Is there a good app for trim and edit videos?
Prime Gap: 40 apps already serve this, and 62 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to trim and edit videos, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| no video editing support | missing-feature | 3 | no se puede editar en videos |
| video-editing-cuts-content | ux | 1 | Editing anything is literally trash and will cut half your video off |
| cannot trim video | bug | 1 | обрезать видео не может |
| forced video trimming/cropping | ux | 1 | I absolutely hate that FB Messenger forces you to trim videos down. I don’t want to crop my videos |
| trimming audio and video too complicated | ux | 1 | Makes the simple functions of trimming audio and video into overcomplicated time consuming headaches |
| video editing support | missing-feature | 1 | request to add on it to edit even videos |
| hard to edit videos | ux | 1 | ứng dụng dở tệ, khó chỉnh sửa videos |
| removed video editing tool | missing-feature | 1 | them removing the video vsco tool |
| cannot trim/shorten clips in My Movie | missing-feature | 1 | for the my movie thing you can make stuff shorter |
| video editing removed | missing-feature | 1 | FaceApp video kaldırılmış |
| restore video editing | missing-feature | 1 | Верните ,пожалуйста , возможность редактировать не только фото, но и видео |
| clunky video editing | performance | 1 | when using anything video related or with high resolutions, moving elements tends to be very clunky |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Videdit - Handy Video Editor | 4.5 | 648 | $0.99 |
| VivaVideo - Video Cut & Editor | 4.8 | 280,007 | Free |
| Audio Trimmer - Trim Audio | 4.5 | 114 | $2.99 |
| VN: Photo & Video Editor | 4.8 | 307,784 | Free |
| VivaVideo - Video Cut & Editor | 4.3 | 12,330,498 | Free |
| Video Up! Video Editor & Maker | 4.6 | 94,681 | Free |
| Videoshop - Video Editor | 4.9 | 363,461 | Free |
| Wonder Video Editor Crop Video | 4.0 | 527,831 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 84 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
5 attempts, 4 stale or abandoned despite a former 510-star leader — a decaying field with no maintained winner.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| jaiobs/OptiVideoEditor-for-android | stale | 510 | Kotlin |
| tizisdeepan/VideoEditor | stale | 235 | Kotlin |
| cdpenggod/CDPVideoEditor | stale | 100 | Objective-C |
| aslamhus/VideoEditor | active | 56 | JavaScript |
| fahimfarhan/SimpleVideoEditor | abandoned | 47 | Java |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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