Alight Motion Reviews

by POTM JL

AlightMotion is extremely laggy and will crash constantly by literally using editing opinions in AlightMotion . Once your project starts lagging and glitching, consider it gone because the constant crashes will only make it worse as you try to salvage it. Quite literally if you try to play your project it will lag horribly before crashing seconds later. You can’t even export your projects in an attempt to save them since it will crash in the downloading process. So you’re left with one option: Start over again from scratch on a new project. But oh wait, it’ll just lag and crash again. 🥰😍

The developers have been told this is a common issue with their app for MONTHS. But they couldn’t be bothered do anything about it and will occasionally respond with the generic, automated “please email customer service” reply in the negative reviews. It’s sad since AlightMotion actually has a lot to offer without needing a subscription, and is fairly simple to use. But really you’re better off using the free version of Videostar or some other editing program. At least with those you get a functional app.

by Fortnenite Fane

I was of confused just because I was following tutorials as so and then I did exactly what they did but no it would not work ever. I say you can fix this and make it a bit more easier I’d love AlightMotion but until then the watermark. Not the watermark, you see I hate watermarks and it’s not helping if I can’t remove it and if I have to pay for it like I don’t need the other stuff. And also for my issues what’s gonna me me wanna try to buy it if none of it is working!? If I’m doing something wrong then I don’t know but for it’s a 1 - 10 because if I felt like I did something wrong i re - did it but no it wouldn’t work if the same thing is happening to you then don’t waste your time and just ask to fix it so that they can quickly find a solution like please 🥺 it’s not me I really am tapping the buttons they do and copy them but it won’t work get it to help please I’ve heard AlightMotion was good this was not what I was expecting I thought better. Maybe I’ll come back for now I’ll be stuck with a bad app to use before I can figure out alight Motion 🥶🥶😞 I’d love help.

by 🍃🐚

The features in AlightMotion are amazing, and what AlightMotion can do is stunning, but there’s a HUGE problem, AlightMotion is SUPER SUPER laggy and slow, and it ALWAYS crashes after just a few minutes of using it, And when it gets to a point where it crashes so much from you trying to save your work, it just CRASHES YOUR ENTIRE DEVICE AlightMotion is garbage and their is absolutely NO point of downloading AlightMotion . I’ve lost SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT on AlightMotion it’s disgusting. Please don’t download this if you ACTUALLY WANT TO MAKE GOOD WORK AND ACTUALLY HAVE IT SAVE. And this is not just my problem, it’s MULTIPLE others problems too, it’s why AlightMotion has 4 stars, when someone has this same problem they just say “contact us here ________” They are doing nothing to actually fix this, and it’s disgusting. By far the worst app I’ve ever downloaded, please don’t download this, this DOES NOT deserve 4 stars. Don’t just take away 1 Star because of this problem this problem is HUGE and AlightMotion is pointless because of it. Thanks for reading, and thanks for doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to fix this Alight Motion.

by AKSLEEPY

Okay so I was trying AlightMotion because I’ve seen many people use AlightMotion for editing and I wanted to try to make edits. So the problem is that when I trim the videos it lags the video and I’ve tried multiple videos. I also don’t know how to trim it so I pressed the button that had squares I pressed them and when I played the video it lagged but before I trimmed it the video didn’t lag. So if you reply I would love some help or a tutorial for AlightMotion if you have one let me know, I’m just confused how you trim the video. Also I’ve tried multiple editing apps I only understand CapCut and KineMaster. When I added the video the beginning was white when I trimmed it I didn’t add another layer below it. This is an amazing app with cool effects but I just understand how you trim the videos without them glitching. It’s would be great if you replied to my question about how to trim and my confusion of the glitching in the video. Thank you for reading my review ❤️

by Supersonic24

I love alight motion! It great for editing, animating, and I just love everything about it. It’s makes my animations better and it’s simple to use (well for me). However, the problem is that there would be weird stuff going on. Like for one, it would show all my photo and I would be fine, but then all of a sudden, the photos disappear. Even when I allow it to use all photos, it wouldn’t appear. I had to delete and reinstall AlightMotion again for this to work again. I’m not particularly happy about this because all the projects I had in there are now gone and the data is, well of course, gone. The next thing is that it would just randomly crash and take me back to my Home Screen. I had this problem many times before and it’s really annoying because I had to delete it again (and I just deleted it , the two situations happened within an hour of each other). I was completely confused because before these problems alight motion was perfect (little problems here and there but it’s not crucial). I’m not sure if it’s a bug or some other thing causing this but I don’t know how to fix it.

by Playniyah101

I am trying to export an edit but it keeps lagging, crashing, and closing out of AlightMotion . This issue really needs to be fixed because I literally cannot export anything and it’s getting really annoying. Please make an update or something to fix this problem.
Also, can you please make the water mark smaller. I know u guys want people to know what I’m using but can you please make it a lot smaller, or just get rid of it all together since people already have to pay for the membership. It gets in the way while editing because it blocks it.
Also, please get rid of that membership pop up. Every time I open AlightMotion it pops up and it’s really annoying! Nobody wants to constantly keep closing out of it every time they open it; especially not me! Please take this into consideration and fix this. You guys really need to update AlightMotion because this is honestly ridiculous!

by Rightaye

AlightMotion is overall an amazing editing app anyone could ever ask for on iPhone/Android or any devices whatsoever. Though, I’m not entirely sure if it’s just me or if anyone else experiences the same predicament I am currently facing but I have made massive progress on an edit that I’ve gotta finish before midnight (personal reasons) and it repetitively kicks me out of AlightMotion , crashes, lags whenever I try to either mask two pictures and/or shapes while on the other end of the spectrum, radically shuts my phone off. I’ve been having this trouble since a few days into my commencement of editing again and it’s just really difficult to work when it keeps hurling you out of AlightMotion .

Hopefully, these issues could be fixed and improved, it would mean so much for all editors and myself included. It’s an amazing app, don’t get me wrong. This merely has something to do with internal works. Thank you in advance!

by Vvqao

Look, I love AlightMotion. I edit things on here, and AlightMotion is my priority.

The thing I don’t get is why you cannot fix the lag. It crashes sometimes too. It’s been a problem for so long, but yet I haven't seen any improvement. I get you fix the bugs, but why does it crash so often? Why do you guys choose to ignore it, and move on?

Why is it so hard for you to fix something so simple? I’d like to see an improvement, well most of your users do. So stop being ignorant and at least fix the crashes.

I’m tired of making an edit, and not even being able to export it because of YOUR problems. I’m very mad, and I should have to be because of your guys problem.

I know you’re reading this, so why not do something about it. It’s sad how AlightMotion has been new for years, but no fix to the lags and crashes. It’s so disappointing.

Fix this, and I mean it. If there’s no reply, I shall no longer use AlightMotion. You know how much AlightMotion means to me? But if you keep on making mistakes and song fix them, I might just have to delete alight motion.

Developers, do something about it. I’m deeply angry. I already did a report one time, and I’m doing it the second time because you guys are ignorant and doesn't reply to anyone.

It’s sad you have to have one of your users point it out. Do something about it. Gosh that’s annoying.

by Wolfiefloof

Alight motion is a amazing app for more experienced editors and I would 100% recommend this to anyone who loves to edit. The problem I’ve been having recently is when I’m in the move and transform section and I’m trying to move it (zoom in or out) it makes the whole photo disappear or flip it. This should be a thing happening on the transform part of it if I keyframe it, not when I want to move a image bigger.
It makes the whole thing so frustrating and I often end up quitting the whole project I was working on or wait a few days, and this is frustrating because I would love to work on it like I was planning to but can’t because one of the main tools I use is glitched. I’ve tried to work around this or find a solution but I can never find one, and it’s very annoying.
Please fix this glitch, it’s made me rage quit projects I’ve spent hours on and makes me frustrated and annoyed.

by NetherLordWS

I’ve had AlightMotion for a couple days and honestly thing it’s great! The transitions are awesome and a lot more than other apps give you if you don’t pay. The only issue I have with AlightMotion is that I almost crashes every time I try to do something. This might not happen to everyone and could just be because I use an iPad Mini 2. The crashing is usually fine and tolerable most of the time but I can hardly do anything after I group something. AlightMotion crashes constantly after I group something and won’t let me do anything for the most part without AlightMotion crashing.

If it helps, I use AlightMotion on an iPad Mini 2 I forgot the iOS version but I think it’s something like iOS 12.8.4. I dunno if certain glitches/crashes happen if a device is too old/an older version so I just thought I’d say that

Overall, I think it’s a good app and would recommend it.

by 8laziken

I honestly love AlightMotion. I’ve used it for around 2 years now (December will be my third) I love how much freedom AlightMotion has when you can pretty much do whatever you want in it. Exporting in amazing quality and all of the great effects that you all have added. But some issues poke through that made my experience a bit more aggravating than any. Now it's my fault with how many clips I put in or how many effects I add. But AlightMotion does lag a lot most of the time, even when I delete a big amount of the effects and clips. And a lot of the time when I'm editing the music or sound effects depending on what type of thing I'm editing starts to just not work, then I have to continue to restart AlightMotion for it to work. Now honestly, this might be because of me and how much stuff I add to the project but I wanted to address this cause it's bugged me for a while.

Hope you have a great day,

Ashton.

by It's Minecraft

I just recently started using AlightMotion because I wanted to get into video editing. When I started using it everything was great and there were no glitches (or so it seemed). After a while I got to the point where I needed to add text to one of my videos and that’s when it happened. Every time I attempt to add text to my video, instead of it showing the message I want it to say, it says “”. I simply cannot figure out why it’s been doing this and it doesn’t seem like anyone else has encountered this problem. No matter how many times I delete AlightMotion and install it once more or edit the text it doesn’t work. I should mention that it occurs on every single edit I have tried to add text too. Other than this AlightMotion has been great. I even went as far as too pay for and remove the watermark. I would still like to know how to add text to my video though :/

by ✨PinkPower24✨

I recently just downloaded AlightMotion and so far, it seems like an awesome editing app for the iPad. My gripe with AlightMotion is that I can’t access certain features because you have to pay a monthly or yearly membership, and I don’t have any money in my account. I just wish there was a way for us to access the premium features with out paying the membership for a certain amount of time like having a lifetime payment, or even watching a 30 second ad (just like ibisPaint). Some people have said the before the update, everyone was able to access all the features before the update came, where the membership was now required and many people have complained about the situation. There was also an event that had all the features on AlightMotion to be used by those who didn’t pay the membership that I missed.

So, that’s why I’m putting a 4-star review. I wish there was a way we can access the premium features for a certain amount of time or just pay for it for one time. Hope you guys are okay with the review

by Flippinwaffles

I have had so many problems with AlightMotion and by far it is starting to chap my khakis. The effects are great and all along with the transitions. But gosh, every time I want to do something to a certain photo while it is grouped with at least two other photos, it decides to not show up. At all. I’m thinking “hmm maybe I turned off the eye icon” or “maybe I put the opacity down or something”. NO! not at all, it’s neither of those options. I don’t know what is going on or what is happening, but jeez I just wanna edit my videos man. I downloaded AlightMotion like a year ago (2 or 3 months ago), and it worked like a charm. But now it’s acting like I put a virus in it or something. I would like for these “problems” of mine to be handled, at least some of them. But if it starts to become worse than it already is, then I will have to take matters into my own hands.

by Darling🌿🌱

AlightMotion is the best except the crashing that happens when I try to play and see the video that I was trying to edit. Well I was almost done with the project and it just crashed suddenly and now I can’t see my photos when I go to “image & video”..it’s empty for some reason if these bugs could be fixed it would mean a lot to me and many others. And lastly I won’t give on alight motion just because it’s crashing, it used to happen to me in the past but now it became a very big problem..I would really recommend AlightMotion for those of you who wants to edit and do animation! But please be aware that there are some bugs…although I appreciate alight motion so much, it would really be very helpful if these bugs could get fixed. I cannot see any of my photos I think this is a new glitch?

by Lover 💖🎉

AlightMotion is useful. It gets the work done. Just, extremely inefficiently. It’s full of glitches, including but not limited to: The video player displaying a white screen when pressing play. - Everything but the video freezes when pressing play, forcing you to close AlightMotion . - When you group layers, they get blurry. - When you use the “Copy background” effect, any effects put on the layer beforehand won’t be applied to the background. - And last but not least, everyone’s favorite: AlightMotion crashes when you preform certain tasks too fast. It depends on how much is in your video, but I’ve gotten to the point in a project where AlightMotion will crash if I press anything. Literally anything. AlightMotion may have a lot of useful features, but it lacks good performance, which is one of the most important things. I’m on the verge of uninstalling AlightMotion. Please fix these problems.

by Happy Wafflefeet

Okay. To be completely honest, this is the best app I have ever decided to download. The interface was really easy to pick up and with the new update I had none of the bugs mentioned in previous reviews. The only issue that I have is when I export footage with alpha transparency. I keep choosing the HEVC codec and choosing export, but after the loading bar appears no saving option shows up. The program stalls, and after a few seconds, crashes. I hope that this bug will be fixed in later versions, but I would still strongly recommend AlightMotion to anyone who wants to create motion graphics. This program is on par with After Effects and has so many great capabilities. For me the issue with Alpha exporting barely takes away from my work, because I can just import the video I want to overlay graphics on. So no matter what level you are with motion design, I can tell you that AlightMotion is for you.

by Red S4b0

I love alight motion. I think it’s one of the best apps for editing. It has a lot of effects that other editing apps don’t have so that brought my attention. I’ve been using alight for almost a year and the past glitches didn’t affect my edits until the one I have now, on my iPhone 7. I got this glitch recently about maybe a week ago. The glitch disabled my use of photo or videos. It looked as if I didn’t have any photos or videos. At first I thought I had accidentally disabled it in the settings, but i checked and it was still on “Read and Write.” I disabled it then enabled it again to see if it was a small glitch. Turns out, that didn’t work either. I tried deleting and reinstalling AlightMotion but all that did was delete all of my projects and stop my membership. No worries on the membership though, I can handle that. The last thing I tried was making a new account but it still showed that I had no photos nor videos. I hope this glitch gets fixed soon.

by Mallovesart

I love AlightMotion, and would 100% recommend to anyone considering it, but lately I’ve been having some issues. I’m having problems with my cursor and elements. It’s been happening for a while, but it’s just now starting to get on my nerves.

I have my “show cursor” settings on, and it was fine at first, but now it will stamp itself in place on my screen and stay there until I close out AlightMotion . It’s hard for me to explain, but imagine having two cursors on your screen. There is one that is stuck in place, and the other one that is fine and showing your taps (like it should)

Second, after the latest update, I’ve been having issues with my element’s text. When you have an element that mainly consists of text, it will let you do a simple text edit when brought into a project. My issue is that when I add an element (with the simple text edit) into my project, make the changes I want, and exit out of the project, it doesn't save. When I go back in the project, the element text is set back to its default. It’s hard for me to explain, but I hope that these things can be fixed soon!!!!

by AvaLeeroy

I’ve seen AlightMotion everywhere. I started out with Video Star, and wanted to get into Alight Motion. I got AlightMotion , and editing with AlightMotion was really easy! I loved it and I kept editing. But every time I would go to import, it wouldn’t let me. It would be stuck on the loading screen. So I had to screen record so that I could show it to my friends. Earlier this week, I decided that I would buy the Premium Pass. I went to my profile, and it showed the “Premium Options” (or whatever it says). I went to click on it, and, it went away, with a loading screen. I waited, and it never came. I logged out, logged back in, and it didn’t work. So I decided to go into a project, go to a premium effect, and press the “Premium Option” feature. Again, it got stuck in a loading screen. So I tried again. It didn’t show a loading screen this time! But, sadly, it would not let me click anything. I kept pressing continue, I tried seeing if it would switch to monthly if I clicked it, but no use. I really love AlightMotion and would love to support you guys with the premium membership!

by Gacha Gacha Bella Gaming

So I gave 2 stars cuz it’s great but it always crashes when I try to export and I’m really sad because I worked so hard on my video 😭😭😭. Anyway tell me am I supposed to use it on iPad?
I’m not sure cuz it says phone This phone that if I’m supposed to use phone then I will try to use my phone but my phone has no storage so idk what to do
Your confused user,
Bella

by Teenage Girl Gamer

I wrote a review not to long ago on how I wanted it to update, but was happy with everything else. I have no problems it’s easy; however, my only problem is every time I go to save it loads to 25-27% and shuts me off. It never fails. And sometimes I spend around 30 minutes just for it to save once. And it’s just very frustrating. So can you please try to fix the shutting off in the next update. Other than that a happy am user :)

by Destiney_scott

I truly was excited when this came out for iphone. and frankly i am still satisfied with the new update being able to work with presets and fix the sound!! but the random shut offs is to many! like i can’t even save anything because it keeps crashing every second. and i can’t even play the video on AlightMotion because it lags to hard and crashes!!! and it also freezes to much :( please work on fixing these !!!

by Loid.ze

I just want to point this out but I have an iPod 6 that has ios 12. Not sure if that really effects the performance of Alight Motion.

Whenever I have group layer(s) in my video it crashes AlightMotion when trying to export video. I have restarted my phone several times and I have even shut it down and turned it back on several times. But no matter what I do I still cannot export the video with group layers. Please fix this asap!

by VictoryVManga_VXA

Hey! So I was very excited when AlightMotion came out for IOS but there’s one problem, how you have to pay for keyframe use. When I tried to use the keyframe option, it would not work with me, and I’m very dissatisfied and disappointed with the fact that you have to pay for keyframe use. Maybe I got something wrong? Either way I don’t really like the fact so yeah.

by Qu33n_jazz

AlightMotion is great! i bought a year membership the first day i got it; however, AlightMotion crashes when you group layers together!! also lags a lot when you import videos :( oh!! sometimes the elements don’t load and it just appears as a blank screen??

the effects and everything are awesome!!! it would be super cool if we could favorite the ones we use most so we don’t have to go searching for them :)

by AraTheBoss

Overall I love AlightMotion so much and it’s very easy to use but just 5 minutes ago I added a couple clips to a group and after that everytime it got to a point it would crash and when I tried exporting it it only did half and it didn’t do the important part I tried everything it keeps crashing so if you could fix that I would give it a 5.

by Krista (:

So far, AlightMotion is great! there's lots of ways to make edits using effects and transitions but everytime I try to import a text file into alight motion, it says it's verifying the link, but makes me wait 25 minutes and it doesn't do anything but load and it's a ttf file. If you could fix this, AlightMotion would be even better!

by PamDaPlayah :p

i just got AlightMotion and I was able to get used to it quickly. But, there are some bugs like if you were to group layers, it would lag, then crash. :( I’m not able to go back and finish the edit without it crashing so its a little stressful. Other than that, its awesome. :)

by 浮 ｋｉｒｂａｋｕ

It’s outstanding! Amazing job guys! A slight bug fix is with the motion tiles wouldn’t stay in place for preview- also- a slight crashing issue while previewing lengthy videos over 8 minutes long...also- the other effects for 2.6 and 2.7 but that’s in the long run! Thank you guys! You’re doing your best!💕💕

by Mayobutter12

This is such a good editing app honestly. I started using AlightMotion after I stopped using ccp. AlightMotion has extremely good quality, fluid transitions and effects, and doesn’t have a time limit for videos unlike ccp. I would definitely recommend AlightMotion to most editors

by Hdsilal

So I just updated AlightMotion , and it isn’t crashing much, but It is still crashing while I’m trying to export my video. It doesn’t even start exporting and then it crashes. Also, sometimes, AlightMotion crashes when I enter a project. Im not sure if I’m the only one having this issue but you guys are very close to having very good improvements on AlightMotion !

by CWGoodgirl

AlightMotion is so cool and the effects are incredible amazing! :)

1️⃣But when I tried to “move & transform” the texts, specially the “zoom in” button, every time it crashes out AlightMotion without saving lol

2️⃣And we can’t save the video to our phone when we add a lot of stuff inside:(

3️⃣When there’s a lot of stuff inside, it could always made the video LAG SOOOOO BAD :(

❤️But still it a every great app! :)
Alight Motion is very useful and could be the #1 best editing app in the future if the LAG got fix!!!

❤️Hope the crashes can be fix as soon as possible~pls pls pls
(I got it project on it like almost done, but It always lags when I tried to save it, and it’s due soon~~~😭)

by Saturnpurpxse

So I was trying to work on an edit on Alight Motion and when I got to at least 10 seconds into listening to the audio clip it would close out. I thought that it may just be a glitch so I tried it again a few more times and the same thing happened. Then I thought it could be because of my storage and I deleted a few photos and the same thing still happened. I’m sorry to complain but I would like it if you could check this out and try to fix it. Alight Motion is one of the best editing sites I’ve used so far so it would be really helpful for me. Thank you. Edit: okay so I made a new project and it started working so no bug!

by Jayceee00

Loving it considering you don’t have to pay for every single thing unlike video star and is amazing for beginner editors (me) since its easier to understand and use. Only thing i would have to say to fix is that it does crash here and there.