Adobe brings Premiere to iPhone with free download and AI credits

Adobe will bring its flagship video editor to the iPhone this month, making a full-featured version of Premiere available for preorder on the App Store and expected to roll out to users on September 30. The company said the app will be free to download and use without ads or watermarks, with optional paid features for generative AI and additional cloud storage.

Adobe described Premiere on iPhone as a mobile-first reimagining that retains many of the desktop app's core tools. Users will be able to trim, layer and fine-tune edits with frame-accurate precision on a multitrack timeline, apply color presets from Lightroom, work with unlimited video, audio and text tracks, and export 4K HDR files. The app includes automatic captions with stylized subtitles, automatic resizing for social platforms, and one-tap export to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram. Projects can be started on the phone and then handed off to Premiere Pro on desktop, Adobe said.

Generative AI features powered by Adobe's Firefly models will be integrated into the app, allowing creators to generate images, audio and video from text prompts and to create stickers and other assets on the fly. Adobe said generative...