Kapwing

4.4 (199)
Collaborative Video Editing

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4.4 /5
(199)
Value for Money
4.3/5
Features
4.4/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.1/5

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Cricri
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

a really useful tool

Reviewed on 02/08/2022

Very useful tool to quickly transform your videos into shorts. Time saving and easy to use. Free...

Very useful tool to quickly transform your videos into shorts. Time saving and easy to use. Free version available. I recommend it.

Pros

Very easy to use, allows you to resize 16:9 format videos into short videos very quickly.
I like the fact that the visual can be easily seen again.

Cons

The picture quality is a bit worse than the original

Daniel
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I love Kapwing!

Reviewed on 11/05/2023

Pros

I can quickly and easily make custom videos for a variety of platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc). There are TONS of templates, video clips, elements, etc. It helps my videos look professional. I have very little video experience, and yet I was able to pick up the ins and outs of Kapwing very quickly and easily.

Cons

I wish there were a few additional editing features - for example - controlling how long fades are (as opposed to picking "fast" or "slow"). I wish there were FX that would sync to my audio (like BeatLeap).

Eldar
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Kapwing can save you time with adding video subtitles

Reviewed on 25/05/2022

Kapwing has potential, and its feels the team of it is working on it with love and I believe its...

Kapwing has potential, and its feels the team of it is working on it with love and I believe its can get better

In any way it can save you significant time in positioning the subtitles in your video and this is my main use with the tool, it is better to edit the video in professional software and use Kapwing as an add-on to the subtitles job.

Pros

*The tool helps to create subtitles for a video automatically, with AI it detects the words of the person in the video and writes what he is saying, and it can be done with several languages including automatic translation into a different language from the one heard in the video. but you still have to check the subtitles boxes and fix the mistakes of the AI, any way it saves you time with the subtitles placing job on the video timeline.

*when you export a video it optimizes nicely the file size.
*you can download and upload srt file easily and apply it to the video.

Cons

*There are still some bugs especially with long videos you can suffer from not saving work with the subtitles or some subtitle parts that just disappear and it can cause double work, until it fixes I protect my work with downloading the srt file and upload it.

*Sometimes the editing tools there feel basic and messy compared to the familiar editing software, it is difficult to cut a specific in your video.

Eric
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Kapwing has it all!

Reviewed on 30/03/2023

Amazing!

Amazing!

Pros

I create professional-looking videos with no previous video creation experience.

Cons

The dev team continues to create new features. I don't keep up with everything new.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Games
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

video editor for beginer

Reviewed on 21/12/2022

i m usong it for editing my video for youtube overall it is good

i m usong it for editing my video for youtube overall it is good

Pros

First of all it is easy to use and its interface is just WOW i m using it

Cons

If its price can be low its can be a masterpiece for begginer

Navish
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

I hope the product improves. It has a lot of potential. But at this point, it is purely...

Reviewed on 02/06/2020

Pros

1. This software is definitely one of the easiest video editing softwares you will find in the market to use.
2. A majority of its features are available for free, so 5/5 on value for money there.
3. The auto-subtitle feature is great. It helps you get started with 75% of the work and then you can simply edit it to have subtitles done in 1/4th the time.

Cons

1. The software, atleast the main overall tool - Studio - is incredibly clunky. It is ridden with bugs. It also fails to save properly and you keep losing a bunch of your work. As an exmaple of its bugs, right now I am facing a problem where a trimmed portion of the video is showing up on the final export and the subtitles are all off-sync from it too. Exported it multiple times! Argh!
2. It provides zero indication if its actually doing any processing or not in the background and occasionally just "hangs". Which is weird for a software on the cloud.
3. An immense number of basic features are just pure lacking that I feel are necessary - an undo/history feature, transition features that are actually use-able, audio adjustment across layers, export of entire video's subtitle file (can only export individual layer).
4. The export quality simply is not high. Even when you choose the 1080p option. It also dampens the audio in the video for no reason!
4. Looking for its training center feels like a maze. Once you find it, there is a small bunch of tutorial articles that are decent but is the barest minimum you can think of. But beyond that, the resources section reads more like marketing material that gets ridiculous to go through!

Hamza
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing Video Editing Software

Reviewed on 09/12/2022

Pros

It works like a charm, works quickly, and has no bugs, what more could you ask for?

Cons

Nothing to dislike. I love everything about it.

jANINE
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Teacher Kia

Reviewed on 05/04/2023

Pros

The fact that it makes my video look professional

Cons

I'm a complete novice, so I found it frustrating that there wasnt a delete button to delete videos I didn't want

Tom
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing tool for easy and quick content creation

Reviewed on 03/08/2020

A brilliant content creation tool for social media that has a tonne of features available even in...

A brilliant content creation tool for social media that has a tonne of features available even in the free version.

Pros

Kapwing is an incredible tool for social media content creation, be it GIF's, images, videos, it has a suite of tools to create awesome looking content in minutes.

Cons

May take some time for absolute beginners to wrap their head around. Could do with a mini tutorial for new users.

Rick
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

My secret weapon in media

Reviewed on 19/12/2018

Kapwing makes me look better at my job than I actually am.

Kapwing makes me look better at my job than I actually am.

Pros

There are so many things I can user Kapwing for - but I found it because I needed to resize videos for Instagram. After that, I just continued to find new ways I needed Kapwing. Always works, doesn't cost a ton of time or money, and more features keep coming.

Cons

My only complaint is limited mobile use, but it's clearly not the focus here.

Robin
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

AN EARLY REVIEW OF KAPWING

Reviewed on 28/03/2020

I use it primarily to create versions of my original photographs to suit Instagram's aspect ratio...

I use it primarily to create versions of my original photographs to suit Instagram's aspect ratio limitations without undesirable cropping. I am retired from business and so Kapwing's free option is very important to me - It enables me to remain creative.

Kapwing technical support and response is very good and the user feels that they care and that you are not abandoned after they have created their software as is the case with some app developers.

Pros

I particularly like its straightforward interface and that also that my images are not spoilt by Kapwing credits - In gratitude I always credit #kapwing on social media and recommend it to others.

Cons

It can be a bit clunky when uploading an image and Tool Tips would make it much easier. My learning curve has mostly been by experiment!

After uploading an image it often doesn't automatically show for selection in my Workspace and consequently can be difficult to find.

Ben
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Social Media Manager Essential Tools

Reviewed on 21/12/2018

Their team has always been very responsive in helping me with any questions I've had. I can't wait...

Their team has always been very responsive in helping me with any questions I've had. I can't wait to see this product become more widely used in helping content creators reach their audiences effectively like they have done for me.

Pros

This tool should be in every social media account managers bookmark list. I use this daily to help with video editing. Even if you're a pro video editor, their is no need to be spending hours trying to get the format correct. Kapwing does the hard work for you.

Cons

No real cons, this service is solid. My only wish list request would be the ability to have an archive of the videos I've already worked on. So incase the client needs something edited/resized I don't have to reupload.

Alan
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Nothing else compares!

Reviewed on 11/09/2021

Not sure how I found Kapwing but it has been the most efficient video creating tool we have,

Not sure how I found Kapwing but it has been the most efficient video creating tool we have,

Pros

It simply has all the features any business would need regardless of skill level.

Cons

Any previous Cons have always been removed as the program improves.

Buddhika
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  • Industry: Online Media
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Ideal software for video editing

Reviewed on 20/11/2020

This is one of the best software which I used to edit videos.

This is one of the best software which I used to edit videos.

Pros

I have used this software in several times to edit some videos which I uploaded to my youtube channel. honestly I would like to recommend this as the best video editing software, even for the beginners. Because I had very basic knowledge about video editing. But I could edit my videos easily, up-to my expected level. Actually it is an user friendly software which work & complete our tasks easily. Also we have an option to create our videos without any water marks in Kapwing, on free of charge. It is an unique facility which we can't see in the other software in similar category.

Cons

I would like to see some more animation tools. because the provided tools are very basic & sometimes its not looks suitable for some videos.

Timothy
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

Do not buy! The functionality of this product is the absolute worst...

Reviewed on 25/05/2020

You might get the job done eventually, but it will be like pulling teeth 10x. Honestly the people...

You might get the job done eventually, but it will be like pulling teeth 10x. Honestly the people who designed the piece of junk should be ashamed that they charge for it. I'm not making this up. Do not pay these people any money! There are so many other video apps out there. Please do yourself a favor and stay clear.

Pros

It's pretty simple to figure out how to use. After a few minutes of tinkering around with it you can pretty much figure out all that you need to know about how to make a video.

Cons

The functionality of the product is downright shameful. I've never used anything before so riddled with bugs and malfunctions. It's freezes every time. If you try to refresh the screen it makes you wait 10 min for it to reload. If you upload a new video it actually corrupts some of the other videos that have already been uploaded. It actually gets more buggy the more you use it. If you upload audio in it it never plays correctly and constantly plays scratched videos out of sync. Due to the horrible functionality of the product it took me most of Saturday and ALL DAY Sunday to finish a project that really shouldn't have taken longer then 30 min. This is the most frustrating piece of junk I've ever used. They should give me my money back.

Davide
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  • Industry: Sports
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Terrible on site experience and CS experience

Reviewed on 28/11/2020

I would call this a 0/10

I have extensive experience with tech. I tried using their product, it...

I would call this a 0/10

I have extensive experience with tech. I tried using their product, it would not load my videos, when it finally did the caption service did not work.

I canceled within 2 hours and asked for a refund. I was denied one (this is illegal).

i did not care about the 27 dollars, as a matter of fact I even offered to donate $100 toa. charity of their choice and send a receipt, but they never answered.

I am writing this review not because of the $27 but because their product failed and they refused to take ownership and give me a refund. This is terrible CS and user experience.

There are far better options, one of them is veed.io

Pros

Nothing to like, justa. terrible experience.

Cons

I tried using the software for captions. There were so many glitches and it wasted me 2 hours of my time

Adam
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I was looking for an editor for TikTok videos

Reviewed on 11/09/2021

I love Kapwing! It's all I use for my content creation at the moment.

I love Kapwing! It's all I use for my content creation at the moment.

Pros

I was looking for an editor for TikTok videos and Kapwing was the only one that felt like a plug and play tool. Sure, you have to now how to use it, but it's really simple! I don't care to use anything else especially for subtitles. They friggin' auto-generate them! You can adjust it and all. Especially on TikTok with motivational content, that makes a huge difference instead of looking sloppy like everyone else. Get Kapwing and make it happen!

Cons

It's a little quirky everyone now and then with snipping clips, but nothing bad.

Angela
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Efficient, Effective, Incredibly Valuable.

Reviewed on 30/01/2021

Twitter is the form of social media I utilize the most and their team is highly responsive to DMs...

Twitter is the form of social media I utilize the most and their team is highly responsive to DMs and @replies.

Pros

Personally, I've never been really tech savvy and this software is so intuitive that it actually makes me want to learn more about tech :-)

Professionally, our team utilizes Kapwing for captioning and I value that there's the capability to upload customized fonts . Also the workspaces have never glitched and have saved my content even at times I didn't need it to! :-)

Happy all around. Can't say enough about how innovative and important this software is.

Cons

Nope! Routinely utilize Kapwing and very grateful for the team!

Betarik
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Awesome tool

Reviewed on 16/09/2021

simple animation and video presentation

simple animation and video presentation

Pros

Build your visual presentation was never easy until I use this tool. Very easy and straight forward functionality.

Cons

more animation and effect will bring it to a higher level

Sophie
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Get it now. Stop wasting time. Kapwing will blow your mind.

Reviewed on 05/01/2022

Amazing.

Amazing.

Pros

Kapwing is for EVERYONE. I don't care what you do. If you do anything with sound, video, etc you need this. Even if you don't, you STILL need this so that you can start discovering the power of audio and video in your business. Get to it.

Cons

Haven't found anything yet that is displeasing. I am extremely grateful for this software and how delightful it is to use.

Amanda
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  • Industry: Performing Arts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Invaluable Product

Reviewed on 01/04/2022

It took me a while to learn what I need to use it. There are lots of features that I still don't...

It took me a while to learn what I need to use it. There are lots of features that I still don't understand, so I don't use them. Overall though, I love this website and software!

Pros

I can't live without this video editing software. It is invaluable to me as an independent voice teacher. I have young students and often need to shorten songs, tracks, and Mp4s, so being able to edit them to accommodate my students is awesome!

Cons

I wish there was a way to lower the volume on the vocals or take them out.

Cherene
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Glitchy with bad customer service

Reviewed on 09/12/2022

I am actually very disappointed. I am not one to write bad reviews, but their disregard for...

I am actually very disappointed. I am not one to write bad reviews, but their disregard for customer service just left a bad impression.

Pros

They have a few cool features for creating social media content. I Enjoyed there smart cut feature.

Cons

Very glitchy. Oftentimes, when you export the elements, will move around the screen. Even after reviewing and editing. It's not good for videos over 5 minutes; anything longer, moves too slowly. Also, I was a few hours late before the cancellation. They would not provide a refund or take responsibility for their glitchy software. This is even after I have donated 1 hour of a live video interview to give their company feedback on their software. I was on a trial, then worked with the software for a month before onboarding my entire team. Yet, no refund on a month that we were no longer going to use.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

The Online editing King

Reviewed on 15/10/2020

I came across Kapwing when I was away from my main work device (with my more professional video...

I came across Kapwing when I was away from my main work device (with my more professional video editing software), and needed to get a quick edit done. I searched around online and came across it, and it was a life saver.

Pros

Being able to simply sign in with your Google account (not necessary but essential if you want access to your work/drafts later in one place), the UI being simple and clear to understand: making it easy to trim videos, and create quick and simple instructional videos for social media, and best of all, being able to paste a Youtube video link and work on it within Kapwing is what I love most.

Cons

Since I use the software to make quick video edits on my phone/tablet-on-the-go. The video processing is an absolute nightmare; it gives you no indication that something is at least happening, which really drives me crazy at times.

Arvind
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Kapwing is the captain

Reviewed on 14/06/2022

I keep checking out others... but Kapwing takes the cake and wins by a mile....

I keep checking out others... but Kapwing takes the cake and wins by a mile....

Pros

Drag drop, the integrated video-creation environment, quick, responsive..
Can take all that you throw at it

Cons

Pricing.... give me something better.. please

Robert
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Robert Lee's Review

Reviewed on 13/09/2021

It's been very positive. I haven't had any problems.

It's been very positive. I haven't had any problems.

Pros

I can figure out how to use it quickly. It's a wonderful service that I really appreciate, because I need it. It's the only one that I found that fulfills my needs.

Cons

I wish I could make longer videos. There are times that my video is longer than 7 minutes. In those instances I have to make 2 videos instead of one.