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Best Movie Making Apps for iPhone (2026)
CapCut: Photo & Video Editor is the top-ranked of 22 movie making apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.6/5 from 1,124,342 ratings.
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,124,342 ratings · score 98 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 430,283 ratings · score 97 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 263,105 ratings · score 96 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 32,914 ratings · score 87 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 8,429 ratings · score 84
What belongs in this list
Make a movie from video clips and photos with edits, music and effects.
Not here: Slideshow creation alone; Video playback or casting alone; Filters on one clip alone; Animation creation alone; A title keyword such as movie alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,124,342 ratings · score 98 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 430,283 ratings · score 97 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 263,105 ratings · score 96 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 32,914 ratings · score 87 · excellent
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 8,429 ratings · score 84 · excellent
- 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 50,121 ratings · score 80 · excellent - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 11,172 ratings · score 78 · good - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 363,866 ratings · score 76 · good - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 123,402 ratings · score 74 · good - 10
Free · ★ 4.4 · 317,345 ratings · score 71 · good - 11
$9.99 · ★ 4.4 · 12,730 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.0 · 6 ratings · score 61 · situational · provisional - 13
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 2,841 ratings · score 57 · weak · provisional - 14
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 2,896 ratings · score 57 · weak · provisional - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 3.9 · 953 ratings · score 52 · weak - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 24,774 ratings · score 51 · weak · provisional - 17
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 18,702 ratings · score 49 · avoid · provisional - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 95 ratings · score 47 · avoid - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 120 ratings · score 46 · avoid - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 6,783 ratings · score 40 · avoid · provisional - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 3.9 · 8 ratings · score 30 · avoid · provisional - 22
$0.99 · ★ 1.4 · 66 ratings · score 17 · avoid · provisional
Beyond the top 22
1 more, not ranked yet
New in the last 30 days
Questions people ask
- What is the best movie making app for iPhone?
- CapCut: Photo & Video Editor, S tier, ranked #1 of 22, rated 4.6 by 1,124,342 people.
- Which movie making apps are free?
- 20 of 22 are free to download: CapCut: Photo & Video Editor (S), Splice - Video Editor & Maker (S), Filmmaker Pro - Video Editor (S), Video Editor ‧ (A) and more. 18 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
- Which movie making app has the best App Store rating?
- Videoshop - Video Editor at 4.9 from 363,866 ratings.
- How many movie making apps reach S or A tier?
- 6 of 22. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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