A 123apps alternative that keeps your videos on your device

What 123apps offers (as of September 2026)

123apps groups 51 tools under one subscription: a video editor, video trimmer, merger, cropper, a screen recorder, text to speech, a logo remover, video stabilization, audio tools, PDF tools and converters for video, audio, images, documents, fonts, archives and ebooks. Files can be opened from your computer, Google Drive, Dropbox or a URL.

According to its pricing page, all apps are free to use with limits. For the video tools, the free plan allows 5 files per day and files up to 500 MB, and shows ads. Premium costs €6 per month or €44 per year, removes the daily limit and the ads, raises the video file limit to 4 GB, promises faster processing and lists Full HD video export among its benefits.

These facts come from 123apps's own pages, listed in the sources below, and were checked on 28 September 2026. Prices and limits can change at any time, so check their site for the current terms.

Uploading versus processing on your device

The main difference is where the work happens. 123apps processes files on its servers: its privacy policy says data you provide is stored on its servers only as long as necessary and deleted automatically no later than 12 hours after you finish using the service. That is a clear, reasonable policy, but your video does leave your device and has to travel over your connection first.

Vidmini runs the whole job inside your browser, using the WebCodecs API, your device's hardware encoder and WebAssembly. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no upload wait and no copy on someone else's server. You can verify it: load a tool, turn off your connection, and process a video. The page's Content Security Policy only lets it talk to vidmini.com for its own code, and no tracking cookies are used.

Where 123apps is the better choice

If you need a tool Vidmini does not have, 123apps is the right pick. Vidmini has no screen recorder, no text to speech, no stabilization, no tool to add text or images on top of a video, no timeline editor and no PDF or document converters. It also cannot open files straight from Google Drive, Dropbox or a link: you pick a file stored on your device.

Server processing also has a real advantage: the speed does not depend on your hardware. On an old phone or a slow laptop, Vidmini is only as fast as the device it runs on, while a server does the heavy lifting for you once the upload is done.

Where Vidmini is the better choice

Privacy: your file never leaves your computer or phone, which matters for personal, client or confidential footage. No account: you open a tool and use it, nothing to sign up for. No watermark: Vidmini never adds a logo or intro, and there is no paid version.

No quota set by us: there is no daily file count and no size limit set by us. The output is streamed to your browser's private storage, so desktop browsers handle multi-gigabyte files; phones are limited by their free memory. Many jobs are also lossless: trimming in fast mode, rotating an MP4 and converting an H.264 MOV to MP4 copy the streams without re-encoding, so they finish in seconds with no quality loss.