Mote vs Quick Cut Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mote
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Mote is a live hand tracking camera. Make an L with each hand and only the space between your fingers changes: Invert, Rainbow, Glitch, Comic, Pop or Pixel, switching on the beat while you record. HAND FRAME • Hold up two L's with a gap between them and the frame opens • Six looks inside the frame, switching at 90, 120 or 150 BPM • Tap the screen to hold the look you like • Tilt your hands and the frame tilts with them EVERY TAKE, TWO RESULTS • A clip ready for your feed and Stories • An automatic 4-cut Frame Strip • Save to Photos in one tap A NEW DROP EVERY FRIDAY • A new trending hand effect lands every Friday • Record it that week and it stays in your collection • Past drops include Bubble, Lightning and Stars FREE AND PRO • Free: this week's drop and every drop you caught, 15-second takes with a small watermark • Mote Pro: every drop including missed ones, 60-second takes, no watermark PRIVATE BY DESIGN Hand tracking runs on your device. Camera frames are not uploaded, and you never need an account. ABOUT MOTE PRO Mote Pro is optional. It is available as a weekly subscription (with a 3-day free trial when you are eligible), an annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; the renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Restore previous purchases anytime in the app. Privacy Policy: https://www.secondearth.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.secondearth.io/terms
Quick Cut Pro
Effortlessly transform raw video clips into polished montages. Automatically analyzes footage for quality, syncs cuts to music beats, and offers fine-tuned editing controls. Export in various aspect ratios without watermarks.
- Automatic clip analysis
- Beat-synced editing
- Fine-tune clip editing
- Multiple export aspect ratios
- Import from Photos and Files
- Automatic project saving
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Pick your clips. Get a cut. Quick Cut Pro turns a folder of phone videos into an edited montage in seconds. No timeline to wrangle, no dragging clips around. Choose your footage, choose a length, and it cuts. HOW IT DECIDES Every clip you pick is analysed on your iPhone for sharpness, exposure, motion, faces and near-duplicates. The dull footage and the accidental repeats are left out, and the strongest moments are packed into the length you asked for. Nothing is uploaded and nothing leaves your phone. DON'T LIKE IT? SHUFFLE Shuffle rolls a new edit from the same clips instantly. It reuses the analysis, so there is no waiting - press it until you like what you see. CUT TO THE BEAT Add a track from Files and Quick Cut Pro finds its tempo, then lands the cut points on the beat. A waveform sits under the timeline with the beats marked, so you can see the cuts hit rather than take our word for it. If a track has no clear beat, the app says so and cuts freely instead of snapping to a grid it guessed. FINE CONTROL WHEN YOU WANT IT Tap any shot to open the clip editor: - Trim - drag either end to change how long the shot runs - Slip - drag the middle to keep the length and move to a different moment - Dice - keep the rhythm, jump to a random moment - Swap - put a different clip in this shot's place REFRAMED, NOT SQUASHED Export 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9. The crop follows the interesting part of the frame rather than blindly taking the middle. BRING FOOTAGE FROM ANYWHERE Import from Photos, or from Files for footage that never went into your photo library - camera cards, AirDrop, iCloud Drive. Add more clips at any point, or drop ones you do not want. PROJECTS Every cut is saved automatically the moment your clips land. Come back later and your footage, settings and trims are exactly as you left them. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT The free version exports a real file: 15 seconds, 720p, watermarked. Export is never blocked. Pro is a one-time $2.99 - no subscription - and unlocks full length, full quality from your source, and no watermark. PRIVACY Everything happens on your iPhone. No account, no upload, no tracking, no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Quick Cut Pro at 5.0 against Mote's 3.0. Quick Cut Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Mote's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Mote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Quick Cut Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Quick Cut Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Mote ships an update weekly, Quick Cut Pro every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mote | Quick Cut Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SecondEarth AI, Inc. | Scott Manley |
In-app purchases
Mote
- Mote Pro3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Mote Pro (Annual)$29.991 Year
- Mote Pro Lifetime$49.99
Quick Cut Pro
- Quick Cut Pro$2.99









