Comparison

InShot vs PicMov

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

PicMov

Easily create captivating movies from your photos and videos. Add music, subtitles, and animations to personalize your creations for any occasion. Offers flexible export sizes and batch editing for a streamlined workflow.

Highlights
  • Create movies from photos and videos
  • Add music and adjust volume
  • Add subtitles and text with customization
  • Apply animations and transitions
  • Adjustable export movie sizes
  • Batch editing for multiple elements
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PicMov is an app that allows you to create captivating movies with ease by connecting together with your images and videos. Incredibly easy to use; just select images and videos from your camera roll, then simply select what music you like. Movies will look even more amazing by adding subtitles or selecting animations. Unlimited possibilities for its use, from weddings to recording your child’s growth to creating a cartoon flip book! It is also great for when you want to record birthday videos or even just everyday events. [Main Features] ■Export Movie Size - Change the size of exported movie to your liking. - The size can by changed to your liking at any time during editing. - Selectable sizes are listed below. - Square: 1:1 - Landscape: 16:9, 4:3 - Portrait: 9:16, 3:4 ■Image Import - Select your favorite images and load them as video. - The same image can be added multiple times. ■Burst Photo Import - Burst photos can be imported as video by selecting the start and end photo and playback speed. ■Video Import - You can select your preferred span of the video. - The same video can be loaded multiple times. - The volume can be adjusted. ■ Color Panel - Select your favorite color and load as video. - Perfect to add titles and between each video. ■Video Rearrange Function - Long press on the video cell to and simply drag it to the location you want it to go to rearrange the videos. ■Animation - You can change the video location and size and add your favorite animations. ■Transitions - Three transitions effects are available. - The duration of the effect can be selected, from 0.5 to 2.0 seconds. - A convenient editing function allows all transitions to be modified at once. ■Add Subtitles & Text - You can add text to video for whichever period of time you like. - You can set the text position where you like, top, middle, bottom, left, right, or center justified. - The font, text color, shadows, and background color can all be adjusted. - You can select from fade in and fade out animations. ■Batch Editing - A convenient editing function allows you to change transitions, movie animations, subtitle fonts, and font sizes all at once. ■Music - Your favorite music can be used as background music by selecting it from your iPod or iTunes. - The audio from your videos can be used as background music. - Multiple songs can be arranged in the order you prefer. - The volume can be adjusted. - Music can be cut to use your favorite parts before being added.

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
PicMov4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: InShot at 86% against PicMov's 11%. InShot also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (2.5M vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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 PicMov sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InShot has 2.5M ratings behind it against 3, 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 11% of PicMov's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
InShot versus PicMov: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotPicMov
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better10.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5M — better3
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#19 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.REAFO CO., LTD.

Customer experience

InShot

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

PicMov

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive10.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative75.0%

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

PicMov

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
2 purchases

PicMov

One-time2
  • Remove watermark$3.99
  • Remove Ads$5.99

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PicMov free?
PicMov is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or PicMov?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while PicMov averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do InShot or PicMov have ads?
Both InShot and PicMov show ads.
Which is updated more often, InShot or PicMov?
InShot ships an update fortnightly, and PicMov fortnightly. Most recently, InShot was updated on November 5, 2026 and PicMov on November 2, 2026.

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