Top 5 TikTok video editing apps for Android and iPhone

Although the TikTok application provides efficient tools for creating videos, you can use video editing tools to make more creative and attractive videos.

The more attractive the video you publish on TikTok, the more people will engage with it and the more likely it will go viral. Of course, the more views your videos have, the more people will follow you.

In this post, we introduce the top 5 applications for creating and editing TikTok videos on Android and iPhone. Note that there are many applications for video editing on mobile phones, but in this post, we will introduce only the applications that are more suitable for making short and entertaining videos to be published on TikTok.

1. CapCut

CapCut, formerly known as Viamaker, is a video editing application developed by ByteDance (the owner of TikTok). This application is specifically designed to make short videos suitable for social networks.

Most CapCut features are free, but there is a Pro version that gives you additional tools, transitions, and effects.

Some features of CapCut

• Trim, split, and merge videos
• Control video speed, rewind, or play in reverse
• Add filters, effects, and music to the video
• Add text, stickers, and memes to the video
• Animate videos with keyframe animation
• Achieve smooth slow-motion effects for video
• Eliminate specific video colours with the Chroma key
• Smart stabilization
• Auto captions
• 3D Zoom
• Creating high-quality videos (UHD and 4K)
• Share video on social networks

Pros

• Easy to use
• Ability to publish videos directly on TikTok
• Powerful free features
• Providing popular filters, stickers, effects, transitions, music

Cons

• The maximum video length is 15 minutes
• Limited to one video track and one audio track
• Only works in portrait orientation

Price: free

 

2. InShot

InShot is one of the most popular video editing applications, and its Android version has been downloaded more than 500 million times. It offers you all the features you would expect from a video or photo editor.

InShot is one of the best choices for mobile video editing due to its powerful features. Whether you’re a beginner video maker or a professional, you’ll definitely need a tool like InShot.

Some features of InShot

• Split, trim, and merge videos
• Adjust video speed and reverse video
• Add text and stickers to the video
• Add music and sound effects to the video
• Adjust ratio
• Add custom keyframe animations
• Edit green screen video with Chromakey
• Create multi-layered videos (Picture-in-Picture)
• AI effects like clone, stroke, auto-blur, etc
• Easy video sharing on social networks
• Auto captions
• Auto background remover
• Smart tracking. Make stickers/text move seamlessly in sync with your tracking object motion, adding dynamic flair to your videos

Pros

• Excellent user interface
• Easy to use
• Providing powerful tools and features for video editing
• Reasonable price for premium features

Cons

• Many features are paid
• May slow down for heavy usage

Price: free, $3.99 per month

 

3. Picsart

Picsart is a video and photo editor that provides a set of tools for creating and editing videos. It is one of the most popular photo and video editing applications, and its Android version has been downloaded more than 1 billion times on Google Play.

Picsart helps you show your creativity, edit videos easily, design and add stickers, and make professional collages.

Some features of Picsart

• Split, trim, and merge videos
• Add music to videos
• Add text and stickers to the video
• Add effects and filters to the video
• Create video collages
• Create stickers
• Having more than 60 million stickers

Pros

• Easy to use
• Ability to make stickers and video collages
• No watermark on the free version

Cons

• Premium features are expensive
• Limited video editing capabilities

Price: free, $11.99 per month

 

4. Funimate

Funimate is a professional video editor that you can use to edit videos or create new videos. With the video effects provided by Funimate, you can create attractive and creative videos.

With Funimate, you can create different layers of video and edit each layer separately. To have more attractive clips, you can use the animations in this application and add them to different parts of the videos.

Some features of Funimate

• Split, trim, and merge videos
• Add music to the video
• Add text to the video and use text effects
• Add effects and filters to the video
• Layered editing mode to master different parts of the video
• Having more than 100 video effects
• Remove the video background and add mask effects to the video
• Add custom keyframe animations
• video transitions

Pros

• Easy to use
• It offers fully functional and specialized video effects
• Reliable for creating short music clips

Cons

• Some features and editing options aren’t as good as the other pro video editor
• Many features are paid
• Only supports the English language

Price: free for 7 days, $3.99 per week

5. Zoomerang

Zoomerang is a powerful and easy-to-use app for creating and editing videos. This app helps you become a star on TikTok by creating attractive music videos.

One of Zoomerang’s strengths is providing step-by-step tutorials for making short videos, which are very useful for beginner creators. Other features of this application include powerful video editing tools, video templates, and attractive effects.

Some features of Zoomerang

• Split, trim, and merge videos
• Add music to the video
• Add text and stickers to the video
• Add effects to the video
• Having more than 300 video effects
• Reverse and transform video
• AI effects
• Face Zoom
• Face Beautification tool
• Remove background
• Ability to share videos on social networks

Pros

• Easy to use
• Providing step-by-step tutorials on creating short videos
• Suitable for making musical clips
• Providing video templates and attractive video filters

Cons

• Lacks some advanced video editing tools such as fine-tuning video speed, chroma key, or animation effects.
• Its free version is limited and contains in-app ads.

Price: free, $12.99 per month

Conclusion

If you are looking for a free and efficient application to create TikTok videos, CapCut is the best option. CapCut was developed by ByteDance (the owner of TikTok) and allows you to publish videos on TikTok directly.

InShot and Picsart also have great video editing features that you can use to create TikTok videos. In addition to video, these applications also allow you to edit images, so they will also be suitable for creating Tiktok slideshows.

Funimate and Zoomerang also have special video effects that help make your videos more attractive.