Best Android apps to create slow-motion videos

best slow motion Android apps

Slow-motion videos are a great way to emphasize on detailing, making them so much fun to watch. With the slow-motion effect, you can transform a dull recording into an interesting video clip.

Most smartphones these days come equipped with a native slow-motion video recording feature. But if you don’t own a device that offers that or if you’re not satisfied with its slo-mo capabilities, there are a handful of apps that offer you the ability to create slow-motion videos.

In the following post, we’ve prepared a list apps that you can use on your Android device so that you’re able to make slow-mo videos with ease.

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InShot Video Editor

InShot Video Editor is among the most downloaded apps available on Google Play when you’re looking for a video editing tool. The app comes loaded with a video speed adjustment feature that lets you create slow-motion videos with as low as 0.2x speed. You can combine the speed adjustment option with a Freeze moment and a bunch of video filters and effects.

Since this is a full-fledged video editor, you can use the app to merge multiple video clips into a single video, add feature music as background sound, voice-overs, and extract audio from other videos. You can also customize your videos with transition effects, texts, stickers, emojis, and music fading.

PowerDirector by Cyberlink

Another willful choice you can make is the Power Director which was originally developed by CyberLink as a video editing software for Windows. The popularity of this software bought it to androids, resulting in an app that allows you to edit videos seamlessly and convert them into a slow-motion perfection.

The app comes with a tutorials section to help you understand the interface and use it skillfully. There’s an option to import videos directly from Google Drive and you can also add multiple audio tracks to your video. Power Director also allows you to choose from a range of stunning transitions and visual effects for your slow-motion clips to come up with a stunning video.

Quik by Go Pro

Developed by GoPro, Quik offers room for 360-degree customization for your videos and comes with a range of handy features for free. The app is easy to use and right off the bat, gives you the ability to adjust the speed of your videos to create Slo-mo clips. Quick offers a Smart Cuts feature that automatically tweaks your clips to make it attractive and you can choose from 23 themes that apply different transitions and graphics to your video.

As for being a full video editor, you can trim, rotate, reorder, pick your desired layout for your video clip and photos using Quik. There’s an option to add GPS Stickers to view how fast your motion while the inbuilt library of over 100 songs lets you add the perfect soundtrack to your creation.

VideoShow Video Editor

With downloads of over 100M, VideoShow has been one of the highly-rated video editor apps available on Google Play with over 4.6 stars rated by 5M+ users. You can make slow-motion videos by adjusting the speed and also create reverse playback videos in slo-mo for giving your clips the creative look.

The app additionally lets you add voice-overs, sound effects, filters, blurred backgrounds doodles, lets you create GIFs, and more. In addition to video speed, you can also adjust the speed of the audio inside a clip with the ability to add multiple music tracks to the same video at pre-defined intervals.

Funimate

Having achieved the Editor’s Choice on Google Play, the Funimate app lets you create slow-motion videos among its other features. It has all the classic video editor tools like cutting, merging, and trimming clips and you can also create short video loops with unique effects.

Funimate lets you try over 100 advanced video effects, add music to videos, and also make lip sync videos so that you can send it quickly on your favorite social media platform.

FilmoraGo

Created by Wondershare Technology, FilmoraGo is a free video editing app that has powerful tools to create unique clips. You can create slow-mo videos within the app using the native Video Speed adjustment option and make seamless editing by adjusting the sequence of the clips, arranging, trimming, and splitting them wherever necessary.

FilmoraGo additionally comes with soundtracks and sound effects, multiple audio track functionality, and timeline zoom when adding external audio samples to a video. There’s a canvas mode which allows you to add videos and photos to a plane surface with backgrounds and borders of your choice. Lastly, you get to add texts, stickers, and filters to any video like you would on other video editors.

Efectum

Efectum is a relatively new app on Google Play, compared to others mentioned in this list. However, that doesn’t stop it from standing out among the rest as the app has been mainly created with video speed adjustment in mind. You get to create slow-motion videos with Efectum but the app also lets you shoot fast motion clips, rewind videos, and time-lapse videos, all with different speed adjustments.

In addition to letting you adjust video speeds, Efectum offers you the means to add music to videos, has over 70 video filters, and a video cutter for cutting, trimming and merging clips according to your needs.

Film Maker Pro

Film Maker Pro has all the video editing tools necessary for creating unique clips. The app’s inbuilt Speed Control tool lets you create slow-motion & fast motion videos with reverse playback and cinematic time-lapse effects. Additionally, you can merge video clips into a single video, rotate, crop, compress, add blur backgrounds, and make create picture-in-picture videos using the app.

The app offers various blending modes to make videos with double exposure effect and you also get to add different layers of effects, text, music, image, sticker, and doodles. Users can create musical short videos with over 100 featured music tracks and there also a bunch of effects and filters to choose from like retro, VHS, and glitch.

Videoshop Video Editor

Videoshop Video Editor allows you to cut and trim your video to make a fine selection and add your desired sound effects or music to the video. The slow-motion and fast motion feature of the app enables you to convert a mundane clip to a super cool video.

Although, you can use the voice tool for slow-motion videos by paying for the pro version of the app as it doesn’t provide a free trial period. As far as normal video editing is concerned, the app allows you to add your desired audio track to your video recordings. You can even record your own sound and use it skillfully for your edited video to land up with an engaging media file.

Slow Motion Video FX

Slow motion Video FX app  - Official Trailer

Slow Motion Video FX is an app entirely dedicated to producing slow-motion videos. Unlike most other video editing apps on Play Store, it allows you to adjust the video speed for your preferred section of the video. You can even slow down the video speed for a section and pull it to fast forward for the remaining.

The only downside is the inability to export videos in HD in the free version. But you always have the option to buy the premium version of the app to export your edited videos in HD and get rid of the annoying ads that block your entire screen at times.


Expand your creativity with these slow-motion video apps and do let us know about the one you picked and why you chose it.

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