Comparison

VideoEffect Lab vs VidWing

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

Head to head
About

VideoEffect Lab

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Put a layer of light on your footage — and now, put it on the beat. Pick an effect, drop it on a photo or a clip, and see it on the frame you are working with. Then take it apart: every effect here is made of skills, and the same forty-three skills are yours to stack into something nobody else has. SEE IT BEFORE YOU USE IT Discover is a screening room: every effect loops on its own clip, and the card says how long it runs and when it happens. Tap Use on the card and pick your footage. Dark by default; light is in Mine. MOVE TO THE MUSIC Add a track from Files, borrow the sound from a video in your library, or keep the clip's own. Then tap music on any slider: it rests where you set it and kicks on every beat. The timeline shows the waveform and each beat, and the app listens for the song's pulse, so busy drums do not make everything twitch. A photo with music exports as a video with sound. SEE IT ON YOUR OWN FOOTAGE No abstract preview grid. The effect renders on your picture, at the moment you scrubbed to, and a press-and-hold puts the original back so you can see exactly what changed. Bring footage in from your photo library or from Files. ELEVEN EFFECTS TO START FROM Beat Punch, Wave Warp, Soft Light Sweep, Halo, Back to 2007, Film Look, Bad Signal, Liquid Glass, and four about time: Afterimage, Half a Beat, Long Shutter, Freeze. Every one is a recipe you can open, look inside and change — a starting point, not a locked box. Beat Punch follows the music out of the box: on every hit the picture punches forward and a ghost springs off. Wave Warp ripples the whole frame like a flag. FORTY-THREE SKILLS, IN ONE STACK Colour, light, glass, glitch, texture, distortion, motion, time, subject and reveal. Add them in any order — order is the effect: a mosaic before a glow is not a glow before a mosaic. Every skill leaves you a slider or two, and any slider can follow the beat. THE SUBJECT, NOT JUST THE FRAME The app finds the person or object in your shot, so an effect can land on them and leave the background alone — or the other way round. Blur everything but them, drain the colour from everything but them, or put a rim of light on their outline. TIME IS A MATERIAL Afterimage leaves a fading copy behind whoever moves. Half a Beat has a second you follow a few frames late. Long Shutter smears fast motion into a streak while everything still stays sharp. Freeze stops the picture for a few seconds while the sound runs on, then cuts back. They show only where something moves. EXPORT WHAT YOU SEE Choose the shape — as filmed, 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 — and see the crop before it is written. Finished clips go straight to your photos. YOUR WORK STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE No account, no server. Photos, clips, music, effects and analysis stay on this device. No third-party analytics, no ads. FREE • All forty-three skills, with no limit on effects or projects • Ten of the eleven built-in effects, and remixing all eleven (only Freeze's export is Pro) • Adding music, and letting any slider follow the beat • Automatic subject detection, and applying an effect inside or outside it • Live preview and press-and-hold to compare • Export at 1080p in any of the four shapes, saved to your photos • Free exports carry a small Video Lab mark VIDEO LAB PRO • Export with no watermark • Export at your footage's own resolution • Tap to pick exactly which subject you mean, and keep it through occlusion • Pro-only effects: Freeze (from 1.3) Pro is available as a yearly or monthly subscription, or as a one-time purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. The one-time purchase does not renew. Privacy policy: https://videolab.ipixel.to/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ For iPhone and iPad. iOS 17 or later.

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VidWing

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Video Editor — Edit Everything On Your Device A powerful video editor for iPhone and iPad built for fast, precise editing without accounts, servers, or uploads. Trim and split videos, adjust colors, add captions, remove backgrounds, apply effects, edit audio, control speed, and export up to 4K at 60 fps — all directly on your device. Your videos stay in the app's private storage until you choose to delete them. Key Features: - Video Timeline Editing - Color & Filter Adjustment - Offline Auto Captions - Background Removal - Add Text, Stickers & Emoji - Add Music & Voiceover Editing - Add Voice Effects - Video Speed & Canvas Control - 4K/60 FPS Video Export - Private On-Device Editing A TIMELINE BUILT FOR A THUMB Trim, split, reorder and duplicate clips on a timeline you can actually hit, at a zoom that makes a single frame reachable. Every step is undoable, and the preview shows the finished video rather than a guess you only see at export. Nine transitions sit between clips. COLOUR YOU CONTROL 21 filters with adjustable intensity, plus 14 manual adjustments: brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure, highlights, shadows, temperature, tint, vibrance, hue, fade, sharpness, vignette and grain. Add eight effects — Shake, RGB Split, Glitch, VHS, Light Leak, Film Burn, Bokeh and Strobe. CAPTIONS, WRITTEN OFFLINE Captions come from the clip's own speech, word by word, recognised on the device. No audio or transcript is sent anywhere. Correct a line and your edit survives regeneration. Set the font, size, colour and position once and every line follows. CUT OUT THE BACKGROUND Separate a person from the background without a green screen. Blur the original background, replace it with a colour, or remove it entirely. TEXT, STICKERS AND EMOJI 16 typefaces, 572 drawn stickers, 603 drawn emoji and 46 aesthetic overlays. Place, scale and rotate anything anywhere in the frame, then pin it to the part of the clip where it belongs. SOUND Bring in music, record a voiceover against the preview, and shape both: trim, loop, fade, duck the original audio and set volume per clip. Seven voice effects range from Chipmunk to Cave. SPEED AND FRAME Change video speed from 0.25x to 4x, with pitch preserved unless you want it otherwise. Choose from eight canvas presets — 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9, 3:4, 4:3, 21:9 and original — over a colour or blurred copy of the frame. EXPORT Export up to 4K at 60 fps in MP4 or MOV, using H.264 or HEVC, with bitrate control when you want it. Finished videos go straight to your photo library and into an album of their own. PRIVACY, PLAINLY The app makes no network requests. There is no account, analytics, tracking or third-party data sharing. Camera, microphone, photo library and speech recognition are requested only when needed, and speech recognition runs on the device. FREE, AND PRO The editor is free and unlimited — no export count, project cap or trial clock. Free exports include a small watermark and support up to 720p. Video Editor Pro removes the watermark and unlocks 4K at 60 fps, captions, background removal, every filter, effect, font, sticker, emoji and voice effect, extra transitions, MOV, HEVC and custom bitrate export. SUBSCRIPTION Video Editor Pro is available as two auto-renewing subscription plans: Video Editor Pro Weekly — one week Video Editor Pro Yearly — one year The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Supplemental terms: https://dovideoedits.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://dovideoedits.web.app/privacy

Screenshots

VideoEffect Lab4 screens
VidWing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: VideoEffect Lab at every 6 days against VidWing's every 3 weeks. 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. VideoEffect Lab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and VidWing sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VideoEffect Lab ships an update every 6 days, VidWing every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
VideoEffect Lab versus VidWing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVideoEffect LabVidWing
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLintao LiMd Abu Saleh

In-app purchases

3 purchases

VideoEffect Lab

Subscriptions2
  • 专业版-月付$2.991 Month
  • 专业版-年付3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro永久$39.99
2 purchases

VidWing

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Pro Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is VideoEffect Lab free?
VideoEffect Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VidWing free?
VidWing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do VideoEffect Lab or VidWing have ads?
Neither VideoEffect Lab nor VidWing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VideoEffect Lab or VidWing?
VideoEffect Lab ships an update every 6 days, and VidWing every 3 weeks. Most recently, VideoEffect Lab was updated on October 3, 2026 and VidWing on October 24, 2026.

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