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PowerDirector: AI Video Editor
CyberLink · 29,973 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 45 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"video"
11 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth it to me. Made my video into a cartoon but sound was out of sync and the mouth movement was wrong." - R0bB3ckett
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"videos"
10 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Was better before. Dont buy! Years ago I used this app for fantastic videos on my Samsung, but on Apple it's terrible. Very limited editing options, and harder to use. I hate you have to purchase it immediately. If I had tested this, I would not have bought …" - tv girl la
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"editing"
10 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Was better before. Dont buy! Years ago I used this app for fantastic videos on my Samsung, but on Apple it's terrible. Very limited editing options, and harder to use. I hate you have to purchase it immediately. If I had tested this, I would not have bought …" - tv girl la
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"subscription"
8 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth the subscription. This app took 86 dollars off my card and has no refunds and it sucks because its not even worth it no subscription is this high for this amount." - Kitty_ka.love
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"edit"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Was better before. Dont buy! Years ago I used this app for fantastic videos on my Samsung, but on Apple it's terrible. Very limited editing options, and harder to use. I hate you have to purchase it immediately. If I had tested this, I would not have bought …" - tv girl la
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"years"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Was better before. Dont buy! Years ago I used this app for fantastic videos on my Samsung, but on Apple it's terrible. Very limited editing options, and harder to use. I hate you have to purchase it immediately. If I had tested this, I would not have bought …" - tv girl la
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"software"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "too laggy and choppy. the app used to work amazing and never had any issues, but especially since all the stupid AI features were added, the app has become unuseable. its way too slow and choppy to edit videos and has become a complete waste of money!! i paid fo…" - zzz_games
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"features"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "too laggy and choppy. the app used to work amazing and never had any issues, but especially since all the stupid AI features were added, the app has become unuseable. its way too slow and choppy to edit videos and has become a complete waste of money!! i paid fo…" - zzz_games
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"been"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sucks. I’ve been using this app for over four years. It got much worse. It crashes all the time. I just can’t take it no more I’m unsubscribing never again piece of garbage app." - floridajeep7
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"free"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not free costs money and horrible. This app is horrible. If your making Ai videos than great but if you want to use your content and want to ad music. It won’t find you music like IG or facebook or TikTok would do. It was useless and only offered sounds of different music . …" - relias714
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"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "AI Auto Edit Gone. I signed up to try this last year and because the app was so unhelpful, I forgot about it until they hit my PayPal for the renewal this year. I thought that maybe it would be better, but it’s even worse than it was. So many better options o…" - Inbound and down
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"working"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Didn’t Work. Attempted to make a project with a talking avatar. It said it was only going to take 15 minutes. Three hours later and it’s still not working. And I paid $1.99 for it. Deleted this app. Don’t recommend and won’t use again." - Izella Bordeaux
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They ruined it wow!
I’ve had this app for like 10 years paying customer and now when I try to load my videos, they just get frozen and I can’t add any videos to project anymore. They completely ruined this app; one of the best editing apps ever until they ruined it.
too laggy and choppy
the app used to work amazing and never had any issues, but especially since all the stupid AI features were added, the app has become unuseable. its way too slow and choppy to edit videos and has become a complete waste of money!! i paid for premium for a easier and smoother editing process, and ended up needing to just switch to a new software.
Not worth the subscription
This app took 86 dollars off my card and has no refunds and it sucks because its not even worth it no subscription is this high for this amount.
Sucks
I’ve been using this app for over four years. It got much worse. It crashes all the time. I just can’t take it no more I’m unsubscribing never again piece of garbage app.
التطبيق
التطبيق معقد بزيادة وكل شي بفلوس
💸💸🙅♂️
Payant et pas cool
Not free costs money and horrible
This app is horrible. If your making Ai videos than great but if you want to use your content and want to ad music. It won’t find you music like IG or facebook or TikTok would do. It was useless and only offered sounds of different music . No vocals. Which made it horrible for me. Deleted it in 1 hour of use .
AI Auto Edit Gone
I signed up to try this last year and because the app was so unhelpful, I forgot about it until they hit my PayPal for the renewal this year. I thought that maybe it would be better, but it’s even worse than it was. So many better options out there, this doesn’t even make my list.
Needs some major updating
of the current glitches I’m having with editing right now. I have been a subscriber for several years now and have tried to produce a video for days and it won’t get past 40% uploading. Also, my voice recording only uploads the fist half and the rest goes null! If not fixed I will have to find a new way to produce my videos! Beyond frustrating!
There’s a bug
There’s a bug where when you press the play button it jumps the video two seconds ahead. It delays the audio from the video making it hard to edit.
Rip off
You pay a yearly subscription fee and then they want you to buy tokens to use almost everything.
Used to be good now it’s garbage. Canceled my subscription.
Used to be good now it’s garbage. Canceled my subscription.
Didn’t Work
Attempted to make a project with a talking avatar. It said it was only going to take 15 minutes. Three hours later and it’s still not working. And I paid $1.99 for it. Deleted this app. Don’t recommend and won’t use again.
Ugh December 2025
A lot of bugs the voice over isnt working any longer
Not working properly… I paid for pro and I’m not able to use it…..WHY?
Why
Fix this NOW!
I've been a user of PowerDirector since 2016. It's been a good mobile editing software, but now my projects keep disappearing and reappearing. This is extremely frustrating, because I put in so much effort into my projects, only for them to be inaccessible out of the blue. It doesn't help that I use this for work, too.
Laggy
This app is a nightmare on ios. Switching back to Android to edit my videos!
I want my refund!
There is no support and no way to contact the company be aware!
Ai will die
Used to be a useful albeit slow editing software, now it’s just garbage. Especially with them trying to force their ai slop down peoples throats, despite the ai looking awful as ai usually does. Don’t download, just use windows movie maker.
Best Editing App
I’ve been using Power Director since 2016! I’m a happy customer! I love the editing tools and the easy to follow process! I definitely recommend if you’re looking for some cheap, but excellent easy to use editing on a smartphone this is it👍🏽👍🏽
UPDATE: I absolutely hate this app now for the past few years the updates have made this app un usable. I can’t upload videos from no more than a few weeks ago, I have 1000 s of videos, and can’t edit half of them , constantly crashing, won’t save some videos , I don’t have room when I plenty of storage, I’m canceling my subscription, and taking my talents to CapCut. Power Director use to be my favorite, but the crazy update they done made them lose a loyal customer! I been a a loyal subscriber since 2016! Time for a change ✌🏾
UPDATE: I absolutely hate this app now for the past few years the updates have made this app un usable. I can’t upload videos from no more than a few weeks ago, I have 1000 s of videos, and can’t edit half of them , constantly crashing, won’t save some videos , I don’t have room when I plenty of storage, I’m canceling my subscription, and taking my talents to CapCut. Power Director use to be my favorite, but the crazy update they done made them lose a loyal customer! I been a a loyal subscriber since 2016! Time for a change ✌🏾
The program is TOO congested…
The program is TOO congested with elements that does leave room for editing restate on an iPhone.
Pay wall after the pay wall?
You pay for the premium plus package nearly 100/yr and then you get in the app and you only get a limited amount of tokens for the good AI features before you then have to pay for those tokens on top of the subscription. Would not recommend until at leadt your promised 250 tokens per month is given all at once and not incrementally through the month.
Screw you powerdirector
Each update is just AI AI AI but never bug fixes like how you say blatantly existent folders are not there same thing with recordings from 1 day ago also there’s a weird bug where if you try to move or extend a video or clip or song it moves you to the beginning which is annoying as ____ - the_tarnish on yt
Update: I’m watching your ratings which are clearly botted and so are your messages to the ratings.
Update: I’m watching your ratings which are clearly botted and so are your messages to the ratings.
Dev. Pls respond
I worked for 5 hours on a video but it won’t let me export it. It says I used the pro feature of text templates, but I didn’t use a text template. I just added plain text. It doesn’t say that text is pro so is it?
Paywalling and Gatekeeping
What's the point of buying the highest priced software on PC to be behind a constant paywall with mediocre features until you subscribe to something else. Love the Monopoly!
No resultant change
At first, I ignored the fact that initially, it said free download. And then it wasn’t. Then, the want a fee to enhance the image. Which I ignored because I really wanted to clean my videos up that came from Android to IPhone. But when there was zero resultant change in video quality…that’s where I draw the line that this application isn’t worth downloading!!
Horrible
This app starts off great but then crashes after you’ve completed a video. Sometimes the audio goes out on important parts and it doesn’t allow you to edit the background as it should on some pictures.
One Subscription
I just found out that subscribing to power director 365 on pc is strictly for pc. I wouldn’t be able to use power director ai video editor
On my iPhone 16 promax or iPad Pro
I don’t understand why separate subscriptions are necessary. Same product with fewer features on mobile devices, that’s the story of mobile devices. I can use my Adobe account wherever I want to from what i understand. I’m not writing a poor or negative review. I’m just letting you know that i need something I can use on my desktop and mobile devices.
I’m not going to pay for multiple subscriptions, and i believe you guys would make more money if you would listen to the customers and potential customer’s request.
I would think building your customer base would be priority , but if people are paying double, you only need half as many customers lol. I will have to choose another product, not bc i want to, but bc you guys want to charge double. Something to think about.
No point in responding to me without a solution. I’m not interested in buying two subscriptions.
I gave only one star. I downloaded the mobile version and deleted it.
I’m grateful I saw the review, bc I would have assumed my subscription would be good on mobile devices. Thank you, be blessed.
On my iPhone 16 promax or iPad Pro
I don’t understand why separate subscriptions are necessary. Same product with fewer features on mobile devices, that’s the story of mobile devices. I can use my Adobe account wherever I want to from what i understand. I’m not writing a poor or negative review. I’m just letting you know that i need something I can use on my desktop and mobile devices.
I’m not going to pay for multiple subscriptions, and i believe you guys would make more money if you would listen to the customers and potential customer’s request.
I would think building your customer base would be priority , but if people are paying double, you only need half as many customers lol. I will have to choose another product, not bc i want to, but bc you guys want to charge double. Something to think about.
No point in responding to me without a solution. I’m not interested in buying two subscriptions.
I gave only one star. I downloaded the mobile version and deleted it.
I’m grateful I saw the review, bc I would have assumed my subscription would be good on mobile devices. Thank you, be blessed.
Porqueria
Malísimo
Who can sustain?
Ridiculous double charges for any real effect even after subscription
I’m trying to get the free trial
I was notified on the app that I could get a free trial so I signed up but the app charged me for a years subscription. My bank blocked it because I have had fraudulent charges from a few ai apps and the App Store hasn’t helped.
Why was I charged? It didn’t say anything about payment before renewal.
Why was I charged? It didn’t say anything about payment before renewal.
I wait days to get the free coins to make a picture and I can’t even get that.
Give me a reason to actually want to pay membership fees. Trying to do the “hug” one and it stops at 5 seconds. Not even getting my fake hug that I waited a week for.
Not worth it to me
Made my video into a cartoon but sound was out of sync and the mouth movement was wrong.
Was better before
Dont buy! Years ago I used this app for fantastic videos on my Samsung, but on Apple it's terrible. Very limited editing options, and harder to use. I hate you have to purchase it immediately. If I had tested this, I would not have bought it.
Aspect ratio
If I can’t manually stretch my videos aspect ratio to be what I want it to be (ex 4:3 to 16:9 without scaling the whole image or zooming it in) then the app is beyond useless to me.
FIX BUG ISSUES
so many times i have to reopen the app after closing it because it would freezee, this app is getting worse & not worth it for the price
More often than not frustrating
I’m an ‘Avid’ user of this companies video editing software on the PC. On the Windows platform Cyberlink PowerDirector is amazing. This program is not. Granted I’m not using one of the new $1000 Apple devices and therefore your mileage may vary. 2 stars for the iPhone XR user, is beyond generous.
Limited use
If you have CapCut or other tools don’t use this. It’s redundant
I love it and hate it lol
Look this is a great video editor for the price but oh my God it is so annoying when you’re trying to edit a video and random bugs mess up your entire progress… the volume fades in on your perfect voice over recording… or for some reason you can’t do a voiceover on an edit that you’ve already spliced together for the last hour… large projects get disoriented in the editor… it’s great when it works but the bugs really suck
Loved it in the beginning!
This tool worked great in the beginning. Not sure why this app is starting to becoming glitchy and not working properly.
Very slow & Crash bug
I’m not sure what happen to this app but recently it’s been slower to open and lags constantly. It freezes a lot and crashes while working on projects. Especially on the section of adding a new background to photos or videos. I have to constantly clear it to get back or restart my phone completely. Please fix.
Warning erased
This editor is great for small projects (under 10 minutes). Anything after the timeline gets laggy and will crash. I tried to import a video to the project timeline and it completely erased the whole project and replaced it with the one clip. To fix this definitely have backups/duplicates of the project you can lose it!
Not sure why popular
I had so many issues with this free trial in 10 minutes that I deleted it right then. So many apps have more accurate generations, less clunky lay out, and more free features.
Keeps Crashing
When I go to add a background the app shuts down and kicks me out.
Doesn’t look upscaled and costs too much money
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Suddenly the app will close down or freeze
I started my YouTube channel in December of last year and l started with this editing software and worked fine in the beginning but as l got into month 2-3 the app would suddenly close down and or freeze so much l had to find another editing software and l now only use this one to add music to my intro/outro. l couldn’t find where l could contact anyone for help so l don’t use it much. And l won’t be renewing my subscription this December.
Sentiment summary
91%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)