Want to get to grips with motion graphics and video editing? Alight Motion is a great place to start. Follow the app’s step-by-step instructions to create design elements, animate them and explore the more advanced features, all with your device.

What we love: Alight Motion is all about Keyframe Animations, and it has a library of rich visual effects to choose from. Head to the Tutorials section and download a sample project to get started. By recreating each effect, you’ll quickly learn how to use them. And once you’ve got the basics down, it’s easy to work on your own idea.

Quick tip: Upload your projects to the Alight Cloud to download them on another device and continue working on them from there. You can then go back and forth between your devices to edit your projects whenever you like.

Meet the creator: Bending Spoons, the Italian developer behind Alight Motion, also created the photography apps Splice and Remini and the workout app 30 Day Fitness.