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Adobe is launching its Premiere video editor on iPhone

Ken Metral

04 Sep 2025 — 1 min read

Credit: Adobe, Inc.

Adobe is bringing its flagship video editing software Premiere to the iPhone, expanding its mobile creative suite to capture the booming short-form video market. The app is now listed on the App Store with a preorder link and an expected release date of September 30.

Desktop Power, Mobile Flexibility

Adobe says Premiere for iPhone will offer a watermark-free editing experience, with many of the same tools found in its desktop version. Key features include:

Trimming, layering, and fine-tuning frames
Automatic captions with stylized subtitle options
Support for video, audio, and text layers
Full 4K HDR export

The app will also integrate with Adobe’s stock library, giving creators access to music, sound effects, images, graphics, and videos, along with Lightroom fonts and presets. A built-in Enhance Speech tool will help users clean up audio recorded in noisy environments.

Firefly AI Comes to Mobile

Premiere on iPhone will incorporate AI-powered features driven by Adobe’s Firefly models. Users will be able to generate images, audio, and even video clips from text prompts directly within the app — a move designed to accelerate editing workflows on the go.

Pricing and Availability

The iPhone app will be free to download and use, though AI credits and cloud storage will require payment. Adobe confirmed that an Android version is in development, but has not shared a release timeline.

Battling for Creators’ Attention

The launch highlights Adobe’s push to court mobile-first creators on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts. The competitive landscape is heating up: earlier this year, Meta released its Edits app, while a16z-backed Captions shifted to a freemium model to expand its user base.

Adobe has been steadily extending its creative suite to mobile devices. In 2025 alone, it released Photoshop for iOS in February, rolled out a beta version for Android in June, and launched a standalone Firefly app for both iOS and Android. Premiere’s arrival on iPhone continues that momentum.

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