An App Store Award finalist and filmmaker fave, the free video-editing app DaVinci Resolve allows you to juggle colour corrections, visual effects, audio editing, and more.

What we love: Not having to sacrifice performance and functionality for affordability. Edit multilayered projects with 3840x2160 video at 60 fps with little to no lag. Take advantage of powerful features such as Magic Mask (an AI-powered tool that automatically identifies objects, people, and landscapes), colour grading, and audio re-timing. And use the app’s collaboration features to work simultaneously with others, wherever they’re located.

Quick tip: It’s easy to apply pro-grade colour corrections. Select a clip and click Color at the bottom of the window, then browse the colour wheel to find the right shade, lift or lower tone curves, and see which colours already exist in an image, mixing up the saturation or hue to your liking.

Go pro: Need more power and features? DaVinci Resolve Studio has all the features of the free version, plus the ability to edit 120 fps at 32K resolution, support for multiple GPUs, hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding, advanced noise reduction and isolation, HDR and Dolby Vision grading, lens distortion correction, stereoscopic 3D tools, support for scripting and workflow plug-ins, and much more.

Meet the creator: Blackmagic Design is behind some of the world’s biggest blockbusters, lending their cameras and editing tools to generations of moviemakers and content creators.