Free highlight reel maker for iPhone

Your best plays. Cut on your phone.

Pick clips from your camera roll, freeze the moment and circle the player, add a title card and music. Cutup builds the reel on your iPhone, ready to send to coaches.

  • Free to make and export
  • No account
  • Your clips stay on your devices
The Cutup editor: a reel paused on a catch with an arrow pointing at the receiver and the words Game Winning Catch, the clip strip and the editing tools
Freeze and circle the play1080p export, any shape
How it works

Three steps from camera roll to coach

  1. The clip strip in the editor: a title card and six numbered clips with their lengths

    Pick your clips

    Choose videos and photos straight from Photos. Trim each one to the play. Nothing is copied or uploaded.

  2. The Callouts tab: the catch frozen with an arrow on the receiver, the pause flag on the clip, and the effect, color, rotation and pause settings

    Mark the play

    The reel pauses on the moment and a callout circles the player, so a coach knows who to watch. Add a title card with name, position and class.

  3. The Export screen: 1080p, the watermark and end card removed, Your reel is ready, 23 seconds, 13.3 MB, with Save to Photos, Save to Files and Share

    Export and send

    Export in 1080p, landscape or vertical. Save to Photos, post it, or text it to a coach.

Made for
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Soccer
  • Volleyball
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Lacrosse
  • Hockey
  • Field Hockey
  • Wrestling
  • Boxing
  • MMA
What it costs

Free to make. Pay only for extras.

The app is free

  • Build and export as many reels as you like, at full quality
  • Trim, freeze, callouts, labels, title cards and ten music tracks
  • No ads and no account

Free exports carry a small Cutup mark in the corner and a "Made with Cutup" end card.

One-time extras

Remove the watermark$4.99
Remove the end card$1.99
Effect and title card packs$4.99 each
Starter bundle: both removals and a pack$8.99

Bought once, yours on every reel. Family Sharing included.

The Title card screen: the Headline layout over a frame from the game, with Josh Smith's name, team and details, and the layouts row
Title cardsHeadline layout, Title Card Pack
The Music screen: the library of ten original tracks with their style and tempo, and Import an audio file
MusicTen original tracks, free
Player Page

One link for every recruiter

Publish your reel to your own page at cutupsports.com/athletes/your-name, in your team colors, with your details and a button to contact your coach.

$9.99a month, cancel anytime
  • See who's watchingViews by day and where they came from, plus a weekly email.
  • Contact the coachThe main button reaches your coach, so your own number and email stay off the page.
  • Clean exports includedNo watermark or end card on any reel while you subscribe.
  • Search engines only if you say soPages stay out of Google until you switch listing on.

Your clips stay yours

Reels are made on your iPhone and sync through your own iCloud. We never receive your videos, photos or music unless you publish a Player Page.

No account, no ads

Open the app and start. Purchases go through your Apple Account, and there is no advertising anywhere.

Pages you control

Unpublish or delete a Player Page and its data at any time. Parents can ask us to remove a page about their child.

Questions

Before you download

Is Cutup really free?

Yes. Building and exporting reels is free at full quality. Free exports carry a small watermark and a "Made with Cutup" end card, which you can remove with one-time purchases.

No app can, because streaming songs are copy-protected. Use one of the tracks built into Cutup, or import an audio file you own.

Yes. Mix portrait and landscape clips and export the reel as 16:9 for coaches or 9:16 for social.

Yes. When your iPhone is signed in to iCloud, your reels, the clips you imported and your athlete details sync through your own iCloud storage to every iPhone on the same Apple Account, and come back if you reinstall. Cutup can't see them. You can turn it off in Cutup's Settings.

On your iPhone, open Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions, then Cutup. The page stays up until the end of the period you paid for.

Make your first reel tonight

Download on the App StoreRequires iPhone with iOS 17 or later.