Clipomatic - Text on videos

First of all I love the app. It’s helping make my stories more inclusive. But the quality of the videos seems poorer and sometimes it takes too long to use. It’s not very convenient for longer videos. Some features of of other apps that I love is that they save a draft of the video in the app itself. Also direct sharing to Instagram as a story or post, as opposed to the way it’s done through the iOS share sheet. Also the ability to caption already made videos would also be a lifesaver. Sometimes I forget to use the app. Overall this is an A+ app!

Using the regular camera, I made a little video about the appliances in my kitchen. It only made one mistake. And it has the ability to change the mistake in its Editor. Just scroll down the list of words to the error, correct and save it, and you’re good to go! It is saved as a movie in your photos library. There are some little handles on each end of the video. I haven’t tried to see if they can trim or delete video mistakes. I hope so! But even if it doesn’t it’s a lot of fun!

The in app camera is awful. A side by side video test shows completely blown out white balance especially. You can only record in app so you can’t upload previously recorded clips and as mentioned before the camera in the app is awful. Text placement is not ideal. Extremely limited options. No adjustments can be add for placement or color. This seems so odd and font choices are not professional. I can’t believe how limited these options are. After you record a clip, you won’t find it in your camera roll as last video. It gets marked as being 50 years old by some weird quirk so you’ll have to go to the beginning of your camera roll which is very annoying especially if you have a lot of photos saved. 1 star only because audio transcription was fairly accurate. Still needed some correction but better than average. Please let us upload previously recorded clips if the in app camera is going to be such garbage and let us have some professional and not cartoon looking fonts in better placements. You’ve been seeing this same feedback for a year already! Where are any updates people are asking for?!

I am a sign language interpreter and love using this app for quick, accessible videos. I find the auto-captions are more accurate than Clips. However, I just lost another video (of many before) because I didn’t have time to edit the captions while the app was open, and it doesn’t save a draft. You have to have the video completely edited before saving to your camera roll, and if you close the app before that’s done, your video is gone. Such a bummer. I also do wish it had an option for videos over 60 seconds. But the draft save is my biggest frustration right now, and that’s where Clips has them beat.

The app does exactly what it says it will. As long as you speak clearly, it captions what you say. It’s great for making videos for IG stories. My complaint and the reason I didn’t give it a 5 star is depending on the text style you choose the text is stuck in that location on your video. The font I like is stuck in the center of the screen and there’s no way for me to put it on the lower third. If they add the option to choose where the text style goes on your video, I’ll change my review to 5 star. Other than that. It’s a great app! I highly recommend.