Comparison

InShot vs Reel Maker

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

Reel Maker

Create engaging video reels and stories for social media with this intuitive editor. Access a vast library of music, templates, and effects to enhance your clips. Export in high quality without watermarks.

Highlights
  • Reels Templates
  • Trim & Custom Transitions
  • +250,000 Music Songs
  • Stock Photos & Videos
  • Add Texts & GIFs
  • High-quality Effects & Overlays
  • High Quality 4K Export
  • No Watermark
Features
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Reel Maker is a video reel editor for your social media - now with AI built in. Create high-quality reels and stories, generate video from a photo or a line of text, and add mojo to your clips to gain more likes and followers. This is the perfect tool for quick video editing that shows off your ideas and makes a splash on social media. AI VIDEO TOOLS ▶ Text to Video - describe it, get a clip ▶ Photo to Video - bring a still image to life ▶ Frames - set a first and last frame, AI fills the middle ▶ Elements - combine subjects into one scene ▶ Talking Avatar - make a photo speak ▶ Audio to Video - build visuals around a track ▶ Edit, Restyle, Motion Control and Upscale your videos ▶ AI Effects - one tap on any clip ▶ AI Library - every creation saved, ready to drop into a reel AI BEAT SYNC Pick a song and we cut every clip to the beat automatically. Choose your pace - Calm, Balanced or Punchy, and re-cut as often as you like. EDITING FEATURES ▶ Reels Templates ▶ Trim & Custom Transitions ▶ +250,000 Music Songs ▶ Stock Photos & Videos ▶ Add Texts & GIFs ▶ High-quality Effects & Overlays ▶ Manage Projects ▶ Edit Video or Photo ▶ Use also for Stories ▶ High Quality 4K Export ▶ No Watermark ▶ No sign-up required ◆ Customer Support You can reach us at reels@videobakery.co and we will do our best to solve any issue you may encounter in our app. ◆ Subscriptions & Terms The full usage of the Reel Maker app requires a valid subscription plan. AI generations use tokens, which are included with your plan and can also be purchased separately. • The payment will be charged to your iTunes Account when you confirm the purchase. • The subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period depending on the selected plan (weekly, monthly or annual) unless canceled at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. • You can disable the automatic renewal function at any time by adjusting your account settings. • Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://videobakery.co/pp.pdf Terms of Use: https://videobakery.co/tos.pdf Enjoy Reel Maker! :)

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
Reel Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: InShot at free with in-app purchases against Reel Maker's subscription. InShot also leads on ratings volume (2.5M vs 8.4K) and review sentiment (86% vs 70%). Reel Maker's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, update cadence 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 Reel Maker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 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 8.4K, 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 70% of Reel Maker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InShot ships an update fortnightly, Reel Maker every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
InShot versus Reel Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotReel Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.7 (8.4K ratings)
Positive reviews86.1% of reviews — better70.3% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5M — better8.4K
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
Best chart rank#21 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.Video Bakery Ltd.

Customer experience

InShot

All ratings2,521,079 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews7,582 reviews
Positive86.1%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.3%

Reel Maker

All ratings8,404 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews745 reviews
Positive70.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative27.0%

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

Reel Maker

From 8.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Great selection of effects and music
  • 🚀 Efficient reel creation
  • 💡 Helpful for business content

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and glitches
  • 🔒 Unreliable saving and exporting
  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🤔 Limited functionality in free version

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

Reel Maker

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Encoding errors
  • Music not loading properly
  • Text placement issues
  • Compatibility problems with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customization options
  • Ability to record directly in the app
  • Longer reel duration
  • Improved video trimming and editing tools

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
10 purchases

Reel Maker

Subscriptions8
  • Reel Maker$2.997 Days
  • UNLIMITED REELS!$3.991 Month
  • Reel Maker$3.997 Days
Show 5 more
  • UNLIMITED REELS!$4.997 Days
  • Reel Maker$5.997 Days
  • UNLIMITED REELS!$9.991 Month
  • UNLIMITED REELS!$39.991 Year
  • UNLIMITED REELS!1 Month trial$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • 120 AI Reels Tokens$9.99
  • 400 AI Reels Tokens$19.99

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reel Maker free?
Reel Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or Reel Maker?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while Reel Maker averages 4.7 from 8.4K ratings.
Do InShot or Reel Maker have ads?
InShot shows ads; Reel Maker does not.
Which is updated more often, InShot or Reel Maker?
InShot ships an update fortnightly, and Reel Maker every 3 weeks. Most recently, InShot was updated on November 9, 2026 and Reel Maker on November 9, 2026.

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