Standout Features: Seamless Apple product integration green-screen audio and social platform integration When your movie’s finally ready to ship, release it into the wild using iMessage, Facebook, YouTube, or any other of iMovie’s succinctly connected platforms. Want to overlay the scene with “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”? iMovie ties directly in with iTunes and GarageBand, so you can easily implement custom tracks and sounds. One of iMovie’s most coveted features is its green-screen, or “chroma-key” tool, which allows you to place your characters in exotic locations-Hawaii, say-at a moment’s notice.

iMovie’s ten high-fidelity filters are some of the classiest in the video editing game and if you’re shooting on your iPhone, or have been editing a project on your iPad, you can use AirDrop to wirelessly and seamlessly transfer your project over to your Mac. If you’re looking for simplicity and elegance, it doesn’t get much better than Apple iMovie.

Ok-so to those of you working with PCs, this one won’t really apply but we’d remiss to leave it off the list.