Wondershare review: Filmora, PDFelement and what each plan costs

What Wondershare offers

Wondershare has built creative and productivity software since 2003, with offices in Vancouver, Tokyo and several cities in China. The two products most people buy are:

• Filmora: a video editor for Windows and Mac, with mobile apps for iOS and Android;
• PDFelement: an all-in-one PDF editor for desktop, mobile and web.

The wider family includes UniConverter (media conversion and enhancement), EdrawMax (diagrams), EdrawMind (mind maps), Recoverit (lost file recovery), Repairit (repair broken videos and photos), Dr.Fone (phone management) and MobileTrans (phone-to-phone transfer).

Filmora: video editing made approachable

Filmora 16 combines a timeline editor with AI tools, so you can cut quickly and still refine details. Highlights from the official site:

• rough cut tools: remove pauses, edit from text, trim clips;
• advanced editing: keyframes and curves, motion tracking, dual timelines, multi-camera editing, masks and compositing;
• picture and color: stabilization, noise reduction, color correction and grading with HSL, curves and 3D LUTs;
• sound and captions: text-to-speech voiceovers, voice enhancement, auto captions (speech-to-text in 27 languages);
• AI creation: generate video from text, images or audio, and extend clips;
• delivery: reframe for different aspect ratios, export several versions at once, Final Cut Pro 7 XML export;
• a Creative Assets library of 2.9M+ templates, effects, music, stock media and more.

It fits YouTubers and social creators, small businesses making product or promo videos, and teachers recording tutorials. The free edition includes the basic editing features but adds a watermark to exports. If you mainly need short vertical clips with captions, our Submagic review covers a dedicated tool; for other editors see best design, video and audio tools.

Filmora pricing

The yearly plans renew automatically and can be cancelled anytime; one Basic or Advanced license works on both Windows and Mac. A perpetual license is tied to one platform and covers updates to Filmora 16 only, not future major versions. Prices on the page carry time-limited discounts, so check the current figure before you buy.

PDFelement: edit PDFs like Word

PDFelement 13 is Wondershare's answer to expensive PDF suites. You can edit text and images in place, convert PDFs to and from Word, Excel and images, run OCR on scans in 26 languages, create and fill forms, compress, merge, compare versions, redact sensitive data and send documents for certificate-based e-signatures. Built-in AI summarizes, translates and answers questions about your documents, within a usage quota. If e-signatures are your main need, compare our BoldSign review.

Single-platform Windows plans at the time of writing: Yearly US$79.99/yr (auto-renews), 2-Year US$109.99 (manual renewal) and Perpetual US$129.99 for PDFelement 13; all include 20 GB of PDFelement Cloud and no watermark. Cross-platform and team plans also exist. A registered 14-day free trial needs no credit card but watermarks saved files.

Refunds and good to know

• 30-day money-back guarantee, but with conditions: the refund policy covers cases like a duplicate or wrong purchase or an unresolved critical technical issue, not a change of mind or dissatisfaction with AI output. EU residents may have a 14-day right of withdrawal.
• Renewals: cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends; renewal charges for a subscription you forgot to cancel are generally not refunded.
• AI credits: monthly Filmora credits expire when the next batch is issued, and used credits are not refundable.
• Purchases through app stores or resellers are refunded by that seller.
• Support is by live chat and email, with email replies within 24 hours.