live Photo. EXPORT AND PRIVACY Original, 4K, 2K, 1080p, 720p, 540p. MP4 or MOV. A global queue runs heavy jobs in the background with an optional notification. One-tap presets. Clean exported files by size. Everything is local. No analytics or ads SDK, no account. iCloud syncs only light prefs. Video files stay on the device. MORE Siri Shortcuts for library, recording, and Live Photo Studio. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English switch live. Guides cover usage, Edit Project, Live Activity, and Shortcuts. Alternate app icons on iOS. Full iPhone, iPad, and Mac support. Workspace is for one-clip fixes. Edit Project is for multi-clip stories. No paywall. Pro tools on day one. Download iVideo and turn your iPhone, iPad, and Mac into a complete, private video studio.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CreatorGrade at Free against iVideo's $0.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
CreatorGrade is free to download; iVideo costs $0.99 up front. CreatorGrade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and iVideo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CreatorGrade ships an update every 10 days, iVideo every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | CreatorGrade | iVideo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Tobin | 天从 何 |
In-app purchases
CreatorGrade
- Lifetime Pro$9.99
iVideo
- Reward developers$0.99









