Offbeat

Turn a folder of photos and a song into a short video where every cut lands on a kick, a snare or an accent. Everything happens on your device.

Offbeat turns your photos and a song into a short video where every cut lands on a kick, a snare or an accent.

Most apps that cut to music follow a steady tempo or leave the markers to you. Offbeat listens to the song itself and cuts where the drums hit, the way an editor would by hand.

PICK YOUR PHOTOS From your library or a folder in Files. RAW and HEIC work. Offbeat puts them in colour order, so the video sweeps through the colour wheel.

PICK A SONG Yours, or one of three sample songs. Offbeat finds the beats, the bars, the hits and the parts, picks the liveliest 15 to 30 seconds and cuts on the hits. Keep to the beat is on by default, so cuts sit where the kick and the snare land.

MAKE IT YOURS Every change plays at once. • Colours: a slice of the colour wheel, every colour, or black and white • 20 transitions, from a clean cut to film burns and glitch slices, or Auto, which picks one for each hit • Effects over the whole frame: RGB split, scanlines, VHS, light leaks, duotone and more • An opening drawn from the song itself • Titles, intros and outros in open-licence fonts, timed to the beat • Looks that set the border, the transition, the effect and the titles together • Match the cover: the photos in the colours of the song's album art • Film a record sleeve and its colour frames the photos • Limit flashing, on by default: nothing flashes more than three times a second

EXPORT 9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, or 4:5, 1:1 and 16:9, at 720p, 1080p or 4K, with the song at the loudness Instagram and YouTube play at. Song on Instagram leaves the music out and tells you where it starts, so you can add it from Instagram's library.

MADE FOR EACH DEVICE • iPhone: it plays like an instrument. Tap the picture to play, swipe for the next look, hold to see your photos plain, and turn a dial that clicks on every stop. • iPad: a studio, with your photos in a sidebar, every setting in a rack, keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop. • iPhone Duo: laid out around the fold, with a console and a jog wheel when it stands upright.

PRIVATE Nothing leaves your device. No account, no uploads, no analytics, no tracking.