Comparison

Slide X ● Slideshow Creator vs Movie Maker Slideshow Pro

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

Head to head
About

Slide X ● Slideshow Creator

Transform your favorite photos into stunning video slideshows with unique organic transitions and captivating filter effects. Easily compose, preview, and export your creations for any display, with options to add custom soundtracks and share instantly to social media.

Highlights
  • Organic transitions
  • Stunning filter effects
  • Custom soundtracks
  • Instant social sharing
  • Multiple visual formats
  • Instant preview
Features
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Bring the images of your favorite moments to life transforming them into gorgeous slideshow videos. Slide X is a simple yet powerful way to create truly unique video-stories from your favorite pictures, it has beautiful organic transitions, stunning filter effects, soundtracks and much more. In case you want to have a better idea of how the app works before downloading it, you can watch our promotional video on YouTube at http://y2u.be/lqE5Nqo-5Go WHY IT IS UNIQUE ? • Transitions are uniquely soft/organic based on bursts, climatics, plasmas, erosions, strokes, vapors, etc. These are ideal to stylize your slideshow with cutting-edge visuals. • Stunning collection of visual effects that will give an unique style to your photos. • Slides can be exported to be watched in any display device, think of your large living room TV for example. • Preview your creation instantly as you perfect changes. • Compose using pictures from social networks such as Instagram. • Instant sharing to Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram and more. • Interact with friends through giving & receiving likes and comments. • Customisable visual formats to choose including landscape, square and portrait modes. • Include any song from your library as the soundtrack of your slides. • Well designed user interface for both aesthetics and usability. • Incredible creative flexibility and visual elegance for what you create. • The only slideshow app you will ever need. • And much much more ... WHAT IS A SLIDESHOW ? A slideshow is a presentation of a series of still images on a projection screen or electronic display device, typically in a prearranged sequence. Each image is usually displayed for at least a few seconds before it is replaced by the next image using a visual effect as a transition. SUPPORT • Have a question? Remember: we can't respond to App Store reviews, so email us at support@slide-x.net. WHAT’S NEXT: • Follow @slidexapp on Twitter and Instagram for the latest! • Like Slide X app on facebook.com/slidexapp

About

Movie Maker Slideshow Pro

Easily create video slideshows from your photos. Add themes, edit images, and set custom timings to make personalized movies for special occasions. Share your creations directly to social networks.

Highlights
  • Create video from photos
  • Customizable movie length
  • Apply themes to photos
  • Photo editing tools
  • Manual time interval setting
  • Share to social networks
Features
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Turn a pile of photos into a polished slideshow video without wrestling with complicated editors. Pick your pictures, add music, preview the result, and share a movie people will actually want to watch. Movie Maker Slideshow Pro helps anyone make a photo video with music, captions, and simple style controls. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Start quickly with slideshow templates like Memories, Reels, Slideshow, and Promo that fill in timing, canvas, and transition choices for you. - Make a photo video from your pictures, reorder slides, set the pace, and export a video you can save or share. - Pick transitions including Cross-fade, Fade to black, and Slide left, then preview the finished movie before you export. - Add music from the built-in royalty-free library or choose your own audio, then shape the sound with fade in and fade out controls. - Scrub your preview from the Photo Strip, tap any thumbnail to jump to that moment, and check recent exports from the tray on the Export step. - Set the look with canvas sizes like Original, square, portrait, and 4:5, plus filters like None and Mono. - Add personality with a sticker and Ken Burns motion in free mode, or go further with captions and more slide-by-slide controls in Pro. PERFECT FOR Birthday slideshows and family memories. Quick recap videos for trips, school events, and weekends. Simple promo clips made from photos. Portrait slideshow posts with music and text. Saving your latest photos into one shareable movie. WHY Movie Maker Slideshow Pro It keeps the process focused: Photos, Style, Music, Export. You can preview the final video inside the app, use recent exports to share again fast, and even make a slideshow from your latest photos with a built-in shortcut. Go Pro for bigger projects and more control: use up to 200 photos, add captions on every slide, place stickers on every slide, use extra canvases and filters, and choose added transitions like Zoom blur, Push, Flip, and Swipe. Pro also adds slide-by-slide motion direction, higher-quality export, smoother frame rate choices, project save and load, automatic restore after an interrupted edit, voiceover recording, and a multi-track mixer for music, voice, and sound effects. Permissions are only requested when needed: photo access for picking or saving videos, and microphone access only when you choose to record voiceover. Make your next slideshow video in minutes and turn everyday photos into a movie worth sharing. Terms of Use (EULA) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Slide X ● Slideshow Creator4 screens
Movie Maker Slideshow Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Slide X ● Slideshow Creator at 59% against Movie Maker Slideshow Pro's 0%. Slide X ● Slideshow Creator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.1 vs 3.7). Movie Maker Slideshow Pro's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, 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. Slide X ● Slideshow Creator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Movie Maker Slideshow Pro sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Slide X ● Slideshow Creator holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slide X ● Slideshow Creator has 18 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Slide X ● Slideshow Creator's written reviews are positive against 0% of Movie Maker Slideshow Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slide X ● Slideshow Creator ships an update fortnightly, Movie Maker Slideshow Pro every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Slide X ● Slideshow Creator versus Movie Maker Slideshow Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlide X ● Slideshow CreatorMovie Maker Slideshow Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (18 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperINTERACTIVE UNIVERSE CREATIVE SOFTWARES EIRELISandeep Bhandari

Customer experience

Slide X ● Slideshow Creator

All ratings18 ratings
Positive72.2%
Neutral11.1%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive58.9%
Neutral16.4%
Negative24.7%

Movie Maker Slideshow Pro

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Slide X ● Slideshow Creator

One-time1
  • Slideshow Professional$2.99
10 purchases

Movie Maker Slideshow Pro

Subscriptions8
  • Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
  • Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Yearly Subscription Discount7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription Sale$14.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription Special$19.991 Year
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro — Lifetime Discount$79.99
  • Pro — Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Slide X ● Slideshow Creator free?
Slide X ● Slideshow Creator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Movie Maker Slideshow Pro free?
Movie Maker Slideshow Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Slide X ● Slideshow Creator or Movie Maker Slideshow Pro?
Slide X ● Slideshow Creator is rated higher. Slide X ● Slideshow Creator averages 4.1 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Movie Maker Slideshow Pro averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Slide X ● Slideshow Creator or Movie Maker Slideshow Pro have ads?
Movie Maker Slideshow Pro shows ads; Slide X ● Slideshow Creator does not.
Which is updated more often, Slide X ● Slideshow Creator or Movie Maker Slideshow Pro?
Slide X ● Slideshow Creator ships an update fortnightly, and Movie Maker Slideshow Pro every 3 months. Most recently, Slide X ● Slideshow Creator was updated on November 1, 2026 and Movie Maker Slideshow Pro on November 6, 2026.

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