Capcut

Came over from the other editing app I used and this is way quicker to get going with. Sign up was painless, took about a minute. Only thing is the export took a bit longer than I'd like on my phone, but the finished clip looked fine and I've used it three times this week already.

I have been using this since it first came out and compared it with the big desktop programs, which felt like overkill for family videos. It's stayed simple while adding new features, and the mobile version syncs fine with my laptop. Nothing has let me down in years of use.

I started a small cooking channel and needed something to edit the videos without a big learning curve. Signed up on the site and had my first video done by the evening. The free version has a watermark which is fine for now but I'll probably pay when I post more often.

I needed to cut down a long webinar recording for our team and a mate told me to try this. Signing up took about two minutes and the free version did the job. The export was a bit slow on my laptop but the result looked fine.

The effects library is ridiculous, there is something for every edit I wanted to try. Made a few transitions for my dance clips and they looked proper. Mine's on the free plan and it still does what I want.

The keyframe controls and masking tools are what I bought it for, and they behave the way a proper editor should. I've been editing for years so I notice when a tool lags or the timeline glitches, and this rarely does. The auto-caption accuracy is good enough that I only correct a few words per video. Exporting at high resolution takes a while on longer projects but the quality holds up. Happy to keep paying for it.

I took out the Pro plan for the extra storage and the templates for my shop's social posts. I compared it with two other apps first and this came out cheaper for what I needed. The renewal email turned up a few days before I expected, which annoyed me. Support took a while to reply when I asked how to cancel one feature.

I've edited for years so I know my way around, and the tools are decent for the money. The auto-caption feature missed a few words in my last clip and the fix took ages. Export also kept failing on the first go, so I had to try a couple of times.

The auto captions were the thing that got me, they were nearly all right first time. I'd tried two other editors and both needed loads of fixing by hand. The Pro subscription is a bit more than the others but I'm using it most days.