Comparison

Suila vs Hidey

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

Head to head
About

Suila

This video editor allows for quick and easy video creation on iPhone and iPad without requiring sign-in. It offers features like automatic captions, face retouching, speed curves, and a variety of filters and effects for polished video production.

Highlights
  • Automatic on-device captions
  • Face retouching and mosaic
  • Multi-point speed curves
  • Voiceover and teleprompter
  • Intuitive timeline editing
  • Customizable text and stickers
  • Filters, color correction, and effects
Features
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Suila is a video editor for iPhone and iPad. Open it and start cutting — no sign-in. What's in it: • Auto captions (on device): speech to captions in dozens of languages — Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and more. Add a second language for bilingual captions; translation and polish also run on the device. Edit by hand, drag them into place, import and export SRT. • Caption styling: font, color, outline, shadow, size and position, with 63 Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Latin fonts downloaded on demand — or import your own .ttf/.otf. • Beauty: finds faces automatically and retouches skin only — smoothing, dark circles, blemishes — features stay untouched. • Automatic face mosaic: faces are tracked frame by frame and pixelated or blurred; tap once to keep the main subject. • Voiceover and teleprompter: record narration straight into the phone with your script on screen. • Multi-point speed curves: add control points for smooth slow motion and speed ramps; reverse and freeze frame too. • Intuitive timeline: split, trim, long-press to reorder; deleting closes the gap, no black frames. • Text and stickers: free placement, colors, outline, shadow, in/out animations; emoji and sticker packs. • Filters, color and effects: cinematic LUTs, brightness/contrast/saturation/temperature, underwater correction, plus 15 visual effects. • 19 transitions and keyframe animation. • Picture-in-picture, extract audio from video, your own music and built-in sound effects, watermark, cover, end card. • Six canvas ratios (9:16, 1:1, 16:9, 4:5, 3:4, 4:3), 4K export — what you preview is what you get. Your videos, audio and projects stay on your device; no tracking, no personal data collected. Cut it, and 水啦! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://suila.app/privacy

About

Hidey

Features
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Hidey 是一款以隱私為核心的影片打碼工具。選擇影片後,可自動掃描整部影片的人臉,也能在畫面中手動畫框,追蹤需要遮蔽的物體。 主要功能: - 整部影片的人臉偵測與馬賽克 - 選用的加強側臉捕捉模式 - 車牌及人體部位遮擋 - 手動畫框指定人物、寵物、車牌或其他物體 - 人臉與指定物體可以同時勾選 - 在時間軸檢查馬賽克的位置與作用時間 - 可選擇先預覽,或偵測後直接輸出 - 盡量保留原片解析度、幀率與音訊 - 完成後以通知提醒,並自動儲存到照片圖庫 - 分析、追蹤、縮圖與匯出完全在裝置本機完成 自動偵測可能因遮擋、快速移動、光線或角度而中止或漏掉目標。為避免隱私洩露,請在匯出前拉完整條時間軸自行檢查。 使用條款(EULA):https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Suila4 screens
Hidey1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Suila at every 4 days against Hidey's every 3 weeks. Hidey's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Suila sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Hidey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Suila ships an update every 4 days, Hidey every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Suila versus Hidey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuilaHidey
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHanpoJiamin Zhang

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Suila

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Supply Drop$1.991 Month
  • Deluxe Supply Drop$3.991 Month
One-time3
  • Buy Me a Coffee$0.99
  • Developer Life Support$4.99
  • Developer Health Pack$19.99
2 purchases

Hidey

Subscriptions2
  • Hidey Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Hidey Pro Yearly$32.991 Year

Questions

Is Suila free?
Suila is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hidey free?
Hidey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Suila or Hidey have ads?
Neither Suila nor Hidey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Suila or Hidey?
Suila ships an update every 4 days, and Hidey every 3 weeks. Most recently, Suila was updated on November 1, 2026 and Hidey on October 31, 2026.

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