If you’re looking for an easy way to edit your home-shot videos, a video editing app might be your best bet. These apps are great for splicing, trimming and combining clips, adding text and transition effects, and more. Some of them even let you use music from your own library.

Easily make professional-looking videos with Adobe Spark

If you need an intuitive way to create short videos for Instagram, Stories and other social media platforms, you’ll want to check out Adobe Spark. This video editor has a clean and simple interface, making it great for beginners and seasoned users alike. Its templates and presets are perfect for creating bite-sized clips that are sure to attract viewers.

Sync your video to a song and add your own music tracks, narration, or sound effects. Plus, it has a number of unique features that you won’t find in other video editing apps, like the ability to overlay emoji and a blur background effect.

KineMaster is an easy-to-use video editor with smooth editing and precise frame-by-frame granularity, as well as support for multi-layers of video, images and text. It also includes instant edit previews, precise volume envelope control, colour LUT filters, speed controls, chroma key compositing and 3D transitions.

Another excellent video editing app for iOS, Filmmaker Pro provides everything you need to make award-winning productions. It’s packed with advanced tools, including superb green screen support, nearly 200 different fonts for your text overlays and chroma key compositing. It also offers 30 filters, 17 transitions and Audiometer assisted voiceovers.

The app is free, with in-app purchases for additional features. The trial version places a watermark on your videos and includes ads, while the Premium version removes those and unlocks all paid content.

ActionDirector is a popular Android video editing app that comes with a few unique features not found in other video editing apps, such as the ability to apply a’slow motion’ effect to video. This allows you to slow down or speed up your footage with precision, resulting in eye-catching slow-motion scenes that are sure to impress.

If you’re a photographer, you can use Quik to splice together your GoPro clips with a series of cool and quirky effects. The app is updated regularly to include new themes and music, plus its’smarter edits’ function is better than ever.

Splice makes it easy to splice, trim and combine clips for a professional-looking video. It has a built-in music library and has high Apple Store ratings, so it’s a popular choice for many users.

You can use text to speech with the app to add a personalized voiceover to your video. The text to speech tab is available in the sidebar and has a variety of languages, voices, styles and pitches for you to choose from. You can also adjust the speed of your voiceover and change its duration.

The app can be used as a standalone video editor, or it can be used in conjunction with other video editing apps, such as Movie Maker. In addition, it supports video formats up to 4k resolution on Android devices.