AI Video Editor - VivaCut

Review by eFreeware

Most phone video editors make you choose between speed and control. One-tap template apps get a clip out fast but leave little room to shape it, while full editing suites often assume you already know your way around a timeline. VivaCut, from developer Ai Propulse2026, sits in the second camp: it is a free Android editor that puts a layered timeline, chroma key and keyframe animation in front of you and expects you to use them.

The scale is hard to ignore. The app has passed 100 million installs and holds a 4.3 average from roughly 1.46 million ratings, which tells you a lot of people have at least got as far as pressing install. It has been on Google Play since June 2019, and the most recent update brought a redesigned editing interface and a language setting. Whether that depth is useful to you depends on what you are trying to make.

A timeline first, templates second

The foundation here is a multi-layer timeline with zoom, which the developer describes as allowing frame-by-frame precision. That matters more than it sounds. Layering means you can stack a background clip, an overlay and text as separate tracks and adjust each one without flattening the others, which is the difference between assembling a video and merely trimming one.

On top of that sit the standard building blocks: trimming, splitting and merging clips, plus speed control for fast and slow motion. Text is treated as a proper element rather than a caption afterthought, with a choice of fonts and emoji and adjustments for color, opacity, shadow and stroke.

Templates are the shortcut for anyone who does not want to build from scratch. They apply filters and effects automatically to a chosen video, which is the fastest route to something shareable. The two approaches coexist, so you can start from a template and then open it up on the timeline, or ignore templates entirely.

Green screen, masks and layer blending

The advanced side of VivaCut is where it separates itself from lighter editors. Chroma key and green screen support let you combine or replace backgrounds, and picture-in-picture lets you place one clip inside another for double exposures. Overlay controls cover opacity and blending, with modes including Color Burn, Multiply, Screen, Soft Light and Hard Light.

Masks come in linear, mirror, radial, rectangle and oval shapes, which is the usual toolkit for revealing part of a shot, framing a subject or building a split-screen look. Keyframe animation can be applied to masks, video collage, text, stickers and emoji, so an element can move or change over time instead of sitting static for the whole clip.

Collage tools let you bring still pictures into a video project alongside footage. None of this is unusual in desktop software, but having it on a phone in a free app is the appeal. I would expect the learning curve to be real, though: keyframes and blend modes reward experimentation, and the results depend on how much patience you bring.

Music, effects and getting the cut to the beat

Audio gets more attention than I expected. A music marker lets you flag points on a track and attach effects to the rhythm, which is the practical way to make cuts land on the beat rather than near it. Audio extraction pulls the sound out of a video so it can be reused elsewhere in a project.

Effects cover transitions, adjustable filters and glitch looks, and they can be layered onto the same clips you are already cutting. Combined with the music tools, that covers the style of edit that tends to do well on short-form platforms, where a transition and a beat drop are doing much of the work.

Export options and what the app asks in return

Finished projects can be exported at 720p, 1080p or 4K, and renamed before they leave the app. Files save to the device gallery, and sharing is a one-tap affair to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and similar services. The export resolution choice is worth thinking about in advance, since 4K files are considerably heavier than 1080p ones for anything headed to a social feed.

The app is free to download and offers in-app purchases. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is switched off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and the account is charged for renewal within the 24 hours before that point, according to the developer's own terms. If you are considering a subscription, those are the mechanics to keep in mind.

The recent update replaced the editing interface and added a language option in settings, so anyone returning after a break will find a different layout from the one they remember. Depth also has a cost in time: a multi-layer timeline with keyframes is not the tool for trimming a clip in thirty seconds.

Built for people who want to shape the edit

VivaCut makes most sense for someone who already has opinions about how a video should look and wants the tools to carry them out on a phone. If you are cutting a short film, assembling a layered montage, or building a green screen composite for a channel, the combination of timeline, masks, keyframes and blending gives you room that simpler editors do not.

It also suits people producing for social platforms who want transitions, filters and beat-matched cuts in one place rather than moving between apps. The template route shortens the path for anyone who would rather not build every element by hand.

Where it asks more of you is in the editing itself. Chroma key and keyframe work take practice, and the payoff scales with the effort you put in. Someone who wants a filter applied and a clip posted in a minute will find the app offers more than they need.

A layered editor worth the learning time

VivaCut is a capable, free Android editor with an unusually broad feature set for its price of entry. The multi-layer timeline, chroma key, masks, keyframe animation, blending modes, audio tools and 4K export add up to something closer to a desktop editing suite than a quick-fix filter app, and the install numbers suggest plenty of people have found a use for it.

The trade-offs are the ones that come with that ambition. There are ads and in-app purchases, the subscription renews automatically on the terms the developer sets out, and the advanced tools take time to learn. The redesigned interface in the latest update is also a change worth expecting if you have used the app before.

I would point this at anyone who wants to build videos rather than just decorate them: hobbyist editors, small creators and people putting together layered projects for social channels. If your goal is a fast, filtered clip with minimal fiddling, the depth here is more than the job requires.

What's new in version 4.5.2

1.All brand new editing UI 2.Now,you can change language in settings