Stop Motion Studio User Reviews

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Great app, but I am unable to find a solution.

I want to start off by saying that this app is amazing and I use it as an alternative to many of the other stop motion editing softwares as it is much easier. I have used this app for about 8 months and have spent countless hours animating. I have bought all of the add ons to get the full experience and make my stop motions as best as I can. That said recently I have encountered a problem that is not only irritating but unnecessarily difficult. Recently the merge option has been greyed out, although his might not seem like such a big problem it is really irritating. I am currently working on an ant man and the wasp LEGO trailer stop motion, and a character known as the ghost has powers that require a merge of different slides, the shrinking and growing effects also require the same method but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to fix this. I have attempted to contact the developers through the website, but I got an error display and couldn’t move further. If this is only a simple bug that can be fixed or a patch that has been ridiculously over complicated than I need to know. I have spent about an hour researching if others have encountered the same problem or are having trouble but I can’t find anything, if anyone has any solutions or the developers themselves see this then please help. This is something that I know has worked in the past so there is no reason it shouldn’t now.
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Needs another cool update

It's all super duper cool and that but it really needs a cool update. You know when you press on a frame it comes up with all those options, well if you press on 'capture' it puts it in front of the frame that you want it. It is especially annoying if you try to put it at the end of your movie but it goes second last. So I think people need to make it so the 'capture' frame goes after the one you are on.
PS. Sorry, it was super hard to explain, otherwise this app it literally the B E S T app everrrrreerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!'nnn
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This app makes you pay for everything

Ok. I install this app being an animation fan and is the only free app I could find. I get into it and discover 99% of it you need to pay for. I constantly have to voice my own sounds which are ridiculous compared to the sound drive. When I want to use a sound again I'll just have to voice it because you can't go into the sounds tab and reuse it without all the features. You can't even go to the gallery because it's blocked by the help and download buttons. I'm sure they design this app for newer phones, with bigger screens but to fix that though they'll just up the iOS and I won't be able to use it anymore. I can't argue with the price though, only 5 bucks for full feature pack, but I don't have any money on the App Store. Honestly this app is ok as it is, but please add more features to the free version because I can barely use it.
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This is a great app!!!!!

This is the best stop motion program for iOS and better than most computer ones, I got the feature pack which was very useful especially for the remote camera and editing features, this update was so useful I would highly recommend this app. One thing I would recommend for a future update is for the erasing tool put a line around the eraser so you de where it is, also put a filter so you could see what you erased( a button at the top so when you click it the erased sections show up a shade of blue or something like that), the last thing I would add is the ability to change frame rate for different sections of the film(ie first half 10 frames second 20 something like that). Good job on the app.
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It’s Great-Just What I Needed

I have been yelling for ages that my little Phonics program needed to be made into moving cartoons; my son told me about this Application, he told me his children are having s great time making Stop Motion movies. So I made little characters from my Phonics stories and using Stop Motion created my own Cartoons, as it were. So far I have had great feedback from those who have seen my Phonics “stories” come to life. Thank you very much. If my Phonics Cartoons Help any little ones to read, I will have the creator of this Application to thank.
I have only one “complaint “. The program, has at times, died on me; that is goes totally black-no picture, nothing-when I try to send a Stop Motion Movie. So far I wait, for several hours and it comes back. This last time it seems lost for good. I don’t want to lose the Stop Motion Mini Movies I have recorded. I’m flummoxed.
PS: If you want to see your handiwork applied go to “ I Can Do Phonics” on Facebook. Click On videos. (I am trying to put the Cartoons on UTube as well).
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I DO NOT LIKE THIS UPDATE AT ALL!!

I own Stop Motion studio pro and the non-pro version. I DON’T LIKE THIS UPDATE AT ALL. The only thing I liked about this update is you can add text to whatever frame you want, but I hate all the buttons you have to press to zoom in, instead of just zooming in on the screen with your fingers. And every time I try to focus it, the brightness changes and gets lighter or darker. I can’t even MERGE FRAMES ANYMORE!! That’s how I used to do all my special effects. It feels like you guys are trying to make this harder on people. Now my stop motions are going to look like trash!! If you keep this update no one is going to pay $5 for a few other things when their stop motions will be so much harder!!! Overall I pretty much, hate the update for this app and the pro version, can you guys just get rid of the update and change it back to normal, but can you guys please keep the text on any frame you want please.
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Free app is useless

I downloaded the free app because it had better features than other free animation apps. However it turns out that you have to pay for every single one of these “amazing features.” I wasn’t expecting the free version to be as good as the pro version, but I expected better than this. All I can do is put a series of frames together, which is less than most other apps.

I am not saying this is a bad app; I am considering paying for the full version. However the free version is completely rubbish. As far as I can see, the only point of the free app is to trick people into paying more money to buy each feature individually.

My advice is don't waste your time with the free version. If you want to use all the features, buy the full app.
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Sound Effects

I purchased sound effects today and it will not allow me to use it do you have any ideas???
But everything else is good
Please help and make it work

This "Free" app delivered more than expected!

I have two grandkids (8&4) and wanted an app we could animation and is easy to work with.

I decided to use iOS iMovie which is good but felt it was a very cumbersome editing process.
Finally I found Stop Motion Studio app and glad I did!

1st. It's a quick app to learn.
2nd. Oldest grandkid very interesting in how it works and can use it on her own.
3rd and most important, I sent support an email and received a very quick response! They provided and answer I soon discovered on my own but they responded quickly.
I found a work-around since it may not be a SMStudio but a net provider issue.

I'm now contemplating getting the Pro version but until I'm sure/it's-clear-to-me that a single purchase ($4.99) will be accessible on both my iPhone and iPad, I will not move forward.

The free version is fun and serves our purpose and if the Pro version is not in my future, I can always save the file to Camera and add audio using iMovie which I've done! It's a work-around!
True that some features will not be available but we're taking One Frame At A Time 😆😆‼️
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Stop motion

It's the best app I've downloaded

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