InShot - Video Editor Reviews

by BrieTiana

I love this app so much, it has amazingly beautiful features, great text fonts and more. If I could write this 1 million stars I could, but five stars is enough for you guys right? I expect a great developer response from InShot, and I don’t need stupid pro features, InShot is already amazing enough for me, I use this sometimes to make a beautiful collages of kaleidoscope mandalas, and InShot is the perfect place to make collages, and a collage is so beautiful, it makes me feel really happy with the great features. But sometimes there’s an closable ads, but it’s OK, just make sure to not put in any inappropriate ads. And I like how you can switch the photos in the collage to different order, they look so beautiful arranged and beautiful pattern, thanks for making InShot🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😎😎😎🤗😊😊😊🥰🥰🥰🥰Edit review
Hello there so it’s me again but turns out I do need a pro features because every time I try to use a special effect that makes me PPPPP, I wish it wasn’t like that, turns out you developers are actually really greedy and money hungry, you know what I’m done with all the in app purchases that you have to remove, take them off before I turn on fair to you or do you

by MaryKay Consultant

I’m a new vlogger and like things to be very self explanatory as I don’t have the patience to sit and figure out contraptions and do dads, I just prefer things to be straightforward and simple so I can move on. It seemed like everything else was right in my face to use except for cutting and deleting. For me being a beginner it was not easy for me to figure out the editing at all. I have an easier time editing videos on my phone than I do InShot. It’s very extra and drawn out and frustrating, especially if you don’t have the patience and aren’t a millennial. It seemed like no matter how much I played around with it and no matter how much dragging I did or button pressing or delete this and precut that it just wasn’t doing ANYTHING I needed it to do. So clearly there’s something I don’t get but for me to have to go through all this when it’s already much easier on my phone is just a bit much. I’m already a bit over it, and hopefully I figure it out eventually but right now it’s just a frustrating mess and I’m not a big fan. If you don’t already know how to edit videos InShot will be quite difficult to figure out. Just saying

by Lyzzie K.

I have used InShot for years and recently decided to try some of the new filter packs and effects they offer within InShot . While they present it to you as if you’re buying the packs individually at $1.99 and move the aforementioned packs to the top of line when you go to filters to add to videos.......making it appear as if you’ve purchased, and can freely use said filter pack. However, I found out today when looking at my Apple transaction history for the month, that they actually charge you (without a second authorization of the “purchase”) EACH TIME you use a filter from the pack that you had been led to believe you had purchased in full. Not criminal, but a little too sneaky. Although InShot has always worked well for my videos, this seems too strange an issue to continue using InShot and hope they find a way not to confuse or trick their customers into spending two dollars at a time in the future. Or perhaps, Developer, you could add a feature where the user continues to have to authorize said purchases; every other app I have for every other purchase I make through them requires a fingerprint or at least a “YES” before the transaction can be completed. No more sneaky transactions! This happened 3x before I called Apple Support and they explained to me what InShot was doing with my money. Be careful!

by Ektttttttttttttttt

Initially I was happy with InShot. I downloaded a few different apps until I found this one. I felt it was easy to work with and understand. It had features I was looking for. Plus the subscription price was really reasonable compared to others. I spent hours editing my first video and now the file is corrupted. It won’t load. It stops at 1 and won’t load the rest. I copied it and somehow the copy worked just fine. Until I went to save it and it wouldn’t let me save. Then that file was corrupted too and wouldn’t load. I tried making another copy and this time the copy was also corrupted right away. The copies won’t even load now. I can’t access or save the video I put a lot of time into. I can’t even access InShot at all on my laptop which was another huge let down and something I wish I had looked into before purchasing. I might just need to find a new editing software app together.

Update: I thought I was getting somewhere. One of the copies finally worked and saved, but of course the text wasn’t right in the file that saved. So I edited the video one more time and then it decided it wasn’t going to save again. I tried several times and it keeps telling me that it failed to convert. It’s only a 25 minute video, it’s not even that long, why am I having such a difficult time with InShot?

by Brina$$$

This is by far the best video editor app I’ve ever used. I’m a new vlogger and i get the most vlog-like videos using it. It allows me to speed up or slow down my videos, add filters/ adjust brightness, contrast, saturation etc, I can also add pictures to my videos and record voice clippings in InShot . There’s also a feature for adding text to the screen.
However, my biggest problem is the saving process. I make >4 minutes videos and it takes like half an hour to save videos. Sometimes after I’ve waited that long it goes off to say that ‘save failed’ and I have to do it all over again! Very frustrating. Next thing is I can only save one draft at a time so I can’t edit 2 vlogs at once or else the other one will be deleted. I also don’t like it that sometimes if I pause my editing and go do something on other apps, when I re-enter InShot , all my editing has been lost. I would like to be able to use actual songs instead of just tracks and sound effects.
Lastly, it would be nice if InShot noted me that I need a little more storage space BEFORE I wait almost an hour for a video to process and then I have to try clear some space and go back in InShot only to find that my editing has been lost and I have to do it all over again.
Other than these things, editing my videos for my new vlog is easiest using this app. I would recommend it to anyone.

by Summit1010101

Although InShot has a few glitches with the music, some people are way too critical. InShot is not confusing, my favorite update that they had was the multiple drafts one. I loved that ic oils work on multiple videos at once. I 500% recommend InShot to anybody that finds editing fun. The reason why I only gave 4 stars is because that you can’t use any other music except their’s, you have to pay to get the really cool filters, and the glitches with the music. Sometimes music won’t play when you play your vid. Just for a few to new people using this. 1. Always tap the button to get new stuff, you have to pay for MOST of them, but you can just watch short ads to get a few. 2. Explore everything when you have time, if you explore the buttons you’ll find cool stuff you didn’t know about. 3. (This isn’t really a tip) you’ll find that you’ll catch on pretty easy. Let’s cut this short and just say this is my #1 editor, that’s how good it is. I’m not a fan of peachy but I hope you come out with more awesome apps in the future.

by Person 😝

I think this is one of the best, most useful apps, I have used for editing. I love making edits so this has made it easier. I think that if you guys could probably make it so we could use our own sound, from our own other videos, like Video Star, it would make it so much easier. I also think that it would make it so much easier to edit and a whole lot less annoying if you could put a transition wherever you want. Of course, some people might not like having that so you could make it so you can turn it off when you please. I can tell you I would not like to have the “new option” all the time.I would also like more options to make your videos/edits better. I think a great idea would be adding options to click and hold on to add an effect whenever and where ever you like, like Musically. Lastly, the most annoying thing ever on InShot, is that when adding a transition it messes with the sound and time. Couldn’t you add the transition in without messing with the time or sound? I, also, absolutely, HATE the fact that there is no freaking back arrow. It takes about 10 times as slow as it should be taking because I make one small mistake and have to start all over. Thank you for the time, I absolutely love InShot and would definitely request this to anyone looking for an editing app.

by PocketCartoon36

Overall InShot is amazing and easy to use. I switched over from iMovie to this (I know big change) and it is wayyyyy better. It took me only two hrs to learn all the basics of editing thx to the tutorials that can be found in InShot . Its amazing and I do all of my editing in InShot, wether its to edit a gameplay i recorded or add some cool effects to a pic, its great!

One minor prob tho. Why i gave it four instead of five stars… And it could have nothing to do with InShot . I make gameplay videos (like i said) and those get very lengthy. I’ll be editing one of those and (because the files are so big i think) InShot will stop responding to what im doing. InShot will act really slow and sometimes will kick me out completely. It saves all my edits thankfully but its really annoying. On top of that when im uploading to my library and the file is really big. It wont upload. It’ll load forever and kick me out without finishing. it’ll end up working eventually but its super annoying and makes it hard to edit bigger drafts.

I understand its a phone and im trying to do what people do on Adobe premier on computer. But its really really annoying. If there is any way y’all could fix please do. If not i’ll continue to use your app still, but it would be great if u did. Thx!

by Der Smeden

I got InShot about a month and a half ago and it’s really awesome. They just came out with a new update that lets you cut out items from a picture that you took, this is a really awesome feature! But it could use a little work. For example you should probably be able to erase the background yourself that way it won’t cut out important parts of the picture because it sometimes does that to me. Other than that this affect is awesome. Also a lot of things you have to get in shock Pro for and that’s kind annoying but there are a lot of things that you don’t have to get pro for. Another thing it would be better if the ads were a little more appropriate, for example summer fine like Grammarly and filmmaker and such, but there are other ones like the choose your story games and the ads pop up on there and they’re kind of inappropriate so I would like you to consider getting rid of those. Other than that this is a really wonderful app. And it’s perfect for editing videos and movies. And it’s also really great because you don’t have to get a separate intro maker app because you can just get a blank stretch of material and put stickers on it to make your own intro from that. Wonderful app I highly consider getting it!

by Aloe Vera Man

I’ve been using this app for about 2 months to edit my gameplay videos and the occasional meme and it has worked wonders. InShot allows you to combine separate videos with an in between animation, adjust speed, add filters, extract audio, and a lot more with not many limitations. There is also a “premium” version, but unlike the many other video editing apps, it is not necessary. It only adds a few more filters and takes away a small “this app” watermark. Other apps make most their features “premium” only, locking half InShot behind a pay wall, so that automatically puts this app at the top of the list.

My only issue with InShot is that it lacks an option to manually animate text and photos. As of right now, there are only preset animations, which work great, but are very limiting. Of course, no other video editing app really has this and the preset animations do work well enough for more simple edits, so this is more of a nitpick.

All in all, InShot works great and is not bogged down by its premium, which I purchased and is VERY cheap compared to other apps.

by Frie7898

To start off, I was a person just looking for good editing apps. I had found InShot. I had originally used iMovie, which works great! But this works a bit better. First off, I love how you can select music from iTunes without it being so complicated like iMovie, if it is copyright, it will block you being able to use it, if it is not. Than you can use it and enjoy it. I also love how the clips do not fade. I know you can change the setting in iMovie, but it takes forever to do so. Especially with longer and larger amounts of clips. I do not have any problems or disliking at the moment. Something I love the most is that if you don’t have any iTunes you can select other people’s music. And here is the part I love so much. If the songs are copy right. For example “Ice Tea” by Not the king, it will give you something to copy and you can click copy and it comes out like this Music: Ice Tea Musician: Not The King.👑 I love that feature, because it keeps people safe from copy right. And they recommend adding the credit.

by Jason Tucker

InShot is by far my favorite when dealing with photos and resizing them. I run into an issue where I press the add image button and InShot will freeze, I’ll wait 3-5 mins (actual minutes, I’ve timed it) and it will finally unlock a s let you add the image. I’ve seen lots of bug fixes over the years but this one issue with images taking forever to be added drives me crazy.

Devs, it seems that I’ll add a new photo to my camera roll and I want to crop or resize it or make a vertical photo square and want to add blur in the background. I’ll tap the add image button and the grid of images appear but it just stalls and didn’t accept input. I do use iCloud for phot storage and I know it may be a slight delay but I’m on fast WiFi with 1 GB network connect and it will be slow like this. I’ve found that if I fast switch to another app wait and switch back it sometimes unlocks. I’ll quit InShot wait and then open InShot again and it may allow me to add the image, usually it takes 2 times to get it working.

by Ok🙈fine

I- I don’t know what to say. I found this app about 4 months ago. I was using it temporarily until I found the video editor that was really meant for me. I searched for months. I didn’t find anything. FinalCut, Adobe, or Flimora 9 didn’t please me. I finally realized: this app WAS the video editor for me. I have Pro, but even without it, it has all you need. From text to transition, stickers to size, EVERYTHING!!! Amazing editor!! Plus, pro is SO well priced at, like, 15 bucks a year? If you didn’t know, that’s a cheap price. One thing, maybe more text animations? But even without, it’s amazing! And the videos you can create, they’ll look like videos from a 100 dollar video editor, FOR FREE! The GIFs, The transitions, The music, everything’s clean, polished, and on point! I’m not into writing reviews and stuff, but I felt like I had to tell The this app workers how good they’re doing. Maybe some green screen effects, too.
Sorry for the long review, but keep up the good work!

by NICEE GUY 101

I absolutely love InShot! I use it pretty much every time I put out a video. I love all the features, especially the user friendly interface, and the new icons. However, I think a few added features will make InShot a lot better.

1. A Green Screen: This feature is in high demand and I won’t need to use apps such as TikTok or any other 3rd party app, if InShot provides it already.

2. Lip Sync Feature: This feature will allow you to mouth the word of a audio that is playing, while you are recording. This feature is also on TikTok, and I would just rather do all of my lip syncing on InShot.

3. Video Overlay: I would love to have the e ability to put videos over my main video, so so I can do reactions or show off a product(if that were the point of my video)

4. Landscape Editing: I like the layout we have now, but using a landscape feature will make editing on this app easier and less time consuming.

5. More Filter Effects: I love the features we have, like the shake effect and the fisheye effect, but I think other features like a face bloater or a face reshaper will help everyone’s videos retain a comedic factor, and I also won’t have to go to other apps to get that feature.

6. Voice effects: I have to 3rd party apps to get voice filters, I would HELP A LOT, if this feature was added, that would make InShot my only editing app.

HOPEFULLY THE DEVELOPERS SEE THIS!!

by 88Octagons

Very intuitive and capable editing. Easy to learn how to use. Nice amount of special features that allow for some cool effects. Totally recommend InShot. I’m having so much fun with it 😊 To the developers, please add two things for us to make the experience even better. 1 - When editing photos and adjusting the slider values, make it so that the adjustment is viewable in real time. So as we are moving from 0 to 100% of an effect, contrast, saturation etc. the change is viewable as the slider is being moved. Right now it’s drag, select, and then the change is viewable. This makes finite adjustments very challenging. Weird because the video editor adjustments are viewable in real time but the photo editor is not. 2 - Much less important than the previous request, while in the effects tab it would be nice if the value slider had numbers 0-100% just like the adjustments tab. I’d prefer to have the effect slider look exactly like the adjustments slider. The dot and line are more intuitive and precise than the colored bars without numbers. And finally Thank You all for your efforts to bring us this wonderful media editing app ✌️💛😊

by AlyssaXela

I am an illustrator who likes to take videos of my processes but often had issues with formatting and cropping. InShot is very easy to use and has all the features I needed and more. The rotation feature is really helpful for making sure videos are matching the aspect ratios of different social media platforms. In fact the ratio options are labeled with each apps icon so it is easy to find what you need. The time lapse/speed options are amazing as well. I can edit videos in under 5 minutes! As someone who does not have much experience in video editing and uses a phone to film I think InShot is very easy to use extremely helpful. I love it ❤️

Edit: it’s 2022 now and I still love InShot. Amazing free options, video editing, good cropping tools so much more. I even use this apps crop presets to help edit photos I want to use as backgrounds. It has a feature to crop at apple screen ratios. Always my fave!

by Marisa Cohen

This is the best editing app to use for a phone. But since the updates, it’s nearly impossible to actually edit without creating more work. Whenever I extract an audio and speed up the video footage, it cuts off my audio without even letting me know or notifying me. It also deleted extracted audio if I just want to delete video footage. Which it never did this in a previous update. Now I was almost done with a video and I wanted to speed up the video footage and leave the extracted audio the same and all of my audio is now deleted and cut off. I basically have to start from scratch and it’s very annoying. I would give it five stars if they went back to their old update. But this just makes it really hard to edit without double checking for every single change you make if it did it correctly. Sometimes my playback doesn’t even play the audio at all when it is there and I have to restart InShot . There’s too many bugs.

by Seth131323232323233

This is the best editor on mobile by a LONG shot. It’s easy to understand and navigate, it has a premium service but doesn’t shove it in your face NEARLY as much as other apps, and the features and options for text and such are really good. But a few things could happen to give it that 5 star. One of those is Audio Effects. The only audio effects you can do in this app is volume. Which is kind of a bummer. Not only that but the volume itself barely does anything. I can only hear a slight difference. I’d say make the volume, well louder, and make audio effects like, echo, pitch, distortion, and more. But other than that, InShot is practically flawless. And I like that the this app team is doing what they can to make it better. I think the keyframe update was great and really helped out InShot . Not to mention the picture in picture update which was inspired. Seriously this really helps out InShot . So good job this app team keep it up! UPDATE: The save feature was fixed great job you guys!

by BeautifulDisasters

InShot is very amazing almost perfect....
I am learning new things i this one. I do love that I can put in text and add what I need this has made it easy... if you could maybe add a feature ( I may not have figured this out yet) to only add music for a section of the edited part that would be super awesome! InShot is easy to use to so beginners who have no idea would definitely be able to figure it out Great job on the Easy Interface!

I personally feel that there could be a couple more color effect ..... the yellow look and blue doesn’t do it for me. Just an example seafoam twilight ivory those kind of color nothing to high class but just more color effects not quite so yellow♥️
I also don’t like the fact that if your editing something and you get a call or text and answer, when you go back you have to start all over again.... yes if you save before you leave your fine but I did notice this not a fan.... other then this I love InShot the small bugs are just that and once that’s done really nothing to blink an eye about😉 Thank you for a great app much appreciated❣️

by LCP4$$$

Hey this app and Inshotters!!! I love InShot and OF COURSE I have the pro version. Don't get a lot of problems with it but they're two really big ones that seem to be reoccurring. 1. Sometimes my videos lag and the audio timing is off. 2. FAILURE TO CONVERT!!!! 😡 This drives me BONKERS!!!! I really need help fixing this problem or understanding why it happens. I even did a screen shot of a video I edited in InShot and re-uploaded it as a SINGLE FRAME that was shortened to only 14mins! I then deleted half the videos on my phone and still it will not convert or save. It is really frustrating because it is messing up my schedule for uploading content and I'm on the brink of tears. I don't want to give InShot anything less than 4 stars because I really LOVE IT!!! But this is like the 3rd time I've reached out for help on this problem and still no help. Yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled, and I just updated InShot , btw I'm super excited about the new features and filters!!!! Just please, someone HELP ME!!!

by Newuser102018

I too am a previous Flipagram user and was disappointed to have to start my children’s birthday picture/video slideshows all over after discovering InShot was gone. I downloaded tons of apps with major disappointment every time. Finally found this app, and was so impressed that it had all of the features that I needed and was very easy to use! It is so easy to adjust the orientation, cropping, duration, transitions and if you’re like me constantly reordering and trimming things to go perfectly with the music. It allows me to add over 100 pics/videos a a FULL song without telling me I was over the limit. The only downfall is that I cannot save the projects to go back and edit every year, as it only allows one draft to be saved at a time 😭😭😭. Please, please, PLEASE consider adding an option to save multiple projects..... I would consider paying for InShot because then it would be PERFECT!!!!!

by LuSun17

InShot is amazing, I use it for almost all my video editing, but there’s only one problem, or rather something I wish was in InShot . If there was a way to overlay videos (or just their audio) that would be great, and incredible useful, a lot of the time I find myself stuck because I can’t combine the audio of two videos and give up on the project. Other than that, I don’t experience many problems with it 👍

Edit: another thing I want to point out is that the transitions are very limiting, and it would be great if you could add transitions between videos that were less than a second long, perhaps even fractions of a second. It would allow for fast paced edits, which it one of the main reasons I bought the full version!

I don’t know if the developers will read this, but I think these are both problems people likely have all the time, and these need to be passed on to the development team! Thanks for reading!

by ThaiFriedRice

Let me just preface this review by saying this. I was looking for an app that I could add text to a video that I already made an iMovie. If you’re going to be using InShot for video editing, like Marvel edits or edits based on movies, then I’d highly recommend it. I normally use iMovie, but this particular app was the last of THREE that I had to download in order to find an app that could actually add text to my already made video. When I found InShot, I thought that God had sent it to me 😂😂. I was able to add text over my already created a video exactly where I wanted it without cutting or altering the video in any other way. I didn’t have to lift a finger to get to a point where I could add text to any scene, with any font, of any size. I haven’t used it for much other than adding a general filter and the texts, but I’m sure that those features work pretty adequately as well. If you’ve made a video edit and you want to add it text to it, then this is the one you’ve been looking for.

by Alayna's Shadow

This is by far the best video editor you can ever possibly get. The layout of InShot is simple and almost anyone can understand it. I love the new text animations, the transitions, the stickers you can add to make the video look adorable😍 (if you could make it so the stickers have transitions too like the text and if you would make it possible to import GIFs as stickers, it would greatly improve InShot ), the video filters and effects you can add, the ability to reverse, slow down, or speed up the video (when I do slow down and speed up, sometimes the audio messes up sometime during processing), the array of sound effects and music supplied, and the way it is possible to import your own music or sound effects.

Overall a very well put-together app and definitely worth checking out. If you are a beginner to editing and you have a low budget, this is the best app to choose from on a mobile phone that I have tried. Would definitely suggest InShot!

by Sarahbethstec

InShot is so awesome!! I ended up purchasing the pro version because I like it so much. I love all of the options for video editing, and for someone who knows very little about video editing, it’s a breeze to create something impressive!

My only frustration is that I can’t bounce back and fourth between using InShot on my iPhone and my iPad. I had bought the pro version on my iPhone, then had hoped I could use InShot with pro on my iPad, but realized there was no profile that I could login to to pickup where I left off on my project. So I would have to purchase pro on my iPad too. This would be great if you could create an option to make a profile to save and edit projects across any device. I also noticed there isn’t an iPad friendly app for this app yet either, so I hope that is in the works as well! It would be great to be able to make video edits on a larger screen.

by Ellablake

I got InShot just to edit one video but when I was making my video it had so many great things you can do I realized I should keep it. I have only had InShot for about 2 weeks and I have made such great videos and photos/ collages that my friends have asked me to make videos and photos for them. My favorite part about InShot is the great stickers that you can use for editing a photo or a video. For videos some of the stickers can be in movement, for example the dog sticker move slightly and cutely up and down. When editing a video you can make it go faster or slower, you can have many videos in one, there is no limit for the time of your video and you can add many filters. I truly think this is a great app and super easy to use and also really great if you are a YouTuber or want to use it for social media.

by Agentgalahad

I really love InShot for so many reasons—firstly, it’s so wickedly quick. Like, iMovie always takes a bajillion years to import or export anything. this app imported three two minute long videos by the time i blinked. Also, it’s just majorly convenient. The only thing I think I wish there was (and it might exist without my knowledge already) is the ability to adjust the thumbnail timing like on iMovie—for example, if I’m adding text to a twenty second clip, I can pinpoint the millisecond I want to add my text in very easily. However, if my film is five minutes long, it’s very, very difficult. The little bubble that indicates my text also becomes almost a barely visible sliver because it’s so small. The last thing is adding an option for two or more videos to play side by side or within the same frame. I want to show progress videos for figure skating and do side by side comparisons but I don’t think that’s possible in InShot (or maybe it is and I’m dumb). Even so, five stars without a doubt!

by Kay👑💕

I LOVE InShot! I’VE BEEN ON IT FOR ALMOST 3 HOURS😂 InShot is my favorite ever! I’ve been searching for an app like this for 2 weeks to edit my videos and I’ve tried to download about 5 other ones and all of them you have to pay $5 a week! But InShot provides EVERYTHING! Soundtracks, Edits, Transitions, Filters, Good Quality results, and lots more. The only time you have to pay for something is if you want extra filter or transitions. I payed for the extra transitions and it was only $3.99 and they just make InShot even better! I’m so glad I found an app like this where I can not only edit videos but I can edit pictures and make cool collages. The emoji stickers could be a little more updated but that’s the only thing because I wanted to add this emoji “🤪” but InShot did not offer it. So over all InShot is amazing just please update the emojis.👍