Comparison

VideoShow AI Video Editor vs InShot

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

Head to head
About

VideoShow AI Video Editor

Effortlessly create stunning videos using AI-powered tools. Transform photos, text, or existing footage into engaging content with automatic editing, trending effects, and creative elements. Enhance your memories and stand out on social media.

Highlights
  • AI Video Generator
  • AI Video Editing
  • Trending AI Effects
  • Smart Video Editing
  • Creative Elements
  • AI Cutout Tools
  • AI Music Generator
Features
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VideoShow - AI Video Editor & AI Video Generator helps you create stunning videos effortlessly. Transform your favorite moments into beautiful videos with photos, music, stickers, filters, and AI effects—making every memory unforgettable. Key Features: AI Video Generator: Turn photos or text into amazing AI-powered videos. Generate from photo to video, image to video, or text to video instantly. Create stylish story clips or viral effects with ease. AI Smooth Movie: Upload 3-10 photos and let AI weave them into a seamless cinematic video. Smooth camera flights, zero edits, one click to share. AI Text to Video Editing: Reimagine any short video with AI using a text prompt or reference image. Add or remove objects, transform backgrounds, weather, lighting, or style, and use AI green screen cutout and relighting to create a newly reimagined video with natural motion and effortless editing. AI Video Editing: Choose your content and let AI automatically add effects, filters, transitions, and subtitles—crafting cinematic videos with visuals, voiceovers, and captions in one tap. AI Text to Image: Turn your words into stunning AI-generated images. Describe your idea, and convert your creation into a photo with one tap. AI Image Edit: Reimagine any photo with AI using simple text prompts. Replace content, transform styles, rewrite specific areas, or upload a reference image to guide the look and feel of your edit. Trending AI Effects: Explore viral templates like AI Anime, AI Dance, and more! Create unique, eye-catching AI videos that stand out on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Now upgraded with HappyHorse 1.0 & Seedance 2.0 for Text-to-Video & Image-to-Video — Generate higher-quality AI videos from text or photo with smoother motion, stronger visual storytelling, and more cinematic results. Smart Video Editing: Merge, crop, split, reverse, copy, or rotate clips easily. Adjust video speed, zoom in/out, or blur backgrounds to focus attention. Creative Elements: Enjoy 30+ filters, fun stickers, dynamic transitions, GIFs, and stylish text options. Access the best content center with themes, effects, stickers, emojis, and sound FX. AI Cutout Tools: Instantly remove video or image backgrounds with AI-powered Video Cutout & Image Cutout, simplify editing and create professional-quality results. Compress & Optimize: Reduce video size in seconds without losing quality. Export in 720P/1080P/4K HD—fast, clear, and smooth. AI Music Generator: Transform text into unique music tracks with AI. Generate original melodies from your words for vlogs, short films, or storytelling. AI Photo Enhancer: Bring photos to life with AI-powered upscaling and detail enhancement. AI Colorizer: Turn old black & white photos into colorful, vibrant images using intelligent color restoration. AI Object Removal: Perfect your videos or photos by removing unwanted objects instantly with precision AI. AI Voice Changer: Change your voice to cute, mature, robotic, or funny tones—add personality and fun to your videos. Music & Sound: Choose from hundreds of background tracks or import your own music to match your vibe. VideoShow makes editing and AI generation easy, fun, and powerful—all in one app. Whether you want to edit, enhance, or create videos from text or photos, VideoShow turns imagination into stunning reality! [VideoShow VIP Membership Service] Unlock all premium features. Payment is charged to your iTunes account and renews automatically unless canceled 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in iTunes settings. Privacy Policy: https://d10nkoc3mu17gd.cloudfront.net/privacy/VideoShow_Privacy_Policy_ios_en.html Terms of Use: https://d10nkoc3mu17gd.cloudfront.net/privacy/videoshow_user_agreement_ios_en.html

About

InShot

Effortlessly edit videos and photos with AI-powered tools. Create stunning collages, add text, music, and effects. Share your creations in high resolution to social media.

Highlights
  • AI Effects & Auto Captions
  • Background Removal
  • Smart Tracking & Smooth Slow-mo
  • Video Trimming & Merging
  • Filters, Effects & Transitions
  • Photo Collage Maker
  • High-Resolution Sharing
Features
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InShot: Empowering Creators with Advanced Video and Photo Editing. Unlock effortless editing with easy-to-use features and powerful AI tools, elevating your video and photo editing experience to new heights. [AI Tool] - AI Effects. Experience the magic of AI with instant presets that elevate your images and videos in just one tap. - Auto Captions. AI-powered speech-to-text tool helps you say goodbye to manual text typing and makes video editing effortless. - Auto Remove Background. Remove background of videos/photos at the touch of a button. - Smart tracking. Make stickers/text move seamlessly in sync with your tracking object motion, adding dynamic flair to your videos. - Smooth slow-mo. Experience seamless slow-motion effects for buttery smooth videos. - Auto Adjust. Instantly enhance your images and videos with one-tap. - Smart collage. Make photo collages with AI Blend effects and Screenshot Stitch with effortless caption recognition. [Video editing] - Trim/Merge clips. - Reverse videos. - Add text, emoji and InShot exclusive stickers. - Add music, sound effects & voice-overs. - Add various-styles voice effects. - Speed control. Speed up/slow down video. Add speed ramping. - Keyframe editing. Add custome keyframe animations. - Chromakey. Easily edit green screen video. - Picture-in-Picture. Create multi-layered videos. [Filters, Effects & Transitions] - Lots of cinematic filters. - Unique effects such as Glitch, Fade, Noise, Beats, Weather, Retro DV, celebrate, etc. - AI effects. Clone, stroke, auto-blur, etc. - Combine clips with super transitions. [Photo Editing] - Add text and stickers to photos, make fun story. - Add filters and adjust brightness, contrast, curves, etc. [Photo Collage] - Easy-to-use photo grid collage maker. - Create seamless collages with AI Blend. - AI subtitle detection in Captions stitch mode. - High-quality pic stitch in horizontal/vertical way. [Share] - High video output resolution. Now InShot support save in 4K, 60fps. - Share to social apps, like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. [InShot Pro Unlimited Subscription] - With an InShot Pro Unlimited subscription, you have access to all features and paid editing materials including stickers, filter packages, etc. Watermark and advertisements will be removed automatically. - InShot Pro Unlimited subscription is billed monthly or annually at the rate corresponding to the selected plan. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. [Terms of Use] https://inshot.cc/terms/terms.html [Privacy Policy] https://inshot.cc/terms/privacy.html Feel free to contact us: inshot.ios@inshot.com, your feedback and suggestions are important to us! For more InShot news and tutorials, follow us on YouTube @InShot Video Editor. [Disclaimer]: InShot is not affiliated, associated, sponsored, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter. Acknowledgements: FUGUE Music https://icons8.com/music/

Screenshots

VideoShow AI Video Editor4 screens
InShot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: InShot at 2.5M against VideoShow AI Video Editor's 46K. InShot also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 69%) and chart position (#30 vs unranked). VideoShow AI Video Editor's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. VideoShow AI Video Editor sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and InShot sells 11 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for VideoShow AI Video Editor against 4.8 for InShot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InShot has 2.5M ratings behind it against 46K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of VideoShow AI Video Editor's written reviews are positive against 86% of InShot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VideoShow AI Video Editor ships an update every 3 weeks, InShot fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
VideoShow AI Video Editor versus InShot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVideoShow AI Video EditorInShot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (46K ratings)4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews86.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings46K2.5M — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#30 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size425 MB252 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVIDEOSHOW PTE. LTD.SHANTANU PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

VideoShow AI Video Editor

All ratings45,681 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews2,012 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative25.0%

InShot

All ratings2,495,847 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews7,031 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.3%

User reviews

VideoShow AI Video Editor

From 46K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Great for editing videos
  • 💡 Lots of features and options
  • 🎨 Good selection of music and effects

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and glitches during editing
  • 🔒 Premium features required for full functionality
  • 🔋 Slow performance and lag issues
  • 🤯 Corrupted or lost drafts/projects

InShot

From 2.5M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💎 Excellent editing features
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 💎 Comprehensive video editing capabilities
  • 🤩 Impressive effects and transitions

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Saving and conversion issues
  • 🐛 Glitchy performance and crashes
  • 🔒 Limited cloud/cross-device sync
  • 🔒 Restricted access to local media files
  • 🔒 Aggressive monetization tactics

Bugs and requests

VideoShow AI Video Editor

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Exporting videos fails or results in corrupted files
  • Editing tools and transitions not working as expected
  • Drafts/projects becoming inaccessible or damaged
  • App crashing during use, especially with longer videos

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to use own music/audio
  • Improve export quality and options
  • Fix issues with saving and loading projects
  • Enhance stability and reduce crashes

InShot

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Saved drafts randomly disappearing
  • Video/audio desynchronization issues
  • Crashes when editing long videos
  • Difficulty accessing local media files

Requested features

5 requests
  • Green screen/chroma key support
  • More advanced text animation options
  • Improved audio editing tools
  • Ability to save multiple projects/drafts
  • Smoother integration with other apps/devices

In-app purchases

10 purchases

VideoShow AI Video Editor

Subscriptions7
  • VIP Privilege (1 Month)$4.991 Month
  • VIP Weekly (3 days trial)3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • VideoShow monthly VIP$7.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • VIP Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • VIP Privilege Yearly3 Days trial$21.991 Year
  • VIP Yearly3 Days trial$35.991 Year
  • VIP Privilege Yearly3 Days trial$35.991 Year
One-time3
  • "Remove Watermark once" privilege$0.99
  • Music privilege$1.99
  • Forever VIP Privilege$39.99
11 purchases

InShot

Subscriptions3
  • InShot Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • InShot Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • InShot Pro - Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time8
  • Filter pack - CREATE$1.99
  • Filter pack - CINEMA$1.99
  • Filter pack - SKIN$1.99
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  • Video Effect - FORM Pack$1.99
  • Remove ads$3.99
  • Transition pack - Power$3.99
  • Transition pack - Glitch$3.99
  • InShot Pro - Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is VideoShow AI Video Editor free?
VideoShow AI Video Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, VideoShow AI Video Editor or InShot?
InShot is rated higher. VideoShow AI Video Editor averages 4.7 out of 5 from 46K ratings, while InShot averages 4.8 from 2.5M ratings.
Do VideoShow AI Video Editor or InShot have ads?
Both VideoShow AI Video Editor and InShot show ads.
Which is updated more often, VideoShow AI Video Editor or InShot?
VideoShow AI Video Editor ships an update every 3 weeks, and InShot fortnightly. Most recently, VideoShow AI Video Editor was updated on September 24, 2026 and InShot on September 24, 2026.

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