ChopShop — Easy A/V Editor
Benjamin Dansby · Photo & Video
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Chart standing · US
What changed · US
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New: • Rotate. Crop & Flip has a Rotate button that turns a video a quarter turn clockwise each time you tap it. Your crop and flips turn with the picture, so the framing you set stays put. Reset This File undoes it. • Pan the timeline with two fingers. Slide two fingers anywhere on the timeline to move along it when you’re zoomed in, even over clips. One finger still moves and trims clips. • Zooming keeps the playhead in view. Pinch or use the zoom buttons, and the timeline centers on the playhead instead of drifting away from it. • Zoom buttons that know their limits. + dims at full zoom, − at the widest, and Fit when the timeline already fits. • Faster adding from Photos. Videos come in several at a time, the status bar counts them as they arrive, and each keeps its name from your library. Fixes: • The preview could stay black with many clips on the timeline, and the same projects could fail to export. • A clip smaller than the others played shrunken in a corner, and slightly squashed, then jumped to full size when paused. It now plays at the size you see when paused. • The Crop & Flip sheet could run off the top of the screen on iPad in landscape.
In-app purchases · US
No in-app purchases.
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ChopShop is the everyday audio and video editor for iPhone and iPad — for the cuts you make 20 times a week but don't want to fire up a full editing suite for. Import a clip from Files or Photos. Trim the edges. Split at the playhead. Drag to reorder. Crop on export. Save. Done. No "create new project" dialog, no media-import wizard. The timeline appears the moment the clip lands. Lossless when it can be If your edit doesn't need re-encoding, ChopShop won't. Same codec, same bitrate, no quality loss — exports finish in seconds, not minutes. The app falls back to a clean re-encode the moment you add a crop or stack mismatched formats, and the status line tells you which path's running before you export. The cuts you actually make • Trim clip edges with a live source preview at the new in/out point • Split at the playhead • Drag to reorder, drop new clips between, collapse gaps with a tap • Retime any clip — 0.5×, 2×, or a custom rate • Reverse any clip, pre-rendered in the background so playback stays fluid • Crop on export with per-edge insets and a lock for uniform crops • Frame-accurate playhead and clip nudges • Audio + video on separate rails — unlink to trim them independently, multi-select across both • Mixed-aspect timelines: each clip displays at its own native ratio • Copy the current frame to the clipboard as PNG Opens what you throw at it MP4, MOV, M4A, MP3, and WAV open instantly. Tiny project file .chop documents are readable, formatted JSON pointing at your source media — kilobytes, not gigabytes. Move them around, email them, sync them in iCloud Drive. Native, fast, no services Pure Swift on AVFoundation. No account, no cloud dependency, no telemetry. Doesn't need an internet connection to open a file. Localized into 11 languages English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Português (Brasil), Українська, Русский, 简体中文. Documentation https://bendansby.com/apps/chopshop/docs.html Support ben.dansby@gmail.com — usually a reply within a day or two.
What's new · 2.2
New: • Rotate. Crop & Flip has a Rotate button that turns a video a quarter turn clockwise each time you tap it. Your crop and flips turn with the picture, so the framing you set stays put. Reset This File undoes it. • Pan the timeline with two fingers. Slide two fingers anywhere on the timeline to move along it when you’re zoomed in, even over clips. One finger still moves and trims clips. • Zooming keeps the playhead in view. Pinch or use the zoom buttons, and the timeline centers on the playhead instead of drifting away from it. • Zoom buttons that know their limits. + dims at full zoom, − at the widest, and Fit when the timeline already fits. • Faster adding from Photos. Videos come in several at a time, the status bar counts them as they arrive, and each keeps its name from your library. Fixes: • The preview could stay black with many clips on the timeline, and the same projects could fail to export. • A clip smaller than the others played shrunken in a corner, and slightly squashed, then jumped to full size when paused. It now plays at the size you see when paused. • The Crop & Flip sheet could run off the top of the screen on iPad in landscape.
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