Comparison

InShot vs Video Editor ·

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

Head to head
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: 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. - AI Portrait. Enhance portraits with AI Retouch, AI Face Edit, and AI Light. Fine-tune facial features and add flash, backlight, or hair light effects. - 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. [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

Video Editor ·

Create and edit videos with music, text, and stickers. This app allows you to combine multiple videos or pictures, adjust formats, add transitions, and export your creations to social media or your device. It's a powerful tool for making engaging video projects.

Highlights
  • Create projects from videos/pictures
  • Adjust video format, cut, speed, volume
  • Insert transition effects
  • Add music or voices
  • Incorporate filters, emoticons, texts
  • Record and share creations
Features
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Video Editor is the most powerful movie & slideshow editor application on iPhone. Create and edit any video or images, add music, texts, and stickers and export it to your iOS devices or your favorite social networks. Whether you are in a waiting room, on public transport or comfortably at home, Video Editor is the reference application on the AppStore to create your video project. It is very frequently used to make and share videos on Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. - CREATE your project from several videos or pictures. - ADJUST your videos (format, cut, speed, volume). - INSERT transitions effects to make your creation smoother - ADD music or voices. - INCORPORATE transitions effects, filters, emoticons and texts from a huge library. - RECORD your creations and share it around you. "Perfect, creating video montages has become a real pleasure for my Instagram posts " "Allows you to combine your holiday memories into one video, my loved ones loved it." "The stickers / emoticons are too beautiful, the filters too, I validate totally" Subscription: - You can subscribe to this app to get access to unlimited content, projects, and no ads - Subscription options are: 1-month with 3-day trial, 1-year, 1-quarter Privacy policy : https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/59258418 EULA : https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/44220384

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
Video Editor ·4 screens

Verdict

The call

InShot and Video Editor · both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of InShot's written reviews are positive against 31% of Video Editor ·'s. InShot also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and ratings volume (2.5M vs 218K). On price, rating, 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 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Video Editor · sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 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 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InShot has 2.5M ratings behind it against 218K, 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 31% of Video Editor ·'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InShot ships an update every 2 weeks, Video Editor · monthly. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
InShot versus Video Editor ·: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotVideo Editor ·
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.7 (218K ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better30.6% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5M — better218K
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#26 — better#188
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.4
Further details — not scored
Size252 MB259 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.Luni

Customer experience

InShot

All ratings2,501,146 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews7,499 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.3%

Video Editor ·

All ratings217,994 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews520 reviews
Positive30.6%
Neutral9.0%
Negative60.4%

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

Video Editor ·

From 218K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Quick video editing
  • 💡 Useful built-in music and effects
  • 👍 Simple and easy to use interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔒 Inability to remove watermark without subscription
  • 🔋 Slow exporting and saving process
  • 👎 Limited customization and editing options

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

Video Editor ·

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Videos not saving or exporting properly
  • Editing tools and features not working as expected
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Incompatibility with certain devices and iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to use own music and audio
  • Improve video export and saving functionality
  • Expand editing tools and effects
  • Fix issues with video playback and loading

In-app purchases

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
13 purchases

Video Editor ·

Subscriptions12
  • Premium : 1 week$3.997 Days
  • Premium : 1 month3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Premium : 1 month3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Premium : 1 month$9.991 Month
  • Premium : 1 month 12.99$12.991 Month
  • Premium : 1 month 12.993 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Premium7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Premium : 1 year$29.991 Year
  • Premium : 1 year3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Premium : 1 year3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Premium : 1 year (NT)$39.991 Year
  • Premium : 1 year3 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • Export$0.99

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Video Editor · free?
Video Editor · is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or Video Editor ·?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while Video Editor · averages 4.7 from 218K ratings.
Do InShot or Video Editor · have ads?
Both InShot and Video Editor · show ads.
Which is updated more often, InShot or Video Editor ·?
InShot ships an update every 2 weeks, and Video Editor · monthly. Most recently, InShot was updated on November 1, 2026 and Video Editor · on November 1, 2026.
Which is more popular, InShot or Video Editor ·?
InShot currently peaks at #26 in the App Store charts, and Video Editor · at #188. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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