iPhone Video Editing Apps: Edits, Clips, iMovie, & More Reviewed

Meta Edits App

• 💡 Edits is a new social-focused video editor from Instagram, designed for creators and influencers.
• 🚀 It offers features like text overlay, captions, cutout effects, and direct sharing to social platforms.
• 📌 The app includes a 'sticky note' feature for saving content ideas and an 'inspiration' page for content creation ideas.
• 🛠️ Users can record clips with added music, use background cutout effects, set timers, and apply subtle adjustments.
• ✨ Editing options include adding audio, text, voice overlays, captions, sound effects, and stickers, with export options for Instagram, Facebook, and saving to the library.

Apple Clips

• 🍎 Clips is Apple's free social video editor, predating Meta's Edits app.
• 🎬 It supports multiple aspect ratios (16x9, 4x3, square) and offers poster templates, effects, and filters.
• 💬 A standout feature is live subtitles generated through speech recognition, which has improved over time.
• 🧩 Users can add videos or photos, mute original audio, apply effects like filters (e.g., Super 8), add text, and rearrange clips.
• ✅ The app is described as basic but functional, easy to use, and reliable for creating and sharing videos.

iMovie

• 🎬 iMovie is presented as the classic video editing solution for Apple devices.
• ✨ The 'Magic Movie' feature automatically creates videos from selected photos and clips, offering various style templates.
• 🎨 Users can choose from different styles (e.g., Impact, Paper, Dots, Stencil, Stripe) which affect music, typeface, color, and filters.
• 🔄 Videos can be exported for use on other platforms or saved and shared across devices, with a default 16:9 landscape view.

CapCut and Other Options

• ⚠️ CapCut is mentioned as a popular social video editor, often seen attributed at the end of videos.
• 💰 However, it comes with pricey subscription plans ($7.99-$19.99/month) with no annual option, making it less appealing compared to free alternatives.
• 🗣️ The hosts suggest investing in better input (like a Bluetooth microphone) rather than expensive editing software if improving video quality is the goal.
• 💬 Listeners are encouraged to share their favorite video editing apps, such as InShot, via email.

News and Shortcuts

• 🌐 Apple Snapshot (snapshot.apple.com) is a new website that creates hub pages for artists, actors, and athletes, showcasing their presence across Apple platforms like Apple TV+, Music, and Podcasts.
• 🏠 A shortcut can be created to add the Apple TV remote directly to the iPhone home screen for quick access.
• 🧹 A three-action shortcut is demonstrated to close specific Safari tabs (e.g., all tabs containing 'bookbub.com') to help manage browser clutter.

App Cap Picks

• ⚡ Rosemary's pick is the Jackery Explorer 240 v2, a 256Wh portable power station with USB-C, USB-A, and AC outputs, ideal for camping, power outages, or charging devices on the go.
• 🧩 Mikah's pick is Puffies, an Apple Arcade game where players reconstruct sticker sheets by placing cutout stickers, praised for its low-brain power engagement and daily challenges.