Comparison

InShot vs Clippy

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

Clippy

Easily edit videos with a variety of tools including combining clips, stabilizing footage, adding music, and reversing playback. This app preserves video quality and integrates with Photos and Share extensions for seamless editing.

Highlights
  • Combine video clips
  • Stabilize shaky footage
  • Add music to videos
  • Reverse video playback
  • Crop, zoom, and rotate
  • Change video speed
  • Flip videos horizontally
Features
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Simple to use + preserves video quality, Includes Photos and Action extensions, and it's free, try it now! This app can be used to quickly combine clips, stabilize videos, loop videos, add music to videos, reverse videos, rotate videos, zoom or crop videos, change video speed, reduce volume, or mirror a video left to right (a.k.a. flip). To use the app from within the Photos app, hit the "Edit" button after selecting a video. Also, anytime a video can be "shared" with the iOS "Share" button, you can use the Video Tools action to edit the video and share it to another app without having to save it again. ===================== Video Editing Options ===================== * Combine * Stabilize * Add Music * Loop * Reverse * Crop / Zoom * Rotate (90, 180, 270) * Change speed (2x, 3x, 1/2 x, 1/4 x), or * Flip (mirror horizontally) * Volume (Muted up to 100%) ===================== What is a Photos Extension ===================== You can directly edit videos while in the Photos app, and the result will overwrite the original. You can "undo" the video to its original version with the "revert" button in Photos. For example, looking through your videos in the Photos app, you notice one video is sideways. While looking at the paused video, tap "Edit", then tap "Video Tools", select rotate and save. Now the video is not sideways when you look through Photos! ===================== How to Enable the Photos extension ===================== 1) Go to the Photos app, 2) Select a video, 3) Tap the Edit button 4) Tap the "...", 5) The extension can be enabled here and dragged to the top of the list: "Video Tools". Afterward, the extension will be visible after tapping Edit. ===================== What is an Action Extension ===================== You can directly edit videos wherever the system "Share" button is used, from the bottom list of "Actions." The result of the edit can be passed to another extension, shared, or saved to the camera roll. For example, you receive a video in a text, with something funny going on in the background. Tap to view the video, then hit the "Share" button. In the bottom gray options, choose "Video Tools". Zoom in on the part you want and hit save, then share the result to Messages and send it back to your friend with the video zoomed on your focus. ===================== How to Enable the Action extension ===================== 1) Go to the Photos app, 2) Select a video, 3) Tap the Share button 4) Tap the "..." at the end of the bottom list (all the options will be black and white), 5) The extension can be enabled here and dragged to the top of the list: "Video Tools". Afterward, the extension will be visible after tapping the Share button.

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
Clippy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: InShot at 2.5M against Clippy's 201. InShot also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (86% vs 65%). Clippy's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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. InShot sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Clippy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 201, 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 65% of Clippy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InShot ships an update fortnightly, Clippy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
InShot versus Clippy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotClippy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.6 (201 ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better64.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5M — better201
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#19 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.Daniel Anderson

Customer experience

InShot

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

Clippy

All ratings201 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral5.5%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral7.8%
Negative27.5%

User reviews

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

Clippy

From 201 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 💡 Useful video editing tools (rotate, reverse, zoom, stabilizer)
  • 🆓 Free to use with no intrusive ads or sign-ups
  • ✨ Non-intrusive, like it used to be

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Editing failed with error message
  • 🐛 Cannot import video into the app
  • 🐛 Edits are not of the quality hoped for
  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • adware Full of ads

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

Clippy

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Editing failed with error message
  • Cannot import video into the app
  • Crashes frequently
  • Won't access full photos in albums
  • Extension is completely broken
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  • Zoom doesn't work
  • Does not export sound
  • App crashes
  • Error when trying to use

Requested features

11 requests
  • More granular speed control (e.g., 2/5 speed for 60fps to 24fps)
  • Ability to cut videos
  • Ability to cut black bars
  • Ability to save edited video as a separate file
  • Improve stabilization feature
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  • Add new features
  • Change some things in the app
  • Allow editing of videos longer than 10 minutes
  • Faster video preparation for editing
  • Improve zoom functionality
  • Add option to change aspect ratio when zooming

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
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  • Remove ads$3.99
  • Transition pack - Power$3.99
  • Transition pack - Glitch$3.99
  • InShot Pro - Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

Clippy

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clippy free?
Clippy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or Clippy?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while Clippy averages 4.6 from 201 ratings.
Do InShot or Clippy have ads?
Both InShot and Clippy show ads.
Which is updated more often, InShot or Clippy?
InShot ships an update fortnightly, and Clippy every 2 months. Most recently, InShot was updated on November 7, 2026 and Clippy on November 3, 2026.

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