“WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING — I don’t have enough money to pay for all this l have to pay for almost everything except for the multi layering at this point I’m about to go back to CapCut this is so unfair.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 506 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.1 ★89,676 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
561 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Video Star is your #1 video editing app — there’s no other app like it!
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 15.2.7 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 15.2.7, updated 2026-09-21.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 506 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“It costs money now?? — I used to have video star in 2024 and to make simple edits for ex using multi layer and it was free now you have to pay to use that option??”
“Not very good to me — It’s free until you get in the app you can’t even put a text on a photo cause you have to pay! It would be good if you didn’t have to pay for everything!”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 15.2.7.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$0.00
Highest$34.99
Month Pro$5.99
3 Month Pro$17.99
Year Pro$34.99
Cinema Pro Pack$7.99
Motion Madness Effects$5.99
Show 4 more purchases
Multi-Layer$9.99
Video Import Kit$0.00
Crazy Party Effects$2.99
Advanced Auto Stop$3.99