Quik
Your best shots, all in one spot.
Get the most out of your favorite photos and videos, and never lose track of them again.
Quik replaces the GoPro app in iOS and Android app stores and existing GoPro app users will see their app update upon install. For GoPro camera users, Quik features all of the capabilities of the previous GoPro app, plus so much more. Existing users’ photos and videos will transfer from the old GoPro app to the new Quik app upon install and any cloud-based footage will remain accessible.
Quik also features a suite of powerful, yet simple, editing tools if you prefer to edit your photos and videos yourself.
Quik supports content captured on GoPros but now also stretches to include images and video taken on any camera.
Key Features
Automatic Edits
The Quik app picks your best shots, syncs them to music, adds cinematic transitions, and creates a shareable video.
Highlight Videos Sent to You – Automatically
With a GoPro subscription, your shots auto-upload to the cloud while you charge your GoPro, then a stunning highlight video is sent to you, ready to share.
Unlimited Backup at 100% Quality
A Quik subscription gets you unlimited mural backup at 100% quality. For GoPro camera owners, the GoPro subscription gets you all that *plus* full backup of all your app media. [5]
All Your Favorite Shots in One Spot
Post your favorite shots to your private Mural within the Quik app and never lose track of them in the black hole of your phone’s camera roll again.
Powerful Editing Tools
Powerful yet simple editing tools that give you manual control in a multi-selection timeline.
Beat Sync
Syncs clips, transitions, and effects to the beat of your music or GoPro music.
Speed Tool
Take ultimate control of video speed—super slow, fast or freeze—at multiple segments in a clip.
Frame Grab
Get high resolution photos by capturing a frame from any video.
Themes
Find a theme that tells your story with cinematic transitions, filters, and effects.
Filters
Exclusive filters optimized for environments like snow and water.
Share to Social
Share directly from Quik to your favorite social media apps.
How Does It Work?
The app is surprisingly easy to use. Let’s assume you’ve already got a ton of images and videos loaded up on your phone and maybe you’ve even already been using the previous version(s) of the GoPro app. When you open Quik up for the first time, you’ll be dropped right into the Mural feed. This is the core of the new app and one of its most important features. You’ll organize, store, and use the images, and videos found here to create new videos to share wherever you please.
This makes it easier to find the content you want instead of having to scroll through your camera roll searching for that one shot you know you want in the project.
There are two main ways to populate Mural:
First, you can send content to Quik from anywhere on your phone by using share sheets on iOS and Android.
To do so:
- Open a photo or video on your phone
- Click the Share icon
- Scroll to Quik in available app options
- Tap the Quik icon and the photo or video will be immediately added to an existing Mural event of your choice.
- You can also create a new event at this time, or if you select multiple photos and videos to send to Quik, it will create a new event with just this content.
The second method allows you to send content directly from the in-app Quik media gallery.
To do so:
- Select a photo or video from your Media
- Tap the icon in the upper right to add it to a Mural event
- Each Event will be automatically turned into a customizable highlight video.
Strong Value Proposition
When it comes down to it, Quik does a great job fulfilling what it promised. It’s easy, it’s fun, and it’s Quik (the puns continue to amuse). While it’s a rather simple-to-use editor, it has a lot of powerful features tucked away and as a result can definitely help you create some pretty nice content regardless of the intended platform. I’d imagine the only real limitation is the end product resolution, which at least seems to export at 1440p, but without 4K it isn’t particularly impressive. That said, the content is intended to be seen on mobile devices and it should be just fine for that.
These features are all built in addition to the promise of unlimited cloud storage for any photo and video at original resolution, which by itself is arguably worth what Quik charges. One final downside is that there doesn’t appear to be a way to manage stored content from anywhere other than the app, which is a bummer; a desktop app or web-app would be a welcome addition. That said, this limitation might be why GoPro is able to offer unlimited storage for such a low price.
Oh, and the ability to control a GoPro is still part of Quik and you don’t have to pay anything at all to keep that functionality.
Are There Alternatives?
There are a wide variety of cloud storage and video editing apps available for your smartphones out there including some powerful tools from Adobe and some that even have some similar features to the new Quik app. However, from what we’ve been able to find, Quik has a relatively unique proposition as few can match the price of the service or the combination of features.
Should You Buy it?
Honestly, If you’re someone who wants to take advantage of your stories/Instagram/social media feeds, Quik is completely worth it. For just $2 a month or $10 a year, you get unlimited storage with GoPro’s cloud service that you can keep adding to and editing videos and reels from for your various social media channels. If you’re already paying for GoPro’s $50 a year subscription service, congrats: everything Quik offers is included.
Editor’s note: At the time of publication, GoPro had not yet launched the unlimited “original quality” photo and video backup feature. Comments made about the value of the service are done from the expectation that this cloud service launches without issue.
