Comparison

InShot vs Spring

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

Spring

Easily create professional-looking videos with AI-powered tools for editing, captioning, and music selection. Offers templates for short-form content and supports high-resolution exports without watermarks.

Highlights
  • AI Auto Captions
  • AI Text-to-Speech
  • AI Music Match
  • AI Magic Removal
  • Short-form Video Templates
  • 4K Video Export
  • No Watermarks
Features
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[ Make Your Videos Your Way! ] • Cut, combine, caption, overlay, and animate! • AI tools make editing easy • No watermarks, no sneaky purchases • Supports up to 4K at 60FPS [ AI That Helps! ] • AI Auto Captions: Add subtitles instantly from video or audio • AI Text-to-Speech: Create spoken audio from text with one tap • AI Music Match: Get song recommendations fast • AI Magic Removal & Noise Remover: Cut out the background and zap annoying sounds • AI Tracking, AI Upscaling, and AI Styles: Powerful AI tools to completely change how your video looks • AI Templates: Get a template recommended for your next awesome video! [ Done In 60 Seconds: Reels, Shorts, and TikTok Templates ] • Provides trendy short-form templates • Quickly complete by simply changing images or videos • Supports template saving, sharing, and collaboration functions [ Use Easy & Powerful Editing Tools ] • Make fast cuts, merge clips, make speed adjustments, and rewind • Use pan & zoom, transitions, effects, and slow motion • Add subtitles, text, stickers, and fun visual effects • Make color corrections, voice changes, or animate with keyframes • Multi-Selection Save time by selecting, aligning, duplicating, or repositioning multiple video project layers at once [ "Use-it-Anywhere" Music and Sound Effects ] • Amazing background music and sound effects • Safely upload to YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok [ Design & Decorate Your Videos ] • Choose from tons of stickers, graphic animations, and effects • Vibe with fun, trending and free video creative elements [ Make 4K Videos or HD Clips for Social Media ] • Save up to 4K resolution and 60 frames per second • Upload to social media, including YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram • Create special effects with transparent background videos (ideal for design and motion graphics work) Terms of Use for Spring and Asset Store Use: https://resource.kinemaster.com/document/tos.html Contact: support@kinemaster.com

Screenshots

InShot4 screens
Spring4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: InShot at 2.5M against Spring's 1K. InShot also leads on chart position (#33 vs unranked) and review sentiment (86% vs 74%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Spring sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for InShot against 4.7 for Spring. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InShot has 2.5M ratings behind it against 1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of InShot's written reviews are positive against 74% of Spring's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
InShot versus Spring: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInShotSpring
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.5M ratings) — better4.7 (1K ratings)
Positive reviews86.0% of reviews — better74.1% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5M — better1K
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#33 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size252 MB220 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSHANTANU PTE. LTD.KineMaster Corporation

Customer experience

InShot

All ratings2,497,904 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews7,128 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative9.4%

Spring

All ratings1,018 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews321 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral9.3%
Negative16.5%

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

Spring

From 1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Good alternative to CapCut
  • 💡 Useful features like no watermark
  • 🤩 Great for short video editing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with exporting/saving videos
  • 🤔 Lacks some advanced features compared to KineMaster
  • 💰 Paid subscription required for longer videos
  • 🤷‍♀️ Inconsistent template approval process

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

Spring

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to delete internal audio
  • Rejected templates for unclear reasons
  • Premium features not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to extract audio from videos
  • Improve layer and animation tools
  • Expand font and transition options
  • Provide better integration with KineMaster accounts

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
4 purchases

Spring

Subscriptions4
  • Premium (Monthly)2 variants$5.991 Month
  • Spring's Premium(Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Spring's Premium(Annual)3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is InShot free?
InShot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spring free?
Spring is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, InShot or Spring?
InShot is rated higher. InShot averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.5M ratings, while Spring averages 4.7 from 1K ratings.
Do InShot or Spring have ads?
Both InShot and Spring show ads.
Which is updated more often, InShot or Spring?
InShot ships an update every 2 weeks, and Spring every 2 weeks. Most recently, InShot was updated on September 27, 2026 and Spring on September 25, 2026.

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