Comparison

InShot vs Slide Show Makér

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

Slide Show Makér

Easily create and edit photo music videos and stories using your photos and videos. Add music, filters, text, and emojis to craft engaging content. Share your creations instantly or save them privately.

Highlights
  • Create photo music videos
  • Add photos and video clips
  • Apply awesome filters
  • Set video speed
  • Add text and emoji
  • Share instantly
  • Save privately
Features
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Slideshow maker is the easiest way to create, edit and share amazing photo music videos and stories with your photos, videos and tons of free licensed music, you can easily make fun, inspiring, or creative photo music videos With Slideshow maker you can make fun music videos just following 4-steps: 1. Select photos & video clips from your photos gallery or any Photos app 2. Add your favorite music, set timing, cool filters, and text & Emoji 3. Share to your friends! 4. Save "Slideshows" privately so only you can see them Slideshow Maker FEATURES: + Add photos and video clips + Awesome filters + Set the speed of the video as fast/slow as you like + Edit videos with creative effects and filters + Share video to your favorite apps with your friends and families instantly + Clear interface and easy gestures Have any Questions? Comments? Please contact us at: https://slideshowmaker.co/#contact-us We are happy to help you always. To get access to cloud service and other paid features, please purchase our Slideshow Maker subscription plan, below is detail: SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TOS: We offer an auto-renewing subscription option: ○ Subscriptions are starting from USD $8.99 / month with 3 days free trial ○ Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase ○ You will be able to access the full feature of the app for the duration of the subscription ○ Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original "one month" 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 before the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package (weekly, monthly) ○ Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase ○ No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period ○ You may cancel a subscription during its free trial period via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the subscription period to avoid being charged. Please visit http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4098 for more information ○ You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your iTunes Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period ○ Any unused portion of a free-trial period, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy at https://slideshowmaker.co/privacy-policy.html https://slideshowmaker.co/terms-of-use.html https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Slideshow maker team

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
Slide Show Makér4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: InShot at 86% against Slide Show Makér's 38%. InShot also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (2.5M vs 12K). Slide Show Makér's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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 Slide Show Makér sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month. 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 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InShot has 2.5M ratings behind it against 12K, 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 38% of Slide Show Makér's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InShot ships an update every 2 weeks, Slide Show Makér monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
InShot versus Slide Show Makér: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotSlide Show Makér
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.4 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better38.4% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5M — better12K
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#22 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size252 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.Yogesh Ukani

Customer experience

InShot

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

Slide Show Makér

All ratings12,393 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral3.5%
Negative11.6%
Written reviews146 reviews
Positive38.4%
Neutral6.2%
Negative55.5%

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

Slide Show Makér

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly
  • ⭐ Easy to make slideshows
  • 🎨 Good editing options

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔍 Limited free features
  • 🔁 Constant ads and pop-ups
  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🤔 Confusing UI

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

Slide Show Makér

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Slideshow creation process is unreliable
  • Saved work gets lost or corrupted
  • Subscription issues and inability to cancel

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add own music to slideshows
  • Improve slideshow customization options
  • Provide a free, ad-free version

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
Show 5 more
  • 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
1 purchases

Slide Show Makér

Subscriptions1
  • Slide show maker with photos +3 Days trial$8.991 Month

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slide Show Makér free?
Slide Show Makér is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or Slide Show Makér?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while Slide Show Makér averages 4.4 from 12K ratings.
Do InShot or Slide Show Makér have ads?
InShot shows ads; Slide Show Makér does not.
Which is updated more often, InShot or Slide Show Makér?
InShot ships an update every 2 weeks, and Slide Show Makér monthly. Most recently, InShot was updated on October 30, 2026 and Slide Show Makér on October 29, 2026.

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