Photography
InShot - Video Editor
Mobile video and photo editor with trimming, keyframes, chroma key and AI captions, cutouts and voice tools.
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- Developer
- SHANTANU PTE. LTD.
- Score
- 4.8
- Downloads
- 1M+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 2.0.2
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Vlogs, social clips and small-business videos are the bread and butter of InShot, a phone-first editor that also handles photos. The core tools are the expected ones: trim, split and merge, speed control from 0.1x to 100x with curves and ramping, reverse playback, picture-in-picture layers, chroma key for green screen work, stabilisation, and keyframe animation on any clip. Text and stickers can use imported fonts, and music, sound effects and voice-overs are layered on with voice effects. The AI side has grown: Auto Captions generates subtitles from speech, with a bilingual option; AI Cut strips silence, filler words and breaths; AI Speech turns text into narration; and background removal, portrait retouching and one-tap enhancement apply to both video and photos. Smart tracking keeps stickers or text locked to a moving subject. The photo editor adds background blur, over a thousand stickers, and cutout and object removal tools.
InShot - Video Editor: the full guide
What the app is
InShot is the editor a lot of short social videos were cut in, and the feature list explains why: trimming, splitting and merging, speed changes from a tenth to a hundred times with ramping curves, reverse, picture-in-picture, green-screen keying, stabilisation and keyframes on any layer. It handles photos as well as video.
Text and stickers accept imported fonts, and audio is layered from music, effects and voice-over with voice effects applied. The newer tools are AI-driven: automatic subtitles with a bilingual option, silence and filler-word removal, text-to-speech narration, background removal, retouching and subject tracking that pins text to a moving person.
How it works day to day
A session typically starts with a clip from the camera roll that's too long. You trim the dead air, or let AI Cut strip the silences and ums automatically, then speed up the boring middle. Captions get generated from speech and corrected by hand where the model misheard. A sticker is dropped on and tracked to the subject, music is added under the voice, and the result is exported in the shape the platform wants. For a thumbnail, you switch to the photo side, blur the background and paste a cutout. The whole thing happens on the phone in ten minutes.
Why people look for it
Creators making vlogs, product clips and reels search for InShot because it does nearly everything a desktop editor does without the desktop. Auto captions in particular have become expected on social video, and the bilingual option matters to people posting for two audiences. Small businesses with no editor on staff are the other steady source of searches.
Look and feel
Mobile editors live on a timeline, and at least one of the five stills on the listing is bound to show one, with a preview above and a toolbar of icons below. Photography-category apps lean dark so colour grading reads true. The volume of features means menus run deep, which is the trade-off for having chroma key and keyframes on a phone.
Updates and upkeep
The version shown, 2.0.2, looks surprisingly low for an app with over a million ratings, which may reflect a renumbering rather than a young product; the data can't settle that. A 4.8 at that volume is a strong vote of confidence. SHANTANU PTE. LTD. is the publisher and only the App Store is linked here.
