Magisto Video Editor & Maker

Don’t believe the high reviews. The old magistro editor was superb & award winning. 5 stars all the way. These high reviews are for that editor! But Vimeo bought Magistro out for millions. They then revamped the editor. Changed everything. Made it more expensive, corporate looking & soulless. Nobody is liking this new editor because it’s a money grab. It’s loaded with bugs and it barely works and it’s been that way for months. The once amazing effects are now replaced with really childish ones. It’s artistic cheese. It’s often so buggy that it takes hours to get a video looking presentable at best. And then if your lucky enough for it to not have a bug during the saving process where you can actually save your work without it saying “error can’t save”. Which is the case, 45% of the time. This new editor is so bad now it should be a $5 dollar one time fee. I’m so disappointed. Magistro team: Can’t you see how the old magistro editor had amazing effects ?? Can’t you see how the replacement effects are just really generically bad? You once had an amazing product that gave us more customization … Now you just have a PR team that lies and says it’s so much improved when you know that’s just bogus fluff.

Note: Here's how to cancel the trial. A lot of people are having trouble cancelling because the instructions in the terms of service are misleading. If you try to cancel through the app itself, it won't work and you'll still get charged. Here's the correct way to cancel. Go to your iPhone Settings/iTunes and AppStore, then tap Apple ID at the top. Tap View Apple ID and sign into your Apple account. Scroll down and tap Subscriptions. You'll see a list of all your subscriptions. Under "Active," tap Magisto Video Editor. Scroll all the way to the bottom and tap Cancel Subscription. It will still let you use your trial up until the day it expires, but you won't be charged, it will just automatically expire. Anytime I do a free trial, I immediately do this right after so that I won't be charged because it will still let me use the trial for the full duration, and I've never once been charged. ***************************************** Review: Tried the free trial of the pro membership. For $30 a month you could get Adobe Premiere, which is professional software. This app has hardly any features. There are free and $5 apps that have more features than this app, like Cute Cut, iMovie, and InShot. I downloaded it because the description said it had anti-shake stabilizing. It didn't do anything to fix the shaking, and there was no option to turn that on. It gives you no control over the effects. There are only a few templates to choose from. Very little customization options. I was disappointed.

So far- 15 minutes in- I’m not a fan—BUT, gimme a minute more and let’s see what this thang can do... In response to staff inquiry: First, thank You for your response, it’s good to know that the developers ARE listening. Second, I apologize for the untimely follow-up and upon your notification I immediately searched my inventory for your app to refresh my overall review. After realizing I’d deleted it from my downloads, I went back to figure out why. Instantly I recalled the experience I had, and simultaneously experienced it again. From the gate, I’m bombarded with in-app purchases— ones that actually require the app to work well at all. The selections I’m left with WITHOUT coming straight from my pocket, do not compare to the apps I have used for several years- and that DO NOT hinder my video process by constantly soliciting up-sales. I understand everybody has to make money- I understand technology is not free nor is ANYTHING, however if I DO download a FREE app (and they all have in-app purchases) I want to be able to use it WITHOUT a salesman at every turn. In fairness regarding what your app actually does— for the Novice, unexperienced, super-busy, or just unimaginative person- my opinion is that it DOES make the process easier. For those people, this is probably a good start- for ‘not’ those people, i would believe it’s not much use. Again, thank you for taking time to listen to your public. Z.