The Best Android Video Editors: It's No Easy Choice!

It is not a surprise that video editors for Android – with apps for movie-making on mobile, phone, and tablet – are rapidly proliferating. Mobile phones like Android are now among the world's most used cameras for photos and video. Of course, shooting the clips is creative and fun, but the other half is just as creative and fun: molding them into a polished whole. For that, you need a video editing app.

Here, we have reviewed several movie-making apps for Android, so if you’re choosing the one for your tablet or smartphone, take a look at this list, we hope it will help you.

These are some of the features and capabilities to look for in the top Android video editors:

• Automatic editing to assemble a project from clips and soundtracks

• Manual editing to trim clips

• Capacity to add multiple clips together

• Capacity to add a custom soundtrack

• Feature for inserting title slides

• Automatic adjustments of audio tracks for volume

• Adjusting exposure, highlights, and shadows

• Filters for different looks

• Zoom effects

The following best video editing apps for Android are not in rank order. Rather, the focus is on features and capacities, including areas of special strength or problems. APK is the Android package file format used by the Android operating system for the distribution and installation of mobile apps such as those described here.

Movavi frequently appears on lists of the top video maker apps for Android and is a free video editor intended to support the creation of outstanding movies on your mobile devices. An easy user interface means you shoot footage, add it to the timeline, cut what you don't want, overlay your music – and are ready to show, share, your movie. You can download Movavi Clips from Google Play and try it. Immediacy is the core of Clips, an app that invites you to shoot what you see, apply any of a wide range of themes and filters, and produce a miniature masterpiece. For times you go for more depth and nuance, Clips supports you in bringing into your project movies captured almost anywhere, with live subtitling, and other unconventional features.

Features:

• Cut, crop, and merge your videos
• Create videos from photos
• Add text, filters, or transitions
• Change the speed of your clips, rotate them, or reverse
• Adjust sound options

Requirements: Android 5.0 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: no.

KineMaster tops many lists of the best movie makers for Android, partly because it is one of the most advanced (and complex) apps – often called a "step-up" from other apps. It supports multiple video layers, splicing frames, transition effects, and much more. You can get a 30-day free trial, but after that, there is a monthly charge – or an annual fee. (There is a free version but it has a watermark.) A frequent comment is that it is a "more" video editing app than many users want to master. Its drag-and-drop feature does make it easier to import.

Features:

• Trim, resize, and combine clips
• Adjust the color settings, add filters or effects
• Change the audio track or add sounds
• Share videos in social networks

Requirements: Android 5.0 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

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YouCut is a free video editor and movie-maker with the usual inbuilt tools for cutting and splitting, trimming, creating slideshows, and fine-tuning playback speed. It is highly popular in part because it is considered simple to use.

Features:

• Adjust colors
• Compress an HD video
• Get free online music
• Create clips without a watermark

Requirements: Android 4.3 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

This app will be found high on most lists, as well, and it is free; you don't have to pay for anything. It has features such as automatic video creation from your clips and photos, which can be saved in several formats. It has a quick-share feature to make it easy to put your clips on social media.

Features:

• Create slideshows from dozens of photos
• Add your music
• Use templates
• Apply various effects

Requirements: Android 5.0 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

This is another popular app for Android video editing and is free for Android users. The idea is to enable you to produce professional-quality videos right on your phone – but all apps make that claim. It certainly applies to brief clips and limited projects. The VivaVideo library offers users a wide array of effects and themes for the videos. Among other features are a slow-motion video editor and a clip-merging feature for ease of cutting and pasting. A special is its video collage maker based on the clip merging capacity.

Features:

• Trim, crop, and rotate your videos
• Add transitions, text, or effects
• Change sound options
• Share your clips easily

Requirements: vary with device.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

VideoShow is known for having a user-friendly interface for ease of editing. But even a high-end, fairly complex app like KineMaster makes the same claim. Like VivaVideo, it has many dozens of themes you can use in editing. As with all apps described, here, of course, it has the basic trimming and cutting features that are the foundation of all editing. Noted special features are a blurred background option. Audio adjustment, as usual, is included, but using multiple background music in the same video distinguishes it from some apps.

Features:

• Edit your videos and photos
• Dub videos with your own voice or other sounds
• Apply filters, transitions, or other effects
• Adjust video or audio speed

Requirements: Android 4.0.3 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

This app for Android boasts a wealth of video effects available to stylize your projects. It gives the effects labels such as Retro, VHS, Pixel, Cyber, and Aesthetics, plus some 100 more. You can shoot "Retro" clips in real-time. The app includes the customary features for customizing your aspect ratio, trimming and cutting, adding background music, and exporting projects in HD to most other platforms.

Features:

• Create a clip from your videos and photos
• Add effects or music
• Change the aspect ratio, cut or join videos
• Make an intro easily

Requirements: Android 5.0 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

Adobe^® Premiere^® Rush is advertised for people who create videos for social networks like YouTube, although, of course, any app can do that "plus." As a cross-platform editing software, it does not have as many features as some apps but is known for an easy interface (a customary trade-off). Cropping, rotating, resizing, color correction, volume control, speech enhancement, and noise reduction are all standard features and Adobe^® Premiere^® Rush has them.

Features:

• Import your videos, trim, crop, or rotate them
• Add transitions or titles using built-in templates
• Correct colors
• Add music or create a voice-over

Requirements: Android 9.0 or higher.

Price: $10 per month.

4K support: yes.

This app is viewed as an "advanced" video editing application for high-tech videos by professionals. It has all the usual features and functions for creating videos, editing them, applying filters and various effects. Its video-making tutorial is integrated into the app, supposedly making editing easy and simple. It has the usual big library of effects and filters for a finished look and availability of slow motion and speed edits.

Features:

• Record or import a video
• Apply effects or filters
• Add your favorite music, stickers, or titles
• Change the speed of the video

Requirements: Android 4.4 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

Funimate is found on many lists of best video editing apps, with the emphasis in its name on "fun." It is highly popular for permitting the "instant" transformation of your videos into exciting posts for social media. Its video effects library, of course, offers themes and filers for short videos and a feature for making looping videos. Funimate is free, so you get some advertisements as part of the package. There is no premium version to shut them out – but that has not dimmed the app's popularity.

Features:

• Create funny videos
• Apply shapes and color them
• Add text and animation
• Add music

Requirements: Android 5.0 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: no.

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In addition to the usual editing features, themes, and such, Film Maker Pro emphasizes the management of multiple projects and files, sharing, and exporting via its File Manager view. Video clips, audio tracks, voiceovers, and text overlays all can be included in a project. A color-coded timeline view further simplifies management. It has fade-in/fade-out options and auto-save to back you up.

Features:

• Add a video, split it, trim, or duplicate
• Apply filters, effects, or transitions
• Add stickers, text, or blurring
• Make overlays

Requirements: Android 5.0 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: yes.

This is a favorite of Android users, too. It has all the usual video editing functions required from trimming and cutting to adding music. It does emphasize the availability of different video formats, especially for different social media. Thus, there is a 1:1 format for Instagram and 16:9 videos for YouTube. It's a free app but will tempt you with in-app purchases. The features you want for basic good work are free, but purchasing the program does give you the option to remove the watermark at the end of the video.

Features:

• Preview your clips in real-time
• Add text, music, effects, or transitions
• Use themes from the built-in library
• Share with friends

Requirements: Android 4.2 or higher.

Price: free.

4K support: no.