Want to Edit Videos Like A Pro? Use these Best Free and Paid Video Editing Tools in 2025

Whether you are on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or on any other social media platform, video content is the most widely employed way of sharing one’s own thoughts, lifestyle or creative content. What brings life to these videos is the editing style of it. The more impressively a video is edited, the more attractive it becomes and the more views it attracts. So editing style of videos is as important as the video itself. Plus, the tools used to edit these videos are also super important.

Not surprisingly, most people do not know what software or tools should be used to edit their videos or what software would better suit the type of video they want to create. Most of the best editing software have to be bought and are pretty expensive. But some of the great video editing software or tools are available for free. So it becomes a problem, especially for beginners, to choose from a large number of video editing software available, both free and paid versions.

What video editing tool would you be using in 2025? To make things easier, the following is the list of the best video editing software, paid and free, to use in 2025:

The Best Free Video Editing software

CapCut

The best free online video editing software that provides a range of colour effects, sound adjustments, stickers and other advanced tools. Available both in desktop and mobile versions, the app is a good option for editing videos for social media, especially Tiktok which is owned by the same company, Bytedance. It allows adding of TikTok sounds to videos before uploading them to the social media app. The app is also user-friendly with attractive font styles and caption auto generator.

The advanced features, like voice isolation, are available only in paid version, but it is only $7.99 per month, worth paying for.

Clipchamp Create

Windows substituted Clipchamp Create for Window Movie Maker, which means you will find it pre-installed in Windows. Its free version allows users to use all basic tools as well as export videos in 480p resolution.

If you want to use advanced features, you can also use its paid premium version that provides downloading at better resolutions and Clipchmap Speaker Coach as an assistant in adjusting pitch and voice quality–the paid version starts at $9 per month.

Canva

Canva is also one of the best free options available. Its ready-made templates make it user-friendly. Basic editing, like trimming and cutting, can easily be done using it.

Because it is simple, it is the best option for beginners who are familiar with only dragging videos and photos to an app and basic editing skills.

But for more advanced features, you have to subscribe to its paid version starting at $15 a month.

DaVinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is high level video editing software used both by Youtubers. It provides editing, visual effects, motion graphics etc. You can also export videos to it in ultra HD, which is a far better option than the ones provided by most other free video editing software.

But it also requires pretty heavy hardware to run it, at least 16GP memory on Windows or 8GB on Macs. Also, the software, when compared to other free video editing software, is more difficult to use.

For more advanced features, you can use its paid version for $295.

Adobe Creative Cloud Express

The software provides layouts, themes and varied templates for free to do quality video editing. You can also employ Adobe Firefly, AI image generator by Adobe, alongwith the video editing software to make a perfectly fitting pair for your work.

If you want to unlock premium options, then subscribe to their paid plans for $11.99 per month.

Descript

Descript generates text for your videos. Once generated, you can edit or cut the generated text as per your wishes, and your editing will be followed in your video simultaneously. It is just like editing your day-to-day texts.

Descript provides some of its best features for free and allows editing of 60 minutes of content.

As far as its paid version, it starts at $19 per month.

iMovie

It is the pre-installed video editor on Apple devices. It is free to use and user-friendly, allowing good quality video editing using various templates and modes, like Magic Movie Mode.

You can say that it is a must for someone not interested in the complexities of advanced editing.

The best paid video editing software to use in 2025

CapCut Pro

CapCut Pro is also the best paid video editing software available. It gives access to a variety of fonts, effects, like retouching effects, advanced background removal tools and vocal enhancements.

You can avail its services for $9.99 per month.

Veed.io

Veed.io is an online video editor that provides users with auto-generated captions, sound effects and music for your videos. The editor also includes AI avatars to read scripts for you and webcam recording. Another quality that sets it apart from many other editors is it being easy to use.

To avail these features, you have to pay $19 per month.

Capsule

Another online video editor is Capsule that has all the tools offered by other video editors. It offers transcript-based editing, animations, auto-resizing etc. Moverover, there is also an AI co-producer helping in cleaning up dialogue and creating auto-jump cuts.

The editor is costlier with the cost of $99 per month. You can enjoy all the tools for free for only three videos.

InShot

Downloadable from Play Store, InShot is a mobile app which is convenient to use. It provides all basic tools to edit, trim and speed up videos easily on your smartphone, and also to remove backgrounds. If you just want to upload photos and videos to social media, InShot is a good option for editing your videos.

The app could be used for free, but to unlock advanced feathers, you have to pay $3.99 per month.

Kapwing

Kapwing also offers all the tools and features offered by the apps or software mentioned above, like dragging, trimming, cutting etc. But what makes it different from the above is its content repurposing tool which locates key parts from your videos and repurposes them by highlighting them.

The paid version of the editor starts at $24 per month, but most of its features are also available for free.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editor belonging to the highest tier of video editors. It is not for beginners or for posting videos on social media, but the software is mostly used by professionals in editing documentaries and alike in post-production. The software offers the most advanced features and tools at $22.99 per month and is available for both Windows and Macs.

FinalCut Pro

It is only available on Macs and is a powerful video editing software used in the editing of movies. It offers high quality special effects for editing videos. Because it is a powerful software used only by professionals, it costs $299.99.

FilmoraGo

FilmoraGo is a simple video editing tool offering all the basic editing features like, themes, trimming, cropping, speed control, audio mixer etc. The tool also has an AI image generator and AI Copilot as an assistant.

The tool is comparatively easier to use on both desktops and smartphones. Although you can use some of the features for free, you have to pay $29.99 quarterly to gain access to all features.

Which one to choose?

If you cannot afford the paid versions and only want basic editing features and tools to edit videos for social media, iMovie, Canva and CapCut are good options. But it is still up to you to choose which one suits you the best as per your requirement and hardware.

As for the paid options, if you are looking for professional-level software to edit high quality and lengthy videos, consider CapCut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and FinalCut Pro. For short length videos, like those uploaded to Youtube, you may consider the rest in the paid version list.

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