Adobe is bringing licensed songs from Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to Premiere mobile, its free phone video editor, though not yet. In Malaysia, on one public measure, Premiere starts a long way behind its rivals: Apple's data for the Malaysian App Store showed 286 ratings for it on 5 November, against 147,033 for CapCut.
Quick facts
- What: licensed music clips from Universal (UMG) and Warner (WMG) artists, inside Premiere mobile
- How much of a song: up to 60 seconds per video
- Licence: personal, non-commercial use only
- When: "coming soon", with no date and no list of countries from Adobe
- Price: the app is free on iPhone and Android
What Adobe announced
In its 3 November announcement, Adobe said you will be able to browse and search music by artist or track, filter by genre and duration, bookmark favourites and pick from collections chosen by the labels. You can add up to 60 seconds of a track to a video, start from templates that come paired with a song, then export and post to what Adobe calls "your favorite licensed social platforms".
The limits matter as much as the songs. Adobe says the tracks are licensed for personal, non-commercial use only. A brand video, a paid client edit or an ad needs commercially licensed music, and for that Adobe points you to its separate Adobe Stock Audio service. Adobe has not said how many songs are included, when the feature arrives, or which countries get it first.
The editing itself is already free. When Premiere reached Android, it brought a multi-track timeline and 4K export with no watermark, without a Creative Cloud subscription.
Where Malaysian phone editors already are
We read the rating counts on 5 November from Apple's own public data feed for the Malaysian App Store, which gives exact totals and each app's listing date. The store page itself rounds large totals (CapCut shows as 147K), and counts change daily, so a later reading will differ slightly. A rating count is not a download count, and apps that have been listed longer have had more time to collect ratings, so treat it as a rough comparison, not a measure of users.
InShot has 239,375 ratings, CapCut 147,033 and VN 86,795. One app closer in age is Instagram's Edits: the same feed dates its listing to April 2025, about five months before Premiere's iPhone app in September 2025. Age is only one difference, since the two also differ in brand and in how they are promoted. Edits has 2,355 Malaysian ratings, roughly eight times Premiere's 286. On the US App Store feed, the same Premiere app had 27,331 ratings, so Malaysia's count is about 1% of that.
Whether licensed songs move those numbers is something we can measure: we will check the same listings again once the music is live in Malaysia. If you are still choosing an app, our look at what CapCut Pro costs in Malaysia sets out what the main rival charges.
A song does not fix shaky or flat footage. We shot a full music video recreation on a phone with no budget, and the shoot-to-edit workflow behind it is what we teach in Pocket Cinematic. For the shooting side, start with four camera movements that make any phone video look cinematic.
Premiere mobile is on the Malaysian App Store now. The music library is not in the app yet, and Adobe has not said when it will reach Malaysia.
