Comparison

InShot vs Text Message Chat Video Maker

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

Text Message Chat Video Maker

Create engaging video stories by writing scripts with multiple characters. Customize bubbles, backgrounds, and sound effects to export your creations as video or image files. Share your funny and cool video narratives with friends.

Highlights
  • Multi-character scripts
  • Message-style writing
  • Customizable bubbles, speed, background, sound
  • Script theme customization
  • Export to video and image
Features
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Write Your Scripts & Create a Text Video - Support multi characters in scripts - Easy Shift among characters - Write as sending message - Bubble, Speed, Background, Sound Effect and Scripts Theme Customization - Export your script to video & image Really funny and cool video to share with friends.

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
Text Message Chat Video Maker3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: InShot at 2.5M against Text Message Chat Video Maker's 1.1K. InShot also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Text Message Chat Video Maker's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 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 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Text Message Chat Video Maker 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 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InShot has 2.5M ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of InShot's written reviews are positive against 88% of Text Message Chat Video Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InShot ships an update every 2 weeks, Text Message Chat Video Maker monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
InShot versus Text Message Chat Video Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotText Message Chat Video Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.6 (1.1K ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews88.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.5M — better1.1K
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#26 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size252 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.OCO Inc.

Customer experience

InShot

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

Text Message Chat Video Maker

All ratings1,065 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews349 reviews
Positive88.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative5.2%

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

Text Message Chat Video Maker

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app
  • 👍 Realistic
  • 👍 Fun
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with deleting characters
  • 🐛 Saving/exporting issues
  • 🐛 Bugs with message styling
  • 🔊 Loud message sounds
  • 💡 Lack of dark mode

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

Text Message Chat Video Maker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Saving/exporting issues
  • Bugs with message styling and character switching
  • Crashes when trying to export/save

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add ability to delete characters
  • Improve export/save functionality
  • Add more customization options (e.g. character colors, backgrounds)
  • Add voice/video messaging
  • Improve character switching/management with more than 6 characters
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  • Add text-to-speech for messages

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
2 purchases

Text Message Chat Video Maker

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • Coffee for Developer$5.99

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Text Message Chat Video Maker free?
Text Message Chat Video Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or Text Message Chat Video Maker?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while Text Message Chat Video Maker averages 4.6 from 1.1K ratings.
Do InShot or Text Message Chat Video Maker have ads?
Both InShot and Text Message Chat Video Maker show ads.
Which is updated more often, InShot or Text Message Chat Video Maker?
InShot ships an update every 2 weeks, and Text Message Chat Video Maker monthly. Most recently, InShot was updated on October 28, 2026 and Text Message Chat Video Maker on October 26, 2026.

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