Check out the top 38 apps for making free videos quickly and easily on your mobile phone!
Did you know that by 2020, 82% of Internet traffic will be generated by videos? And that in the same year, it is expected that online video consumption will exceed that of TV?
Incorporating videos in your marketing strategy is not just an option: investing in this content format is key to attracting and engaging your audience.
And contrary to popular belief, making videos is not an impossible task. In fact, the most important thing about making videos for your brand is having a well-defined strategy and planning for what you are going to produce.
So now that you know how to build your strategy and can now plan your videos, the next step is to actually start producing them.
But how?
You can use several options! You can invest in a more professional recording in a studio or even buy a camera.
But a more affordable and affordable way is to make videos with your phone. With that in mind, we’ve made a list of 38 free video apps for you to download right now!
1. Splice or Quik
Splice (iOS) or Quick (Android) is an easy and fast editing application developed by GoPro. Just select the photos and videos and a song it makes the montages and transitions.
2. Magisto
Magisto allows you to create videos from the selected photos in your gallery. You can add soundtrack and transition effects.
3. Adobe Premiere Clip
Application developed by Adobe, one of the largest companies in graphic editing in the world. The app has an amazing interface and lets you record, trim, and crop videos, as well as add soundtracks and some other features.
4. Adobe Premiere Rush
This is yet another Adobe video application, launched recently in 2018. In addition to having some more professional features, it also enables editing on different devices.
5. Vintage Retro Camera
With this application you can create videos with retro effect, as if they were made on analog camcorders, with the characteristic noises. https://youtu.be/WMW_Q4R8DWk
Download: Android.
6. iMovie
IMovie has a user-friendly interface and is easy to use. Upload videos and create your cuts and transitions.
Download: iOS.
7. Stop Motion Studio
As the name suggests, this app is dedicated to producing stop motion videos. In addition, it allows the application of filters and sound effects.
8. Action Movie FX
Do you like action? Need to create videos with special effects? Action Movie FX will allow you to place explosions, monsters, and other features inspired by the world of Star Wars or X-Men, for example.
Download: iOS.
9. Action Movie Creator
It has similar attributes to the previous one, but was developed for Android.
Download: Android.
10. KineMaster
KineMaster is an application for creating distinctive videos! It allows you to edit videos in several layers, also using images and text, apply various songs, and adjust the image with brightness, contrast, and even filtering capabilities. It is also possible to export the videos in Full HD.
11. Video Show
User-friendly application that allows a variety of features. In addition to mounting the video, you can add captions, app pen drawings, and stickers. There is no time limit for videos.
12. Lapse It
Time-lapse video, a technique that brings together multiple photos taken in sequence at very short intervals, is a great visual resource for building interesting videos. Lapse It Pro is an application dedicated to this style.
13. VivaVideo
VivaVideo is one of the top rated apps in the video and photo editing business. In addition, it recently had some upgrades, such as voice filters and the ability to insert cartoons into frames.
14. Boomerang
Boomerang is another popular application thanks to Instagram. It records short looping videos and, like Vine, is a great choice for creating GIFs.
15. Movie Maker FilmMaker
With this application you will be able to cut, group, apply effects and filters, among other features, to your videos.
Download: Android.
16. VidTrim
VidTrim is simple, yet convenient and fast for those who want to make edits on the phone. Provides all the necessary basic features.
Download: Android.
17. Video Show
The app has a user-friendly interface and allows you to combine photos and videos by cropping, speeding up, and using effects.
Download: iOS .
18. PocketVideo
This app for creating videos has been designed with YouTubers and vloggers in mind. The idea is for the user to create the entire video in the app itself: from recording, editing, and finally publishing on YouTube.
Download: Android.
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19. YouNow
YouNow is an application dedicated to online broadcasts. With it you can create interaction groups (chats) in each transmission, bringing the experience closer to users.
20. Instagram
Although it is a social network, Instagram is increasingly bringing editing features that make it a very complete application. In addition to photo editing, you can also edit short videos (up to one minute) with the app’s filters. With Stories, you can record 10-second videos by applying filters, text, and stickers.
21. MSQRD
This app lets you change faces or mask your selfie videos with Snapchat. The difference is that it also allows live streaming on Facebook.
22. Vue
Vue is an application that allows the assembly of videos, but its major differentiators are the stickers and filters.
23. Viddy
With an interface that closely resembles Instagram, Viddy lets you edit your videos by cropping them and applying effects, colors, and filters.
Download: iOS.
24. AndroVid
This app lets you cut and mix video fragments, apply filters, and some effects, such as slow motion or sepia.
Download: Android.
25. FilmoraGo
FilmoraGo is very intuitive and allows you to group various videos, make cuts, insert transition effects, songs, and image adjustments.
26. Perfect Video
With this app you have access to cropping, effects and transitions features. Its only shortcoming is that to remove the watermark, you must purchase the application. Other than that, the app is free .
27. Camcorder
This application simulates a VHS camcorder by applying their effects, noise, and characteristic signals.
Download: iOS.
28. Efectum
Efectum lets you create slow, fast, or reverse motion videos, allowing you to apply different effects to different portions of the video.
Download: Android.
29. MobCrush
This is for gamers who love to compete! With this app you can make live streaming videos of your matches.
30. Stream
Stream is another app for live streaming. Its most interesting feature is allowing you or other users with access to your livestream to record short snippets of the broadcast and then compile and make the “best moments.”
Download: iOS.
31. VideoShop
This app lets you make your video the way you want it by cropping, grouping, selecting best moments, and applying music and sound effects as well as effects.
32. VidLab
VidLab has several cool filters available, provides image correction features, and lets you add text to specific parts of the video.
Download: iOS.
33. PowerDirector
With this app, you see your video in a detailed storyboard, on which you can work on various aspects, such as volume, speed, mirroring, text, cropping, and more, at specific points.
Download: Android.
34. CuteCUT
CuteCUT also shows your video on a storyboard. In it, you can add montages, text, and join your videos and photos to form one.
35. Cameo
Cameo is an application developed by Vimeo, one of the largest video references in the world.
It is intended to be a user-friendly application. By its own description, just cut and match videos from the camera roll with a few taps and then select effects to enhance the image and soundtrack.
Download: iOS.
36. MovieMaker
MovieMaker is one of the most user-friendly video applications. It lets you put the video together, but its coolest feature is the signs, which you can vary in color and size and are very creative.
Download: iOS.
37. SlideShow Movie Maker
As the name suggests, the idea is to create a slideshow with your photos and videos and apply a song. It is simple and practical to use.
Download: iOS .
38. Slideshow Creator
This app has the same purpose as the previous one, but was developed for Android devices.
Download: Android .
Bonus: Best Paid Video Making Apps
We decided to include these as a bonus because they are paid apps.
The 8mm is the best option for recording vintage style videos with characteristic effects and noises. And no wonder: this application was even used by Malik Bendjelloul to record the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. The app costs $2.99 on the App Store and you can download it here. .
Filmic Pro is a semi-professional application that allows various adjustments in its films. It is a very complete app that will let you make a video as you please, adjusting focus, colors, timing, and everything else. The only caveat is that it’s much more expensive than most apps ($14.99 on the App Store). You can download it for iOS here or for Android here.
