Vlogging apps for iPhone – my top 8!

Producing video content to promote your personal brand, business and purpose is an excellent way to get noticed! Vlogging is a powerful option to bring personality and authenticity to your videos. Although most people still associate video production with sitting down at their computer, the power of modern smartphones means that recording and editing your vlog on the go as never been so easy! Here I want to share with you the top Vlogging apps for iPhone. There are some crackers!

I help people create video content that can amplify their business brand or purpose. When I have an initial consultation with people there are two excuses that regularly come up…

The two excuses stopping people from vlogging

When I work with professionals there’s a huge range of reasons why they don’t want to or feel like they can’t produce video content. It often comes down to one of two reasons:

1. Imposter syndrome – feeling like they have nothing of value to add or that people will think they are a fraud!
2. Technical capabilities – This comes in a couple of flavors. The first being that people believe they lack the skills to edit their content. The second is that they “don’t have the time” to edit content.

The truth is that both of these issues are easily overcome once you align your purpose with your content strategy.

Creating content to progress your purpose is the best killer of imposter syndrome. As your thought process goes from “why would anyone believe me” to “it’s another more opportunity to help people”.

And then, the technical capabilities are easier to acquire than ever before. Check out my recommended tools for vlog editing. If these services are still too expensive there’s a wide range of apps that you can use to produce your vlogs and video content.

These apps will allow you to produce video content with just your smartphone. But be warned – the message is the most important parts of the video not how fancy you can make it look!

Our top vlogging apps for iPhone

1: Quick – Amazing FREE Video Editor for iOS 

Quick application is straightforward to use for everyone who has iOS devices. This app is a massive benefit for vloggers and the greatest thing – it is 100% Free Version and suitable for iOS and Android users.

This application has excellent options for quickly editing your video footage, adding some background music or even video theme.

This application is being updated regularly at this point so that you will get the newest updates almost every single week.

Furthermore, this application exports your video at a decent speed and quality. You will be able to export 1080p or 720 quality videos straight to Facebook, Instagram, or your phone. Quality content has never been so easy to produce!

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 2: Splice – Video Editor and Maker for iPhones

Splice is a powerful video editing app for all iPhones and iPads. This application will help you to create and export a fully customized video for your YouTube channel in good quality.

It gets better:

This app has a lot of good reviews on the market, plus has won some awards a few years ago:

• The Best Video Editor for iPhone award in 2015;
• Best Use of Mobile Camera in 2016;
• Gold Award Winner for Best Mobile App in 2015;
• On the other hand, it has one drawback, which is that this app is dedicated and created only for iOS users.

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3: Magisto – Good Video Editor & Music Slideshow Maker

Magisto app is created for vloggers and video creators – lovers who are looking for a fast video editing app for the smartphone.

With this application, you can easily update and transform your current video into an eye-catching video clip or vlog.

Needless to say, that premium version has more features that default one, but it is enough to start with a FREE version to understand how does it work and how it could help you creating and updating your vlogs.

Apart from this, I have to add that the support works really well. So if you have any struggles with this application, I recommend sending the email to the support as soon as possible and they will solve your problem.

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4: FXGuru – Movie FX Director with Nice Effects

If you are the vlogger who wants to create a remarkable and highly professional video with your smartphone, you should start considering FXGuru software as the option.

Even though his application has some additional bonus features for the money, it gives you some free daily effects to download for free.

I guess it sounds fair enough, right?

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5: InShot – Video Editor and Maker [Trending App]

InShot is another fantastic free application for vloggers and video editors. This application is compact to use for Android or iPhone users either.

With this application, you could easily merge two or more clips into one, add some additional layouts, effects, filters, and crop or even split the video very fast and easy.

Another great feature is that you could easily export our customized video to any popular platform including YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook without additional struggles.

InShot is one of the most popular applications in the store for video editing and posting on the mentioned platforms.

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 6: FilmoraGo – Free Video Editor

FilmoraGo is another one of the best FREE application for vloggers to make your video even better. I have used Filmora go a lot to produce content and, if I have to edit on my mobile, I will use this app!

It comes highly recommended!

There are some other fancy features too that will help you create engaging videos. You will be able to use more stunning features like reverse mode, slow down and speed up, transitions, overlays and filters, text fonts and so on.

This app fits professionals and starters’ requirements ideally. It is effortless to use, upgrade your video, and upload it to your channel.

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7: Clips – Simple Video Editing App for iPhones

As you could understand from the title, this software works only with iPhones and iPads.

Despite the fact that the application is placed at 7th place of this list – this could be one of the priority apps for iOS users.

Also, it has a feature that adds automatic subtitles – something that I recommend every vlogger takes seriously. If you want more information on how to use subtitles check out my other article – click here!

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8: VidLab – Decent Tool for Fast Video Editing

In the 8th position of this best vlogging apps list, is VidLab. This software is a rich of beautiful font library, and it perfectly works if you decide to create a commercial video.

The application also has a massive collection of video effects. Some of them are 100% free, some of them require to be bought.

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Vlogging is more than fancy editing! How to structure your video

Even though we have covered the vlogging apps that you could use to record your vlog – that is not the most important thing!

Here are the things you should include in your vlog to make sure that you are being valuable to your audience!

The topic or theme

Each video should only be about one idea or concept. For content ideas, you can look at recent news and popular topics on a question and answer sites such as Quora and Reddit (look for a subreddit in your specialty). I’ve had huge success in using Anser the public and I talked about this in one of my LinkedIn vlogs:

The hook

The hook is the one reason someone would watch the video and should be an unresolved question or statement that provides intrigue.

This will be the first 5 seconds of your video. You can choose to have a title slide with the hook written on it but is best if it is a piece to camera. Look at the problems that your customers are facing for inspiration.

The problem you are solving

This is linked to the hook and topic but being crystal clear on the problem that you are talking about in the video will help when you come to record. Can the problem be broken down into smaller problems that would make a better, more focused, video?

Solution or question

This is where you’d be able to share your expertise to answer the question. I’ve also had great success by asking a question to my audience.

Call to action

Every video needs a call to action – this is where you ask the audience to do something like, comment to let you know that they think, hit the like button…keep the request simple and limited to a request that can be performed on the platform you are using – this will drive engagement and provide a boost to your video reach.

If you want a full toolkit on how to get started check out my FREE download here!