The Sympler app for iOS lets you create your own 20-second music videos

Launching initially as a beta product last August, Sympler hit the App Store as a means to help users create 20-second music videos through mashing together a range of content. Since then, the app was iterated and refined, with a new experience and slew of fresh features added to the mix. However, the app was subsequently pulled offline completely, as the team behind it wanted to reset the clock and launch a whole new product. “Same concept, new functionality,” is the general idea here. Sympler version 2.0 is live now, serving up a slew of fresh new features, which we outline here.

Recording yourself in the mirror while dancing and listening to a song in the background for 20 seconds doesn’t exactly qualify as a music video, and it sure isn’t entertaining* to watch. Enter Sympler, a free iOS app launching out of beta today that lets you quickly and easily create 20-second music videos using up to six different videos and photos as well as a song of your choosing. The app is the latest to jump on the short-video bandwagon made popular by Vine and Instagram, except with a musical twist. Sympler also functions a bit like hot video editing app Magisto in the sense that you don’t really need to know anything about video editing to combine multiple pieces of content into one coherent clip. And once you select all the media you’d like to combine, you’re instructed to tap the video clips to the beat of the music to create a mix, chose a caption, and then publish it for others to see. There’s even an option for you to “remix” your friends short music videos to see if you can do better. “Everything is now editable. So Sympler fuels the urge to hack, co-create and remix using video as the medium,” said Sympler cofounder Ben Jenkins in a statement.