Wondershare Filmora
Easy video editor with Seedance, Sora and Veo AI built into the timeline
Overview
Filmora is Wondershare's desktop-and-mobile video editor for hobbyists and small creators, with AI credits for text-to-video (Seedance 2.0, Sora 2, Veo 3.1), voice cloning, captions and the AI Mate assistant. Free with a watermark; Basic $49.99 a year, or $79.99 once for a perpetual Filmora 16 licence.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 1 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 15 AI Mate uses a day
- Windows and Mac
- 4K export
- 1GB cloud storage
- 500 AI Mate conversations a month
- 1,000 AI credits/month
- 10GB cloud storage
- Windows and Mac
- 1,000 AI credits, one-time
- Windows or Mac licence (device-specific)
Use cases
What you can produce with Wondershare Filmora
- Text-to-video via Seedance 2.0, Sora 2 and Veo 3.1
- AI Mate conversational editing assistant
- AI voice cloning and text-to-speech (incl. Malay and Indonesian)
- Auto-generated captions in 27 languages
- Camera tracking, colour masks and 360° reframing (Filmora 16)
- Desktop (Windows/Mac) and mobile apps
Filmora earns its place as the default pick for creators graduating from phone apps: a genuinely easy timeline, a large stock library and, since 2025-26 updates, in-timeline access to Seedance 2.0, Sora 2 and Veo 3.1 for text-to-video, plus an AI Mate assistant that edits on instruction. Filmora 16 added more serious tools such as camera tracking and colour masks. G2 reviewers rate it 4.4 out of 5 across 612 reviews. The catch is that the subscription buys less AI than it seems: Advanced's 1,000 monthly credits cover about two Veo clips, and premium assets cost extra. The free version is enough to learn the editor, but exports are watermarked, and Trustpilot complaints centre on billing after trials. The perpetual licence avoids subscriptions but stops at Filmora 16. Fine for hobbyists and small-business video; professional editors will outgrow it.
What we found
Filmora is Wondershare's video editor for Windows, Mac and mobile, aimed at hobbyists and small creators moving up from phone apps. Wondershare, founded in 2003 and listed in Shenzhen since 2018, keeps adding to it: Filmora 16, released in September 2026, brought camera tracking, colour masks, 360-degree reframing and AI media analysis, and earlier 2026 updates added Seedance 2.0 to the text-to-video tools that already offered Sora 2 and Veo 3.1. AI Mate, a conversational assistant that edits on instruction, arrived in version 15.1, along with upscaling powered by Topaz.
Pricing is easy to misread. Filmora is free to download with all basic editing tools, but exports carry a watermark. Basic costs $49.99 a year for watermark-free 4K export and 1 GB of cloud storage; Advanced, $59.99 a year against a struck-through $69.99, adds 1,000 AI credits a month and 10 GB of storage. A perpetual licence costs $79.99 once, with 1,000 credits that do not refresh and updates limited to Filmora 16, and it covers only Windows or Mac. Generative features are what consume credits: a Veo 3.1 clip costs 450, so Advanced's monthly allowance buys about two, and voice cloning costs 100. Premium stock assets renew separately at $19.99 a month. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Wondershare says its products have more than two billion active users across 200 countries, a company-wide figure. Its speech-to-text supports 27 languages including Indonesian, and its text-to-speech 28 including Malay and Indonesian, which helps creators in Southeast Asia.
On G2, Filmora averages 4.4 out of 5 from 612 reviews, with reviewers praising how approachable it is for non-editors. Trustpilot shows 4.1 from more than 15,000 reviews, where complaints focus on trial-to-paid billing and refunds. The practical caveat stands: the subscription price buys the editor, but heavy use of the AI generators means paying for credits on top. Fine for hobbyists and small-business video; professional editors will outgrow it.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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