# FrameFold: Stop Motion Camera — Shoots when your hands leave > Shoots when your hands leave (iPhone/iPad app by Rainer Bracharz.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/framefold-stop-motion-camera/id6801045603 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Rainer Bracharz](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801045606) - Category: Photo & Video, Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB - Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, European Spanish - Released: 2026-08-19 - Data updated: 2026-10-25 ## What is FrameFold? The stop-motion app that shoots by itself the moment your hands leave the frame. Free, no subscription, no ads, no account, no internet. FrameFold turns a video of your working process into a stop-motion — automatically, and entirely on your iPhone or iPad. The app finds the calm moments in your footage, drops every frame with your hands in it, compensates for shake and assembles the result. Nothing leaves your device: no cloud, no account, no tracking. AUTOMATIC CAMERA Phone on a tripod, then work — FrameFold fires by itself as soon as your hands leave the frame and the scene settles. Exposure and white balance are locked, and the shutter speed snaps to the mains frequency so artificial light can't streak your frames. With onion skin, drift check, an interval trigger and a spirit level. SHARP, OR NOT AT ALL The app measures image sharpness continuously and only locks focus once it has actually settled. If sharpness drops later, it refocuses on its own. A frame that isn't sharp never makes it into the work. On a tripod focus stays locked; handheld it keeps tracking — the motion sensor decides which applies. APPLE WATCH AS A REMOTE Fire and finish from your wrist, with the frame count and status on the watch face. Nobody has to touch the tripod. The volume buttons on headphones and AirPods fire too, and holding the shutter starts a countdown. STUDIO ON IPAD From Advanced mode the iPad becomes a pro workspace: timeline, toggle between live view and captured frames, multi-frame onion skin, aspect masks, loupe, multiple audio tracks with waveform, voice recording while the film plays and an X-sheet with mouth shapes. EDIT AND SCORE Duplicate a frame to hold a pose longer, drag frames into a new order, export at up to 24 fps — and lay music or sound from your files under the film. THE FILM GROWS AS YOU WORK While you work, the stop-motion is already playing as a loop — in the viewfinder and on the studio monitor next to the camera feed. FLIP BOOK Every work becomes a print-ready flip book: A4 sheets with cut lines, a binding edge and numbered leaves. Cut, staple, flip — the film becomes an object again. STUDIO MONITOR Connect a screen or projector and it shows the camera feed alone, with a catalogue line — no controls. For classes and studio visits: everyone watches, the phone stays untouched on the tripod. VIDEO TO STOP-MOTION Pick an existing video, the calm moments get found, hands removed, duplicates sorted out. You check every frame on the contact sheet before it's assembled. THREE MODES Simple (pick, shoot, done — made for teaching), Advanced (aspect, frame rate, resolution, playback) and a studio mode with paper relief, image echo, print look, fold transitions, an exhibition reel and print-ready contact-sheet and fold-template PDFs. WORKS, NOT FILES Projects collect frames across any number of sessions, with a 30-day trash. The result arrives like an edition: "Sheets 01–24 · Series of 24 · dated 2026". Built as a bespoke tool for the artist Aldo Tolino, whose work folds printed photographs into objects and photographs them again — image, object, image. ## Is FrameFold safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess FrameFold. ## Is FrameFold legit? FrameFold: Stop Motion Camera has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for FrameFold is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.6 — 2026-10-25 FrameFold 2.6 Now on iPad too – and with sound. • Undo and redo for everything in a work (reordering, removing, text …) – by button or ⌘Z. The Studio is now on iPhone too (live settings → Studio). • Text, speech bubbles and drawing: press and hold a frame → “Text & drawing …”. Text and bubbles span several frames, drawings belong to one frame. • Full resolution: every frame comes as a photo from the sensor, export up to 4K. Plus lens choice (ultra wide, telephoto, front camera), clap to shoot, adding photos as frames and looks for the whole film. • iPad: FrameFold runs on iPad, portrait and landscape. In a stand, viewfinder and frames follow the way the device is turned. • Green screen, title and credits: replace green or blue with an image or a movie, plus a title card before the film and credits after it. • Studio on iPad: from Advanced mode the camera becomes a pro workspace – timeline, toggle between live view and captured frames, multi-frame onion skin, masks, loupe, multiple audio tracks with waveform, X-sheet with mouth shapes. • Record voice: the film plays along while you speak – the recording lands exactly in the right place. It stays on the device. • Music or sound: pick an audio file in the work view – it plays under the exported film. • Up to 30 fps: 15, 24, 25 and 30 fps for smooth motion. • Manual camera (from Advanced): set ISO, shutter speed, focus and white balance yourself – the automatic metering then stays out of it. • Duplicate and reorder frames: press and hold a frame for “Duplicate”, “Move earlier” and “Move later” – or simply drag it to a new place in the contact sheet. • Sound effects and text to speech: attach pop, whoosh, drum roll, ta-da and more to any frame – or have a voice speak typed text. Everything is made on the device. Plus a help section with short guides in the settings. • Now also in Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese and Portuguese – and a sample work is waiting on first launch to try things out. ### 2.5 — 2026-10-24 FrameFold 2.5 When the tripod gets bumped – and when one frame isn't right. • Tripod moved? If the background sits differently than in the first frame, FrameFold tells you and can show the first frame to line things up again. “It's fine” keeps the new position. • Retake a single frame: press and hold a frame in the contact sheet and choose “Retake” – the next frame replaces exactly this one, in place. The old one stays in the trash for 30 days. • Fixed: “Continue with the camera” could get stuck on the result of the last session. ### 2.4 — 2026-10-22 FrameFold 2.4 Steadier films and a new way to share. • Reduce flicker: when exporting, FrameFold evens out brightness from frame to frame – clouds, room light or auto exposure no longer make the film flicker. Slow changes in light stay. On by default, can be turned off in the export settings. • Share as GIF: below every finished film – an endlessly looping GIF for messengers, school platforms and slides that don’t play video. ### 2.3.1 — 2026-10-19 FrameFold 2.3.1 Smoother capture, and videos and live sessions together in one work. • Add a video to a work: "Save" asks whether to start a new work or append the frames to an existing one. • "Choose frames again" now in Simple mode too – drop a frame without analysing everything again. • Undo: its own button in Simple mode; afterwards the onion skin shows the previous frame again. • Capture stays smooth when the shutter fires; the hand check runs in the background. • Rename and delete works with a long press; the contact sheet loads faster. • Capture settings are remembered; the film loop in the viewfinder plays at the finished film's speed. • Better VoiceOver support; dates in PDFs follow your language. • Fixed: after a film was made, the screen could jump back to “Building stop-motion…”. ### 2.3 — 2026-10-18 FrameFold 2.3 Tidied up and fine-tuned. • "Works" and "Studio": the tab is now called Works, the third mode Studio. • Continue with the camera: from any work straight back to the viewfinder; the camera can now list all your works. • Switching tabs during a session finishes it instead of resetting it. • Apple Watch: the shutter is only active while the iPhone viewfinder is open, and confirms every frame. • Transitions stay steady with shake correction; frames of different sizes fill the frame. • Flip book and exhibition reel in the app's colours; the flip book needs far less memory. • Long videos can be cancelled; easier-to-read counter, VoiceOver announcements when a frame is taken. ## Apps similar to FrameFold | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Stop Motion Creator: Animate](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stop-motion-creator-animate/id6757111931) | 4.5 (6) | Free | Photo & Video | | [HYPERSPEKTIV: Photo, Video, AR](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hyperspektiv-photo-video-ar/id1058051662) | 3.2 (805) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Fish eye camera & Video Square](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fish-eye-camera-and-video-square/id1599241785) | 4.9 (450) | Free | Photo & Video | | [VSDC](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vsdc/id1621490976) | 3.9 (16) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Teleprompter－Read script](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/teleprompterread-script/id1614422094) | 4.6 (559) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Beauty Camera: PrettyMe](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beauty-camera-prettyme/id6447504942) | 3.9 (38) | Free | Photo & Video | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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