Comparison

InShot vs Gif Maker & Gif Editor

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

Head to head
About

InShot

Create professional-looking videos and photos with a suite of AI-powered editing tools. Easily add captions, enhance visuals, remove backgrounds, and apply effects. Perfect for social media, business, or personal projects.

Highlights
  • AI-powered auto captions and speech-to-text
  • Video trimming, merging, and speed control
  • AI photo enhancement and background removal
  • Collage maker with customizable layouts
  • Add text, stickers, music, and voiceovers
  • Keyframe animation and smart tracking
  • Chroma key and picture-in-picture effects
Features
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InShot: Video Editor & Photo Editor for Every Moment. Create stunning videos and photos with easy-to-use editing tools and powerful AI features. Whether you're making daily vlogs, birthday or anniversary videos, creating content for social media, or growing your small business, InShot makes it easy to bring your ideas to life and share them with the world. [AI Tools] - Auto Captions. Generate subtitles and captions with AI speech-to-text tool. - Bilingual Subtitles. Create bilingual subtitles to make your videos accessible to a wider audience. - AI Speech. Turn text into natural-sounding speech with AI Text to Speech and AI Voice Generator. - AI Cut. Automatically remove silence, filler words, and breath sounds to make video editing faster and easier. - Video & Photo Enhance. Improve the quality of your photos and videos for sharper, clearer results. - AI Effects. Experience the magic of AI with instant presets that elevate your images and videos in just one tap. - Auto Background Removal. Remove backgrounds from photos and videos with one tap. - Voice Enhance. Enhance voice clarity and reduce background noise. - Auto Adjust. Instantly enhance your images and videos with one-tap. [Video Editing] - Trim & Merge. Trim, split, and merge video clips with ease. - Reverse. Reverse videos and create unique playback effects. - Speed Control. Speed up or slow down videos from 0.1x to 100x, with speed curves and speed ramping. - Text & Stickers. Add text, emoji, and InShot-exclusive stickers with a wide range of fonts, styles, and text templates. Import your own fonts locally. - Music & Voice. Add music, sound effects, voice-overs, and voice effects in various styles. - Keyframe Animation. Add custom keyframe animations to clips and adjust settings over time. - Slow Motion. Create smooth slow-motion videos with speed curves. - Chroma Key. Remove specific colors from videos and create green screen effects. - Picture-in-Picture. Layer multiple videos to create multi-layered videos. - Stabilizer. Stabilize shaky footage for smoother, steadier videos. - Smart tracking. Make stickers/text move seamlessly in sync with your tracking object motion, adding dynamic flair to your videos. [AI Photo Editor] - Blur the background easily. - 1000+ stickers, stylish text, and creative doodles. - AI Enhance. Turn blurry photos into HD with AI Photo Enhancer. - AI Cutout. Remove BG with pixel-level precision. - AI Remove. Instantly erase unwanted objects or passersby for a clean, perfect shot. - Al Light. Use flash to brighten photos, backlight to enhance portraits, or hair light for extra shine. [Collage Maker] - Easy-to-use photo grid collage maker. Up to 20 photos and 500+ customizable layouts. - Freestyle Collage. Create scrapbooks with one-tap AI Cutout, outlines, and beautiful backgrounds. - Create seamless collages with AI Blend. - AI subtitle detection in Captions stitch mode. - High-quality pic stitch in horizontal/vertical way. [Filters, Effects & Transitions] - Cinematic Filters. Add a cinematic look with a wide range of filters. - Visual Effects. Add creative effects like Glitch, Clone, Fade, Noise, Beats, and more. - Transitions. Combine clips with smooth and seamless transitions. [Share] - High video output resolution. Now InShot support save in 4K, 60fps. - Share to social apps, like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. [Terms of Use] https://inshot.cc/terms/terms.html [Privacy Policy] https://inshot.cc/terms/privacy_policy.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.

About

Gif Maker & Gif Editor

Create and edit animated GIFs from videos. Offers precise video cropping and time range selection. Export in various file types without watermarks or time limits.

Highlights
  • Create GIFs from videos
  • InstaCrop and FineCrop video
  • Precise video time range selection
  • Export settings (MPEG-4, QuickTime)
  • No watermark
  • No time limit
Features
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Gif Maker, convert gif from videos. ■ InstaCrop & FineCrop You can quickly crop your video with InstaCrop Feature or you can use FineCrop to select which zone of video to crop in the timeline of your video. ■ Export Settings - File Type : MPEG-4(Default), QuickTime - Save video to camera roll - Save video to local for further import ■ No Watermark and No Time Limit ■ Precise Video Time Range Selection ■ FlipaCute Premium We currently offer the following auto-renewing subscription option: -3 days of free trial followed by $4.99 per week -3 days of free trial followed by $9.99 per month By subscribing you get unlimited access to effects and remove advertisement. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. • 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://tos.atlantismobileapps.com Privacy Policy: https://privacy.atlantismobileapps.com

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
Gif Maker & Gif Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: InShot at 2.5M against Gif Maker & Gif Editor's 104. InShot also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Gif Maker & Gif Editor's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. InShot sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Gif Maker & Gif Editor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

InShot holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InShot has 2.5M ratings behind it against 104, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of InShot's written reviews are positive against 83% of Gif Maker & Gif Editor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InShot ships an update fortnightly, Gif Maker & Gif Editor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
InShot versus Gif Maker & Gif Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotGif Maker & Gif Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.6 (104 ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better82.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5M — better104
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#21 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.Nguyen Nam Giang

Customer experience

InShot

All ratings2,521,079 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews7,499 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.3%

Gif Maker & Gif Editor

All ratings104 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.9%
Negative10.3%

Bugs and requests

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

Gif Maker & Gif Editor

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

InShot

Subscriptions3
  • InShot Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • InShot Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • InShot Pro - Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time7
  • Filter pack - CINEMA$1.99
  • Filter pack - SKIN$1.99
  • Video Effect - FORM Pack$1.99
Show 4 more
  • Remove ads$3.99
  • Transition pack - Power$3.99
  • Transition pack - Glitch$3.99
  • InShot Pro - Lifetime$49.99
3 purchases

Gif Maker & Gif Editor

Subscriptions2
  • InCropPremiumWeekly$2.997 Days
  • InCropPremiumMonthly$9.991 Month
One-time1
  • InCropPremiumLifeTime$17.99

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gif Maker & Gif Editor free?
Gif Maker & Gif Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or Gif Maker & Gif Editor?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while Gif Maker & Gif Editor averages 4.6 from 104 ratings.
Do InShot or Gif Maker & Gif Editor have ads?
Both InShot and Gif Maker & Gif Editor show ads.
Which is updated more often, InShot or Gif Maker & Gif Editor?
InShot ships an update fortnightly, and Gif Maker & Gif Editor every 2 months. Most recently, InShot was updated on November 6, 2026 and Gif Maker & Gif Editor on November 3, 2026.

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