Apple announces Clips video editing app for sharing videos


Apple announced an upcoming app for iOS geared towards quickly creating short videos for sharing. The app appears to streamlined way to make sharable content using a simple interface and animated captions.

Clips lets users create multi-clip videos on iPhone or iPad without timelines, tracks or complicated editing tools. Touch and hold a single button to shoot live video and photos, or add them from the Photo Library. Then add artistic filters, speech bubbles, shapes or emoji. Users can also add full-screen posters with animated backgrounds and customizable text. Clips has dozens of music soundtracks to choose from, and they automatically adjust to match the length of a video.

The app is expected to for free in April. It will require an iPhone 5s or later, and iPad Air or later iPad mini 2 or later, an iPod touch 6th Gen or later and iOS 10.3.