Comparison

Slidezilla vs zShot Video Editor & Maker

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

Head to head
About

Slidezilla

Transform your photos and videos into engaging slideshow stories with a wide array of filters, transitions, and music. Easily create and share custom animated presentations or let the app randomize for quick, impressive results.

Highlights
  • Photo and video editing
  • Customizable slideshows
  • Hundreds of filters and transitions
  • Add music (yours or app's)
  • Colorful backgrounds
  • Randomize slideshow generator
  • Instant social sharing
Features
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You and your photos and videos deserve to tell a story with transitions, filters, music, and FUN. Slidezilla is the new generation app for your photos and videos that brings them to life and allows you to share your unique slideshow stories instantly. Customize your personal stories with over a hundred FREE filters and transitions, music (yours or ours), colorful backgrounds, and much more! Go to town yourself or tap the Randomize button to automatically generate an awesome slideshow. Create amazing animated slideshows seamlessly with Slidezilla’s user-friendly app. Edit together videos as well as photos to make your creation. Instantly share your creation to your social sites and have others watch your own story. Download Slidezilla NOW to enjoy hundreds of options and customize your own photo slideshow. You have the story—Slidezilla helps tell it.

About

zShot Video Editor & Maker

This all-in-one mobile application offers a comprehensive suite of tools for creating and editing photos and videos. It includes features for video editing, collage creation, slideshow making, photo enhancement, and document scanning, all within a single platform.

Highlights
  • Video editing with text, music, and speed adjustments
  • Collage creation with frames, stickers, and text
  • Slideshow maker with transitions and music
  • Photo editing with filters, effects, and text
  • Document scanning with e-signature and export options
Features
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zShot App combines 5 apps into one powerful app. zShot app offers a Video Editor app, Collage Maker app, Slideshow Maker app, Photo Editor app and Document Scanner app. All 5 in 1 mobile application that has all the amazing features listed below. Download Now!! and get started with Taking/Making/Filming/Editing your favourite Photos and Videos. zShot App has amazing features which include: Video Editor App: https://zshotapp.com/video-editor-app/ Create videos for all social media content, sales, ads and training with zshot. - Add text to videos. - Add emoji to videos. - Trim videos. - Cut/Delete middle part of a video. - Merge videos. - Adjust video speed. - Change Canvas size. - Add filters. - Add background music to your videos. - Create and edit subtitles. Collage Maker App: https://zshotapp.com/collage-maker-app/ Create amazing collages in minutes using Hundreds of Stylish Frames/Layouts and Gift Card themes. - Edit layout borders and spacing. - Add Amazing background images. - Customise your Collage Canvas. - Add super cool stickers on your Collage. - Add stunning Texts to your Collage. - Add effects. - Flip and Rotate Collage. Slideshow Maker App: https://zshotapp.com/slideshow-maker-app/ Turn your old photos into a nice memory slideshow and share it with your friends and family. - Select your photos. - Add text and stickers where needed to each photo. - Set the time to show each photo. - Choose the transition between each photo. - Choose the transition between each photo. - Add the right theme to suit your need. - Add your music to the slideshow. - Save it to your camera roll and share it on Facebook, Instagram or Youtube. Photo Editor App: https://zshotapp.com/photo-editor-app/ - Add stunning filters and effects to your photos - Add text - Add stickers - Rotate, Scale, Flip, Duplicate and more photo editing tools - Easy to use photo crop tool - Take photos from Camera or Photo Roll - Select from our ready frames - Save modified photos to Camera Roll - Share photos to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - Send photos by email Document Scanner App: https://zshotapp.com/document-scanner-app/ Scan and organise all your documents in folders and lists. - Import documents. - Add E-signature to your document. - Highlight and comment on a document. - Delete or blur part of the document. - Make a document Black and White. - Adjust saturation and lighting. - Export as PDF and JPG. - Share, download and Print documents. zShot Premium Subscription: You can access all of the app features (video/photo/collage/slideshow/scanner) including all animated effects, stickers and more with a paid subscription. Three paid subscriptions are available as follows: -Monthly at $4.99 or equivalent -Annually at $29.99 or equivalent * Prices may vary, see inside the app for exact prices. - zShot offers 7 day free trials to access the full app content and features. Once the Free trial is over, it will turn into the paid plan. Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited if you purchase a paid subscription before the end of the free trial. - You may cancel or manage the free trial or any of the paid subscriptions from your iTunes account settings. Auto-renewal may also be turned off via the account settings in iTunes. - Your account will be charged for renewal of the chosen subscription within 24-hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. - Cancellation of the current active subscription is not possible during the active subscription period. - Paid subscriptions automatically renew within 24-hours prior to the end of the current active subscription period. - Note that prices of paid subscriptions may vary depending on your country. The actual amount charged will be presented to you in your local currency at the time of first purchase. Privacy policy: https://mafooly.com/apps/privacy-policy-mafooly/ Terms of use: https://mafooly.com/apps/mafooly-terms-and-conditions/ Enjoy!

Screenshots

Slidezilla4 screens
zShot Video Editor & Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: zShot Video Editor & Maker at none against Slidezilla's shown. zShot Video Editor & Maker also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Slidezilla sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and zShot Video Editor & Maker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

zShot Video Editor & Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 252 and 1.2K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Slidezilla's written reviews are positive against 61% of zShot Video Editor & Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Slidezilla ships an update every 6 weeks, zShot Video Editor & Maker every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Slidezilla versus zShot Video Editor & Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlidezillazShot Video Editor & Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (252 ratings)4.5 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews — better60.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2521.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB303 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFalstad.comVECTOR WAVE TECH PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

Slidezilla

All ratings247 ratings
Positive75.7%
Neutral9.3%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral15.9%
Negative20.6%

zShot Video Editor & Maker

All ratings1,166 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive60.8%
Neutral10.8%
Negative28.4%

User reviews

Slidezilla

From 252 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 🎬 High-quality transitions available
  • 💰 Most features free without paywall
  • ⚡ Quick slideshow creation
  • 🎨 Good variety of filters and effects

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes
  • 📸 Photos/videos not loading from camera roll
  • 💧 Watermark too prominent
  • 🔒 Limited free photo limit (10 photos max)
  • 🎬 Cannot control transition placement

zShot Video Editor & Maker

From 1.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Variety of video effects and filters
  • 💰 Free with no subscription
  • 🎥 Good video editing features
  • 🎬 Useful movie maker tools

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Mandatory watermark on exported videos
  • ⚠️ Unreliable performance and functionality
  • 🤔 Unclear pricing and in-app purchases
  • 🤯 Frustrating user experience

Bugs and requests

Slidezilla

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App crashes when creating videos
  • Photos and videos not appearing in selection screen
  • Camera roll shows incorrect photo count
  • App freezes on 'Get Started' button
  • Videos appear squished and distorted
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  • Glitchy video editing experience
  • App crashes when adding videos
  • Photos deleted after slideshow creation
  • Cannot post/save videos
  • App crashes after upgrade to pro
  • Videos speed up unexpectedly
  • Photos not displaying in final video
  • App crashes before saving
  • Redownload requires repayment despite same Apple ID
  • App won't load all available photos

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add text overlay capability
  • Import custom music from camera roll
  • More transition options
  • Remove or reduce watermark
  • Ability to use more than 10 photos without upgrade
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  • Video trimming and splitting tools
  • Disable Ken Burns zoom effect
  • Custom transition placement
  • Drag-and-drop media reordering
  • Photo background selection
  • Rearrange media by modification date
  • Shorter photo duration options (less than 1 second)
  • Remove unwanted color filters
  • Expanded music library with popular artists
  • Better tutorial for transition controls

zShot Video Editor & Maker

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App freezes when trying to edit videos
  • Video playback issues and glitches
  • Inability to access user's photo library
  • Exported videos have missing audio
  • Editing tools not functioning as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to remove audio static
  • Improve video trimming and scrubbing
  • Implement undo/redo functionality
  • Allow importing custom music and audio
  • Provide option to remove watermark

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Slidezilla

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$1.99
4 purchases

zShot Video Editor & Maker

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription$34.991 Year
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  • Premium Subscription3 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Slidezilla free?
Slidezilla is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is zShot Video Editor & Maker free?
zShot Video Editor & Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Slidezilla or zShot Video Editor & Maker?
zShot Video Editor & Maker is rated higher. Slidezilla averages 4.1 out of 5 from 252 ratings, while zShot Video Editor & Maker averages 4.5 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Slidezilla or zShot Video Editor & Maker have ads?
Slidezilla shows ads; zShot Video Editor & Maker does not.
Which is updated more often, Slidezilla or zShot Video Editor & Maker?
Slidezilla ships an update every 6 weeks, and zShot Video Editor & Maker every 9 days. Most recently, Slidezilla was updated on November 6, 2026 and zShot Video Editor & Maker on November 2, 2026.

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