Adobe is heading to mobile again, this time with a mobile version of Premiere, its popular video editing tool. The app is free and contains many of the pro-level tools Premiere users are used to having, including those for studio-grade audio and all the assets and features needed for video editing. Users also will have access to Firefly generative AI, enhanced speech, and Adobe fonts and libraries of many free creative assets. The app will be available at the end of the month for the iPhone, but it can be pre-ordered now; an Android version is in development, though no release date has been provided.
Adobe Premiere on iPhone to be available in late September from the Apple App Store.
Adobe, like many other software companies, likes to tout its practice of listening to its customers’ wants and needs as it announces new products and updates. Such was the case earlier this year when it announced a mobile Photoshop version, a real Photoshop version—with availability first on the iPhone, followed by an Android release. Adobe said the move was made in order to include a new generation of creators who prefer creating on their always-present smartphones. It appears that this generation continues to crave Adobe apps on their phones, and Adobe continues to serve them up, this time with the company’s latest offering: Premiere Pro on mobile.
“We’ve taken the time to listen and learn from creators about what they love, about mobile editing today, and where they still feel limited by what’s on the market. We believe editing the perfect video should be within reach for everyone. It should feel effortless, and it should move as fast as you do,” said Adobe’s Meagan Keane, director of product marketing and business strategy, during a press briefing Thursday, just prior to the announcement.
And as Adobe did with Photoshop mobile, the iPhone will be first in line for the app, which will be available later this month, with an Android version still in development. The free app, which Adobe touts as fast and intuitive, puts pro-level creative controls in the hands of mobile users—without pro-level complexity, the company says. Designed from the ground up, Premiere on mobile is built to be intuitive and uncluttered—add-free, watermark-free—giving users the ability and control to create polished, professional-looking video with ease, Adobe adds.
Used by YouTubers, filmmakers, video editors, and others, Premiere mobile combines pro-quality tools, studio-grade audio, and all the assets creators need for video editing. Users will have access to Firefly generative AI, enhanced speech, and Adobe fonts and libraries of hundreds of thousands of free creative assets. Premiere on mobile provides high-level video editing capabilities, enabling users to trim, reorder, adjust color, add captions, animate text, remove backgrounds, auto-sync clips, and so forth.
Pro-level video editing on the Premiere mobile app. (Source: Adobe)
Like the desktop version, the mobile app has a colorful, dynamic multi-track timeline for trimming, layering, and fine-tuning frames. Included are automatic captions with stylized subtitles; unlimited video, audio, and text layers; support for 4K HDR, and more. For instance, users can create sound effects with text and voice, describing the sound and acting it out in their phone’s mic, and Firefly will add synched cinematic sound effects. They can also transform images into videos to fill timeline gaps or add visual effects, or start with a large library of high-quality images, sounds, music, fonts, and videos from Adobe. And, as Adobe always assures everyone that its Firefly-generated content is commercially safe.
Although the app is free to use, users will need to pay when applying generative credits or Adobe Cloud Storage.
With the Premiere iPhone app, users can create on the go and finish their work in Premiere Pro on their desktop for precision editing. Or, they can do it all on their phone and export it immediately to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram, or any other major social platform with one tap—and automatically resize the videos for each, while maintaining the main action in frame.
Premiere for iPhone and iPad is available now for pre-order through the Apple App Store.
Adobe promises this is only the start of things to come, with plans to rapidly ship new features and updates based directly on user feedback.
Meanwhile, as Adobe announced Premiere for mobile, on its help page, it said it was pulling its previous mobile editing tool, Premiere Rush, which will no longer be available for download from Adobe.com or mobile app stores as of September 30. After that date, customers can continue using Rush on their devices where already installed until the app is discontinued on September 30, 2026.
“In 2019, we launched Premiere Rush as a lightweight video editing app for desktop and mobile platforms. Since then, we’ve taken key learnings from Premiere Rush to inform the next generation of Adobe video editing experiences, including the new Premiere on iPhone app,” Adobe states on the webpage.
What do we think?
Adobe porting some of its popular software to mobile phones is a good idea on many fronts. Users across the board always have their mobile phones at the ready. And especially for this newer generation of users, their mobile phones are used for just about everything, particularly for video/audio recording and photography. More to the point, they leave and breathe with their smartphones at their side. While there are other tools out there for video editing on the go, they are not Premiere.