Slidezilla vs V2Art Special Video Effects
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
V2Art Special Video Effects
Transform your videos into artistic creations with a wide array of filters and special effects. Easily apply real-time edits, from vintage looks to cartoon styles, and then save and share your masterpieces. Experiment with color and visual styles to make your footage stand out.
- Real-time filter application
- Large selection of lenses and effects
- Retro camera and vintage movie styles
- Cartoonize and color manipulation
- Front/back camera and gallery support
- Save and publish edited videos
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"Video to Art" editor will change your standard videos to art! Choose from many available filters and effects. Find your favourite video effect! Our movie editor is very simple to use, just apply real-time filter and watch the result. Then save and publish it. Shoot colorful videos and play with colors! Apply vintage retro camera, grayscale, vhs cam, glitch, chromatic or cartoonize and play with settings. Some features: 1. You can use a large number of lenses like toonify, fire, instagram filters, 1977, RISE, HUDSON, trippy effects, airbrush and more! 2. Many retro old camera effects like film scratch, vintage movie, polaroid or black and white fx and more! Thanks to this the result will look like hipster VHS tape. 3. Use front or back camera, use videos from gallery/camera and convert them. 4. You can easily play or delete all recorded videos. 5. It is free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: V2Art Special Video Effects at 4.6 against Slidezilla's 4.1. V2Art Special Video Effects also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Slidezilla's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 8 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Slidezilla sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and V2Art Special Video Effects sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
V2Art Special Video Effects holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 252 and 189 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Slidezilla's written reviews are positive against 90% of V2Art Special Video Effects's.
Slidezilla ships an update every 6 weeks, V2Art Special Video Effects every 8 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Slidezilla | V2Art Special Video Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (252 ratings) | 4.6 (189 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 252 — better | 189 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Falstad.com | Michal Stachyra |
Customer experience
Slidezilla
V2Art Special Video Effects
User reviews
Slidezilla
From 252 App Store ratingsWhat 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
V2Art Special Video Effects
From 189 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- ✨ Wide variety of fun video effects and filters
- 🤩 Transforms videos into artwork
- 🚀 Fast and efficient editing
- 💰 Good value for money (IAP)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bug with brightness slider causing black screen
- 🐛 Snowy, rainy, and matrixy FXs render in reverse motion
- 🐛 App crashes when using videos
- ❓ Missing infinity effect
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
V2Art Special Video Effects
Reported bugs
3 issues- Video preview goes black with brightness slider effect
- Snowy, rainy, and matrixy FXs play in reverse
- App crashes when using videos
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to fade effects in and out on a clip
- Fix for reverse motion on certain FXs
- Fix for app crashing on video use
- Restore or clarify infinity effect availability
In-app purchases
Slidezilla
- Pro Upgrade$1.99
V2Art Special Video Effects
- PRO Version$9.99
Questions
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