Bring intuitive video editing to your mobile app
With built-in camera access, advanced editing tools, and timeline-based workflows, your users capture, edit, and enhance high-quality video — all inside your iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native app.
- Built-in camera capture
- Timeline editing
- Native AI features
- On-device encoding
Mobile Video Editor SDK built for native iOS and Android teams
Replace a multi-month editor build with a ready-to-integrate SDK and a developer-focused proven workflow.
Ship a mobile video editor in weeks
Replace a year-long native build with a starter kit and a focused integration on iOS and Android.
One codebase, every mobile platform
A cross-platform engine delivers identical quality on iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native.
3× more videos created in-app
Let users capture and edit without leaving your app for external tools.
Trusted by 100+
industry leaders
Integrating IMG.LY’s editor meant we didn’t have to build or maintain a complex editing layer ourselves. That kept our team focused on our core AI ad engine and saved us countless development hours — while still giving our customers the ability to polish and customize creatives at scale.
Hikari Senju
CEO, Omneky
With IMG.LY we built a central creative portal that now powers over 140 dealer campaigns across multiple automotive brands. Before this, asset creation was slow and inconsistent.
Martin Röhr
Product Owner, Digitas
By embedding IMG.LY’s editor we were able to hit key RFP requirements and deliver a template-based creative experience that now serves 1,000+ customers. It helped us win more deals and exceed enterprise expectations without needing to hire dedicated design teams.
Rob Driscoll
Director of PM, Optimizely
Since integrating IMG.LY’s editor, we now deliver 30,000+ ad creatives per month, dramatically shorten time-to-launch, and help our clients cut design spend by up to $10,000 per month.
Logan Welbaum
Founder, Plai
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, SwissPost
From a developer’s perspective, the most powerful feature of the photo editor is the integration process. It was completely flawless, quick, and easy to integrate.
Stefano Fornari
CTO, Funambol
We compared IMG.LY SDK with other solutions and found that it would be the best fit for us since it provides all the features that are crucial for our use case.
Carem Pereira
SCRUM Manager, HP
Key Capabilities
One mobile SDK for video capture and editing — extensive features to serve any use case.
For your users
For your product
Looking for the full feature list?
Browse every CE.SDK capability across mobile video, design, photo, print, and AI.
Explore all capabilitiesHow to embed the mobile video editor into your app
From install to on-device export, five steps to a native video editor.
Add the editor to your iOS or Android app
Drop the SDK into your native, React Native, or Flutter app and launch the editor from any screen. The starter kit ships with a working camera, timeline, and export flow.
Starter Kits
Theme the editor for your app
Choose which tools and effects show up, swap icons for your design language, and apply your brand colors so the editor never looks bolted on.
Explore customization demos
Use the device camera, audio, and assets natively
Capture from the front or rear camera with speed control and timer. Pull from the user’s photo library, audio assets, and your own CDN, all without leaving the app.
Explore asset demos
Roll out templates with editable placeholders
Load Stories and Reels templates with locked brand elements and placeholder zones for clips, text, and music. Users fill in the content; the layout stays on-brand and the export specs stay correct.
Explore template demo
Encode on-device and ship the result
Videos render on the GPU directly on the phone. No upload, no transcode backend, no waiting room before the user sees their export.
Why product teams choose our mobile video SDK
Time to market
Launch a native mobile video editor in weeks, not a year-long project.
Ship a full-featured iOS and Android video editor with a proven SDK and starter kit so you can test, iterate, and win mobile use cases fast — without freezing your roadmap.
Empower non-creators
Make video capture and editing approachable for every mobile user.
Give non-creators a familiar, touch-first interface with templates, presets, and guardrails so they can record and produce polished video on their own.
Cross-platform consistency
Build once and render identically across every mobile platform.
A single video engine powers iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native, so a project edited on one device exports the same on every other. Need the web counterpart? See our Video Editor SDK for Web and the umbrella Video Editor SDK, or browse every capability.
An SDK made by developers for developers
Install CE.SDK with one command, plug it into your existing upload or creation flows, and stay in control with a clean, documented API.
npm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template react-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template vue-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsng new your-project-name && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template svelte-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpx create-next-app@latest your-project-name --typescript && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsnpm create vite@latest your-project-name -- --template vanilla-ts && cd your-project-namenpm install @cesdk/cesdk-jsNative editing for iOS and Android
The same creative engine, shipped as native SDKs for every mobile stack.
pod 'IMGLYUI'pod installimplementation("ly.img:editor:1.53.0")npm install @imgly/editor-react-nativeflutter pub add imgly_editorBring the editor to the desktop
Embed CE.SDK in Electron and native macOS apps with the same API.
npm install @cesdk/cesdk-jspod 'IMGLYUI'pod installpod 'IMGLYUI'pod installRender headlessly at scale
Run the same engine server-side for batch rendering and creative automation.
npm install @cesdk/nodeimport CreativeEngine from '@cesdk/node';
Cut integration to minutes with IMG.LY Agent Skills
CE.SDK Agent Skills give AI coding assistants bundled documentation, guided code generation, and autonomous project scaffolding for building editor and creative workflows across 10 web frameworks.
claude plugin marketplace add imgly/agent-skillsclaude plugin install cesdk@imglynpx skills add imgly/agent-skills -a claude-codenpx skills add imgly/agent-skills --skill docs-react -a claude-codegit clone https://github.com/imgly/agent-skills.gitcp -r agent-skills/plugins/cesdk/skills/docs-react .claude/skills/cesdk-docs-reactLearn more about Agent Skills
Built to trust in production
The editor your team doesn’t have to build, secure, or maintain.
Secure by design
Editing runs on-device, so user content never leaves the phone unless you upload it. IMG.LY is SOC 2 Type II certified, with SSO available on enterprise plans.
Battle-tested at scale
The same creative engine powers 500M+ creations every month across thousands of applications, with a steady cadence of new releases.
Build-vs-buy, solved
We maintain the editor, mobile-OS quirks, and rendering pipeline so your team stays focused on your core product. Dedicated support and SLAs on enterprise plans.
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Ready to ship video editing on mobile?
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Frequently Asked Questions
It is a native video editing SDK you embed directly into your mobile app. One cross-platform engine powers camera capture, timeline editing, templates, and AI-assisted editing inside your iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native app.
The SDK ships native integrations for iOS and Android, plus first-class support for React Native, Flutter, Ionic, and Cordova — so you can ship from a single codebase regardless of your mobile stack.
Yes. The mobile editor UI is fully customizable — show or hide tools, reposition and rename controls, apply your brand theme, and translate every label so the editor feels like a native part of your app.
Yes. You can start a free trial with full access to all mobile features. Contact our team to get started.
No. All capture, editing, and encoding runs on-device using the native engine and hardware acceleration. There is no rendering backend to build or operate — exports finish directly on the user's phone.
Yes. The SDK includes a built-in camera module for photo and video capture, with controls for resolution, frame rate, flash, and front/back switching, so users can record and edit without leaving your app.
Yes. Because capture, editing, and client-side encoding all run on-device, the editor works fully offline. Only optional cloud features such as asset sync or AI plugins require connectivity.
The SDK imports common photo and video formats and exports MP4 and other channel-ready video formats with configurable resolution, bitrate, and quality settings.
The mobile SDK ships native AI plugins for image generation, video generation, background removal, style transfer, text-to-graphics, and text-to-speech — all surfaced inside the mobile editor UI. AI plugins lead on web today, with native mobile AI features rolling out on the roadmap.
AI plugins are included with your SDK license. Generative model usage is billed separately by the model providers (for example Anthropic, fal.ai, or ElevenLabs).
Yes. The AI plugins are model-agnostic — connect commercial or open-source models through custom endpoints using the open plugin architecture.
Pricing is based on monthly active users (MAU) who interact with the editor, with flexible plans for startups through enterprises. Contact sales for details.
Yes. Commercial licenses allow full white-labeling — remove all IMG.LY branding and present the video editor as a native part of your mobile app.
Yes. Enterprise licenses include custom terms, dedicated support, SLAs, and volume discounts. Contact us to discuss your requirements.