CreatorGrade vs iiStudio Creator
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.
iiStudio Creator
Create stunning Instagram Stories and Posts with this Arabic-first design and video editing studio. Features include a professional montage editor, automatic Arabic captions, and ready-to-use templates. Your work remains private on your device.
- Design editor with templates and fonts
- Professional multi-track video montage editor
- Automatic Arabic transcription for captions
- Ready grid templates for quick content creation
- Device mockups for professional presentation
- Direct sharing to Instagram
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iiStudio — design and edit, right on your iPhone. Turn your photos and videos into posts, stories and reels that look professionally made — no computer, no learning curve. Built Arabic-first, with full right-to-left support. DESIGN - Place your photos and videos inside realistic device frames - Ready-made templates for stories and posts - Add text, images and video as separate layers - Filters, plus fine control over exposure, contrast, saturation, warmth and more EDIT - Multi-track timeline: video, overlays, text and audio - Trim, split, duplicate and reorder in a tap - Transitions, speed, opacity and keyframes - Chroma key, background removal and face blur SOUND - Large, clear waveforms — see every beat - Beat markers on the ruler, so your cuts land on the music - Extract audio from any clip and remove silent gaps automatically - Volume fades and keyframes FINISH - Export in high quality - Saved straight into an iiStudio album in your Photos - Share to Instagram and anywhere else Available in 10 languages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iiStudio Creator at 5.0 against CreatorGrade's 4.0. iiStudio Creator also leads on monetization model (freemium vs paid). CreatorGrade's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. CreatorGrade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and iiStudio Creator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
iiStudio Creator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CreatorGrade has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CreatorGrade | iiStudio Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Tobin | Ali Al Muqarshi |
Customer experience
CreatorGrade
iiStudio Creator
In-app purchases
CreatorGrade
- Lifetime Pro$9.99
iiStudio Creator
- iiStudio Pro$3.991 Month
- iiStudio Pro$25.991 Year
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