Every day is a good day for creating content and if you want to stand out from the crowd, free apps may feel restrictive. Here are some premium apps you can check out to make your content pop.

InShot

The InShot Video Editor for iOS and Android is easy to use and lets you do three main things: edit videos, edit photos and create collages. Video editing is made simple due to the ease of use of accessing features beneath the videos pulled up. You can do pic-in-pic, split, adjust speed, animate, denoise, flip, freeze, and reverse, to name a few. This allows you to get creative, and then lastly add stickers, text, filters, or music. You don’t even need a tutorial to figure out how it works. The free version has ads and the InShot watermark, but if you’re serious about it, the Pro version costs R64,99 for a month-long subscription and R296,99 for an annual subscription on iOS. On Android you can get it for R40,99 per month, R254,99 per year and R679,99 once off. 

LumaFusion

LumaFusion has been regarded as the best video editing app, but only for iOS. It’s a powerful video editing app aimed at pro content creators who do paid work – to justify the cost. It is similar to desktop video editors, which lets you choose layouts, transitions, animations, blending, detach audio, cloning, and apply pre-sets. There’s an audio mixer to record your voice over a song, royalty-free music, and tracks for adding titles, graphics, photos, etc. It also supports 60fps rates, and 4K resolution. It costs R499.99 on iOS.

Splice

Another popular Android and iOS video editor with desktop-like editing is Splice. It is intuitive and aimed at any level creator who wants to step up their game, and work on multiple projects. You can layer videos and mask or merge it for creative effects, add music directly on the app, apply smooth or speed effects, and more. Feel like changing the colour of your outfit? you can do that too! Filters, transitions, and effects come standard, and you can export to 4K. The app is free, but there is a pro version for R77,99 per week,  R254,99 per month and  R1749,99 per year on Android. iOS offers a similar package although it costs R84,99 there. The annual subscription on iOS costs R1149,99 and monthly it is R169,99. 

Videoshop

The Videoshop app is a great way to learn how to edit, and once you get the hang of it, you can pay to unlock features once off or to remove the watermark, otherwise, you can go pro. It’s available on Android and iOS that offers loads of functions like transitions, freeze, distorts, and Hollywood filmmaker Ken Burns effects. When it comes to adding titles and text, you can a lot of options and effects if you want to stand out. You can adjust the speed or record a voice-over above the sounds on the clip. It supports 1080p exports on the free version and the paid version prices range from R45,99 for a one-month subscription, R284,99 for a 12-month subscription and R569,99 for a lifetime subscription on Android. On iOS, the pricing ranges from R64,99 monthly to R379,99 annually. 

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