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The free and paid stabilisers worth knowing, what each one costs, how it measures the shake and what it does best, with step-by-step guides for the apps you already use.
Or choose one from your computer. Phone, action-camera and drone clips all work, in MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV and more.Pick the wobbly clip from your photos or files.
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The best video stabilization software is usually the one closest to hand. If you already edit in Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro, try its built-in stabiliser first, and DaVinci Resolve’s is included in the free version. If your camera records gyroscope data, as GoPro, Insta360 and many others do, Gyroflow uses it and is free and open source. And for a clip from any phone or camera with nothing to install, the stabiliser at the top of this page works in your browser.
The table below sets the main options side by side, followed by a plain answer on which to use when. The guides under it show the exact steps in each app, including what to do when its stabiliser wobbles or crops too much. If you just want the clip fixed, open it above; it opens in the Side by side view so you can judge the result against the original.
Stabilisation software
The stabiliser on this page needs no download and no account, and works the same on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android.
Drop it on the box marked Drop a shaky video to stabilise, or press Ctrl+O (⌘+O on a Mac). The motion is measured on your device straight away; nothing is uploaded.
Under How was it filmed?, start with the Suggested card if one is marked, or pick Walking, Running, Vehicle, Drone, Tripod or another preset that matches the footage.
On this page the studio opens in Side by side; switch View to Split for a divider you can drag. Watch the original and the steadied copy together.
Open More options for Correction (from Shift only to Warp), Rolling shutter, Steady these and Analysis. Every change except Analysis shows straight away, without analysing the clip again.
Press Export video (Ctrl+Enter or ⌘+Enter), choose the Format, Codec and Quality, and press Export video again. Then Download the file or Share it.
| Software | Cost and platforms | Measures the shake from | Good to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| stabilize.video (this page) | Free; any modern browser, on computers and phones | Points tracked across the picture | Nothing installed or uploaded; twelve presets, a rolling-shutter fix and a Full frame mode that avoids the crop; HDR is saved as 8-bit SDR |
| Warp Stabilizer in Premiere Pro and After Effects | Paid subscription; Windows and Mac | The picture | Smooth Motion or No Motion, rolling-shutter ripple reduction, and edges filled from nearby frames |
| DaVinci Resolve | Free, with a paid Studio version; Windows, Mac and Linux | The picture | Stabiliser included in the free version, with Perspective, Similarity and Translation modes and Camera Lock |
| Final Cut Pro | Paid; Mac | The picture | InertiaCam and SmoothCam methods, Tripod Mode and a Rolling Shutter fix |
| iMovie | Free; Mac | The picture | One stabilise setting with a strength slider, plus a rolling-shutter fix |
| CapCut | Free, with paid Pro features; phones, computers and the web | The picture | One stabilise setting with three levels; the web version works on uploaded files |
| Gyroflow | Free and open source; Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS | Gyroscope data recorded by the camera, with a lens profile | Superb on cameras that record gyro data, but it needs that data |
| GoPro Player + ReelSteady | GoPro’s desktop player for Windows and Mac; ReelSteady stabilisation was a paid unlock at launch | Gyroscope data from GoPro cameras | Made for GoPro footage |
| Deshaker | Free; Windows, as a VirtualDub plugin | The picture, in two passes | Fills borders from previous and next frames; has a rolling-shutter setting |
| FFmpeg with vid.stab | Free; command line on Windows, Mac and Linux | The picture, in two passes | Scriptable for batches of files; no rolling-shutter fix |
| Topaz Video | Paid; Windows and Mac | The picture | Stabilisation with a full-frame option and rolling-shutter correction, next to its upscaling tools |
There are two ways to find out how a camera moved. The first is to record it: many action cameras, drones and some phones and mirrorless cameras log their gyroscope hundreds of times a second while filming. Gyroflow and ReelSteady read that log, correct for the lens and rotate each frame back. Because the gyroscope doesn’t care what the camera was pointed at, this works in fog, at night and over water, and it handles even violent shake on a helmet or a handlebar.
The second is to measure the movement from the picture itself, by following details from one frame to the next. Every other stabiliser in the table works this way, including this one. It needs no special camera or log file, so it works on any clip from any device, years after it was filmed, and it sees sideways and up-and-down shifts that a gyroscope, which measures turning, doesn’t record. It does need something to follow, so a clear sky, open water or a dark scene is harder.
In short: if your footage came with gyro data, use it. For everything else, a picture-based stabiliser is the tool, and the difference between them lies in how carefully the motion is measured, how sensibly the new path is planned and how the edges are handled.
Several apps describe their stabiliser as AI. Whatever the label, every stabiliser has to measure how the camera moved and plan a calmer path; the differences that matter are how well it does both, how much it crops and what it does at the edges. The one on this page uses classical computer vision, tracked points and an optimised camera path, and doesn’t claim otherwise.
Each app names its controls differently, but the ideas are the same. If you know one stabiliser, this table maps its settings onto the others.
| Idea | Warp Stabilizer | DaVinci Resolve | Final Cut Pro | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remove all camera movement | No Motion | Camera Lock | Tripod Mode | Camera: Locked |
| How strongly to smooth | Smoothness | Smooth and Strength | Smoothing | Smoothness |
| What kind of movement to correct | Method | Mode | Method | Correction |
Yes. The stabiliser in the Inspector is part of the free version of DaVinci Resolve, with its Perspective, Similarity and Translation modes and Camera Lock. The Resolve guide shows where to find it and how to stop it cropping too much.
Gyroflow is free and open source. It needs gyroscope data recorded with the video, either inside the file (GoPro, Insta360, some Sony cameras and others) or in a separate log, plus a lens profile, many of which are built in. Without gyro data it can’t stabilise a clip.
GoPro bought ReelSteady and in 2022 built its stabilisation into GoPro’s desktop app, GoPro Player + ReelSteady, as a paid unlock; check GoPro’s site for the current terms. It works from the gyro data GoPro cameras record, so it is for GoPro footage rather than clips from phones.
iMovie is free and has a simple stabiliser; Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve all have fuller ones, and Resolve’s is free. Gyroflow runs on a Mac too, and the stabiliser on this page works in a recent Safari or Chrome.
DaVinci Resolve (free), Premiere Pro and After Effects (paid), Deshaker for VirtualDub (free), Gyroflow (free, with gyro data) and FFmpeg (free, command line). Or skip the install and use this page in a recent Edge or Chrome.
If the camera recorded gyro data, a gyro-based tool such as Gyroflow gives the steadiest result, especially for violent shake. If it didn’t, or HyperSmooth was already on, a picture-based stabiliser works well: here, the Running preset is made for it.