Darkroom, the photo editing app for iPhone and iPad, can now edit video too

Darkroom video editor on iPhone (Image credit: Darkroom)

What you need to know

Photo editor Darkroom has a new update out.
It adds support for video editing for the first time.
H.264 and HEVC codecs are supported.

Hugely popular image editing app Darkroom has a new update and it does something we weren't quite expecting – it adds support for editing videos, too.

The update also includes a ton of changes throughout, including support for both the H.264 and HEVC codecs when exporting videos.

Darkroom announced the new changes via a Blog post, outlining what's gone into making videos "feel as lightweight as photos". The aim was apparently to do away with "all the complexities involved in the traditional video editing process".

Darkroom can now edit videos.The same ultrafast editing experience you know and love now works with your entire video library.You can find videos alongside your photos in the Recents album. Videos play automatically and loop forever, pause the video to show the histogram or to pick a smart frame color from that frame.Find your Screen Recordings filtered away in the Screenshots album, keeping your Recents album clean and tidyWe support H.264 and HEVC export codecs at various bitrates which you can customize in settings.Look deeper into your photos and videos with our revamped Metadata viewer.The Export flow is more descriptive, showing you the time remaining for a video to finish exporting.

The folks behind Darkroom only just got finished adding full mouse support on the iPad, too.

This new update is a free download for anyone who is already a Darkroom user. Everyone else can download the app for free with – in-app purchases available – from the App Store.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.