The best AI video generator apps for iPhone (2026)
Typing a sentence into your phone and getting a video back is normal now. The hard part is choosing an app: dozens claim to be the best AI video generator on the App Store, and most of them run a single model behind a subscription. Here is our ranking for 2026.
Disclosure: Dora is made by us, the team behind this blog. We put it first and explain why below. Everything about the other apps comes from their own App Store listings, checked in October 2026.
Quick ranking
| # | App | Best for | How it charges |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dora | Many top video models in one app, on iPhone and web | Paid plan, see pricing |
| 2 | Kling AI | Kling models, up to 4K and long clips | Monthly plans or credit packs |
| 3 | Pika | Creative effects on your own videos | Weekly, monthly or yearly plans |
| 4 | PowerDirector | AI generation inside a full editor | Subscription |
| 5 | CapCut | Editing first, AI video as an extra | Free editor, paid plans |
| 6 | Viggle AI | Template dances and memes | Free daily tier, paid plans and credits |
| 7 | Captions | AI avatars and talking videos | Weekly, monthly or yearly plans |
1. Dora: the best AI video generator app for iPhone
Dora is a text to video and image to video generator that gives you many of the leading models in one place, from Google, Kuaishou, ByteDance and others. Why it is our pick:
- The models, not just one model. Each model has a strength: realism, motion, sound, speed. Dora lets you choose per video and run the same prompt on several. Compare them on the models page.
- Text to video and photo to video. Describe a scene, or start from your own photo and animate it. Guides: text to video and animate a photo.
- Motion Control. Copy the movement of a reference clip onto the person in your photo, for dances and gestures that a prompt cannot describe.
- Images too. Make the starting frame with an image model, then animate it, in the same app.
- Ready in about 2 minutes.
- iPhone and web, plus a connector for ChatGPT and Claude if you write your ideas there.
- No watermark on paid plans, and you see what each video costs before you generate.
Worth knowing: there is no free tier; generating needs a plan. See pricing.
2. Kling AI
Kuaishou's official Kling app generates text and image to video up to 15 seconds in native 1080p or 4K, with Video Extension up to 3 minutes, plus 4K images and a community of creators. Monthly plans from Standard to Premier, or one-off credit packs. The strongest single-model app here.
3. Pika
Pika focuses on editing reality: swap any element of your video (Pikaswaps), add objects or people (Pikadditions), or turn a selfie into reaction memes. Standard, Pro and Fancy plans, weekly to yearly, run on credits. Choose it for playful effects rather than generating scenes from scratch.
4. PowerDirector
CyberLink's long-running mobile editor now includes AI image to video ("powered by Kling, Google Veo, PixVerse and more", per its listing), text to video and AI storytelling from a script, from 15 to 120 seconds. Subscription. Good if you already edit in PowerDirector.
5. CapCut
CapCut is first an editor, and a very good one, with captions, effects and templates. Its listing now includes AI video from text or images with models such as Seedance and Veo 3. Free to start, with paid plans. Ideal for finishing videos you generated elsewhere.
6. Viggle AI
Viggle animates your photo with motion from thousands of meme, sports and dance templates, or a clip you bring. A free tier gives a few videos a day; paid plans add more. Specialised, and very good at what it does.
7. Captions
Captions by Mirage generates talking videos with AI actors or an "AI Twin" from your selfie, and edits, subtitles and dubs them. Weekly, monthly or yearly plans. Pick it for talking-head content rather than cinematic clips.
Bottom line
If you want one AI video app on your iPhone that covers text to video, photo to video and motion copying with several top models, start with Dora. For the model-by-model view, read the best AI video generators in 2026; for photos specifically, the best apps to turn a photo into a video.