iMovie has been around for a long time on the Mac and is now available on both the iPhone and iPad. The funny thing is that these mobile versions of iMovie are easier to use and deliver the same stellar results as the Mac counterpart. Rather than going into a huge discussion of all of iMovie’s features, we want to tell you about one we particularly love. That is the ability to quickly edit your iPhone videos using iMovie, but right from within the Photos app. This is by using the iMovie extension. Thanks to iOS’ ability to access one app’s features from within another, the Photos app gains the ability to use the iMovie app’s editing features as an extension. Now you can edit videos you’ve taken right from within the Photos app using iMovie’s awesome tools. These include adding style filters, titles, and music to your videos.

iMovie is just one of our favorite app extensions for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. Visit that page if you would like to know more about how to enable extensions on your iPhone and iPad. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.

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Here are a couple of our other picks of the best app extensions for iPhone and iPad:

Skitch – The best way to annotate your photos on iPhone and iPad

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Diptic – Create fun photo collages directly on your iPhone

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