Video Maker

Video Maker Review: 4K Without a Watermark, Paid For in Full-Screen Ads

Free Tier: 4K Export, No Watermark, an Ad at Every Save

The free version exports at up to 4K without a watermark, as the Play listing promises and 2026 reviewers confirm. Speed runs from 0.2x to 100x, and the effects library counts more than 150 styles, some of them reserved for Pro. Google Play shows a Contains ads badge, and reviewers in English, Spanish and Russian describe a full-screen ad when they save or export, with the render continuing behind it. Some library tracks and caption generation ask you to watch an ad first, according to 2026 reviews in English, Portuguese and Vietnamese. Developer replies in 2026 say Pro removes the ads and adds exclusive stickers, FX effects and premium music.

AI Trim, AI Video Enhancer and Auto Captions Under Load

AI Trim arrived with the July 2026 update and cuts silences and filler words from clips automatically. AI Video Enhancer promises to unblur footage up to 4K, but reviewers in July and August 2026 say free users can enhance only a short clip before the Pro prompt, and one reports that processing locks the project until it finishes. The AI Video Stabilizer offers three strengths, named Minimal cropping, Ideal and Most stable. AI Auto Captions turn speech into an editable list of timed lines. In late September 2026, reviewers writing in English, Portuguese and Indonesian said captions had turned slow or stopped working after a recent update, including on paid plans. Text To Speech adds voices labelled Youthful, Friendly, Casual and Deep.

Shantanu Pte. Limited, a Six-Paragraph Policy and 360 Ad Systems

Google Play names Shantanu Pte. Limited, at Suntec Tower Three in Singapore, as the developer, under the same InShot Video Editor account that publishes InShot and YouCut, and inshot.com links to this listing. The privacy policy linked from Play is six short paragraphs headed InShot Inc. It says the company has no server to store personal data and names Facebook as its ad provider. The Data safety form is broader: approximate location, email address, device IDs, app interactions and crash logs are collected for analytics, none shared, with deletion on request. The developer's app-ads.txt authorizes about 360 ad systems, with direct accounts at Google, Meta, AppLovin, Pangle and Unity. Permissions include camera, microphone, storage, Bluetooth pairing and drawing over other apps. These are the developer's own disclosures.

Pro From $2.99 to $59.99, and the Restore Purchase Problem

Google Play lists in-app items from $2.99 to $59.99 in the US. Pro comes as a subscription, including a yearly plan, or a lifetime license; prices are regional and can change. At least eight English-language reviews from April to August 2026 say Pro status vanished or Restore Purchase failed; the developer's standard fix is to keep only the paying Google account signed in, restore, then add the others back. Other 2026 reviewers report a charge after a cancelled free trial, later refunded, and repeat payment attempts on an active yearly plan. Some also say an ad's close button opened the advertiser's page; the developer says third-party networks serve the ads. YouCut Pro costs $59.99 for life, InShot Pro $49.99 once, and CapCut's watermark is a deletable end clip.