AirStory vs Trim Forge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
AirStory
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Every flight has a story. AirStory helps you find it. Your hard drive is full of incredible flights. Sunrises. Hidden beaches. Perfect orbits. Wildlife you didn't expect. AirStory turns all of it into a beautiful library you can revisit, replay, and share โ no editing skills required. Insert your SD card once, and years of forgotten flights become a library organized by place and time, ready to explore. RELIVE EVERY FLIGHT Watch any flight the way you flew it: the video plays alongside a live map that traces your path, an altitude graph you can scrub, and a smooth 3D replay over real terrain. Fly it again from your couch. ORGANIZED BY WHERE YOU'VE BEEN AirStory sorts your flights by the places you visited โ beaches, parks, the trip you took last spring โ so finding that one perfect sunset takes seconds, not an afternoon of scrubbing folders. STORIES, MADE FOR YOU Pick a few favorite flights and AirStory finds the best moments โ the orbits, the reveals, the dives โ and cuts them into a short, music-scored story automatically. Mark your own favorite clips too, and build exactly the highlight reel you want. SHARE IN ONE TAP Every story becomes a link you can text to friends or post anywhere. They just tap and watch โ no app, no sign-in. ON EVERY SCREEN AirStory is one app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Import a flight from your phone the moment you land, curate on iPad or Mac when you're home, and pick up right where you left off โ your library stays in sync. Fly. Import. Rediscover. Share. โ AirStory works beautifully with DJI drones. Your original videos stay yours โ AirStory keeps a lightweight copy for smooth playback and never touches your master files.
Trim Forge
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Trim Forge helps you turn longer videos into focused clips without setting up a full editing project. It is especially useful for camera and drone recordings, including videos captured with DJI drones, when you want to keep only the flight highlights. Create a project, choose a video from your library, mark the parts you want to keep, preview the selected ranges, and export the result back to Photos. Trim Forge is built for practical clip preparation: saving drone footage highlights, cutting long recordings into shorter segments, and keeping simple trimming work organized by project. What you can do: - Create local projects for videos you want to trim. - Choose videos from your photo library. - Trim camera, drone, and DJI drone videos into focused clips. - Add one or more clip ranges to a project. - Set clip start and end points from the video preview. - Play selected clips in sequence before exporting. - Export selected ranges as one combined video. - Export selected ranges as separate clips. - Save exported videos back to Photos in a Trim Forge album. - Keep project data stored locally on your device. - Switch between system, light, and dark appearance. Trim Forge always uses lossless copy export, so compatible videos can be trimmed without re-encoding. Export support depends on the source video format and the device. Privacy: Trim Forge does not require an account and does not send your videos to a server. Project metadata is stored locally on your device. The app requests photo library access so you can choose source videos and save exported clips back to Photos. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AirStory at none against Trim Forge's 2. AirStory also leads on ads (none vs shown). Trim Forge's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Trim Forge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. AirStory asks for nothing beyond the download.
AirStory ships an update every 6 weeks, Trim Forge every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AirStory | Trim Forge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Don Browning | Ronald Derksen |
In-app purchases
AirStory
No in-app purchases
Trim Forge
- Trim Forge Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Trim Forge Pro Lifetime$5.99









