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It seems quite unfortunate for the education sector to lose the Clips app. There are few if any video editing apps that have the simplicity of narrating over photos/videos while pinching and zooming in real-time quite like the Clips app; easy enough for 6 year olds to use.
Apple announcement(?) here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/123359
I wonder if there will be an alternative coming or any way to feedback on this decision.
Also wondering what is everyone else’s thoughts on this.
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October 20, 2025
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Yes, kids will pick up quickly with guidance and a chance to explore. Clips were great as an easy first step, especially for teachers who may be initially reluctant to edit videos.
October 14, 2025
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I too was surprised by the Clips news. I was thinking - it seems like Apple is keeping iMovie simplistic (as compared to other 3rd party video editing apps like Luma Fusion and CapCut), so maybe there’s hope to bring the emoji, stickers, and speech transcription features from Clips to a future version of iMovie (yet still keep it simple). Fingers crossed. RIP Clips!
October 20, 2025
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I'm currently looking at introducing the recently released Adobe Premiere for iOS/iPadOS. It doesn't have the real-time pinch-zoom narration like Clips does, but the interface is relatively simple compared to the options you mentioned, and the automatic Closed Caption feature is not too bad (it doesn't work well for languages like Japanese). Still, just no the same though...
If anyone has some good alternatives that are similar to Clips and easy for 5-7-year-olds to pick up, please do share!
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October 13, 2025 .
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Whilst Clips had very little development over the past few years, it was a great free tool particularly for vertical video creation - which iMovie still lags behind on. As you've also mentioned - it was easy enough to pick up in K-2.
We do a yearly film festival competition for our students and it was a terrific tool for adding extra animations and effects to complement the timeline in iMovie.
Apple suggests 3 apps as replacements, but they're all based on In-App Purchases and/or Ads, and Apple's School Manager method of procurement doesn't include ways to upgrade to the full features.
DaVinci Resolve for iPad is very full-featured (even without upgrading to their full version), but it's also a lot more complex to learn and definitely not something a 6 year old could pick up.
A real shame that there's not a lot of effort being put in here by Apple when other creative tool vendors offer rich tools that are continually improving for free on the assumption that people will use them as they move into College and beyond.
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