Discover the best mobile apps for video editing and unleash your creativity however you want. Here is our selection.
Are you looking for a free mobile application to easily edit video on your smartphone? The App Store and Play Store are full of solutions, but how do you sort through and choose the application you need? For you, we have selected seven free mobile applications, compatible with Android and iOS.
Whether you are a professional videographer or a passionate amateur, these apps will provide you with powerful features to edit your videos with ease and efficiency. Transform your clips into true masterpieces with advanced trimming, merging and editing tools. Add innovative special effects, smooth transitions and a perfectly synchronized soundtrack for a top-notch visual experience.
InShot – Video Editor & Video Editing: the most popular
What immediately appeals to InShot users is the simple and accessible interface. Translated into French, it provides quick access to all the features to carry out your artistic project.
InShot is also a versatile application, since it allows you to design video montages, but also to retouch photos and create image compositions, called Collage in the interface. Timeline, drag and drop support for many actions, add and customize text, apply special effects and transitions, insert emojis and stickers and animate them…
InShot offers a lot of possibilities and above all, it is completely free. It features in-app purchases to get more transitions, stickers, effects, etc.
VN – Video & Photo Editing: templates for inspiration
Also popular with many influencers and members of social networks, VN – Montage Video & Photo stands out for its wide choice of models on which users can rely to edit attractive, dynamic videos and save precious time.
With these templates, you no longer need to look for the right associations of animations and transitions, select the template, insert your videos, your music, your images and your texts, personalize the colors and some elements to better match your style and the tour is played! Note that VN can also be downloaded and installed on computers running MacOS, allowing you to work on a larger screen if necessary.
Adobe Premiere Rush: the benchmark from Adobe
If you are already used to Adobe software, it is only natural to turn to the famous publisher’s mobile video editing application, Premiere Rush. Although the choice of tools, effects, media, or transitions is reduced in the free version, the application makes it easy to design short videos for social networks.
Add and drag your clip onto the timeline, touch the different menus to access effects and customization tools, edit your sequence, crop your images, choose your royalty-free music and soundtrack, and then easily export your project to YouTube , TikTok and others.
Adobe Premiere Rush also has the advantage of being compatible with Windows and Mac, allowing you to work on larger screens. Also note that you need a Creative Cloud account (free) to use the application, even for free.
CapCut: a more readable tool display
A video editor, CapCut works similarly to its competitors, with easy-to-use tools and real-time preview of edits. What differentiates CapCut from the other video editors in this selection is the presentation and insertion of media into the timeline.
Indeed, with CapCut, the user must, firstly, go to the stickers menu if he wants to add a sticker, the Text menu to add and personalize text and the procedure is identical to add visual effects or other elements. The editing tools and settings change depending on the media you want to add or customize. Instead of having all the menus and all the tools in an overloaded menu, CapCut has chosen to give more space to the timeline by reducing the number of visible menus, but by imposing more manipulation on the part of the user.
You can download and install CapCut on your smartphone or tablet, but also on your PC running Windows 10/11 or Mac, but also from your computer running Linux or your Chromebook, thanks to the online service, accessible from a simple web browser.
KineMaster: a video editor with recorder
In addition to the classic cutting, pasting and adding sound features, KineMaster stands out for the possibility of applying video layers, images, stickers, effects, color filters and text. Original effects such as reversing the direction of videos or merging them are also available, as are options for slowing down and speeding up with keyframing.
Importing videos, adding images, and customizing transitions is easy. The Media Store offers a variety of free and paid items, like stickers, effects, music, and more.
KineMaster also allows direct recording with the smartphone camera, photo taking, and voice recording. Editing items in the timeline includes options such as filters, brightness adjustments, rotation, Pan & Zoom, volume management, speed change, reverse, color filters, and even a voice changer.
In terms of export, KineMaster offers different choices of resolution (Full HD, HD, SD), adjustable frame rate, quality and even offers the possibility of creating GIFs.
YouCut: suitable for beginners
The YouCut video editing application is developed by InShot and stands out for its clean and intuitive interface. Designed as a simplified version of the editor’s main application, YouCut offers only the essential tools, thus promoting a user experience devoid of any visual pollution.
The application allows the creation of video montages from multiple clips, also integrating photos for slideshows or a combination of media. Users can add a custom soundtrack or choose from suggested audio files, while viewing changes to their creation in real time.
Basic features like cut, split and trim make it easy to select the desired footage. YouCut also offers video effects, transitions and an adaptable timeline, making it simple to view and move elements.
The application offers a variety of filters, color options, the ability to add animated titles, stickers and emoticons. The speed of video clips can be adjusted, as can the display time of photos. YouCut supports different resolutions (480p to 4k) and frame rates (24 fps to 60 fps) when recording, depending on the quality of the media used.
PicsArt: a photo editor that also makes video
What we like about PiscArt is its versatility. Not only can you take advantage of a powerful editor to retouch your images for your slideshows, but you also have a video editor to create short montages for your social networks. You can also take advantage of the collage and drawing features.
And if you lack material, media or even inspiration, let yourself be guided by the AI-powered features that allow you to generate images with a simple description, transform your dictated queries into natural language in the background for your videos, to create avatars from your selfies… In short, if you don’t yet know how your artistic project will turn out, PicsArt will certainly have the tools to make it happen.
And if you want to use its features on a larger screen, PicsArt is also available as an online service and as an app for Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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