Video Editor SDK
For Your Mobile & Web App

Bring powerful video editing features to your iOS, Android, and web apps.

Create templates on the web and easily adapt them on mobile for smooth cross-platform workflows.

Advanced editing tools, native AI features, and full customization let you build exactly what your users need.

Get started in minutes and tailor the experience to your use case.

Design Features

The Modern Video Solution for any Platform

Seamless Cross-Platform Video Creation

With the same underlining technology, you can create video templates on web and let your users easily adapt them on mobile, ensuring seamlessly editing experience across iOS, Android, desktop, and web.

Powerful Editing Features

From customizable filters and dynamic effects to precise trimming, text overlays, and seamless transitions users can effortlessly enhance their content to suit their creative vision.

Native AI Features

Generate videos, dynamic captions, voiceovers, thumbnails, and more using simple prompts.



With model-agnostic AI plugins, you have the flexibility to integrate any third-party model or API, helping you stay agile, relevant, and ahead of trends.

Fully Customizable UI

Adapt the editor UI across iOS, Android, and web to match your use case and brand. Customize layouts, colors, icons, language, and features to create a seamless, native experience tailored to your users.

Customizable Content Libraries

Customize the asset library with your own sources or easily integrate libraries like Getty Images and Soundstripe. Add stock videos, graphics, fonts, and more to deliver the right creative content for your users and use case.

Client-side Video Encoding

Provide fast, backend-free video editing that runs fully on users’ devices or browsers. Cut bandwidth and upload times for users while eliminating server costs and scaling limits for you.

Automated Video Creation on Web

Power template-based workflows & creative automation. Leverage features such as placeholders and text variables to enable your users to automate and scale creation of marketing and sales materials.

Render Videos at Scale

With the Server-Side Video SDK, you can programmatically render, transcode, and automate video production on your backend - no FFmpeg scripts or After-Effects farms required. Ideal for high-volume automation like ads, social media clips, or AI-powered creative pipelines.

Extensibility through Plugins

Built for flexibility, our SDK’s powerful Plugin API lets you add features like background removal, QR codes, or any custom tools your users need enabling rapid innovation and easy adaptation without relying on our roadmap.

Social Media & Short Video Creation

Boost engagement by enabling users to capture and edit high-quality videos in-app with features like dual-camera recording, advanced time controls, and audio overlays.

ADVANCED FEATURES

Key Capabilities

Choose features that best match your use case and create smooth and enjoyable creation process.

Editing Essentials

Transform

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Crop, flip, and rotate videos operations. Preset crop ratios to common formats.

Trim

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Set the the start and end time of videos.

Text Design

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Overlay text on videos and apply modern lettering designs.

Adjustments

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Fine-tune videos with an exhaustive set of adjustment operations such as brightness and contrast.

Element Snapping

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Snap stickers and text to control points for more precise placements.

Undo and Redo

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Allow users to undo and redo all editing operations.

Brush

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Brush supports different strokes, width, hardness and color and is optimized for touch screen interaction.

Focus

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Add depth and focus to videos using radial, mirrored or gaussian blur.

Special Effects

Filters

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Over 60 state-of-the-art filters allow users to control the style and mood of their creations.

Dynamic Stickers

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Add any number of dynamic stickers and arrange them on the timeline.

Frames and Overlays

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Add a unique mood to videos of any size or ratio with frames and overlays choosing from a number of blend modes.

Templating

Design Templates

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Create role based design templates for videos to jumpstart users’ creativity.

Text Variables

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Enable mass personalization and creative automation by embedding variable in videos.

Placeholders & Lockable Designs

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Constrain templates to guide your users’ design and ensure brand consistency.

Configurable Presets

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Enforce a consistent aesthetic across all video creations by using preset filters, adjustments, fonts, and crop ratios.

Composition

Merge Video

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Pick, edit and merge several video clips into a single visual sequence.

Video Collage

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Arrange multiple videos on a single page for immersive video collages.

Overlay Audio

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Add audio files to videos and set the mood through music or narration.

Asset Libraries

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Add custom assets for filters, stickers, overlays and frames.

Customizability

Build Custom UIs

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Use the headless API powering all video operations to implement an entirely custom UI.

Theming

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Change the editor theme to fit seamlessly with your app.

Media Libraries

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Set up custom video and audio libraries that are easily sortable.

Toolbar Customization

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Reposition toolbar elements, change icons, or rename tools to fit your use case.

Localization

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Add support for additional languages, and customize any button label.

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Why IMG.LY ?

Battle-tested

Our SDK has matured in demanding environments, powering 500+ million creations per month.

Scalable & Future-Proof

We regularly release new features and improvements to help you stay ahead of industry shifts.

Customization

Our SDK can be flexibly customized, you can even build custom UIs and extend the editor functionality.

Cross-platform

Our SDK is optimized across platforms ensuring consistent rendering and interoperability.

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What Our Clients Say About Us

IMG.LY’s solution engineers did a deep dive on our business case and helped us implement a custom print kiosk UI.

André Albrecht
Digital Solution Manager
 @ 
Brother

Our customers create over a million personalized postcards each year choosing from over hundreds of templates with IMG.LY’s SDK. It’s the only solution that allows us to build our own specialized, on-brand UI that integrates seamlessly with our platform.

Jeanine Zaalberg
Product Manager
 @ 
Swiss Post

Our app has photo-editing at the very core of its experience and the editor has been invaluable in making that vision happen. There are no other tools on the market up to the quality of PE.SDK.

Toby Green
Lead Developer
 @ 
Elbi

Get in Touch

Contact our sales team to learn more about licensing options and get access to our AI plugins for CE.SDK.

FAQs

Can I implement roles and permissions using the SDK?

While there is no functionality included with the editor that allows implementing roles and permissions you can use any backend technology or framework to control access to the editor. Furthermore our SDK features are extendible allowing for hooks where permissions can be checked and the editor behavior customized accordingly.

Can we integrate our own assets (Sticker, Frames, Overlays)?

Yes, absolutely! Please refer to our documentation for more information on that topic.

Can I decide on which features to implement?

Yes, you have full control over which features you decide to use. You can configure the toolbar on mobile and on web you can interface with the API directly to build the exact feature you need.

Which platforms/ frameworks are supported?

Our IMG.LY SDK is suitable for web and mobile (Android & iOS). Supported frameworks are React-Native, Flutter, Ionic, and Cordova for mobile and React, Angular, Svelte and Vue.js for web. For more information, please visit our Guides.

Can I import existing designs files into the SDK?

You can always import individual elements as PNG, JPG or SVG, we are currently working on importers for PDF and the most common design file formats.

Which export file formats for print do you support?

All CreativeEditor SDK scenes can be exported in PNG, JPEG, TGA, binary, and PDF. See the export guide in the documentation for more information on exporting scenes.

Can I enable/ disable a function by default?

Yes, you have full control over the Editor’s UI and functionality. You can also take full control over the editing process with smart templates, lockable designs and placeholders.

Do you offer integration support?

Yes, apart from accessing our complete CreativeEngine documentation you can also contact our support team. Our solutions team offer different levels of support based on your license type.
To explore your use case and potential solutions with us simply get in touch.

Which server-side technologies do you support?

You can run the CreativeEngine in a Node.js environment and deploy it on any platform with Node.js support. See this guide on how to deploy on AWS for reference.

Can I try your Editors to see how it works?

Yes, we offer a free trial for all our products. You can get your free trial right now.

Can my users edit their photos using IMG.LY SDKs when they are offline?

As the editor works client-side, a permanent internet connection isn't necessary for the editor to run properly. Once the device reconnects, available updates can be installed and the export tracking will be communicated. However, if you require the SDK to work in a purely offline environment please contact our sales team to request an offline license.

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