Spool - Music Video Editor 4+

Excellent customer service and a one of a kind app

Haven’t found another app with this much baked into it and none of the others allow you to actually export your video like Spool does, you have to screen record which degrades audio and is 1:1 time. Spool quickly exports and doesn’t charge you piecemeal for additional features like the other apps do. When you subscribe, you get it all.

And then there’s the customer service. Ben went above and beyond to troubleshoot my extremely niche issue and quickly found a solution. There are humble, passionate people behind this app and it’s worth the subscription. 10/10

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this review. It means a lot to hear this type of feedback. We're always here for our users and we're glad we were able to help troubleshoot your issue. We are so happy you're enjoying Spool.

Wrong Images Exported

UPDATE FROM 1 STAR REVIEW

Was unable to export the movie I had created with 1 of the decks I had chosen. Tried many different ways to determine if fault was on my end; restarting app, deleting all video and starting again, etc..the problem-a specific clip of the movie wouldn’t export and instead included a clip I hadn’t picked which ruined the movie altogether (if 1% of the video is incorrect, it throws the intended experience). I finally found a workaround to make a video to my liking. It involves exporting many different versions of different decks/videos and assembling a movie in my personal video program. I have found that this way I am able to create a much more robust video instead of just using 12 videos from a single deck, now I am creating with spool’s full library. Admittedly it is a LOT more work than just creating in the app and exporting a whole video in 1 go, and I am losing some fidelity of image in compressing a second time after a second export from my personal editing program, but I am finding MANY more clips to use and am now happy with the results. Just a heads up though, some clips don’t export properly. But overall the app is pretty cool with many options. You may need to be willing to dedicate some time for a desired result

Could be really great.

I think this app has a ton of potential but as it is it’s purely amateur. The primary missing piece is bigger decks. As it is currently, you can create a “deck” out of up to 12 video clips. You press record, and it plays your song and then you can tap each of your 12 pads in rhythm to the song (like a drum machine except triggering video clips instead of sounds). It’s a very fun concept and a super intuitive way to make a video. Rather than slaving away in front of a video editor for hours you could make a music video intuitively in the time it takes to listen to the song. The effects are decent. The only problem is you run out of clips very quickly. Instead of 12 pads you need more like 64 or 128 or something like that (more even!!!) Otherwise you just keep repeating your twelve clips, which when you think about the fact that most music videos cut every second or so, you run out of stuff to cut to way too quickly and so it gets boring before the song is over.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the great feedback! We're looking at ways to provide access to more than 12 videos at a time. Much of this has to do with the CPU, GPU and memory available to make videos able to play back in real-time with no frame loss. We're working on improving the engine to make it more powerful. Thanks for your input ✌️