Photography
A simple iPhone movie and slideshow maker for combining clips and photos with music, text and stickers.
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Video Editor from Luni is a basic movie and slideshow maker for iPhone. You pull in several videos or pictures, tidy them up and share the result to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. It's for quick social clips and holiday montages, not for anyone who needs a timeline with layers. Clips can be cut, with format, speed and volume adjusted. Transitions smooth the joins between clips, music or recorded voice can be laid over the top, and a library supplies filters, emoticons and text to drop onto the footage. Finished projects export to the device or straight to social networks. The free version has limits and ads; a subscription (monthly with a three-day trial, quarterly or yearly) removes the ads and allows unlimited content and projects. The listing is light on specifics, so expect a straightforward tool rather than a deep one.
Clips in, montage out. Luni's Video Editor is a stripped-down tool for stitching iPhone footage and photos into a short film or slideshow: trim and reorder, lay on music or voice, add transitions, filters, text and emoticons, then post to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. Quick social clips are the target, not layered timelines.
Format, speed and volume can be adjusted per clip. The free version is limited and shows ads; a subscription, offered monthly with a three-day trial or on quarterly and yearly terms, drops the ads and lifts the project limits.
A holiday montage takes ten minutes: pick the clips, trim the dull bits, choose a transition style, drop a track on top, add a title and export straight to Instagram. There's no layer stack to manage and no keyframes to learn, which is the appeal and the limit in one. Voice recording over the top covers the narration case.
Free users bump into the project and content caps and the ads fairly quickly; the trial is there to show what goes away when you pay.
Speed and a flat learning curve. People who want a slideshow with music for a birthday, or a clip trimmed for a story, don't want a professional editor and search for something simpler. The direct export to social networks saves a step. The 4.7 rating across 100,000-plus reviews suggests it does that modest job well enough.
Four screenshots are on the page, which is fewer than the norm but fits an app with few screens to show. Expect a clip strip, a preview and a row of tool buttons, the standard layout for simple Photography-category editors. Filters and emoticons will be presented as galleries. The listing describes nothing about visual style, so the images are your only guide.
Version 3.21.5 suggests a third major version with many small updates. The rating is 4.7 from more than 100,000 reviews, respectable for a simple tool with ads in the free tier. Luni is the publisher, a single-word name without further detail in the listing. The Apple store is the only one linked. Whether features are still being added can't be read from this data.
Birthday slideshows
Photos, music and a title, exported in minutes.
Trimming for stories
Cut, speed up and post directly to social networks.
Editing novices
No layers, no keyframes, nothing to configure before starting.
Rated 4+ and free with ads and limits; the subscription (a monthly plan with a three-day trial, or quarterly or yearly plans) removes ads and lifts the caps, but prices aren't in the listing. Mind the trial, since it converts to a paid plan. Exports take storage, and sharing to social networks needs a connection. No account requirement is stated. The listing is thin on specifics, so expect fewer options than the category's heavyweights. App Store only.
Our take
Fine for anyone who wants a montage or a trimmed clip without learning an editor, and the trial lets you check that before paying. Set a reminder to cancel if it isn't for you. Anyone who's outgrown slideshows, or who wants a free editor without ads and a watermark, has better options in this same batch.