tramontana vs Animcraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
tramontana
Prototype interactive spaces and connected products using your smartphone's sensors and actuators. Control features like flash, vibration, and screen display, or read device orientation, accelerometer, and touch events. Integrates with machine learning software for advanced prototyping.
- Smartphone sensor access (orientation, accelerometer, magnetometer)
- Smartphone actuator control (flash, vibration, screen brightness)
- Remote camera triggering and Dropbox upload
- Integration with Wekinator for machine learning
- Libraries for Processing, Javascript, and OpenFrameworks
- Wireless prototyping capabilities
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A prototyping kit for iOS. Tramontana leverages the capabilities of the object that we have all come to carry with us anywhere, all the time, our smartphone. With libraries for Processing, Javascript and OpenFrameworks you can access the inputs and outputs of one or more smartphones to easily and quickly prototype interactive spaces, connected products or just something you’d like to be wireless. More information at: tramontana.xyz To use Tramontana and access all the features of your phone you need to use the open source Processing, javascript or openFrameworks libraries. You can use your device as actuator triggering remotely: - flash light; - vibration; - changes to screen brightness and color: - playback of video, audio, and images as you can see from the screenshots; You can use the device as a sensor reading: - orientation; - magnetometer; - accelerometer; - distance sensor; - audio jack; - changes in the power source; - touch events; You can also trigger remotely the camera and upload pictures to Dropbox. Tramontana now interfaces with Wekinator and you will be able to use touch or accelerometer inputs from your device with the machine learning software.
Animcraft
Capture facial movements in real-time using your device's camera. Import this motion data into desktop software for editing, retargeting, and sharing 3D animations. Requires specific iOS devices and versions.
- Real-time facial motion capture
- Import captured motion data
- Facial animation retargeting
- 3D animation editing
- Motion data sharing
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This is a companion app of Animcraft Desktop(a 3D animation re-targeter, library, and creation tool). This app allows users to apply real-time facial motion capture and import the captured motion data into Animcraft for later editing, retargeting, and sharing. This app uses the true depth camera, or A12(or higher) Bionic processor with iOS 14 and above. This is limited to the iPhone X, iPad mini 5th generation, iPad Air 3rd generation,iPad 8 generation, iPad Pro (2018), and any newer devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Animcraft at every 2 weeks against tramontana's every 6 months. tramontana's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for tramontana against 5.0 for Animcraft. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
tramontana ships an update every 6 months, Animcraft every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and July 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tramontana | Animcraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Enrico Gueli | Basefount Technology Ltd |
Customer experience
tramontana
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In-app purchases
tramontana
No in-app purchases
Animcraft
No in-app purchases








