7 Creativity-boosters to Get in 2025
December 20, 2024
Here’s our top list of incredible apps that will take your video editing, animating, and creative vision to the next level! Whether you’re making videos professionally or just doodling on your tablet, creative apps like KineMaster, Spring, AniToon, and VideoLUT can transform ordinary videos into masterpieces!
Every app here can go with you in a pocket or a backpack, making these essential tools not just creativity powerhouses, but also immediately accessible, no matter what you’re doing or where you are! Save yourself some guesswork downloading apps that don’t deliver and check out these 7 essential apps for all of your video editing, animation, color correction, time-lapse, and photo correction needs.
1. KineMaster
The Best Video Editor!KineMaster is a powerful app that lets you make professional-quality video edits on mobile with no compromises. KineMaster’s intuitive interface and advanced features let beginners and experts alike easily create amazing videos. KineMaster now offers an even more powerful editing experience with the addition of keyframe graphs and incredible AI tools.
- A full editing toolkit:KineMaster has everything you could ever need for basic editing: cutting, splicing, speed adjustments, easy L- and J-cuts, and pan & zoom tools.
- Keyframe animation: Add movement to everything from chyron text to character animations with keyframes!
- High-resolution output: Save at up to 4K and 60FPS for the ultimate high-quality content.
- AI power: Save time with AI editing features like background removal, automatic subtitle generation, lots of AI graphic style filters, and personalized music recommendations.
- Chroma key: Keep the focus front and center by removing green screen backgrounds for crisp, clear video cutouts!
- Template and asset store: Get inspired with video templates made by editors from around the world. Then, expand your own video horizons with KineMaster’s enormous library of royalty-free music, stickers, and VFX.
2. Spring
A powerhouse editor with a clean, modern design!Optimized for editing vertically, Spring is a must-have for creating content that stands out on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. It’s a simple and fast video editor that lets you bring your creative ideas to life.
- Watermark-free high-quality videos: Spring lets you save your videos without the usual limitation of a watermark.
- Optimized for vertical editing: Dust off your drafts and turn them into sensations for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, or TikTok!
- Video templates for inspiration: Spring gets your creativity going with a ton of video templates that make getting started on your next video easy!
- Get your next song, royalty-free: Spring gives you access to a huge variety of trendy background music and sound effects.
- Color filters and effects: Spring isn’t just for casual editors! It comes packed with color filters, transitions, effects, VFX and more!
- 4K videos: Save your high resolution videos the way they were meant to be seen, sharp and clear!
3. AniToon (iOS only)
Simplify animation creation!AniToon lets you animate your drawings with fun, easy-to-use tools and features designed to get you going fast. From quick one-off sketches to complex, multi-layered animations, AniToon lets you make your imagination move! AniToon’s integration with KineMaster allows you to further refine your animation and integrate it with complex video editing workflows.
- Create realistic animated motion with onion layers view
- Copy and paste frames for quick between-keys work
- Add and animate text and subtitles
- Import and export a variety of animation formats
- Add background video and images, then animate over it!
- Add stickers and music from KineMaster
4. VideoLUT (for iOS)
Make videos cinematic, aesthetic, psychedelic with VideoLUTThousands of presets, fully custom color spaces; for creative color control, this app is hard to beat. VideoLUT lets you import, apply, and edit LUT files and apply them to your videos and images. The sheer number of filters to try can be overwhelming, but it also lets you really focus your creative vision through experimentation.
- Professional color correction tools
- 2,500 color presets
- Adjust and save custom LUT files, share them with compatible apps
- Split-tone, auto white balance, and preprocess RAW photos
- Full support for LUT file types
- Export new LUTs to your device or to your cloud storage
- Adjust RGB channels, HSL, CMYK, LAB, and Skin Masks and Curves
5. Skyflow (for iOS)
Get ready to capture incredible time-lapse videos! Skyflow comes with a robust toolkit of ways to make time-lapse videos really stand out including low-light boost, light trails and motion blur, HDR bracketing, a horizon stabilizer, and much more. Export your videos and then edit them further with any video editor, including KineMaster or Spring.
- Full manual mode for total camera control with exposure bracketing
- Export at 4K and up to 600 FPS
- Long exposure effects: light trails and motion blur
- Noise reduction and camera stabilization
- RAW support for professional video creation workflows
- Geotagging and metadata controls
- Lens correction
6. Velocity Lapse (for Android)
Incredible timelapse videos and images for AndroidVelocity Lapse is an app that helps you take truly amazing timelapse shots.
- Export ultra high-resolution 8K, 4K, FHD, and HD video, or images to the Gallery app
- Manual camera settings: adjust ISO, shutter speed, focus, and white balance
- Customized capture intervals
- Add date and timestamps to each capture
- Import images from your gallery as a project that you can preview and export to video
- Change the project storage location to save to internal or external SD card storage
7. Hypic (Android & iOS)
Photo editing and AI rolled into oneHypic gives you useful photo editing tools in a mobile photo editor that’s simple to use. Make your photos stand out with AI filters and effects for TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, or use them in KineMaster, Spring, and Capcut video projects.
- AI Photo editing tools like background removal, image quality enhancement, AI beauty filters, and a range of trendy effects and templates.
- Create photo collages and bring wild elements to even the most mundane images!
- Add studio lighting and image projections
- Share directly to social media
Boost your creative productivity in 2025!
No matter what kind of videos you plan to make in the coming year, all of these apps will help you create astonishing content for both professional use and pure personal pleasure. From video editing and animation to filming and image creation, these apps are sure to help you make the most of your phone or tablet. 😊
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