Best Video Editing Apps for Android, iPhone & iPad
Kieron Moore
Since the rise of smartphones, DIY video production has exploded. Amateur and professional videographers now carry a powerful pocket film studio to film, edit and publish their cinematic creations.
As a result, video editing apps have blown up. With so many apps vying for your attention, we’ve curated the best video editing apps for Android, iPhone and iPad, so you can fast forward to your favourite.
The best video editing apps
1. Quik
The first of two video editing apps from GoPro, Quik analyses your videos to detect colours and faces in order to frame your footage perfectly.
This free app lets you add transitions and effects onto a maximum of 200 photos and video clips from your photo library or GoPro Plus. Not only can you trim, zoom and rotate photos and video clips, but you can also choose from 26 different themes and a range of fonts, filters and graphics.
You can create HD 1080p or 720p videos in cinema, square or portrait formatting for social sharing and even save your draft projects for up to seven days.
2. Adobe Premiere Rush
As you’d expect from an Adobe product, Premiere Rush has plenty of neat features. You can capture professional videos directly from the app with the built-in camera, and easily edit footage with drag and drop functionality.
You can sync your video to the beat of your chosen soundtrack and add all the usual finishing touches, like titles and transitions. Premier Rush has been built with sharing in mind, making it easy to resize your videos for different social networking sites and share instantly.
3. Alight Motion
Alight Motion say their video editing app is made for professionals but is easy enough for everyone to use. It’s true that this app certainly veers towards the more serious side of editing.
This is evidenced by frame-by-frame granular editing, pre-render instant previews and support for up to four audio tracks and unlimited audio clips.
Alight Motion also enables up to two video layers, which can be animated using preset effects or keyframe animation, chroma key compositing, precise colour adjustment and speed control from 0.25x up to 1.5x without any audio pitch distortion. You can read our full review of Alight Motion.
4. InShot
InShot is a much loved video editing app with millions of positive reviews on both Google Play and the App Store. The tools provided by this app are simple yet powerful, so you can do everything you need: trim, cut, add effects.
But you don’t need to be an editing genius to do it! The app has been designed with social media in mind so it’s easy to resize videos for TikTok, Instagram, and so on. Plus, you can play around with tons of fun filters and backgrounds.
5. FilmoraGo
FilmoraGo offers the broad spectrum of editing tools we’ve become accustomed to on desktop, including reverse play, classic transitions, trimming and cropping, slow or fast motion editing, rotate, flip-over, voice-overs, audio mixing, picture-in-picture (PIP) and colour tuning.
FilmoraGo’s main USP is its array of template themes, which are designed to transform run-of-the-mill videos into stylised movies. The customisation doesn’t end there either, because FilmoraGo also lets you add music from their licensed library and highly customisable titles.
Best video editing app for iPad
Our favourite video editing app for iPad is LumaFusion. It’s not free like some of the apps on this list but if you’re serious about editing videos then this is the app for you. And if you’re not yet a “pro” you can still benefit from their tutorials and free support.
Best video editing app for iPhone
When it comes to iPhone, GoPro’s excellent Splice app came out on top for us because of its fine array of thoughtful features, strong music offering and the backing of stacks of awards and a legion of loyal fans.
Best video editing app for Android
For Android, the winner has to be Alight Motion. Thousands of users can’t be wrong! This app makes it really easy for anyone to get started with video editing and it’s a great stepping stone to perhaps a more professional editing app in the future.
