Photo & Video Tools
83 best Photo & Video tools and apps, curated and ranked by community upvotes on ProductCool. Updated daily as new Photo & Video products launch.
Narrative brings video editing, custom motion graphics, and reference-video style matching into one interface. Upload your footage, describe your edit, and keep refining through chat. Add music, sound effects, and transitions, or get inspiration from reference videos. From podcast clips to launch videos, create without learning Premiere or After Effects. We handle rendering and storage. Our launch video was made entirely in Narrative.
Record a memory or import an old voice note. Retold keeps the real voice and turns the story into a hand-drawn film and readable book. The sketches follow the people, places and little details as they are spoken, then every memory is kept together on your family shelf.
Record iPhone, iPad and Android app demos on your Mac. Add camera, mic, transitions, zooms and masks, then export polished videos and screenshots.
A macOS screen recorder that hands back a finished video. Zooms that follow the work, a framed camera and a background, exported at up to 4K on your Mac's own media engine.
MiniMax Design is a desktop app that wraps MiniMax H3 in a full production workflow. Describe the video, and agents handle the brief, stills, H3 clips, music, and edit on one canvas. Skills, a 3D director stage, and ComfyUI nodes stay there when you want more control.
🎬 An open source, transcript-based video editor that lives in the browser. Edit videos by simply editing the transcript text. Runs fully on your device or in the browser: Local, free and offline! Now available as a Desktop app on Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Since the last launch we've added: - More accurate transcriptions - Desktop app + Dark mode - Support for 5 languages - Export formats + ability to export as audio - Importing/exporting transcripts and captions.. and more!
🎬 Open source, transcript-based video editor that lives in the browser. Edit videos by simply editing the transcript text. Runs fully in the browser: Local, free and offline!
ChatCut is a lightweight, professional-grade AI video editor anyone can use, even without editing experience. It’s like having a personal video editing assistant that understands your footage, intent, and timeline. Make structural edits, fine-tune cuts, add captions, B-roll, music, voiceover, motion graphics, stock footage, and AI-generated video in one place. Every edit stays editable on a real timeline, with XML export when you want to keep working elsewhere.
GetCompress is a lightweight desktop app that quickly compresses videos, images, GIFs, PDFs in batches: get up to 90% smaller files with minimal quality loss. Save your time & keep files safe with offline compression. Drag files in and out, no extra clicks. Available for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Pixlie is an AI video studio for creators who want control—not a black-box generator. Browse your library, queue jobs in the cloud, and track renders in the app. Same account on pixlys.com and iOS.What makes it different: Text2Video, Image2Video, library & cloud queue Granular creative workflow not just “type and pray” Live on iOS App Store; Google play web at pixlys.com -Built solo by a refugee founder in Helsinki shipped fast, iterated in production
Multi-platform creators have a broken workflow: record landscape for YouTube, flip the phone, record again for Shorts. Or record once and spend 20 minutes cropping a second version that still looks off. Dualora fixes this at capture time — not in post. Open the app and you see both 16:9 and 9:16 framing live on screen while you shoot — Split View or Picture-in-Picture. Hit record. Export two files. Upload to two platforms. Done. No guessing. No re-shooting. No desktop detour. No Account.
AutoEdit helps content creators edit their videos 10x faster by turning raw footage into a clean rough cut in minutes. It works directly inside Adobe Premiere Pro as an AI Plugin. Claude AI understands content, automatically removing silences, filler words, bad takes, restarts, and repeated sections while generating captions and structuring timelines. Editors stay in control of creative decisions while AutoEdit handles the repetitive, boring work.
Permute is a quick image, audio, and video converter. You can use it for files of all formats because Permute can convert anything into anything (almost). For water to water-to-wine conversion, you’d have to refer to other authorities, but media files can become whatever format you need them to. Plus, Permute also has some additional goodies like merging two videos into one or adding a subtitle track.
Log Cam is iPhone camera app for filmmakers. Log Cam records HEVC and ProRes video from RAW frames with log gammas, monitoring tools, LUT support, and external storage recording.
ntsc-rs is a free, open-source VHS and analog TV video effect. Use it online in your browser, as a standalone application, or as a plugin for DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, and more.
Galleroo turns any Google Drive folder into a beautiful, password-protected client gallery in under 60 seconds. No re-uploading, no account needed for clients, and your photos never leave your Drive.
Most AI media tools want your data in the cloud. Invenio is built for your Mac. It gives your AI local access to your video and photo libraries. Type "man on a bike" – it finds the exact frame, understands the context, and lets you drag it directly into Premiere or Final Cut. No cloud, no tracking, 100% local via Apple Neural Engine. Works with TBs on external drives. Visual search and OCR are completely free.
knooth is a screen recording and video editing app for macOS with AI-powered editing built in. Record your screen, camera, microphone, or even iPhone/iPad screens directly from your Mac. Edit with a built-in timeline supporting video, audio, text, image, and shape layers. Add animations, transitions, AI captions, cursor auto zoom, filler word removal, audio cleanup, and fast exports. Everything runs locally on your Mac. No cloud uploads. Privacy first.
Snapseed 4.0 brings Google’s classic photo editor back with film looks, smart masking, batch edits, non-destructive workflows, RAW support, and a built-in camera. Free, with no ads, watermarks, or subscription.
MiniMax Hub is a desktop AI creative workstation that combines an AI agent, multimodal generation, visual canvas, workflow view, and reusable Skills. It can create and edit images, videos, audio, and text, work with local files, and automate creative workflows from natural language.
Stop switching apps to capture your screen. Snapr combines screenshots, recording, annotation, and video editing in one app for macOS & Windows. • Fast, handy annotation tools built in • Scroll capture for long pages • 60fps 4K recording with system audio + mic • Record iPhone/iPad from Mac • Style captures with backgrounds, shadows for polished output • Export presets: 4K, 1080p, 720p, GIF • Clean desktop mode Pay once, use forever. Free version available - no watermarks, no time limits.