Why this site exists

A before and after is the most persuasive thing a working business can post. It needs no script, no presenter and no budget, and it survives being watched with the sound off. The problem is never the idea. It is that the second photograph was taken from a slightly different place, in slightly different light, and the result quietly reads as staged.

So this site is about the pair first and the software second. The guides are about matching a shot. The free browser slider exists so you can check a pair in ten seconds without installing anything. The template catalogue is a live demo of all 100 frames the app can put around one, across 20 packs, so you can see them before you download anything and decide the 8 free ones are enough.

We also make the app

You should know that up front. This site is published by the people who make Before and After Video Maker, and the site exists partly to sell it. That is exactly why the free tool here has no watermark and no sign-up, and why the app page lists what the app cannot do alongside what it can. A site that only ever recommends its own product is an advert, and adverts do not earn anybody's trust twice.

How these guides are made

Six sources sit behind this site, and every page on it comes from one of them. They are named here with their release period and the date they were pulled, because a source you cannot go and check is not a citation. There is no research team and no named editor behind these pages who does not exist: the publisher is a small Australian company, and the writing is done by the people who run it.

1. 01

   The template catalogueThe app's own source

   Every one of the 100 template pages is generated from the same definitions the iPhone app ships, across 20 packs, with 8 of them marked free because that is how the code enforces it. Nobody types a template name on this site. If a template is renamed or a pack is reorganised in the app, the catalogue moves with it or the build fails, so the pages cannot quietly describe a version that no longer ships.

2. 02

   The wage figuresBLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025

   The 16 occupation pages carry national cross industry estimates from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, pulled from the published time series files and baked into the site on 1 August 2026. The build makes no API call, so what you read is what was checked on that date. Every page states the survey blind spot rather than footnoting it: OEWS covers wage and salary workers, so booth renters, owner operators and single van businesses are outside the number entirely, and in several of these trades that is most of the trade.

3. 03

   The business countsUS Census Bureau, County Business Patterns and Nonemployer Statistics, 2023

   The 13 industry pages count businesses from two Census programmes that measure two different universes: establishments with at least one paid employee, and businesses with none. They are quoted separately and never silently added together, because adding them is the most common way this data gets misquoted. Where Census does not publish a nonemployer figure at a code, the page says so instead of leaving the gap unmarked.

4. 04

   The hashtagsA research sweep completed 1 August 2026

   Every tag across the 15 trades was seen in real use during one sweep of trade press, field service software blogs, supplier and brand blogs, platform discover pages, hashtag directories and live captions. Nothing is invented. Post counts are deliberately not published: the directories that quote them contradicted each other by an order of magnitude during research, so the tiers are stated as what they are, an editorial judgement from how often a tag appeared across sources.

5. 05

   The written analysisPublisher written, one block per page

   The 45 platform briefs and the 29 readings on the statistics pages are written here, by us, one per page. They are the only parts of this site a generator could not have produced, and they are held to a stricter rule than the rest of it: no figure appears in a reading that is not in the record it sits beside or arithmetic on it, and no advice is given that would need a number the data does not have. Nothing on this site tells you what to charge, because neither survey can measure it.

6. 06

   The photographsThe app's own sample set

   Every before and after pair on this site was generated by us for the app. Nothing is lifted from a salon's portfolio, a contractor's feed or a stock library sold as a real job. Where a page shows a template around a pair, the template is the one the app actually applies to it.

The federal figures are public domain US government work and every statistics page carries the wording to cite the agency rather than this site. The statistics index lists all of them, and the hashtag index lists the trades.

What we hold ourselves to

• We market what ships, and nothing elseThe app takes two still photographs and produces a video, a GIF or an image. It cannot compare two video clips. You will not find a page here implying otherwise, because a promise the product cannot keep is a refund with a delay on it.
• The template catalogue is generated, not writtenAll 100 template pages are built from the app's own source. Nobody types a template name on this site, so the catalogue cannot drift away from the build.
• The free tier is described the way the code enforces itThree exports a day, each behind a rewarded advert, watermarked, at two ratios, with one reveal animation. Saying "free" and leaving the advert out would be the easy version and it would be a lie.
• We name the gapsNo AI, no 4K, no clip comparison, no imported music, and a video export that does not yet honour two of the four comparison modes. All of that is on the app page, in writing.
• No borrowed proofNo star ratings, no review counts, no "loved by thousands", no invented download figures. The listing has no rating average yet, so this site does not claim one.
• The demo photographs are oursEvery before and after pair on this site comes from the app's own sample set, generated by us. Nothing is lifted from a salon's portfolio or a contractor's feed.

Who publishes this

Before After Video Maker is published by MomentumLab AI Pty Ltd, a small Australian software studio that builds and runs its own apps. There is no outside investor and no client work behind these pages, which is why we can afford to tell you when a phone camera and thirty seconds of care beats any app.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, we would rather hear it than leave it up. The contact page has the address, and it reaches a person.